Author Archives: stuartelden

Cara Nine, Global Justice and Territory reviewed

Posted on May 18, 2013

Cara Nine’s Global Justice and Territory is reviewed at NDPR. This book is one of a few recent books by political philosophers looking at questions around territory. After neglect, this is certainly a good thing. However, as I’ve noted before, these … Continue reading →

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Battle of the maps

Posted on May 18, 2013

Reblogged from geographical imaginations: Books & Ideas has a translated interview with Michel Foucher, ‘A world out of key’, on cartography and geopolitics. Foucher is a former diplomat and now a professional geographer (though no doubt each requires the skills … Continue reading →

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Tsundoku

Posted on May 18, 2013

This is rather good – and appears to be actually true.

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Reconsidering Gottmann, The Significance of Territory – forthcoming in Geographica Helvetica

Posted on May 18, 2013

My short piece on Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory – a kind of 40 years on reconsideration – is forthcoming in Geographica Helvetica. I’ve just received the proofs and have been told it will be both open access online … Continue reading →

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Palestine and the Google Empire

Posted on May 17, 2013

Reblogged from Society and Space – Environment and Planning D: A guest commentary on ‘Palestine and the Google Empire’ by Anat Ben David and Ephraim Lavie (Originally Published in Hebrew in Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper, 13.5.2013. Google’s recognition of “Palestine” (May … Continue reading →

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ATLASES: Poetics, Politics, Performance

Posted on May 17, 2013

Reblogged from Society and Space – Environment and Planning D: A new online atlas exhibition has been launched by the University of Bristol and can be viewed here. It showcases 33 atlases housed in the UoB Library’s Special Collections.  Spanning the … Continue reading →

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May 2013 issue of Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on May 16, 2013

The May 2013 issue of Theory, Culture & Society is now available, featuring: Articles by Raminder Kaur on India and the Nuclear State, Joyce Dalsheim on Israeli settlements and Palestinian nationalism, Leon Tan on Mike Tyson’s Maori tattoo, intellectual property … Continue reading →

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Remember these?

Posted on May 16, 2013

Offprints of my article ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ in the new journal Territory, Politics, Governance – I can’t remember the last time I had paper offprints rather than a pdf. Some journals don’t even give you … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 16, 2013

Another few books received – Mark Blyth’s Austerity; Paul Virilio’s The Art of the Motor; Audrea Lim’s collection The Case for Sanctions Against Israel; the new issue of Geographica Helvetica; and two manuscripts to review.

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The Birth of Territory endorsements

Posted on May 16, 2013

As The Birth of Territory inches towards publication, the University of Chicago Press page now has three endorsements for the book. Neil Brenner, Harvard University “Stuart Elden has written a pathbreaking book on a foundational concept in modern political and … Continue reading →

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