Author Archives: stuartelden

Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

A pile of new books including six Polity titles received in recompense for review work, Tom McCarthy’s novel C, Esposito’s Living Thought, and a few by Hegel for a possible future project.

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Call for Papers and Contributions – Legal Geography

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

A call for papers for the RGS-IBG conference in London in August 2013. Please contact a.layard@bham.ac.uk with all queries. Submission Deadline for papers – Friday 8th February 2013 (other contributions can come later, please see below). Organisers – Antonia Layard (Birmingham) … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Three books on cities, urban and political geography and Central and Eastern Europe reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Resistance in Area E1

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A month ago I posted about Area E1 in the West Bank, an area Israel hopes to build settlements, but at present is a cleared space with the infrastructure for a settlement (roads, power cables, a police station, security apparatus, … Continue reading →

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

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Greenwald on the Mali Intervention

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald discusses the intervention in Mali: As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography – Atlanta APA Eastern talk audio

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk at the APA Eastern can be found here. I talk a bit about the session as a whole here. My talk draws on my 2009 paper “Reassessing Kant’s Geography” and also on my review of … Continue reading →

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Deleuze, Lyotard, de Gandillac, Klossowski, Derrida, Pautrat

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In the comments to the ‘When Heidegger met Lacan’ post, ‘Naxos’ shares a link to this photograph from Cerisy-la-salle in 1972. left to right – Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice de Gandillac, Pierre Klossowski, Jacques Derrida, and (Bernard?) Pautrat.

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Bradley Garrett’s five new rules for the neoliberal academy

Posted on January 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A suggestion of how to fight back against neoliberalism, by adopting its values. Much of how higher education works would collapse if we seriously adopted these – examining theses, reviewing for journals, speaking at conferences, department seminars, etc. But that … Continue reading →

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