Category Archives: Boundaries

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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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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