Category Archives: The Birth of Territory

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

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 18, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 17, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 16, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 30, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

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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The Birth of Territory kindle version available

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Amazon have released the Kindle edition. They have the physical copy down for release on 13th September. The University of Chicago Press page is already shipping the book and their own electronic version.

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Mary Beard on more footnotes

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard follows up her previous column on footnotes (previously linked to) with another good discussion. Anyone who has read past p. 330 in The Birth of Territory will appreciate why I liked these two posts.

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