Author Archives: stuartelden

Judith Butler, Dispossession

Posted on January 26, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Judith Butler’s recent Parting Ways before, but she has a new book coming out with Polity in the next month or so – Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. I’ve not seen this mentioned before. It’s a series … Continue reading →

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Parallel States Project

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Lund University some interesting thinking on the Israel/Palestine situation in a venture called the Parallel States Project. The conference was in 2010 and I’m not sure what has happened since 2011. The site says they are cooperating with faculty from … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Jeremy W. Crampton, Stuart Elden (Eds.), Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography, London: Ashgate (now Routledge – 2025), November 2012 (E.book, Illustrated edition) Previous Ed: paperback February 2007; hardback February 2007. I have also…

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – online

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ is now online – forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the RSA journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The journal requires subscription, so if you can’t easily get hold of it, please … Continue reading →

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Dittmer on Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Jason Dittmer reviews Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography at The New Inquiry. Thanks to Territorial Masquerades for the link (also points to some discussions of Jarad Diamond’s new book).

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Klaus Dodds, The Antarctic – interview

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds’s The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction is the focus of an interview at Exploring Geopolitics.

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Neve Gordon on the Israeli election

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

In diagrams at the London Review of Books blog. This is the way the results of the elections are being presented in the Israeli press: Centre Left Bloc                                           Right Bloc Other, perhaps more … Continue reading →

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Allen Scott – A World in Emergence

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Allen Scott’s book A World in Emergence: Cities and Regions in the 21st Century is now out. Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book … Continue reading →

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A history of the concept of distance?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Geography, Jeremy Crampton reports a conversation: A colleague recently asked me if geographers have written anything on the history of distance as a concept, especially since the Medieval period and the early modern. (He had in mind Elden’s … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 23, 2013 by stuartelden

An interesting possibility in the Open Access debates.

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