Author Archives: stuartelden

Tour de France – first few days

Posted on July 8, 2010 by stuartelden

An interesting few days in the Tour, with several crashes in the first few stages. The Guardian has some fairly gruesome images here. Mark Cavendish won his first stage today; and Geraint Thomas remains in second place and in the white … Continue reading →

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Foucault

Posted on July 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has a quotation from Foucault’s recently translated 1982-83 lecture course, The Government of Self and Others, up on her Foucault site, and a brief discussion here. It seems to me that the philosophical choice confronting us today is the … Continue reading →

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REF delay to be announced

Posted on July 8, 2010 by stuartelden

The Times Higher Education Supplement has the news that the UK Research Exercise Framework (the Research Assessment Exercise replacement) will be delayed for a year. This means publications between 2008 and 2013 will now ‘count’. This has some strange distorting effects … Continue reading →

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Review of three books on territory

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

This review article has been available as an advance online publication for a while, but it’s now published. “Thinking Territory Politically”, Political Geography, Vol 29 No 4, 2010, pp. 238-41. It can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.013 The three books reviewed … Continue reading →

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Michael Barrett Award

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

My colleague Martin Pratt has been awarded the Michael Barrett Award of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. To the person whom in the opinion of the Panel/Division has contributed most to the understanding of the subjects of Land Transfer, … Continue reading →

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Kaiyan Kaikobad

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Some very sad news – Professor Kaiyan Kaikobad, of Brunel University has died suddenly. Kaiyan used to be at Durham, and was on the interview panel when I was appointed in 2002. He was a regular at the boundary events … Continue reading →

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Zizek (again)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has a round up of Zizek media events. His ‘Living in the End Times’ at the LSE lecture is available here. He will be on Newsnight on Wednesday 7 July, and This Week on Thursday 8 July.

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Dr Robinson

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Many congratulations to Iain Robinson, who successfully defended his thesis today. It was passed without revisions. The title was ‘Transience and durability in Japanese urban space’ and it provided a detailed reading of urban transformation in Chiba-shi. The examiners were … Continue reading →

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Taking Place – new book

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Two colleagues at Durham, Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, have a new edited book out – Taking Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography. It’s published by Ashgate, and more info can be found here. You can download the book’s introduction for … Continue reading →

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Zizek in The Telegraph

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Interviewed here.

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