Author Archives: stuartelden

Oregon – geography talk and the RPA

I gave a version of ‘The Birth of Territory’ talk to the dept of geography at the University of Oregon. Some good discussion and some very nice meetings with faculty and grad students. It’s a strong department with some interesting … Continue reading →

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography

This collection now has a release date of April 2011. Details here and table of contents here. It’s edited by John Agnew and Jim Duncan. With each of the contemporary issues there are two chapters on the topic – I … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – call for new co-editors

(Please spread the word) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is looking to appoint two new co-editors from early 2011 to replace Emily Brady and Eduardo Mendieta who are stepping down after four years of excellent service to the … Continue reading →

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Chapter Six

I’m still chipping away at Chapter Four. It requires some new reading so is taking a while. But Chapter Six is now done. It begins with a discussion of the struggle between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip the Fair … Continue reading →

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Student protests in London

I’m a long way from London today… But Nina Power’s pieces for The Guardian are worth reading. From her Infinite Thought blog… Jesus, that was quite a day.. Before the march I wrote this. After the march I wrote this. … Continue reading →

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Chapter Five

I’ve not yet finished work on Chapter Four, but I have completed the redraft of Chapter Five. Chapter Five begins with a reading of John of Salisbury, particularly his Policraticus, but also some discussion of his Metalogicon and other writings. … Continue reading →

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‘Radical Foucault’

I’ve just agreed to be one of the keynote speakers at an interesting looking conference coming up at the University of East London on 9 September 2011. I plan to speak about the as-yet-unpublished 70-71 lecture course Leçons sur la volonté de … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s first course

Well, the first at the Collège de France. Amazon.fr have Foucault’s 1970-71 lecture course listed. It’s entitled Leçons sur la volonté de savoir – the ‘Leçons sur’ bit is presumably to avoid confusion with History of Sexuality volume I, when … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Guantánamo, Newcastle lectures, Foucault and space

This is a bit of an ex-colleagues from Durham roundup. David Campbell has an interesting piece here on Edmund Clark’s Guantánamo exhibition and book. I’d seen some of the photographs themselves in The Guardian – here – but David’s commentary is … Continue reading →

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Books – availability

Terror and Territory has now been out for a year, and is into its second printing. Despite how the Continuum website portrays my Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre, the books are not out of print, but out of … Continue reading →

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