Category Archives: Terror and Territory

End of the Leverhulme fellowship

Posted on January 31, 2011 by stuartelden

Today is the last day of my Leverhulme major research fellowship. As of tomorrow I am on research leave. The Leverhulme award was to work on the history of the concept of territory project. I’d already been working on that … Continue reading →

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Terror and Territory response

Posted on January 25, 2011 by stuartelden

The most enjoyable task of the day was drafting a response to four engagements with my Terror and Territory book. The pieces – by Katharyne Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Adam Ramadan and Michael Smith – were originally presented at the Association of … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman on Open Access Publishing

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting thoughts here, based on his experience with The Speculative Turn, and Prince of Networks. Much of this is undoubtedly right, and I think there is a lot of potential for these kinds of publishing outlets. 4-5,000 downloads of … Continue reading →

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Triptych, not a Trilogy

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

On one the interesting things in the Wu Ming interview comes in the third section of the audio, where they describe their Manituana book as the first in a triptych, not a trilogy. The second is on the French Revolution. … 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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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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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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A busy week

Posted on November 19, 2010 by stuartelden

Gave a workshop on publishing with graduate students in geography at University of Washington on Monday, plus a few follow-up meetings. I was invited to come to a class in the Geopolitics course at UW, where the students had been … Continue reading →

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Brenner and Elden on Lefebvre, now in Italian

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

The piece Neil Brenner and I wrote on Lefebvre – “Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory”, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377 – has now been translated into Italian – “Stato, Spazio e Territorio”, translated by Pasquale Alferj, … Continue reading →

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Books – availability

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory has now been out for a year, and is into its second printing. Despite how the Continuum website portrays my Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre, the books are not out of print, but out of … Continue reading →

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