Interview with Mark Blyth at E-IR

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

Mark-Blyth-Wall-Shot-700x394Interesting interview with Mark Blyth at E-IR on international political economy, the uses of theory, ‘Brexit’, austerity and other contemporary politics. The interview ends with a strident answer to the question ‘What is the most important advice you could give to young scholars of international relations and political economy?’

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Brian Jordan Jefferson – Policing, Whiteness, and the Death-Wage

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

The second commentary on Black Lives Matter at the Society and Space open site.

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Dunleavy, review work for Routledge, Shakespeare

Posted on August 12, 2016 by stuartelden

IMG_1657I’ve done three manuscript reviews for Routledge this summer, and this is the first instalment of books in recompense. Also in the pile, a copy of Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds, in which I have a chapter; an inspection copy of Dunleavy’s Authoring a PhD; and a second-hand copy of the Cambridge As You Like It.

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In Phenomenological Reviews, a look at an Edited Collection on the Black Notebooks

Posted on August 10, 2016 by stuartelden

A good review of the recent edited volume on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

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Jeff Malplas and Ingo Farin edited the collection, which contains a cast of many well-known Heidegger specialists. It is, on the whole, more sympathetic to Heidegger (or what is culled down as his real thought, rather than the anti-semitism) than I expected: Ingo Farin, Jeff Malpas (Eds.): Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 – Phenomenological Reviews

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Urban Cultural Studies: Call for abstracts – AAG in Boston April 5-9, 2017

Posted on August 10, 2016 by stuartelden

Urban Cultural Studies: Call for abstracts – AAG in Boston April 5-9, 2017

 

The AAG session on Urban Cultural Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the culture(s) of cities.

In recent years, cities have been increasingly at the forefront of debate in both humanities and social science disciplines, but there has been relatively little real dialogue across these disciplinary boundaries. On the one hand, social science fields that use urban studies methods to look at life in cities rarely explore the cultural aspects of urban life in any depth or delve into close-readings of the representation of cities in individual novels, music albums/songs, graphic novels, films, videogames, online ‘virtual’ spaces, or other artistic and cultural products. On the other hand, while there is increasing discussion of urban topics and themes in the humanities, broadly considered, there are very few venues that are open to these new interdisciplinary directions of scholarship. Driven by a methodology that links urban geography and cultural studies work, this session features applied and theoretical papers focusing on urban spaces the world over.

Abstracts will ideally address both an individual city itself and also its cultural representation. We are particularly interested in abstracts that achieve some balance between discussing an individual (or multiple) cultural/artistic product(s) in depth and also using one of many social-science (geographical, anthropological, sociological…) urban approaches to investigate a given city. Specific topics vary, but emphasis is placed on geo-humanities approaches and representational/spatial practices. This session is also linked to the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=225/) and its accompanying blog at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com.

The format will be an interactive short-paper session of 10-14 brief presentations of research (5 minutes each) followed by lengthy audience discussion.

Please submit abstracts of a maximum of 250 words to Benjamin Fraser (urbanculturalstudies@gmail.com), Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies at East Carolina University.

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Ray Milefsky, 1949-2016 – tributes from Martin Pratt and Phil Steinberg

Posted on August 10, 2016 by stuartelden

Ray Milefsky, who worked with the US State Department’s Office of the Geographer and Global Issues has died. I only met Ray briefly at Durham’s International Boundaries Research Unit events. He was a regular tutor at IBRU workshops, and a strong supporter of its work. There are good tributes from Martin Pratt and Phil Steinberg.

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8 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2016

Posted on August 5, 2016 by stuartelden

Another useful roundup – Benjamin, Malabou, Althusser et. al., Lefebvre, etc.

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Top 10 works of fiction by philosophers

Posted on August 5, 2016 by stuartelden

9781784783044-max_221-dc2649eaab4b32baf47f91614058bf98Esther Leslie has an interesting piece in The Guardian on fictions by philosophers. Benjamin, Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche et. al. Just one woman in the list.

Leslie is one of the translators of Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller, just out with Verso.

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Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis – Anti-blackness and urban geopolitical economy: Reflections on Ferguson and the suburbanization of the ‘internal colony’

Posted on August 5, 2016 by stuartelden

An important commentary at the Society and Space open site.

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Michael J. Shapiro, Politics and Time

Posted on August 5, 2016 by stuartelden

1509507809Michael J. Shapiro, Politics and Time, now out with Polity.

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different conceptions of time inform and challenge these key events and the narratives they create?
In this book, Michael J. Shapiro provides an approach to politics and time that unsettles official collective histories by introducing analyses of lived experience articulated in cinematic, televisual, musical, and literary genres. His investigation is framed by questions of our responsibility to acknowledge those victims of violence and catastrophe who have failed to rise above the threshold of public recognition. Ultimately, by focusing on time as an active force shaping our conception of political life, we can deepen our understanding of complex political dynamics and improve the theories and methods we rely on to interpret them.
This bold and original book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, cultural studies and cinema studies looking for a new perspective on the temporal aspects of political life.

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