Category Archives: Books

Books received – Avila, Axelos, Bleiker, Branch, Tribe

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books received – Kostas Axelos’s final two books; Keith Tribe’s classic Land, Labour and Economic Discourse; Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway; Roland Bleiker’s Aesthetics and World Politics; Jordan Branch’s The Cartographic State – and a pile of … Continue reading →

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Comments on territory for the Ice-Law workshop at Durham – audio recording

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent the second half of last week back in Durham at a workshop organised by Phil Steinberg on Ice Law or, to give it its full title – The IBRU Workshop on International Law, State Sovereignty, and the Ice-Land-Water Interface. I used … Continue reading →

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Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds – International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power

Posted on June 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds, International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power. International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of … Continue reading →

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Explaining ISIS/ISIL – a roundup of things to read

Posted on June 16, 2014 by stuartelden

Between the lead-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and around 2008, I read extensively on what was happening in the country. I wrote several articles and chapters on the territorial, legal and constitutional issues, many of which were … Continue reading →

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To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer

Posted on June 14, 2014 by stuartelden

To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer – Michael Williams with David Lowenthal and William M. Denevan, recently published by University of Virgina Press. To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling … Continue reading →

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

The second part of lecture 2; the first part of lecture 3 and the second part.

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Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – Rowman International  Series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro-scale of geopolitics … Continue reading →

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David Storey reviews The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography

Posted on June 10, 2014 by stuartelden

David Storey reviews The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography (requires subscription or email me). Here’s the final paragraph. This is a work of history, political science, law and philosophy as well as a work of geography. In telling the … Continue reading →

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Archipelago/Funambulist Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Stuart Elden on Territory and Volume

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve linked to content on Archipelago – the podcast companion site to Léopold Lambert’s The Funambulist – before. This time it’s a discussion with me, conducted at the CUSP offices in New York, and mainly discussing my 2013 article “Secure the … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The first chapter of Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is available online. The book will be out in July. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, … Continue reading →

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