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Publications

Authored Books

Edited books

Articles in refereed journals

Those articles which are open access from the publisher are noted. Many of these articles are also available to download on Stuart's website; and see also Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) for pre-print open access versions.

Selected book chapters

  • “Foucault and Structuralism” in Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2026.
  • “The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory: Foucault and Dumézil on Sovereignty”, in Martina Tazzioli and William Walters (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, pp. 38-53.
  • Philip Steinberg, Greta Ferloni, Claudio Aporta, Gavin Bridge, Aldo Chircop, Kate Coddington, Stuart Elden, Stephanie C. Kane, Timo Koivurova, Jessica Shadian, and Anna Stammler-Gossmann, “Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice” in Irus Braverman, Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 165-83 (open access book).
  • Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, "From the Rural to the Urban and the Production of Space", in Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography, edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, translated by Robert Bononno with Matthew Dennis and Sîan Rosa Hunter Dodsworth, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, pp. ix-xlvi.
  • “Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology”, in Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 377-90.
  • Space”, in Audrey Kobayashi (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 12, Elsevier, 2020, pp. 315–320.
  • “Three Stars, One Constellation: Introduction to Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche”, in Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm of Shadows, translated by David Fernbach, London: Verso, 2020, pp. ix-xxi.
  • “Territory: Political Technology, Volume, Terrain”, in Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (ed.), Landscape as Territory, Actor Publishing, 2019.
  • “Foucault and Shakespeare: The Theatre of Madness”, in Kélina Gotman and Tony Fisher (eds.), Foucault’s Theatres, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019, pp. 99-109.
  • “Home, Street, City: Farge, Foucault and the Spaces of the Lettres de cachet”, in Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, pp. 227-46.
  • “Territory/Territoriality” in Anthony Orum (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0339

  • “The Instability of Terrain”, in Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual (eds.), A Moving Border - Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change, New York and Karlsruhe: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City/ZKM, 2019, pp. 51-61.
  • “Afterlives”, in David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault, second edition, London: Verso, 2019, pp. 481-91.

  • “Foreword”, in Kimberley Peters, Phil Steinberg and Elaine Stratford (ed.), Territory Beyond Terra, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, pp. xi-xv.

  • “Foucault and Geometrics”, in Philippe Bonditti, Didier Bigo and Frédéric Gros (eds.), Foucault and the Modern International: Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

  • “Foreword”, Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City, translated by Robert Bonnano, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • “A Study of Productive Tensions: Introducing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy”, in Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, London: Verso, 2016.

  • “Outside Territory”, in Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds, Punctum Books, 2016.
  • “Writing by Accumulation”, in Suzanne Conklin Akbari (ed.) How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page, Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2015, pp. 94-104.

  • “Space”, in Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds.), The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

  • “The Political Bodies of Coriolanus”, in Jenny Edkins and Adrian Kear (eds.), International Politics and Performance: Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 182-203.
  • “Worlds, Temperaments, Engagements: Introducing Peter Sloterdijk”, in Stuart Elden (ed.), Sloterdijk Now, Cambridge: Polity, 2012, pp. 1-16.
  • “A Thousand Year Conclusion: Machination and Calculation in the Nietzsche lectures”, in Babette Babich, Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski (eds.), Heidegger und Nietzsche, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012, pp. 343-55.
  • “Introduction: Society and Space”, in The Sage Library of Environment and Planning, edited by Stuart Elden, with Nigel Thrift, Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Michael Batty, Paul A. Longley and Robert J. Bennett, London: Sage, five volumes, 2012, Vol 4, pp. vii-xxiii.
  • “Introduction: Foundations”, with Nigel Thrift, Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Mike Batty, Paul Longley and Robert J. Bennett, in The Sage Library of Environment and Planning, edited by Stuart Elden, with Nigel Thrift, Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Mike Batty, Paul Longley and Robert J. Bennett, London: Sage, five volumes, 2012, Vol 5, pp. vii-xv.
  • “Territory Part I”, in J.A. Agnew and J.S. Duncan (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 260-70.
  • “Lefebvre on Moments”, in Bik Van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects (eds.), Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events, Vancouver: Western Front, 2011, pp. 24-29 (open access pdf).
  • “Reintroducing Kant’s Geography”, in Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011, pp. 1-15.
  • “Bartolus of Sassoferrato and the Emergence of Territorial Sovereignty”, in Akihiro Kinda et. al. (eds.), Proceedings of 14th International Congress of Historical Geographers, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2010, pp. 48-49.
  • “Interview with Stuart Elden”, in Paul Ennis (ed.), Post-Continental Voices: Selected Interviews, London: Zero Books, 2010, pp. 35-47.
  • “State, Space, World: Henri Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism”, with Neil Brenner, in Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays, edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, pp. 1-48.
  • Entries on “anti-humanism”, “biopolitics”, “disciplinary power”, “episteme”, “genealogy”, “governmentality”, “heterotopia”, “panopticon”, “philosophy”, “production of space”, “rhythmanalysis” and “territorial integrity” in Derek Gregory (ed.) Dictionary of Human Geography, Fifth Edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
  • “Philosophy and Human Geography” in Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, Vol 8, pp. 145-50.
  • “Space”, in Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, Vol 10, pp. 262-7.
  • “Reconstituting Iraq”, in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (eds.), War, Citizenship, Territory, New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 147-76.
  • “Lefebvre and Axelos: Mondialisation before Globalisation”, in Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid (eds.), Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre, New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 80-93.
  • “The Convalescent: Geographies of Health and Illness”, in Steven V. Hicks and Alan Rosenberg (eds.), Reading Nietzsche at the Margins, Ashland: Purdue University Press, 2008, pp. 205-18.
  • “Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as collaborateur”, in Michael Dillon and Andrew Neal (eds.), Foucault: Politics, Society, and War, London: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 21-39.
  • “Why is the World Divided Territorially?” in Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction, London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 192-219; second edition, 2013; third edition, 2019.
  • “Introduction – Space, Knowledge, and Power: Foucault and Geography”, with Jeremy W. Crampton, in Jeremy W. Crampton and Stuart Elden (eds.), Space, Knowledge, Power: Foucault and Geography, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 1-16.
  • “Strategy, Medicine and Habitat: Foucault in 1976” in Jeremy W. Crampton and Stuart Elden (eds.), Space, Knowledge, Power: Foucault and Geography, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 67-81.
  • “Sorveglianza, Sicurezza, Spazio”, translated by Federica Mazara, in Michel Cometa and Salvo Vaccaro (eds.), Lo sguardo di Foucault, Rome: Meltemi, 2007, pp. 10-33.
  • “The State of Territory Under Globalization: Empire and the Politics of Reterritorialization”, in Maria Margaroni and Effie Yiannopoulou (eds.), Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 47-66.
  • “‘Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten’: Place, Calculation and Politics in Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending”, in Yves de Maeseneer (ed.), God out of Place? A Symposium on L.P. Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God, Utrecht: Ars Disputandi, 2005, pp. 39-47.
  • “Henri Lefebvre”, in Austin Harrington, Barbara Marshall and Hans-Peter Müller (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 315-6.
  • “Introduction: Coming to Terms with Lefebvre”, with Elizabeth Lebas, in Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings, edited by Stuart Elden, Elizabeth Lebas and Eleonore Kofman, London/New York: Athlone/Continuum, 2003, pp. xi-xix.
  • “Reading Genealogy as Historical Ontology”, in Alan Rosenberg and Alan Milchman (eds.), Foucault/Heidegger: Critical Encounters, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 187-205.
  • “Rhythmanalysis: An Introduction”, in Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life, translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore, London/New York: Athlone/Continuum, 2004, pp. vii-xv.
  • “Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle”, in Julian Bourg (ed.), After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and Cultural History, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 125-48.
  • “Henri Lefebvre”, in Christopher John Murray (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Modern French Thought, New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, pp. 410-3.

Selected online pieces