Category Archives: Books

Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers – Banking Across Boundaries

Posted on February 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers’s new book Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism has just been published. It’s part of the Antipode Book Series, and comes with glowing endorsements from David Harvey, Mary Poovey and Leonard Seabrooke. There are excerpts available to … Continue reading →

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Laura Kurgan – Close up at a Distance

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book forthcoming from Zone Books – Laura Kurgan, Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics.  The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data … Continue reading →

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Spatial Politics – essays for Doreen Massey book and event

Posted on February 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett at Pop Theory has the news of a launch event for the collection Spatial Politics: essays for Doreen Massey, edited by Dave Featherstone and Joe Painter. The details of the event can be found here.

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth

Posted on January 29, 2013 by stuartelden

In the post today, the manuscript of John Protevi’s new book, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences, which I’ve agreed to endorse for University of Minnesota Press. Looking forward to reading this.

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – online

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ is now online – forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the RSA journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The journal requires subscription, so if you can’t easily get hold of it, please … Continue reading →

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A history of the concept of distance?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Geography, Jeremy Crampton reports a conversation: A colleague recently asked me if geographers have written anything on the history of distance as a concept, especially since the Medieval period and the early modern. (He had in mind Elden’s … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – draft blurb

Posted on January 21, 2013 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is inching its way towards publication. The proofs are due within a month, and the index needs to be compiled. I’ve just sent in the ‘author questionnaire’, which marketing will use as a basis for their … Continue reading →

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New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth reviewed

Posted on January 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Issue 4 of Harvard GSD journal New Geographies was on the theme of ‘Scales of the Earth’. You can read a review of it here. New Geographies, 4: Scales of the Earth, edited by El Hadi Jazairy, centers on the … Continue reading →

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