Author Archives: stuartelden

Comments on territory for the Ice-Law workshop at Durham – audio recording

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent the second half of last week back in Durham at a workshop organised by Phil Steinberg on Ice Law or, to give it its full title – The IBRU Workshop on International Law, State Sovereignty, and the Ice-Land-Water Interface. I used … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

One million views of Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

According to WordPress, there have now been just over a million views of Progressive Geographies since the blog started in 2010. That’s page views, not visits. The map below – which shows visits from October 2013 – gives a good … Continue reading →

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The theft of Native Americans’ land, in one animated map

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt on “Europeans’ violent seizing of Native Americans’ land“. To supplement his new book, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, Saunt created an interactive map showing the decline of Indian homelands from 1776 to 1887. … Continue reading →

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The Clubs that Connect the World Cup – New York Times visualisations

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

The New York Times has some very good visualisations/animations of the players and their clubs that make up the national teams at the World Cup. (Clicking on the screenshot below takes you to the interactive page.)  

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Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, VIII

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 1st March, 1981 Foucault highlights the difference between love for women and love for boys, and the value placed on the man-woman love, particularly man-wife love, in antiquity in the period of Hellentistic-Roman philosophy.…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Explaining ISIS/ISIL – a roundup of things to read How powerful is your passport? – infographic The Constitution of Scottish Territory “Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the … Continue reading →

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How powerful is your passport? – infographic

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden
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More on the Constitution of Scottish Territory

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

At Terri-Stories, Randy Schiff adds some thoughts about the constitution of Scottish territory to the brief comments I made yesterday. It is particularly good on the territorial status of the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

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Benjamin Kunkel reviews Thomas Piketty in the LRB

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Benjamin Kunkel reviews Thomas Piketty in the LRB – free to read online. Update – many more reviews here: thanks to Simone Tulumello for the link.

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New issue of Parrhesia – Meillssoux, Garcia, Klossowski, Ivakhiv, Tropes of Transport etc.

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy just out – includes work by Quentin Meillassoux, Tristan Garcia, Pierre Klossowski on Walter Benjamin, a review panel of Katrin Pahl’s Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion, a piece by Adrian Ivakhiv on the objects-processes debate in … Continue reading →

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