Author Archives: stuartelden

Elizabeth Straughan reviews James Wilkes’ new book A Fractured Landscape of Modernity at the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
As per our disciplinary formations, IR scholars often indoctrinate instruct their students with the assumption that anarchy is a constant in international relations. The use of the term, however, generally assumes that there…

Originally posted on Critical Geopolitics:
Given the recent helicopter shoot down in Nagorno Karabakh, and the ongoing fighting over Donetsk airport, I’m posting below some remarks I made at the New School conference last month on the Ukrainian crisis. Point…

Originally posted on Geography Directions:
By Stuart Elden, University of Warwick and Monash University Military Presence in Maitama, Abuja (image credit: Stuart Elden) The Sunni Islamic group known as ‘Boko Haram’, active in the northeast of the country since at…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker:…

Two articles from my ‘Wet Ontologies’ project, both co-authored with Kimberley Peters, are due for publication in the next month or two: ‘Wet Ontologies, Fluid Dynamics: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking’, which will be published in Environment and…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Given the level of interest in my previous post (over 2,400 views in the last 10 days), I thought I would provide an analysis of UCU’s counter-proposals on USS and of the ongoing…