Category Archives: The Birth of Territory

The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session at the AAG

Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton have organised an ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory for the Association of American Geographers in Tampa next year. The panellists will be Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi, with … Continue reading

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Rousseau – Property, Land, Territory

Mark Purcell points to Rousseau’s ‘denunciation of property’ in the second discourse: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, … Continue reading

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Ian Gregory talk at Warwick – reflections on GIS and historical and literary texts

Earlier this week I attended a talk by Ian Gregory of the University of Lancaster, on the way GIS and the digital humanities more generally can be useful in reading historical and literary texts. Gregory has a background in Geography … Continue reading

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the Birth of Territory in 750 words

Well, not quite, but a short interview at Exploring Geopolitics. Thanks to Leonhardt van Efferink for the invitation to do this.

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The Birth of Territory in 34 minutes

At the book launch for The Birth of Territory yesterday I introduced the book in just over thirty minutes. The audio recording is available here.

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The Birth of Territory book launch – today

Later today I’ll be giving a brief talk about my book The Birth of Territory as part of a book launch in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.

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Two days in Zurich

Just back from two very nice days in Zurich. Yesterday I gave a lecture entitled ‘Earth: Re-grounding Geopolitics’, and today there was a seminar on my work – particularly ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ and ‘How should we do the history of … Continue reading

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In good company – Agamben, Badiou, Negri, Amin, Harvey, Flusser, Elden

Critical Theory’s seven books that came out in September.

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Disclosure – issue on Security, with an interview with Jane Guyer, Stuart Elden, Russ Castronovo and Michael Hardt

The new issue of the University of Kentucky journal DisClosure is now available. It is on the theme of Security, and includes excerpts from an interview with me from when I visited UK last year, alongside contributions from Jane Guyer, … Continue reading

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radio interview on The Birth of Territory

I was briefly interviewed earlier this afternoon on the Moncrieff show on Irish Newstalk radio. You can listen to the recording here – begins at about 22 minutes and goes up to 30 minutes. The interview was about The Birth … Continue reading

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