Category Archives: Boundaries

Land claims conference in Ottawa

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Schmidt links to information on the forthcoming  Land Claims Coalition Conference in Ottawa, and notes that the agenda is now available.

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Laura Kurgan – Close up at a Distance

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book forthcoming from Zone Books – Laura Kurgan, Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics.  The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data … Continue reading →

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Über Grenzen/On Borders reviewed

Posted on February 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Über Grenzen. On Borders, photographs by  Ostkreuz – Agentur der Fotografen, texts by Andrea Böhm, Wolfgang Büscher, Fabian Dietrich, Anna-Christina Hartmann and Marcus Jauer is reviewed at We Make Money Not Art. There are some striking images in the review as … Continue reading →

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“there’s no geographic line” – Obama and assassination

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The leaked US memo on drone strikes is available here. Craig Jones has a good analysis at War, Law & Space. Informed Comment points to this story The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has … Continue reading →

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Conflict in Cities project

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I was down in Cambridge last week to examine a very good PhD thesis by Konstantin Kastrissianakis in the Department of Architecture. The PhD was part of the Conflict in Cities programme, and looked at public space in Beirut. While … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading →

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Resistance in Area E1

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A month ago I posted about Area E1 in the West Bank, an area Israel hopes to build settlements, but at present is a cleared space with the infrastructure for a settlement (roads, power cables, a police station, security apparatus, … Continue reading →

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Israel’s border fences

Posted on January 9, 2013 by stuartelden

The West Bank wall/fence/barrier gets most of the attention. The containment of Gaza continues on all sides – its land borders with Israel; south to Egypt; most of its territorial sea occupied and certainly its airspace, while the subsoil is a … Continue reading →

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Two funded studentships at Durham in political geography

Posted on January 8, 2013 by stuartelden

As part of Phil Steinberg’s  move to Durham University, the Department of Geography there will be making available two fully funded studentships for incoming PhD students who will be working with him and other members of the Department’s Politics-State-Space Research … Continue reading →

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Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Falklands/Las Malvinas

Posted on January 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Today’s Argentine letter on the Falkland/Las Malvinas islands makes for interesting reading. Buenos Aires, January 3rd, 2013 Mr Prime Minister David Cameron, One hundred and eighty years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century … Continue reading →

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