Category Archives: Boundaries

‘Territory without Borders’ in the Harvard International Review

Posted on August 27, 2011 by stuartelden

My piece ‘Territory without Borders’ has now been published in the Harvard International Review. It’s on their website here. Update: couple of nice reactions here and here.

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50 Years of the Berlin Wall, and its Legacy

Posted on August 13, 2011 by stuartelden

The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago today. Political Geographer Reece Jones has an short analysis of how border walls are proliferating today here. His book Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, … Continue reading →

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“Sovereignty, Territory and the Imperium” – review essay by Karena Shaw

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

An interesting review essay of John Agnew’s Globalization and Sovereignty; my Terror and Territory, and Ronnie D. Lipschutz’s The Constitution of Imperium has just appeared in Geopolitics (subscription required). Written by Karena Shaw of the School of Environmental Studies at the … Continue reading →

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AAG session on Borders CFP

Posted on August 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Call for papers: AAG 2012, New York City, February 24-28, 2012 http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting Border Matters! Organizer: J.J. Zhang (Durham University) There has been an understanding of borders as static, unmoving, and fixed – something that people have to work around rather … Continue reading →

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Borderscapes III

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting conference in Trieste next year – details here. Invited speakers include John Agnew, Arjun Appadurai, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Franco Farinelli, Vladimir Kolossov, Virginie Mamadouh, Julian Minghi, John O’Loughlin and Claude Raffestin.

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Berkeley and Arizona lectures on territory

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The flight for my Berkeley and University of Arizona lectures in September is now booked. The lectures will be under the title ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – which some may spot is a tribute to the piece Ian … Continue reading →

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Territory without borders

Posted on June 11, 2011 by stuartelden

That’s the title of a piece I have forthcoming in the Harvard International Review. Some of the argument is rehearsed in other places, and I gave a keynote to the Global Studies Association in 2009 with this title. It’s an attempt to discuss … Continue reading →

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China, by mistake

Posted on May 20, 2011 by stuartelden

This morning I thought I would go up to Lo Wu, which is the last stop on the Hong Kong metro, and right on the Chinese border. I thought it would be like the ‘border gate’ to the north of Macau, … Continue reading →

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Macau developments

Posted on May 16, 2011 by stuartelden

A small but interested audience today for the talk on fossils – final day of exams, so not good timing. In the questions I said a bit more about the thinking behind the book project. It’s also been good to have another … Continue reading →

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Hacking the Mail Rail in London

Posted on April 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at his Place Hacking site, Bradley L. Garrett tells the story of accessing the ‘Mail Rail’ underground railway in London. Great photos and writing. See also the account at ‘Silent UK‘ which has more photos and some background. Very interesting.

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