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Dr. Madeleine Fagan has published a new article in the forthcoming April 2019 issue of Political Geography. Her piece ‘On the Dangers of an Anthropocene Epoch: Geological time, Political time, and Post-Human Politics’ addresses the question: ‘When’ is the Anthropocene and who are its subjects? The article explores the ways in which the Anthropocene's embeddedness in geological accounts of time limits political imagination and the possibility for action. It considers alternative resources found in Indigenous critical theory and critical race studies for reframing the timescales and subjects produced by the Anthropocene. 

The article is available here:

Stuart Elden’s book Shakespearean Territories was published in late 2018 by University of Chicago Press. The book uses readings of a number of Shakespeare’s plays to explore different aspects of territory.

Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history.

The book explores how Shakespeare can be read as developing a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place.

More details about the book can be found at the publisher website:

"The Global Governance of Systemic Risk" published in New Political Economy 

Matt Kranke and David Yarrow's article examines the global governance of systemic risk after the financial crisis. Analysing the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), they argue that attempts to render risk measurable sideline the political ambitions of macroprudential theory, especially the need for public control of financial practices. In the end, systemic risk may merely appear easier to control while genuine containment would require a critical rethinking of financialisation processes.

The article was published under a Creative Commons Attribution License and is thus freely available via the following link: .

Tom Long published a new article in the November issue of International Affairs. His piece, "Latin America and the liberal international order: an agenda for research", explores why the region has played a marginal role in this burgeoning IR debate—and what serious engagement with the region could add to both critical and supportive accounts of liberal international order (LIO). The article argues that, "The LIO has shaped Latin America, and Latin America has shaped the LIO—but not always in the ways supporters or critics might expect."

The article is available here:

Keith Hyams has been awarded funding from the ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund for the 2 year research project ‘Challenging Inequalities: An Indo-European Perspective’.

The project is a collaboration with the Economics Department at 91¸£Àû, the Centre de Sciences Humaines in Delhi, and others. It aims to look at appropriate definitions and approaches to the measurement of inequality, attitudes to inequality, and interventions to reduce inequality in a development context.