Monthly Archives: July 2010

Review of three books on territory

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

This review article has been available as an advance online publication for a while, but it’s now published. “Thinking Territory Politically”, Political Geography, Vol 29 No 4, 2010, pp. 238-41. It can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.013 The three books reviewed … Continue reading →

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Michael Barrett Award

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

My colleague Martin Pratt has been awarded the Michael Barrett Award of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. To the person whom in the opinion of the Panel/Division has contributed most to the understanding of the subjects of Land Transfer, … Continue reading →

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Kaiyan Kaikobad

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Some very sad news – Professor Kaiyan Kaikobad, of Brunel University has died suddenly. Kaiyan used to be at Durham, and was on the interview panel when I was appointed in 2002. He was a regular at the boundary events … Continue reading →

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Zizek (again)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has a round up of Zizek media events. His ‘Living in the End Times’ at the LSE lecture is available here. He will be on Newsnight on Wednesday 7 July, and This Week on Thursday 8 July.

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Dr Robinson

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Many congratulations to Iain Robinson, who successfully defended his thesis today. It was passed without revisions. The title was ‘Transience and durability in Japanese urban space’ and it provided a detailed reading of urban transformation in Chiba-shi. The examiners were … Continue reading →

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Taking Place – new book

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Two colleagues at Durham, Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, have a new edited book out – Taking Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography. It’s published by Ashgate, and more info can be found here. You can download the book’s introduction for … Continue reading →

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Zizek in The Telegraph

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Interviewed here.

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Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Alberto Toscano’s book Fanaticism. A very interesting book and a great project – a kind of genealogy or conceptual history of the uses and abuses of the term. Lots of interesting ideas and a lot to take … Continue reading →

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Blogging and Medieval Studies

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

There is an interesting post here about blogging and Medieval Studies. I don’t think I’ve been doing this blog for long enough to be able to comment about whether this is true in general terms (I suspect some of the … Continue reading →

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Zizek, Derrida and other lecturers

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a followup to my post on Zizek here. He draws an interesting comparison between Zizek and Derrida as speakers. I heard Derrida speak twice – once was a setpiece event in Oxford, which was called ‘A Short … Continue reading →

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