Category Archives: Books

Reactions to Terror and Territory

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

A generous post commenting on Terror and Territory, by Devin Shaw, can be found here. Very generous: it claims that my account of sovereignty is “more nuanced than Agamben’s”; and that for a take on the rhetoric of the neo-cons, … Continue reading →

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Leaving Seattle with a better draft

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Time to leave Seattle. It’s been a good, but busy, six weeks. I had great side trips to Vancouver (twice), Victoria, Eugene, and Columbus. University of Washington has a great geography department and it’s been good to get to know people … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – Chapter Updates

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

These are the links to the chapter updates I’ve been posting as I’ve worked through this redraft. Reading the posts through would give a pretty good idea of what’s in the book, as well as some of the issues I faced in writing … Continue reading →

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Chapter Nine

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Nine is now done. This is the last chapter of the book, which means I’ve now worked through all the chapters in the revision I’ve done while in Seattle. I leave tomorrow. I’ve posted quite a bit about this … Continue reading →

Posted in Andreas Knichen, Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, George Lawson, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri de Boulainviller, Isaac Newton, James Harrington, Johannes Althusius, John Locke, Matthias Stephani, Nicholas of Cusa, René Descartes, Robert Filmer, Samuel Pufendorf, The Birth of Territory, Theodor Reinking, Thomas Hobbes, Udalricus Zasius, Walter Ralegh | 1 Comment

Leibniz, fossils, unicorns and the mammoth

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

While working on Chapter Nine, I wrote a review of Leibniz’s Protogaea for Society and Space. It’s a fascinating book, in a very good bi-lingual edition, with some striking illustrations. Particularly interesting for the discussion of fossils, which is something … Continue reading →

Posted in Fossils, Gottfried Leibniz, Society and Space, The Space of the World | 2 Comments

review of State, Space, World

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

There is a brief review of the Lefebvre collection State, Space, World in the new issue of Contemporary Sociology. Although the book has been out for eighteen months, this is the first review to be published to my knowledge (leaving … Continue reading →

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Chapter Eight

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Eight is now done. It needed work in two main areas – expanding and developing the treatment of Luther; and dramatically cutting down the discussion of King Lear. The Lear material might make a journal article in its expanded … Continue reading →

Posted in Giovanni Botero, Jean Bodin, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Niccolò Machiavelli, Philipp Melanchthon, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Sidaway on Terror and Territory

Posted on November 28, 2010 by stuartelden

James Sidaway’s very generous review of my Terror and Territory in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers is now available here. This is a compact and sharp book. It is also one that, as a geographer, I am … Continue reading →

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Chapter Seven

Posted on November 26, 2010 by stuartelden

The work on Chapter Seven in this redraft was minor. This is largely because of the amount of work I’d already put into this chapter; a chapter which caused me more textual difficulties than any other. The chapter discusses Roman law, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baldus de Ubaldis, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Irnerius, Medieval Studies, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Chapter Four

Posted on November 26, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve now finally completed the work on Chapter Four, which required the most extensive work in this redraft. The chapter begins with a discussion of the Donation of Constantine, which claimed to be a text from the fourth century, was forged … Continue reading →

Posted in Medieval Studies, The Birth of Territory | 4 Comments