Category Archives: Boundaries

Some more free downloads

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Politics, Territory | Leave a comment

Violence and Space – Call for Papers

Session at the Association of American Geographers conference in Los Angeles, 9-13 April 2013: This session will provide a forum to address the interrelated questions of violence and space. Papers will examine how geography mediates the meanings, constructions, effects, foundations, … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Paulina Ochoa Espejo – The Time of Popular Sovereignty

Paulina Ochoa Espejo, The Time of Popular Sovereignty (PSU Press, 2011) is an interesting and innovative study of the notion of the ‘people’, because it stresses how we need to think about this notion as developing and changing through time. She … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Politics, Territory | Tagged , | Leave a comment

More books received

The Pluto ones are for review work, and a couple of others are review copies. More interesting reading here.

Posted in Books, Boundaries, Politics, Territory, Tristan Garcia, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Alasdair Pinkerton on the Falklands

Political geographer Alasdair Pinkerton has a good piece on the current situation in the Falklands/Malvinas at e-International Relations.

Posted in Boundaries, Politics, Territory | Leave a comment

Radical Philosophy 174 out

Peter Nyers, Moving Borders: The Politics of Dirt Ackbar Abbas, Adorno and the Weather Peter Osborne, Disguised as a Dog: Cynical Occupy? Andrew McGettigan, The Privatization of Higher Education Nicholas Ray, Jean Laplanche, 1924-2012 Nina Power and Erica Lagalisse on … Continue reading

Posted in Bernard Stiegler, Boundaries, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Border Walls – Reece Jones

Forthcoming in July with Zed books. At the Zed books blog, Reece discusses 10 years of the Israeli wall in the West Bank. Here’s the blurb on the book: Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Balibar and Mezzadra at the Tate Modern – topology and borders

Videos of Etienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra on topology and borders. Via Joshua Kurz’s Being-in-Exodus blog.

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Etienne Balibar | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Designing Geopolitics conference

In San Diego this weekend, but with live stream. D:GP is a think-tank focused on how planetary scale computation transforms political geography and models of sovereignty, as seen through the lens of speculative art and design. D:GP collaborates directly with … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Territory | 3 Comments

Alexandra Hall – Border Watch

And via Carceral Geography (also mentioned by Peter), news that my former Durham colleague Alex Hall’s new book Border Watch is listed on the Pluto website – due out in July. Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. … Continue reading

Posted in Books, Boundaries, Politics | Leave a comment