Author Archives: stuartelden

Advice for PhD students

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stuartelden

Bradley L. Garrett offers some interesting, useful, and sometimes funny, advice here.

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Land, Terrain, Territory

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

It’s been up online for some time, but this article is now finally published, and you can find the version with page numbers etc. here. It’s strange that I wrote this as the first thing within my three-year Leverhulme major … Continue reading →

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How to get an academic job

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Some interesting advice from Tim Morton here – a sequence of posts so scroll down to see more.

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Peter Hallward on the London protests

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Hallward on the protests last week – here.

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Foucault on Space

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

I’d planned to spend time over the last week or so on the Sloterdijk Now manuscript, but a couple of chapters are delayed so that has been put back to the New Year. I’m also without internet at home which … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on December 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Just finished doing the proofs of Reading Kant’s Geography. It’s a long book (ix + 372 pages without index), but I think it’s a good read – I feel I can be slightly objective since I co-edited it, rather than … Continue reading →

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Slogans from the London demo

Posted on December 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Find them here – good, bad and ugly alike (via here).

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Police violence yesterday

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Nina Power alerted me to this story about yesterday [see also here]. This should be much higher up the news headlines. The Guardian is still leading with the royal issue, but in its live blog it now reports that:- The police watchdog … Continue reading →

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David Campbell on Wikileaks

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Some good analysis here.

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Thoughts on the fees issue

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

The Liberal Democrats justify breaking their pre-election pledge by claiming that compromises have to be made in coalition. But the Liberal Democrats were never going to form an administration on their own. They therefore knew that they would not be … Continue reading →

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