Category Archives: Boundaries

Pangaea with today’s boundaries

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

Click on image for larger sizes. I can imagine this as the beginning of an interesting class discussion. Thanks to Antoine Bousquet for the link. About these ads

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Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

This autumn I’ll be teaching a course for incoming Masters students at Warwick on global events, which should be useful for their broader studies. The topics are intentionally general so that the examples can be contemporary and potentially updated in … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 28, 2013 by

The Korean translation of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (including my introduction from the English translation); Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt; Richard J. Bernstein’s Violence; and the 2013 diary from Passia, with a wealth of maps, information and data on Palestine, along with … Continue reading →

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The Northern Nigerian State of Emergency

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

My Boko Haram paper is lying dormant while I mark exams, and embark on the buying and selling of homes, and is in danger of being over-taken by events. I’ve been keeping up-to-date on the developments in the north-east of the … Continue reading →

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The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

An Ongoing Displacement

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

65 years since the Nakba, another powerful infographic from Visualizing Palestine.

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Abu Jihad Museum for the Prisoners Movement Affairs

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

On the Al Quds University campus in Abu Dis is a small museum about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. I had an all-too-brief tour of it in between meetings. Many of the exhibits are powerful enough without explanation, but much … Continue reading →

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A week at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

I’ve just got back from spending a week working with Al Quds Bard Honors College in the occupied Palestinian territories, as part of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Program. Al Quds Bard is a partnership between Al Quds University and … Continue reading →

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Shlomo Sand – The Invention of the Land of Israel reviewed

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

Donald Sassoon reviews Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Land of Israel in The Guardian.

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Jerusalem light rail

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

On Sunday I took a couple of hours to explore the fairly new Jerusalem light rail. It opened in late 2011 and when I was last here in 2009 it was still under construction. I’m staying near Damascus Gate, and … Continue reading →

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