Monthly Archives: October 2013

Issue 5 out

Posted on October 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Issue 5 of Society and Space now out.

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CFP AAG 2014 – Borders Beyond Securitization: Rethinking the Lines that Bind Us

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m not going to post many calls for AAG sessions, but this also looks very relevant to this blog’s concerns. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-11, 2014 CFP: Borders Beyond Securitization: Rethinking the Lines that … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers AAG 2014 – (Re)imagining Territory as Political Ecological Process

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Re-posted from crit-geog-forum. Call for Papers AAG 2014: (Re)imagining Territory as Political Ecological Process Territory is the basis for the political-juridical organization of the international state system.  It is one of the fundamental concepts upon which state sovereignty operates and … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1972 lecture at Minnesota – summary now available

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

In a previous post, I discussed the summary of a 1972 lecture Foucault gave in Minneapolis, entitled “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”. As far as I am aware the text of the lecture remains in Foucault’s own papers and was … Continue reading →

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Geo-metrics – audio recording of lecture at Balsillie School

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

In late September I gave the keynote address to the workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. The title of the talk was ‘Geo-metrics’ and you can listen to the audio … Continue reading →

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Korf and Raeymaekers (eds.), Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

While in Zurich I was given a copy of Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers’s new edited book, Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands. It’s in a series on African Borderlands Studies, but also has quite a lot of … Continue reading →

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Pedagogies of Disaster

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Newly published by Punctum books, Pedagogies of Disaster – authored by The Department of Eagles, edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Adam Staley Groves, Nico Jenkins. We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments … Continue reading →

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Madeleine Fagan – Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism Levinas, Derrida and Nancy

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

My Warwick colleague Madeleine Fagan’s book Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism: Levinas, Derrida and Nancy has now been released by Edinburgh University Press. This groundbreaking book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on ethics and politics after poststructuralism. Madeleine Fagan argues … Continue reading →

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A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett – audio recordings

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Backdoor Broadcasting Company have made available the audio recordings from the Jane Bennett workshop on 5th October. Contributions from Jane Bennett, Lisa Baraitser, Michael O’Rourke, Joao Florencio, Eileen Joy, Nigel Clark, and Eszter Timár.

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Two days in Zurich

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Just back from two very nice days in Zurich. Yesterday I gave a lecture entitled ‘Earth: Re-grounding Geopolitics’, and today there was a seminar on my work – particularly ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ and ‘How should we do the history of … Continue reading →

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