Category Archives: Boundaries

Judith Butler on Palestine

Posted on September 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting piece by Judith Butler on the Palestine bid for statehood and the demise of the Oslo accords in the London Review of Books. One small excerpt: If nothing else, a new set of dynamics will be inaugurated through the … Continue reading →

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Israel/Palestine maps

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Whatever else the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN has achieved, it has brought discussion back to the centre of attention. The cartography of the region is, of course, highly political. This new piece in Political Geography (“Trapped in … Continue reading →

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Berkeley and Tucson

Posted on September 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Now back in the UK. Both visits were a lot of fun, and it was great to visit Berkeley for the first time – a lovely campus and great walks in the hills behind it – and Tucson again for … Continue reading →

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Exterritory project event on Extraterritoriality

Posted on September 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting and intriguing invitation to speak at an event on extraterritoriality by the Exterritory Project. The project is run by two Israeli artists – Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir. They’ve done things like project art works onto the sails of … Continue reading →

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‘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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