The second South Asian Governmentalities Workshop will be held at the British Academy in London on Friday 30 March 2012. This is part of a series of workshops organised through the BASAS South Asian Governmentalities Research Group. Attendance is free but limited to those who pre-register. The concept of governmentality has exerted an ever growing …
Stuart Elden “How should we do the history of territory?” Additional details 14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Abstract …
From Stuart Elden’s blog Radical Foucault – An International Conference September 8 & 9, 2011. 9.30am – 6.30pm University of East London The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London is pleased to announce that registration is now open for Radical Foucault, a two day conference which will re-assess Foucault’s contribution …
Stuart Elden, Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Originally published on the now defunct Berfrois site. The most recently published lecture course from Michel Foucault’s time at the Collège de France is his first, entitled ‘La Volonté de Savoir’—the will to know or the will to knowledge. To avoid …
Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Stuart Elden has offered some preliminary observations on this new French publication on his blog He has also published some comments by Colin Gordon on this volume as well on his blog
Thanks to Stuart at Progressive Geographies for this information History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural or culturally …
From Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control This is available as an ebook PDF here The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. RLF Manuskripte, Volume 88 The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to …
Stuart Elden has posted a quick summary and comments on the forthcoming translation of Foucault’s 1984 lectures The Courage of Truth on his Progressive Geographies blog.
