Category Archives: Books

British Library references

Posted on January 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Back in one of my favourite places – the British Library rare books room. I’m spending a day here trying to wrap up the final few references to things I can’t easily get in other libraries. The references are to … Continue reading →

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Australia

Posted on January 3, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ll be in Australia between 19 February and 15 May this year, as a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. I will be spending a few days in Singapore on the way and Hong … Continue reading →

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Territorial Integrity

Posted on December 16, 2010 by stuartelden

A four part discussion of the notion of territorial integrity by Jamie Scudder can be found here (and follow the links at the end of each part). It makes quite a bit of use of my Terror and Territory and some … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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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 →

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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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