Stuart Elden

@stuartelden.bsky.social

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Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com .. more

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity
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Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity

In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag …

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Barthes Studies @barthesstudies.bsky.social · 16h

Published next week — Jean Berthier’s new novel about the visit by Barthes, Kristeva, Sollers and others to Mao’s China in 1974:
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Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 22h

H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access) haubooks.org/southern-epi...

Southern Epistemologies - HAU Books

H. Clark Barrett is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He studies contemporary variation in social and moral judgment as a window into the evolution of human cognition. His current project asks how ev...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

Shirley Samuels, Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States – @princetonupress.bsky.social , October/December 2025 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Haunted by the Civil War

How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies for earlier incorrect link - now corrected

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique - Gallimard, January 2026
thanks to @johnraimo.bsky.social for the link
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Cover of book - white with brown and red letters

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies. www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/19...

Request Rejected

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

@marygilmartin.bsky.social, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction - Wiley, January 2026
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Migration: A Critical Introduction

A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION Migration: A Critical Introduction offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...

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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 3d

Latest e-Special issue - Painting / Knowledge - is now available with articles from the archives of TCS and BOD positioned across four thematic strands: Painting and the Political; Affect, Body, Gesture; Word, Image, Mediation; and Memory, Trauma, Image. journals.sagepub.com/page/tcs/sun...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎

Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure @stuartelden.bsky.social only accepted to say nice things about my book so that I didn’t inflict Playmobiles on anything else he wrote! vimeo.com/91554743
Sweet memory of an AAG book panel on his classic “Birth of Territory” that whispered to me throughout the writing of Along The Line!

Visualising "The Birth of Territory" Juliet J Fall, Université de Genève

This is the version of the animated presentation Juliet J Fall gave at the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, on 7th April 2014 as part of the "Author meets…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

The original French version is here - www.metispresses.ch/fr/bornees

MētisPresses - Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

The book itself can be bought or downloaded here - @julietjfall.bsky.social, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) www.epflpress.org/produit/1555...

Cover of the book, with comic image of a person in a red t-shirt and helmet on a bicycle with a map, in front of an improvised border - cones, cement blocks - and traffic lights.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

My piece in a review forum on @julietjfall.bsky.social remarkable Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) is now online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social

Stuart Elden, "Visuality and Vocabulary in Political Geography".
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First page of the article - link in post

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Arden Shakespeare fourth series launching in May 2026 - with two volumes, third scheduled for September
Julius Caesar, edited by Andrew James Hartley
Titus Andronicus, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson
As You Like It, edited by Tom Bishop
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The Covers of the books in the series (all linked in the post) - they are black with white lettering, and images of plants and flowers

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Lawrence Douglas, The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice - @princetonupress.bsky.social, April/June 2026
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The Criminal State

A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes

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Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social · 4d

Publication day today in the US for Elites and Democracy!🎉

For once the @princetonupress.bsky.social marketing team had a good idea😜
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Elites and Democracy

Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

Anthony Gottlieb, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes - @yalepress.bsky.social, January 2026
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cover of book, with photograph of Wittgenstein

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

The issue contains Steven Maynard, "Michel and Mathurin: Finding Foucault in the Archives", Archivaria 100 (fall/winter 2025): 44-73
Steven has said he is happy to share his piece if you email him at his Queen's address.
www.queensu.ca/history/peop...

Steven Maynard | Department of History, Queen's University

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

Archivaria 100: Special Issue - Legacies of Critical Theory in Archives (Fall/Winter 2025)
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Archivaria 100: Special Issue - Legacies of Critical Theory in Archives (Fall/Winter 2025) | Archivaria

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

C. G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé, Jung's Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé – ed. Sonu Shamdasani, @princetonupress.bsky.social, December 2025/January 2026
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Jung's Life and Work

The complete interviews that served as the basis for Jung’s bestselling memoir Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsFeatures a significant amount of material withheld from the original bookNewly translated an...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you - glad you liked it. I hope to do much more on this topic.

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know enough to speak about Venezuela, but this piece I wrote last year might be useful on the territorial aspects, along with the references and suggestions for further reading: "100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today" progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...

100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today

On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatori…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Reece. I've added a reference to my recent piece on related questions - progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...

100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d

@moderation.bsky.app - perhaps an overreaction to Cornelis Bos, The Forge of Vulcan, held by the Met in New York?http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/399871

Cornelis Bos - The Forge of Vulcan - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d

Le thermomètre de Foucault, 9 Jan 2026, Journée d’étude organisée par Grégoire Chamayou (CNRS-ENS Paris), Frédéric Keck (CNRS-EHESS Paris) et Jean-Claude Monod (CNRS-ENS Paris).
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