The Birth of Territory – copy-editing done

Posted on November 18, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished checking through all the queries with the copy-editing of the manuscript of The Birth of Territory. This must have been quite a job, given the length of the manuscript and the number of foreign words and references. Fortunately I had an excellent copyeditor – fantastic attention to detail without being too picky. The next stage will be the page proofs in a couple of months time. Hopefully the cover and a University of Chicago Press webpage are not too far off either.

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Posted on November 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Collection of essays on Foucault on law, power and rights.

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Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights
Edited by Ben Golder, Routledge
Published 24th October 2012 by Routledge – 264 pages

Publisher’s page

Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for law. Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century’s ‘theory’ academics. His work continues to animate a range of different critical work across intellectual disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences. There has, however, been relatively little examination of the legal implications and applications of Foucault’s work. This book fills that gap, providing an in-depth analysis of Foucault’s thought as it pertains to a range of different legal themes, such as: the opposition between ‘law’ and ‘the juridical’; the problem of moral and legal judgment; the historical basis of rights; and the political dimensions (and limitations) of contemporary human…

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Michael Dillon – Deconstructing International Politics

Posted on November 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Mick Dillon’s long-awaited Deconstructing International Politics is coming out in December with the Interventions series at Routledge.

Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not only in challenging traditional scholarship and addressing contemporary politics, but in articulating new approaches and new thinking.

This book draws together some of his key works and is framed by an introduction written specially for the volume. It is the first full-length work to draw on the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice.

Unfortunately it looks like the semi-companion volume of essays Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century has been put back again, this time to August 2013.

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Paul Ennis interview at Figure/Ground Communication

Posted on November 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Paul Ennis here, especially concerning the precarity of early-career scholars.

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Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press on publishing

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting comments from Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press, on academic publishing. Here’s a brief excerpt:

University presses will survive and continue to evolve for this reason as well —that while new modes of scholarship continue to forecast “the death of the author,” the author is far from dead. Take it from a university press publisher, they bang down our doors, and not just to satisfy tenure and promotion requirements. And scholarly authors care: they revise diligently in response to peer review and editorial feedback, obsess over how their monographs are edited, titled, produced, publicized, and sold. Authorship is more than communication; many of the best academic blog authors are also recent university press authors. As long as there are scholars who consider themselves authors, there will be university presses.

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Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Featherstone on McFarlane at the Society and Space open site.

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Council for the Defence of British Universities

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

The Council for the Defence of British Universities has recently been launched. Their message is that British universities occupy a high place in the world, and need to be defended against changes and especially marketisation.

Britain’s universities are amongst the world’s best. But misguided policies are rapidly undermining them.
One reason: no organisation exists to defend academic values. Hence the need for the CDBU.

The Times Higher Education has a story here. David Attenborough, Melvin Bragg, AS Byatt, Stefan Collini, Richard Dawkins, Martin Rees, Keith Thomas and Mary Warnock are among the key people involved. While I have considerable sympathy to the idea – who wouldn’t? – it’s a shame that their website is reliant on references to league tables and other metrics. Are those not part of the problem?

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Agamben – The Highest Poverty

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have a page up for Agamben’s The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. You can read a draft of the preface here.

The Highest Poverty is IV, 1 in the Homo Sacer series. Nicholas Dahmann made a graphic of the structure of the series which you can find on this blog – there is a discussion below about the structure and forthcoming work. Opus Dei is also forthcoming with Stanford UP.

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Bradley Garrett new website

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Urban geographer and explorer Brad Garrett has a new website. Some stunning photography there.

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Bill Martin scholar session audio

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Bill Martin was the focus of a scholar session at the recent SPEP conference. Peter Gratton spoke at this and recorded it and has posted the audio here.

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