Category Archives: Boundaries

Gaza island?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by stuartelden

No, April 1st isn’t until Friday. This appears to be a genuine story (see also here and here). Israel is considering plans to build an artificial island off the coast of the Gaza Strip to house a sea and airport, … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – Global Borders issue

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Issue 6 of this year is now available online here. It’s a theme issue on ‘Global Borders’ guest edited by Chris Rumford of Royal Holloway. A whole range of papers on the EU, migration, Denmark, Sweden and Canada, virtual biopolitics, … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown – Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Posted on November 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Bit late on this – Wendy Brown’s book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is now out. I saw some of the material for the book in advance of her lecture at the Open University last year, and it’s well worth a … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown lecture

Posted on October 25, 2010 by stuartelden

This happened a while ago, and I knew it was on You Tube, but the Vimeo is better as it is complete instead of in several parts. It’s a lecture by Wendy Brown at Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance … Continue reading →

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Ancient boundary dispute resolution

Posted on October 11, 2010 by stuartelden

When the Argives seemed to make out a better case than the Spartans to a land in dispute, he drew his sword and said, ‘He that is master of this can best talk about the boundaries of countries’. Plutarch, Moralia, 190e5 … Continue reading →

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Arctic claims

Posted on September 22, 2010 by stuartelden

The conference in Moscow on Arctic territorial and resource claims is receiving some mainstream media attention (i.e. the BBC here). For more thorough background you could look at Klaus Dodds’s Society and Space piece ‘Icy Geopolitics’; and my Durham colleagues’ … Continue reading →

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Nijmegen Alexander von Humboldt lecture series

Posted on August 29, 2010 by stuartelden
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The Production of Jerusalem

Posted on August 24, 2010 by stuartelden

The Guardian has an interesting report about the new light railway being built in Jerusalem here. The last time I was there in 2009 there was a lot of work going on in Jaffa Street. The focus of the story is … Continue reading →

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Gratton on sovereignty

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton replies to two of my recent posts here and here. Both replies have great titles. The first is a discussion of the canon. Peter writes  As someone who wrote an entire chapter on Boulainviller, I’m happy to change … Continue reading →

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Somalia and the question of territory

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Cara Nine at Territory and Justice raises the question of Somalia. Her reference is to a piece in Der Spiegel and some BBC pieces. For her, the question is The case of the failed state is interesting because it forces … Continue reading →

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