Author Archives: stuartelden

Seattle and the Greeks

Posted on October 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Now in Seattle, at University of Washington. Slowly getting the infrastructure of life and work established, but dealing badly with West-coast jetlag. To be honest part of me is glad to be out of the UK as the comprehensive spending … Continue reading →

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Governing Emergencies – workshop at Durham

Posted on October 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Governing Emergencies 9/10 December 2010 (Starting at 2.00 on the 9th) Two Day Workshop. Department of Geography, Durham University Papers include: Peter Adey (Keele University), Ben Anderson (Durham University) and Steve Graham (Newcastle): Event and Anticipation: Governing Emergencies in UK … Continue reading →

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The importance of small details

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

As last week’s update on the book said, there were lots of minor things that I wanted to get resolved before I left London. Most of these presented relatively few problems. A few though caused me considerably more work. With Vitoria … Continue reading →

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Rumours of the cuts to come

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Rumours of the cuts to come to British Higher Education here and here. As I said in my immediate thoughts on the Browne report a few days ago (here), the the unsaid part of the report was the massive cuts coming in the comprehensive … Continue reading →

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Environment and Planning

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

There will be a five volume compilation from the Environment and Planning series of journals coming out with Sage next year. It’s designed for library use.  There are four volumes devoted to the four journals – A, B, C and D … Continue reading →

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‘The True Size of Africa’

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

This image has been fairly widely circulated. David Campbell asks a good question here: “in comparing a continent with countries, doesn’t it run the risk of perpetuating the homogenization of Africa’s 61 political territories into one entity?” One way this is … Continue reading →

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Badiou on Beckett

Posted on October 12, 2010 by stuartelden

At Infinite Thought, Nina Power has posted an announcement that the translation of Badiou’s book On Beckett is now freely available as a pdf here. here.

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The Browne Report

Posted on October 12, 2010 by stuartelden

The Browne report ‘Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education’ is here. The headlines loans for living costs; grants for families with below £60,000 income no upfront fees for tuition, these too funded by loans repayment of loans to start at … Continue reading →

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Ancient boundary dispute resolution

Posted on October 11, 2010 by stuartelden

When the Argives seemed to make out a better case than the Spartans to a land in dispute, he drew his sword and said, ‘He that is master of this can best talk about the boundaries of countries’. Plutarch, Moralia, 190e5 … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory contents

Posted on October 11, 2010 by stuartelden

This is the proposed contents for The Birth of Territory…

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