Monthly Archives: August 2015

Feature on Terror and Territory (interview, review and profile) in Iran’s Shargh Daily

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

There is a full-page feature on my 2009 book Terror and Territory in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper. It was put together by Sahand Sattari, and includes a translation of an interview with Exploring Geopolitics, a review of the book, and a short profile of my background, publications and current … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt’s marginalia to Heidegger’s Being and Time

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Enowning shares the news from Bard College: The marginalia in Hannah Arendt copy of Being and Time. Just a few underlinings. More here. The disappointment, apart from the very few traces, is that this is of Being and Time in the Macquarrie and Robinson translation, … Continue reading →

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Travelling through words

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
At Stuart Elden‘s suggestion, I’ve been invited to join a collaborative project initiated and edited by Suzanne Akbari called ‘How we write‘: it’s an interdisciplinary collection of short essays each of which describes how we…

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Arctic seabed claims and the politics of mapping

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Following up on my recent blogpost on Russia’s Arctic seabed mapping, The Conversation has published a companion piece on some of the politics surrounding the map, its drawing, and its reception. The Conversation article integrates analysis of some of the…

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13 new papers and a video abstract – “The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises”

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
It’s not quite the middle of August and the September issue of Antipode is out now! Antipode 47(4) really showcases critical geography at its very best: timely topics, engaged research, engaging writing… We open with Christian Parenti’s…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on August 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Cycling in Provence, including Mont Ventoux Raul Pacheco-Vega on academic writing, and breaking with usual practices Online resources to help students summarize journal articles … Continue reading →

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Audio recording of talk on terrain and territory from AAG 2015

Posted on August 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my 22 April 2015 AAG talk on ‘The Geophysics of Territory’ is available here (18 minutes). This was in sessions co-organised with Gastón Gordillo; Derek Gregory and Setha Low acted as discussants. The talk ranges across quite … Continue reading →

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Online resources to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews

Posted on August 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Online resources to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews – some useful resources at Raul Pacheco-Vega’s blog. The courses I teach tend to be very practical and applied. My teaching philosophy is founded on helping my students acquire employable … Continue reading →

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Society and Space early online articles and archives – all currently open access

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

A host of new papers available online, all currently open access.

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Notes toward a critical history of cartography, part 2

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
The Map Room at the British Library Over the last couple of months I have been visiting various archives to access some great material relevant to the “Critical History.” In June I visited the Library…

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