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Politics and International Studies

Publications

Books | Edited books | Refereed journal articles | Selected book chapters

Authored Books

  • , Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023.
  • , Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.
  • , Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019.
  • , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
  • , Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017.
  • , Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016.
  • , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
  • , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
  • , London: Continuum, 2004.
  • , London: Continuum; 2001.

Edited books

  • Georges Dumézil, , translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, HAU books, 2024.
  • Henri Lefebvre, , 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.
  • Henri Lefebvre, , edited by Stuart Elden, translated by David Fernbach, London, Verso, 2016.
  • Kostas Axelos, , edited by Stuart Elden, translated by Kenneth Mills, Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2015 (open access e-book).
  • , edited by Stuart Elden, Nigel Thrift, Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Michael Batty, Paul A. Langley and Robert J. Bennett, London: Sage/Pion, Five Volumes, 2012.
  • , edited by Stuart Elden, Cambridge: Polity, 2012.
  • , edited by Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011.
  • Henri Lefebvre, , edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner, and Stuart Elden, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
  • , edited by Jeremy W. Crampton and Stuart Elden, Aldershot: Ashgate; 2007.
  • Henri Lefebvre, , translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore, London: Continuum, 2004.
  • Henri Lefebvre, , edited by Stuart Elden, Elizabeth Lebas and Eleonore Kofman, London: Continuum, 2003.

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 ; and see also 91 Research Archive Portal () for pre-print open access versions.

  • ““, Foucault Studies 38, 2025, 129-40 (open access)
  • Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism, forthcoming (open access).
  • “”, Philosophy, Politics & Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57.
  • "", History of European Ideas, Vol 51 No 2, 2025, 276-289 (open access).
  • “”, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol 85 No 3, July 2024, 571-600.
  • “”, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No 307, 2024, 27-48 – part of a special issue on , edited by Federico Testa.
  • “”, with Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol 40 Nos 1-2, pp. 3-18 (open access) - introduction to a special issue of the journal.
  • “”, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol 40 Nos 1-2, pp. 91-116 (open access).
  • "" (review article, with Alison Downham Moore), Theory, Culture and Society, Vol 40 Nos 1-2, pp. 279-93 (open access).
  • "", Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol 11 No 2, 2021, pp. 170-89 (open access).
    • This article has and a reply, "", Vol 11 No 2, 2021, pp. 213-17 (open access).
  • "" Territory, Politics, Governance, Vol 7 No 3, 2019, pp. 289-296.
  • "", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol 35 No 7-8, 2018, pp. 293-311, also available open access at
  • "", London Review of International Law, Vol 5 No 2, 2017, pp. 199-224.
  • "", Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol 55 Spindel Supplement, 2017, pp. 153-72.
  • Antoinette Koleva, "", Foucault Studies, No 22, 2017, pp. 238-53 (open access).
  • Peter Gratton, “”, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol 20 No 2, 2016, pp. 181-211 (open access).
  • Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon, "", edited by Stuart Elden, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol 34 No 1, 2017, p. 3-27. Turkish translation with new foreword by Stuart Elden as , 2023.

  • Henri Lefebvre "", translated by Matthew Dennis, edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Antipode, Vol 48 No 1, 2016, pp. 67-73 (open access).

  • "", with Adam David Morton, Antipode, Vol 48 No 1, 2016, pp. 57-66 (open access).

  • ““, Foucault Studies, No 20, 2015, pp. 340-53 (open access).

  • "", Historical Materialism, Vol 23 No 4, 2015, pp. 149-68.

  • “”, The Geographical Journal, Vol 180 No 4, 2014, pp. 414-25.

  • “”, Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol 4 No 3, 2014, pp. 320-3 (a reply to John Agnew).

  • “”, Law and Literature, Vol 25 No 2, 2013, pp. 147-65.

  • “”, Geographica Helvetica, Vol 68 No 2, 2013, pp. 81-93 (open access).
  • “”, Political Geography, Vol 32 No 2, 2013, pp. 35-51.
  • “”, Geographica Helvetica, Vol 68 No 1, 2013, pp. 65-68 (open access).
  • “” Territory, Politics, Governance, Vol 1 No 1, 2013, pp. 5-20 (open access).
  • “”, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2, 2011, pp. 313-39 (open access).
  • “”, New Geographies, No 4, 2011, pp. 26-31.
  • “”, Political Geography, Vol 29 No 4, 2010, pp. 238-41
  • “”, Progress in Human Geography, Vol 34 No 6, 2010, pp. 799-817.
  • “”, Radical Philosophy, No 161, May/June 2010, pp. 18-26 (open access).
  • "", Geopolitics, Vol 15 No 4, 2010, pp. 757-61.
  • “”, with Neil Brenner, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377.
  • “”, Cultural Geographies, Vol 16 No 4, 2009, pp. 447-463.
  • “: Invocation, Violation, Viability”, with Alison Williams, Geoforum, Vol 40 No 3, 2009, pp. 407-17.
  • “”, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol 35 No 1, 2009, pp. 3-25.
  • “”, with Eduardo Mendieta, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 27 No 1, 2009, pp. 1-11.
  • “”, Environment and Planning A, Vol 40 No 11, 2008, pp. 2641-51.
  • “”, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, No 5, 2008 (open access).
  • “”, with Klaus Dodds, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol 10 No 3, 2008, pp. 347–363.
  • “”, Antipode, Vol 39 No 5, December 2007, pp. 821-45 (selected as one of the forty key papers from the first forty years of Antipode).
  • “”, with Luiza Bialasiewicz, David Campbell, Steve Graham, Alex Jeffrey and Alison Williams, Political Geography, Vol 26 No 4, 2007, pp. 405-22.
  • “”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 25 No 3, 2007, pp. 562-80.
  • “”, Radical Philosophy Review, Vol 10 No 2, 2007, pp. 101-16.
  • “”, International Politics, Vol 44 No 1, 2007, pp. 37-57 (open access).
  • “”, Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography, Vol 88 No 4, December 2006, pp. 477-85.
  • “”, Social and Cultural Geography, Vol 7 No 5, October 2006, pp. 753-69.
  • “”, with Luiza Bialasiewicz, Review of International Studies, Vol 32 No 4, October 2006, pp. 623-44.
  • “”, Historical Materialism, Vol 14 No 4, 2006, pp. 185-202.
  • “”, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol 39 No 3, July 2006, pp. 273-91.
  • “”, SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol 26 No 1, Winter-Spring 2006, pp. 11-24.
  • “”, History of the Human Sciences, Vol 19 No 1, February 2006, pp. 39-66.
  • “‘It Cannot be a Real Person, a Concrete Individual’: Althusser and Foucault on Machiavelli’s Political Technique”, with Adam Holden, borderlands, Vol 4 No 2, 2005.
  • “”, Environment and Planning A, Vol 37 No 12, December 2005, pp. 2083-104.
  • “”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 23 No 6, 2005, pp. 811-27.
  • “”, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol 38 No 4, 2005, pp. 281-301.
  • “”, with Luiza Bialasiewicz and Joe Painter, Comparative European Politics, Vol 3 No 3, September 2005, pp. 333-63.
  • “”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol 30 No 1, March 2005, pp. 8-19.
  • “”, Theory and Event, Vol 8 No 1, 2005.
  • “”, Journal for Cultural Research, Vol 9 No 1, January 2005, pp. 23-41.
  • “”, The Heythrop Journal, Vol 45 No 3, July 2004, pp. 344-8.
  • “”, translated by Élise Charron and Vincent Charbonnier, Actuel Marx, Vol 36, second semestre 2004, pp. 181-98.
  • “”, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Vol 36 No 1, January 2004, pp. 86-105.
  • “”, Surveillance and Society, Vol 1 No 3, July 2003, pp. 240-53 (open access).
  • “”, Democratization, Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2003, pp. 135-56.
  • “”, European Journal of Political Theory, Vol 2 No 1, January 2003, pp. 35-56.
  • “”, Historical Materialism, Vol 10 No 4, December 2002, pp. 89-111.
  • “”, translated by Jesko Fezer, An Architektur, Bd. 1, Juli 2002, pp. 27-35 (open access).
  • “”, with Sharon Cowan, Pli: 91 Journal of Philosophy, Vol 13, 2002, pp. 79-99 (open access).
  • “”, boundary 2, Vol 29 No 1, Spring 2002, pp. 125-51.
  • “”, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Vol 33 No 5, November 2001, pp. 809-25.
  • “”, The Heythrop Journal, Vol 42 No 3, July 2001, pp. 311-28.
  • “”, boundary 2, Vol 28 No 1, Spring 2001, pp. 91-105.
  • “”, Political Geography, Vol 19 No 4, May 2000, pp. 407-22.
  • “”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol 30 No 3, October 1999, pp. 258-74.

Selected book chapters

  • “Foucault and Structuralism” in Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2026.
  • “Benveniste, Dumézil and Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France”, in Roger Woodard (ed.), Cambridge History of Mythology and Mythography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026.
  • “The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory: Foucault and Dumézil on Sovereignty”, in Martina Tazzioli and William Walters (eds.), , 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, , 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, , 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.) , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 377-90.
  • “”, 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, , translated by David Fernbach, London: Verso, 2020, pp. ix-xxi.
  • “Territory: Political Technology, Volume, Terrain”, in Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (ed.), , Actor Publishing, 2019.
  • “Foucault and Shakespeare: The Theatre of Madness”, in Kélina Gotman and Tony Fisher (eds.), , 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.), , 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,

  • “The Instability of Terrain”, in Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual (eds.), , New York and Karlsruhe: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City/ZKM, 2019, pp. 51-61.

  • “Afterlives”, in David Macey, , second edition, London: Verso, 2019, pp. 481-91.

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

  • “Foucault and Geometrics”, in Philippe Bonditti, Didier Bigo and Frédéric Gros (eds.), , London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

  • “Foreword”, Henri Lefebvre, , translated by Robert Bonnano, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

  • “A Study of Productive Tensions: Introducing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy”, in Henri Lefebvre, , London: Verso, 2016.

  • “Outside Territory”, in Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela (eds.), , Punctum Books, 2016.

  • “Writing by Accumulation”, in Suzanne Conklin Akbari (ed.) , Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2015, pp. 94-104.

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

  • “The Political Bodies of Coriolanus”, in Jenny Edkins and Adrian Kear (eds.), , London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 182-203.
  • “Worlds, Temperaments, Engagements: Introducing Peter Sloterdijk”, in Stuart Elden (ed.), , 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.), , Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012, pp. 343-55.
  • “Introduction: Society and Space”, in , 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 , 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.), , 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 ().
  • “Reintroducing Kant’s Geography”, in Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), , 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.), , Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2010, pp. 48-49.
  • “Interview with Stuart Elden”, in Paul Ennis (ed.), , London: Zero Books, 2010, pp. 35-47.
  • “State, Space, World: Henri Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism”, with Neil Brenner, in Henri Lefebvre,, 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.), Fifth Edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
  • “Philosophy and Human Geography” in Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift (eds.),, Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, Vol 8, pp. 145-50.
  • “Space”, in Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift (eds.),, Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, Vol 10, pp. 262-7.
  • “Reconstituting Iraq”, in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (eds.), , New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 147-76.
  • “Lefebvre and Axelos: Mondialisation before Globalisation”, in Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid (eds.), , New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 80-93.
  • “The Convalescent: Geographies of Health and Illness”, in Steven V. Hicks and Alan Rosenberg (eds.), , Ashland: Purdue University Press, 2008, pp. 205-18.
  • “Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as collaborateur”, in Michael Dillon and Andrew Neal (eds.), , London: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 21-39.
  • “Why is the World Divided Territorially?” in Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds.), , 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.),, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 1-16.
  • “Strategy, Medicine and Habitat: Foucault in 1976” in Jeremy W. Crampton and Stuart Elden (eds.),, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 67-81.
  • “Sorveglianza, Sicurezza, Spazio”, translated by Federica Mazara, in Michel Cometa and Salvo Vaccaro (eds.), , 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.), , Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 47-66.
  • “‘Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten’: Place, Calculation and Politics in 𳾳Բ’s Postmodernity’s Transcending”, in Yves de Maeseneer (ed.), God out of Place? A Symposium on L.P. 𳾳Բ’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 , 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.), , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 187-205.
  • “Rhythmanalysis: An Introduction”, in Henri Lefebvre, , 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.), , Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 125-48.
  • “Henri Lefebvre”, in Christopher John Murray (ed.), , New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, pp. 410-3.

Selected online pieces

  • "" (review of Paul Allen Miller, Foucault's Seminars on Antiquity), Berfrois, 2022
  • “”, Verso blog, 2022
  • “From Dynastics to Genealogy”, , blog, reposted at , 2021
  • Interview about the Foucault research with Anne Schult and Jonas Knatz at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog – and , 2020.
  • “”, Berfrois, 2017
  • “”, E-IR, 2015
  • “”, Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne. 2015 (open access pdf)
  • "" (review of Foucault's ճéǰs et institutions pénales), Berfrois, 2015
  • "" (review of Foucault's Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling), Berfrois, 2014
  • "", The Funambulist Paper 46, 2014
  • "", Polis, 2014.

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