Monthly Archives: May 2013

Cara Nine, Global Justice and Territory reviewed

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, … Continue reading

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Battle of the maps

Originally posted on 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…

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Tsundoku

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

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

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

A commentary on Palestine and Google at the Society and Space open site.

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ATLASES: Poetics, Politics, Performance

a new online exhibition

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May 2013 issue of Theory, Culture & Society

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?

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

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

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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