Author Archives: stuartelden

A critical path: Securing the future of higher education in England

Posted on July 2, 2013 by stuartelden

IPPR report A critical path: Securing the future of higher education in England – free to download and summary here.

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Geopolitical Material

Posted on July 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Duncan Depledge provides a brief summary of an interesting editorial he has published in Political Geography. Like my recent ‘Earth’ paper he is using Elizabeth Grosz to begin to rethink geo-politics.

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Bioethics, environment and planning: two new reviews posted

Posted on July 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Two reviews at the Society and Space open site

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The Birth of Territory cover

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

The book will be out in August – University of Chicago Press page here. Here’s what I say about the subject of the picture in the book: Irnerius (c.1050-c.1130) is a largely unknown figure, but he founded the school known … Continue reading →

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Debating Open Access

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

A series of essays collated by the British Academy on open access publishing.

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Theory, Culture and Society – joining the editorial board

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

I am very pleased to say I’ve joined the editorial board of Theory, Culture and Society – a remarkable journal. The journal also runs a very interesting blog alongside the main publication.

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Cycling the Sea of Galilee

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the things I did on my recent trip to Israel was to cycle round the Sea of Galilee. A cycle-path is being developed around much of this, but there are some parts where you need to use the … Continue reading →

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Advice for PhD Students

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Nick Hopwood has some interesting advice for PhD students – though the title is needlessly provocative.

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Novels read in 2013 so far

Posted on June 30, 2013 by stuartelden

These are the novels I’ve read so far in 2013 (the picture is of some of them): John Grisham, The Pelican Brief Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughter-House Five Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love Patrick McGrath, Spider   Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh … Continue reading →

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Earth – audio recording from CityState workshop

Posted on June 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk ‘Earth’ from the recent CityState: A Lexical-Political Workshop is available here. The abstract is below: Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for … Continue reading →

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