‘Production of Inequalities: Realities and Prospects for Change in Jerusalem’, Centre for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University, 3-5 December 2016

Posted on August 4, 2016 by stuartelden

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Centre for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University 2016

Call for Abstracts

With the benevolent grant from the Ghussein Fund, Al-Quds University through the Centre for Jerusalem Studies, in partnership with the Philosophy, Political Science, and Architecture departments, would like to invite you to submit abstracts for a paper or a proposal for a panel relevant to the theme of the conference on Production of Inequalities: Realities and Prospects for Change in Jerusalem, December 3-5, 2016 (Saturday-Monday). The opening session shall be held in Jerusalem on Saturday afternoon, and the subsequent conference days (Sunday and Monday) shall be held on the AQU Main Campus in Abu Dies.  We welcome the participation of researchers and scholars interested in this topic.

Further details in English and Arabic.

 

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Beginning work on the proofs of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on August 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault The Birth of Power (proof)Today I’m beginning work on the proofs of Foucault: The Birth of Power. They look to be in a good state, so this should be reasonably straight-forward.

The book should be out in early 2017 – January or early February. There is a hold page on the Polity site, but not yet the cover, contents and description. Hopefully that will all be available soon.

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Interviews on Foucault’s Last Decade – one out, one discussion forthcoming

Posted on August 3, 2016 by stuartelden

0745683916Peter Gratton kindly links to my Interview with Eugene Wolters at critical-theory.com, which I shared at the weekend, and also mentions that he is currently interviewing me, along with Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor, for Symposium. The interview uses the book as a starting point, but is really a discussion of mid-late Foucault around a range of themes. Peter says “it will appear early in the fall (if not sooner if we can make it open access)”. There are also at least three reviews of the book in progress.

 

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Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory – Affirmation, Animosity, Ambiguity, San Diego, 28-29 Jan 2017

Posted on August 3, 2016 by stuartelden

NietzscheNietzsche & Critical Social Theory – Affirmation, Animosity, Ambiguity, San Diego, 28-29 Jan 2017. Douglas Kellner is giving the keynote address.

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An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in LARB

Posted on August 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – the story of her doing the Derrida translation was familiar, the discussion of her work with schools in India was new to me.

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Steve Paulson interviews Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — a joint publication between Wisconsin Public Radio and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Podcast here and text here. The discussion for the most part focuses on her re-translation of Of Grammatology 50 years on, which was critically reviewed by Geoff Bennington in the LARB.

Source: Critical Intimacy: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – Los Angeles Review of Books

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Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – video and text

Posted on August 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – the Edward W. Said lecture.

Naomi Klein: Let them Drown – The Violence of Othering in a Warming World from The Mosaic Rooms on Vimeo.

The lecture was published in the London Review of Books.

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Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization – forthcoming

Posted on August 2, 2016 by stuartelden

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Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – forthcoming in Bauwelt Fundamente series.

Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic—which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp—can be a genuinely critical theory.

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Paolo Giaccaria & Claudio Minca (eds) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – now published

Posted on August 2, 2016 by stuartelden

9780226274423Paolo Giaccaria & Claudio Minca (eds) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – now out from University of Chicago Press.

Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as these in order to justify his imperialist expansion, exploitation, and genocide. As his twisted manifestation of spatial theory grew in Nazi ideology, it created a new and violent relationship between people and space in Germany and beyond.

With Hitler’s Geographies, editors Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca examine the variety of ways in which spatial theory evolved and was translated into real-world action under the Third Reich. They have gathered an outstanding collection by leading scholars, presenting key concepts and figures as well exploring the undeniable link between biopolitical power and spatial expansion and exclusion.

My 2006 essay on ‘National Socialism and the Politics of Calculation’ (which you can download here) is reprinted in the collection.

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Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities (video)

Posted on August 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Tim Cresswell lecture on Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities

https://videopress.com/v/k0lWJL5x

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This is a video of a talk I gave at an event co-organized by Matt Wilson which took place at Harvard a while back… part of a long and concerted effort to talk about geography as much as possible at Harvard. The talk considers long histories of space and place in the humanities as well as the rise of GeoHumanities more recently.

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Philosophy and Revolution: An Interview with G.M. Goshgarian on Althusser in Viewpoint Magazine

Posted on August 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Philosophy and Revolution: An Interview with G.M. Goshgarian in Viewpoint Magazine (original French text is here).

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