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This page first lists papers that are open access, then papers that are not open access but available anyway, then interviews, audio, video and reading lists. I’m in the process of uploading as much material as I can.

A full list of publications with links to online versions where available (usually subscription only for articles) is available at my Durham website. Generally, if I have an article (or, less frequently, a book chapter) as a pdf, then I am happy to share it. Please contact me.

Open Access

Elden, S. By Sovereignty of Nature: Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus, Berfrois, 2012.

Elden, S. Lefebvre on Moments in Bik Van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects (eds.), Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events, Vancouver: Western Front, 2011, 24-29.

Elden, S., Gregory, D. and Sevilla-Buitrago, Á, Spaces of the Past, Histories of the Present: An Interview with Stuart Elden and Derek Gregory, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2011; 10.2, 313-39.

Elden, S. V for Visibility, Society and Space open site, 2011.

Elden, S. Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Berfrois, 2011.

Elden, S. Society and Space – Writing its History, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2011.

Elden, S. Territory without Borders, Harvard International Review. 2011.

Elden, S. Reintroducing Kant’s Geography In Elden, S. & Mendieta, E. Reading Kant’s Geography. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press; 2011, 1-15.

Palin, M., Earle, S., Livingstone, D, Elden, S., Lowe, J. and Owen, L. Honouring geographers and contemporary exploration: from the archive to the ocean at the RGS-IBG Medals and Awards Ceremony 2011, The Geographical Journal, 2011; 177:279–287

Elden, S. Die Enstehung des Territorium. Erlanger Beiträge zur Kulturgeographie. 2011

Elden, S. Eugen Fink and the Question of the World. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. 2008;5:48-59.

Elden, S. The Exchange Economy of Peer Review, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2008, 26.6, 911-3.

Holden, A. & Elden, S. ‘It cannot be a Real Person, a Concrete Individual’: Althusser and Foucault on Machiavelli’s Political Technique. Borderlands. 2006;4.

Elden, S. Certains naissent de façon posthume: la survie d’Henri Lefebvre. Actuel Marx. 2004;36:181-198.

Elden, S. Plague, Panopticon, Police. Surveillance and Society. 2003;1:240-253.

Cowan, S. & Elden, S. Words, desires and ideas: Freud, Foucault and the hermaphroditic roots of bisexuality. Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy. 2002;13:79-99.

Other papers free online

Elden, S. Land, Terrain, Territory. Progress in Human Geography, 2010;34:799-817.

Elden, S. Reading Schmitt Geopolitically: Nomos, Territory and Großraum. Radical Philosophy. 2010;161:18-26.

Elden, S. Thinking Territory Politically. Political Geography. 2010;29:238-241.

Elden, S. Reassessing Kant’s Geography. Journal of Historical Geography. 2009;35:3-25.

Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory. International Political Sociology. 2009;3:353-377.

Elden, S. & Mendieta, E. Being-With as Making Worlds: The ‘Second Coming’ of Peter Sloterdijk. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2009;27:1-11.

Brenner, N. & Elden, S. State, Space, World: Henri Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism. In: Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2009:1-48.

Elden, S. Place Symbolism and Land Politics in Beowulf. Cultural Geographies. 2009;16:447-463.

Elden, S. Dialectics and the Measure of the World. Environment and Planning A. 2008;40:2641-51.

Elden, S. Lefebvre and Axelos: Mondialisation before Globalisation. In: Goonewardena, K., Kipfer, S., Milgrom, R. & Schmid, C. Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre. New York: Routledge; 2008:80-93.

Elden, S. Rethinking Governmentality. Political Geography. 2007;26:29-33.

Elden, S. Terror and Territory. Antipode. 2007;39:821-45.

Elden, S. Governmentality, calculation, territory. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2007;25:562-580.

Elden, S. Rethinking Governmentality. Political Geography. 2007;26:29-33.

Elden, S. Blair, Neo-Conservatism and The War on Territorial Integrity. International Politics. 2007;44:37-57.

Bialasiewicz, L., Campbell, D., Elden, S., Graham, S., Jeffrey, A & Williams, A. J. Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy. Political Geography. 2007;26:357-82.

Elden, S. & Bialasiewicz, L. The New Geopolitics of Division and the Problem of a Kantian Europe. Review of International Studies. 2006;32:623-644.

Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. 2006;88:477-485.

Elden, S. Contingent Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Sanctity of Borders. SAIS Review of International Affairs. 2006;29:11-24.

Elden, S. Heidegger’s Animals. Continental Philosophy Review. 2006;39:273-91.

Elden, S. National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. Social and Cultural Geography. 2006;7:753-769.

Elden, S. Discipline, Health and Madness: Foucault’s ‘Le pouvoir psychiatrique’. History of the Human Sciences. 2006;19:39-66.

Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202.

Elden, S. The State of Territory Under Globalization: Empire and the Politics of Reterritorialization. In Margaroni, M. & Yiannopoulou, E. Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics. Amsterdam: Rodopi; 2006:47-66.

Elden, S. Reading Logos as Speech: Heidegger, Aristotle and Rhetorical Politics. Philosophy and Rhetoric. 2005;38:281-301.

Elden, S. Contributions to geography? The spaces of Heidegger’s Beiträge. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2005;23:811-827.

Elden, S. Territorial integrity and the war on terror. Environment and Planning A. 2005;37:2083-2104.

Elden, S. Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization and the space of the world. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2005;30:8-19.

Elden, S. Genealogy, Ontology and the Political: Three Conceptual Questions to Engin Isin. Political Geography. 2005;24:355-359.

Elden, S. The Problem of Confession: The Productive Failure of Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality’. Journal for Cultural Research. 2005;9:23-41.

Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. The Constitution of EU territory. Comparative European Politics. 2005;3:333-363.

Elden, S. ‘Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten’: Place, Calculation and Politics in Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending. In: De Maeseneer, Y. God out of Place? A Symposium on L.P. Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God. Utrecht: Ars Disputandi; 2005:39-47.

Elden, S. Mondialisation without the World: Interview with Kostas Axelos. Radical Philosophy. 2005;130:25-28.

Elden, S. Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle. In: Bourg, J. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. Lanham: Lexington Books; 2004:125-148.

Elden, S. Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvre’s ‘The Production of Space’. Antipode. 2004;36:86-105.

Elden, S. Taking the measure of the Beiträge: Heidegger, National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. European Journal of Political Theory. 2003;2:35-56.

Elden, S. Another sense of Demos: Kleisthenes and the Greek division of the Polis. Democratization. 2003;10:135-156.

Elden, S. The place of geometry: Heidegger’s mathematical excursus on Aristotle. The Heythrop Journal. 2001;42:311-328.

Elden, S. The constitution of the normal: monsters and masturbation at the Collège de France. Boundary 2. 2001;28:91-105.

Elden, S. Politics, philosophy, geography: Henri Lefebvre in recent Anglo-American scholarship. Antipode. 2001;33:809-825.

Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre in contexts: An introduction. Antipode. 2001;33:763-768.

Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger’s Questioning the Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422.

Also see Google Books and Durham Research Online which has preprints of some articles.

The Birth of Territory

All available online material is linked from this project’s own page. This includes three lectures on video; two audio recordings; a table of contents; and links to discussions on this blog of each chapter as I made the penultimate draft.

Online interviews

with John Protevi, at the New APPS blog.

with Paul Ennis, at AHB.

with Leonhardt van Efferink, at the Exploring Geopolitics site (on Terror and Territory).

with University of Minnesota Press blog (on Terror and Territory).

with Adam Ramadan – audio recording of discussion at Cambridge University Geographical Society, 16 February 2012

Other Audio/Video

Discussant Comments at The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference (audio; text)

“Of: Becoming World”, comments on William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming (audio and slides)

Wendy Brown, “Walled States, Waning Sovereignty”, with discussant comments by Raia Prokovnik and Stuart Elden (video in fifteen parts; follow links from part one; my comments begin in part eight and continue in part nine).

“How should we do the history of territory?” University of California, Berkeley, 14th September 2011 (audio)

“Longer Times, Wider Geographies”, Afghanistan and the War on Terror -Ten Years On, Tyneside Stop the War coalition, 5th October 2011 (audio; text)

“The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth”, Anachronic Shakespeare conference, New York University, 24 February 2012 (audio; Powerpoint; discussion).

Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza discussion (Keith Woodward, Susan Ruddick, Stuart Elden, Vinay Gidwani, and Warren Montag), Association of American Geographers, 27 February 2012 (audio).

“Another Leibniz”, Association of American Geographers, 28 February 2012 (video of audio and slides)

“Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power”, Committee for Social Theory public lecture, University of Kentucky, 30 March 2012 (video)

“Technologies of Bordering: Drawing Lines, Calculating Space”, Walls and Fences: The Politics and Ethics of Border Barriers, Yale University, 13 April 2012 (audio)

Reading Lists

Political Geography (Key Concepts)

Theory and Geography (Introduction and Foucault)

Territory and Geopolitics