Category Archives: The Space of the World

Security and Geopolitical Space – readings

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

My visit to the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory is part of a class on ‘Security’. The idea is that the four visiting speakers give public lectures and then have a discussion session with the students taking … Continue reading →

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Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Posted on January 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society – thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading →

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End of 2011, and a look to 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading →

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Kentucky-Harvard-Yale

Posted on December 5, 2011 by stuartelden

This has been a bit of a logistical challenge. I’m speaking in Kentucky to the Committee on Social Theory on March 30th. They’ve just sent me this nice poster advertising the series. I was also asked to speak at Yale … Continue reading →

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Secure the Volume abstract

Posted on December 3, 2011 by stuartelden

This is the abstract for the Kentucky Committee for Social Theory lecture (late March) and the Political Geography plenary lecture at the RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh (early July). Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power We all-too-often … Continue reading →

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Elden, Gregory, Sevilla-Buitrago in ACME

Posted on November 12, 2011 by stuartelden

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2 is now available. It includes the English version of a discussion between me, Derek Gregory and Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago that was originally published earlier this year in a Spanish translation: … Continue reading →

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Political Geography lecture at RGS 2012

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been invited to give the Political Geography journal lecture at the 2012 Royal Geographical Society conference, which will be held in Edinburgh. The theme of the conference is ‘Security of geography/geography of security’, and so I’ve provisionally agreed that … Continue reading →

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2012 talks

Posted on September 27, 2011 by stuartelden

One of the things I’ve been working on since I got back is the schedule of talks for early 2012. I’d already agreed to give a couple of talks on ‘volume’ (part of The Space of the World project) in March … Continue reading →

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Sensualising Deformity – Call for papers

Posted on September 12, 2011 by stuartelden

This could be interesting. Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, at the University of Edinburgh, June 15-16 2012. The link takes you to the call for papers, and they have a linked blog. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is one of … Continue reading →

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Lectures on Foucault

Posted on September 1, 2011 by stuartelden

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading →

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