Author Archives: stuartelden

Judith Butler’s remarks at Brooklyn College

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

The Nation has published Judith Butler’s talk to the event at Brooklyn College on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

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Exhuming Mackinder

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography before, along with some critical reviews, but I’ve now read the damn thing. One of the most peculiar elements is the attempt to exhume Mackinder, as if this is the cutting edge … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Dominique Moran Reviews Beyond Walls and Cages.

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Jo van Every on book proposals

Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Some good advice on book proposals from Jo van Every.

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Secure the Volume – Political Geography paper available

Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” has now been published by Political Geography in their ‘articles in press’ section [open access here]. They’ve not yet posted the responses by Peter Adey and Gavin Bridge … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
This week it was announced that the TED talks will be moving from California to Vancouver in March 2014 – Mayor Gregor Robertson supposedly saw this as a sign that ‘we’re breaking through in thought…

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Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique:Foucault and the Problems of Modernity, Indiana University Press, Series: American Philosophy Publication date: 2/25/2013 Format: paper 362 pages ISBN: 978-0-253-00621-9 Author’s blog Description Viewing Foucault in the light of work…

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Boko Haram in World Policy Journal

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

World Policy Journal has a short and useful piece on Boko Haram by Carlo Davis, including this diagram of its political anatomy – clicking on the image will take you to their much larger version. The full piece is available … Continue reading →

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Greenwald and Cole on the Obama administration memo

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The Obama adminstration memo on assassination, that I linked to this morning, is dissected by Glenn Greenwald and Juan Cole. Greenwald is especially good on the political and geographical elements; Cole on the legal/constitutional issues.

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Lefebvre, autogestion, Mexico and Turkey

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Ertan Erol, one of Adam David Morton’s PhD students, discusses how Lefebvre’s notion of autogestion, especially in the State, Space, World collection is helpful in understanding spaces of difference and capitalist space in Mexico and Turkey at For the Desk … Continue reading →

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