Monthly Archives: July 2015

Jeremy Crampton on maps, permissions and Asterix

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Slow linking to these, but Jeremy Crampton has two follow-up posts to my earlier sharing of Mary Beard’s interesting piece on the last stages of writing a book – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. In the first he talks about maps … Continue reading →

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Two Summer Schools about Geopolitics at Maastricht University

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Two Summer Schools about Geopolitics at Maastricht University organised by Leonhardt van Efferink: 3 – 7 August 2015 – Geopolitical Analysis 1: Rethinking Nation-States, National Security and Global Power 10 – 14 August 2015 Geopolitical Analysis 2: Exploring Geopolitics, Geoeconomics … Continue reading →

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Universities and space

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Refracted Input:
An example of the kind of building which is currently being constructed by universities in Australia. Interestingly, in this rendering, nobody actually seems to be doing any real work. And unless I missed it, there…

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Times Higher Education on William Cronon’s British Academy lecture – ‘ Who reads Geography or History anymore?’

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

The Times Higher Education has a report on William Cronon’s British Academy lecture, Royal Geographical Society, London, on 7 July 2015 – ‘ Who reads Geography or History anymore?‘

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Mark Blyth, ‘A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece isn’t to Blame for the Crisis’ in Foreign Affairs

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Mark Blyth, ‘A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece isn’t to Blame for the Crisis‘ in Foreign Affairs.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Shakespeare… and one by Foucault

Posted on July 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Shakespeare, Shakespeare… and one by Foucault. The Foucault is the ninth edition, but I don’t think is any different from the second – which he produced in 1972, though that has major changes from the 1963 version. With … Continue reading →

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Theory and Other Languages – short article at E-IR

Posted on July 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I have a short piece entitled “Theory and Other Languages” at E-IR (open access). This was written on the request for a piece on this topic by Jan Tattenberg. It’s an autobiographical piece about how my work has been conducted … Continue reading →

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Todd May reviews Balibar’s Violence and Civility

Posted on July 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
At NDPR here. Having not read this yet, this looks like a great text to work through the next time I teach a course on violence. Here, May goes through Balibar’s…

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New open access book reviews

Posted on July 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We’ve published some great book reviews on AntipodeFoundation.org recently, including… Christopher Taylor (University of Chicago) on Martha Schoolman’s Abolitionist Geographies; Ian Shaw (University of Glasgow) on Grégoire Chamayou’s Drone Theory and Adam Rothstein’s Drone; Karen McCallum…

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Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory – recently out with OUP.

Posted on July 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory – recently out with OUP. Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their borders. But what entitles a state, or the people it represents, to assume … Continue reading →

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