Author Archives: stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

Posted on March 16, 2015 by stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department is under serious threat. Apparently “the current staff of 14 lecturers/professors will be reduced to 5. The current staff have received their redundancy notices and will have to re-apply to one of the 5 positions. … Continue reading →

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“University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” – clarification

Posted on March 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The University of Freiburg has issued a clarification: “University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” (via Enowning).

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on March 15, 2015 by stuartelden

I was away for much of the week, so not that many new posts. Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press) New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available … Continue reading →

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What We Talked About At ISA: Weaponising Geography and the Global Striations of Military Targeting

Posted on March 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the context of a panel I put together on “Turning Ploughshares into Swords: Weapons and Weaponizations”, the ISA’s annual conference was the occasion for me to present some of the research I…

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Foucault and Neoliberalism Today (2015)

Posted on March 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer…

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Workshop at UNSW on The Birth of Territory and ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

My public lecture “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics” at University of New South Wales earlier this week was recorded by ABC Radio ‘Big Ideas‘, and I’ll hopefully be able to post the link soon. Paul Patton gave a very generous introduction … Continue reading →

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Contesting the Arctic now published

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

I’m delighted to announce that Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North is now published. The book was something of a writing experiment for myself and co-authors. Contesting the Arctic not only seeks to understand the Arctic…

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Re-engaging Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain A Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective, 10th-11th Dec 2015, University of Brighton

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Re-engaging Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain A Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective 10th-11th December 2015 Grand Parade University of Brighton, UK Understanding Conflict Research Cluster Critical Studies Research Group Keynotes: Prof Elaine Scarry and Prof Joanna Bourke The year 2015 marks the … Continue reading →

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Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism. Aid workers commonly bemoan that the spaces and experiences of working in ‘the field’ often sit uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: from visiting project … Continue reading →

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New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
My colleague Sean McGrath and I have started up a series with Edinburgh UP, ‘New Perspectives in Ontology’. Our board is now just about in place, including Maurizio Farraris (Turin), Iain Hamilton Grant (University…

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