James D Boys interview on US foreign policy from Clinton to Trump

Posted on November 6, 2017 by stuartelden

James D Boys recently gave a department seminar at Warwick on his forthcoming book Clinton’s War On Terror. While he was visiting, he was interviewed for Warwick Student Union radio.

Henry Riley spoke to American Historian and Foreign Policy expert Dr James D Boys. They discussed everything from Obama’s legacy, Trump and foreign policy so far, the JFK files, the Manafort saga and his new book ‘Clinton’s War On Terror: US Counterterrorism Strategy 1993 – 2001’ which is published by Lynne Rienner and will be released in 2018.

 

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to my guide and reissue of Key Writings

Posted on November 4, 2017 by stuartelden

9781350041677.jpgI’ve made some minor updates to my guide Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

The key thing added is the reissue of Key Writings, now available in Bloomsbury’s Revelations series.

 

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Interviews about my Foucault books on New Books in Critical Theory (audio)

Posted on November 3, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve just been interviewed by Dave O’Brien for the New Books in Critical Theory series about Foucault: The Birth of Power. The podcast of that interview should be available shortly and I’ll share when available [update: now available here].

In the meantime, here’s the discussion we had last year about Foucault’s Last Decade – Download (Duration: 47:54 — 21.9MB) or stream at the series website.

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Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity on his thought? In Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick explores these, and many more, questions about the final years in a rich intellectual life. The book combines detailed studies of Foucault’s recently collected lecture series with archival material and his publications, to give an in depth engagement with the changes and continuities in his thought during the last decade. Addressing questions associated with key terms, such as governmentality, as well as confession, the self, power, truth telling, and many other core ideas and themes, the book will be essential reading for anyone interested in this most important of Western thinkers.

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Bruce Robbins in The Nation reviews Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on November 2, 2017 by stuartelden

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Bruce Robbins in The Nation reviews my two books Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power. It’s a generous and thoughtful review, and while I wouldn’t agree with all of it, I’m very grateful for the review and the exposure.

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Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks – exhibition in London

Posted on November 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Just a reminder that this exhibition is on just for one more week. I went today and if you’re in London and have even the slightest interest in Gramsci it’s well worth seeing. It is only the notebooks – no other material and minimal other information. But it is the notebooks! And the materiality of these is worth seeing – the organisation of material, his minuscule and very neat handwriting, and little sense of the conditions under which they were filled. There is also an electronic version which you can use to look through the notebooks – the originals are in glass cases and so are fixed on specific pages or the cover.

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Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks – exhibition in London

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Exhibition curated by Silvio Pons and Francesco Giasi

Italian Cultural Institute
39 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8NX

30 October – 10 November 2017
Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm
(closed on Wednesday 1 November)

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Antonio Gramsci’s death (1891-1937), the Italian Cultural Institute hosts an exhibition featuring the originals of the 33 Prison Notebooks – that is, the texts written by Antonio Gramsci from 8th February 1929 during his imprisonment – one of the most significant works of Italian and international political, philosophical and literary thinking.

The originals of the Notebooks are exhibited for the first time in the United Kingdom and, more generally, out of Italy. This exhibition aims to renew the link between Gramsci’s thought and British culture, inaugurated by the “dialogue” with Ludwig Wittgenstein through Piero Sraffa, Professor at Cambridge in…

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New Book: The Priority of Injustice

Posted on November 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett’s new book published

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Published today, The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory. You can read more about the book here.

My book is available from most booksellers. If your local store doesn’t have a copy in stock, please ask them to special order it for you. If you don’t have a preferred local store here are a few other ways to buy a copy.

To find an independent bookseller in your area, visit these sites:

UK: https://www.booksellers.org.uk/Home

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Buy a copy direct from the University of Georgia Press by visiting my book’s page on the website and clicking the buy link:

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Building Ruptures, Architectural History, UCL 27 Oct 2017 – audio of my talk on Terrain

Posted on November 2, 2017 by stuartelden

UCLOn 27 October 2017 I had the pleasure of speaking at Building Ruptures, an Architectural History Symposium and Exhibition, at the Bartlett School of University College London. Most of the day was devoted to graduating student presentations, which were of extremely high quality – both in terms of the work and the style of presentation. This was both humbling and inspiring. There were also short keynote talks by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Owen Hatherley and me. Full details of the day are here.

I was struggling with a heavy cold, and didn’t manage to stay until the final session, but it was still a very good day. I presented my work on terrain, drawing heavily on a lecture which has recently been published in the London Review of International Law. While there is a video of that lecture available, I also recorded this shorter talk, which is available here.

 

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch (eds), The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines

Posted on November 1, 2017 by stuartelden

59a10ed2f5ba7412f85029f8Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch (eds), The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines – now out with Rowman and Littlefield International.

The spatial turn has been deeply influential across the humanities and social sciences for several decades. Yet despite this long term influence most volumes focus mainly on geography and tend to take a Eurocentric approach to the topic. The Question of Space takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding how the spatial turn has affected other disciplines. By connecting developments across radically different fields the volume bridges the very borders that separate the academic space. From new geographies through performance, the internet, politics and the arts, the distinctive chapters undertake conversations that often surprisingly converge in approach, questions and insights Together the chapters transcend longstanding disciplinary boundaries to build a constructive dialogue around the question of space.

Prelude: Playing with Space, Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch / 1. Space, living, atmospheres, affectivities, David Crouch / 2. ‘Knowing one’s place’ – mapping landscapes in and as performance in contemporary South Africa, Awelani Moyo / 3. Vocalic space: socio-materiality and sonic spatiality, George Revill / 4. bell hooks’ Affective Politics of Space and Belonging, Yvonne Zivkovic / 5. As Tenses Implode: Encountering Post-Traumatic Urbanism in Ghassan Kanafani’s ʿĀʾid ila Hayfā, Ghayde Ghraowi / 6. ‘Place’ in an Inverted World? A Japanese Theory of Place, Atsuko Watanabe / 7. The Invisible Lines of Territory: an Investigation into the Makeup of Territory, Marijn Nieuwenhuis / 8. Two Internet Cartographies: Google Maps and the Unmappable Darknet, Andrei Belibou / 9.Space is no one thing: luring thought through film and philosophy, Philip Conway / 10.Mayday – a letter from the Earth, Martin Gren / Postlude: And… And… And…, Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch /

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Key Thinkers on Cities (Sage, Oxford)

Posted on November 1, 2017 by stuartelden

A new addition to the Sage series – Key Thinkers on Cities

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A new addition to the Sage’s Key Thinkers range focuses on Cities and thinkers who are at the vanguard of contemporary scholarship that helps to shape our understanding of what city life is like. Key Thinkers on Cities presents the work of 40 innovative scholars who underscore the breadth and depth of urban research. These are writers whose ideas have sculpted how cities around the world are comprehended, researched, debated, and acted upon. Impressively, the book is not restricted to narrowly defined writers of ‘the urban’. The book contains fields as diverse as art, architecture, computer modelling, ethnography, public health, and post-colonial theory. In doing so, the book provides space for a group of thinkers who have started to shape knowledge of cities through these different disciplinary guises.  The range of 40 thinkers include; Ash Amin, Jason Corburn, Natalie Jeremijenko, Enrique Peñalosa, Jennifer Robinson, Karen C. Seto, Abdumaliq Simone, and…

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Now online – the 2017 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, “Retelling Stories, Disrupting ‘the Social’, Relearning the World” by Richa Nagar

Posted on November 1, 2017 by stuartelden

2017 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, “Retelling Stories, Disrupting ‘the Social’, Relearning the World” by Richa Nagar – with some linked open access papers.

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The 2017 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture

Retelling Stories, Disrupting “the Social”, Relearning the World

Richa Nagar (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)

The 2017 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture took place on August 30th at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. Those who were there will no doubt agree that it was a great event; those that weren’t can now watch a film of Richa’s presentation here, and access related Antipode papers below.

The dominant landscape of knowledge and policy rests on a fundamental inequality: bodies who are seen as hungry or precarious are assumed to be available for the interventions of experts, but those experts often obliterate the ways that the hungry actively create politics and knowledge by living a dynamic vision of what is ethical and what makes the good life. Such living frequently involves a creative praxis of refusal against imposed frameworks. For Nagar, learning from such refusals requires…

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