Category Archives: Boundaries

Animating Geopolitics – cfp for ISA panel in Toronto 2014

Posted on April 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Please send inquiries/abstracts of no more than 250 words to Vicki Squire V.J.Squire@warwick.ac.uk and/or Juanita Sundberg juanita.sundberg@ubc.ca by May 20, 2013. This panel aims to animate the spatial dimensions of geopolitics by focusing on the materiality of diverse bordering practices. The theme of animating geopolitics reflects recent … Continue reading →

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BIMKOM – Planners for Planning Rights new website

Posted on April 3, 2013 by stuartelden

A new website by a really important NGO in Israel who have done a lot of work for Palestinian and Bedouin groups. BIMKOM – Planners for Planning Rights is an Israeli non-profit organization formed in 1999 by a group of … Continue reading →

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International Political Sociology virtual theme issue on Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies

Posted on March 31, 2013 by stuartelden

International Political Sociology has just put together an open access virtual theme issue on Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies – including papers by Nisha Shah, John Agnew, Neil Brenner and me, and Nick Vaughan-Williams: This special issue presents a selection of work at … Continue reading →

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A Latin Empire versus German Hegemony? Agamben on contemporary Europe

Posted on March 27, 2013 by stuartelden

A provocative piece by Giorgio Agamben, drawing on a 1945 essay by Alexandre Kojève. Thanks to Elliott Jarbe and Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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US drone war in Pakistan infographic

Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

At his ever interesting Informed Comment, Juan Cole discusses the new project Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The project, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, aims to capture the scale and human cost of the drone war in Pakistan … Continue reading →

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Two PhD studentships on ‘Political Spaces’ at Warwick

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden

As part of my move to Warwick, two PhD studentships are available to work with me and colleagues in the broad area of Political Spaces. Closing date is end of May 2013. Full details here, but below are the headlines … Continue reading →

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The London International Boundary Conference 2013

Posted on March 14, 2013 by stuartelden

King’s College London, Volterra Fietta and UK Hydrographic Office have organised The London International Boundary Conference 2013, a two day event 18-19 March 2013 with a pre-conference technical workshop. It’s expensive, but has a heavily discounted rate for students. The Conference … Continue reading →

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“Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Dear, author of the recent book Why Walls Won’t Work, and founding editor of Society and Space, writes on the US-Mexico border in The New York Times. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link. NEARLY 700 miles of walls now … Continue reading →

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Race, affect and alterity: rethinking climate change and migration – Workshop at Durham

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers/Announcement Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013, Durham University Organisers – Andrew Baldwin (Durham University W.A.Baldwin@durham.ac.uk) and Katherine E. Russo  (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) As policy and scholarly debates … Continue reading →

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No Borders – review of Bristol exhibition

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

The TLS has a short review of an interesting looking exhibition on borders. A thought-provoking exhibition recently opened at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with Arnolfini. “No Borders”, featuring a dozen modern artists from the Middle East, … Continue reading →

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