Author Archives: stuartelden

Barbara Graziosi reviews Mary Beard’s reviews

Posted on May 9, 2013 by stuartelden

My Durham IAS colleague Barbara Graziosi reviews Mary Beard’s book of reviews Confronting the Classics in the THES.

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Jerusalem Day

Posted on May 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Yesterday was Jerusalem Day, a celebration of the unification of the city. There is a good discussion in Haaretz of all the complexities and inequalities that celebration masks. This year there were clashes between the police and demonstrators and the … Continue reading →

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Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the Earth

Posted on May 8, 2013 by stuartelden

The RGS-IBG draft conference programme is now available. I’m speaking on ‘Terricide: Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth’ in the second of two sessions under the title of Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the Earth. Details of those sessions … Continue reading →

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Urban Studies Foundation postdoctoral fellowships

Posted on May 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Fellowships at University of Glasgow – details here. Applications should be submitted electronically to Ruth Harkin at ruth.harkin@glasgow.ac.uk by 14 June 2013.

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Book Review Symposium – Geraldine Pratt’s ‘Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love’

Posted on May 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
This symposium brings together a group of scholars to discuss Prof. Geraldine Pratt’s monograph Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). The book is grounded in…

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# PALESTINE /// For a more Incarnate Vision of the Occupation: The Israeli settlements in the West Bank through Palestinian eyes

Posted on May 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Israeli settlement of Rimmonim on the road from Ramallah to Jericho I am not quite sure to know the reasons that made me take so much time to write this article, three years after my…

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New Foucault blog at University of Zurich

Posted on May 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
A new blog titled Foucaultblog  has recently been established at the University of Zurich. Contributions are in German, French and English. Update September 2025. This blog has been retitled the G+C blog which is the…

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Jerusalem light rail

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

On Sunday I took a couple of hours to explore the fairly new Jerusalem light rail. It opened in late 2011 and when I was last here in 2009 it was still under construction. I’m staying near Damascus Gate, and … Continue reading →

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Katie Ledingham reviews Wolfe’s Before the Law

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Cary Wolfe’s Before the Law has been on my to-read list for a little while – review at the Society and Space open site.

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Al Quds University talk details

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The details for my public lecture this week – Wednesday 8 May 2013, 1.30pm, “The Dimensions of Territory”, Al Quds Bard Honors College building, Al Quds University, Abu Dis Campus.

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