Category Archives: Boundaries

We Jung Yi, Worm-Time: Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics – Cornell University Press, December 2024

Posted on January 15, 2025 by stuartelden

We Jung Yi, Worm-Time: Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics – Cornell University Press, December 2024 Worm-Time challenges conventional narratives of the Cold War and its end, presenting an alternative cultural history based on evolving South Korean aesthetics about enduring … Continue reading →

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Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025

Posted on December 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024

Posted on December 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024 Bornées. Une histoire illustrée de la frontière raconte la frontière franco-suisse en bande dessinée. L’initiative de cette recherche s’enracine dans le contexte très particulier de la pandémie … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Claude Lévi-Strauss, David Harvey, Georges Bataille, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | 7 Comments

Thom Tyerman, Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais – book discussion, online event, 8 February 2023, 5pm

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Book Launch: Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais ONLINE EVENT – 8th February 2023, 17:00-18:30 Thom Tyerman will discuss his book Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais with Ana Aliverti (University of Warwick) and … Continue reading →

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Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022

Posted on January 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022 This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. Recent debates about … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Doreen Massey, Edward Said, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Territory | 4 Comments

Mary Bosworth and Lucia Zedner (eds.), Privatising Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on November 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Mary Bosworth and Lucia Zedner, Privatising Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State – Oxford University Press, January 2023

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Stephanie DeGooyer, Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalisation – Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2022

Posted on November 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Stephanie DeGooyer, Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalisation – Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2022 An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion. Before borders determined who belonged in a country and … Continue reading →

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Shifting Territory and Sovereignty: People, Place and Power – interview on Radio Northern Beaches

Posted on December 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Shifting Territory and Sovereignty: People, Place and Power – interview on Radio Northern Beaches with Michael Lester, Not a great recording of my voice, but hopefully listenable. in conversation with stuart elden, professor, political theory and geography, warwick university, uk, … Continue reading →

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