Category Archives: Boundaries

Israel/Palestine – some striking images and graphics

Posted on May 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A collection of striking images and powerful graphics from Visualizing Palestine; collected and commented upon by The Rival Room.

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‘Peace Walls’ across the world – some striking photographs

Posted on May 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The translation is not good, but the images are striking – a collection of photographs of ‘peace walls’ across the world. Some in divided cities, some on disputed territory, some between states. The original Italian article is here.

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Tom Slater’s Bibliography on ‘Territorial Stigmatization’

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a useful resource – Tom Slater’s ‘An International Bibliography on Territorial Stigmatization‘. The work on this develops from Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts, and earlier references, with the suggestion that “the exploration of contemporary urban poverty must start with the powerful … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen, ‘Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality’ – lectures at Durham, LSE and Dublin

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here (via The Anthropo.scene] And one … Continue reading →

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Urban theory without an outside: Neil Brenner

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This has been online for a few weeks, but now made time to watch it – a very helpful lecture by Neil Brenner outlining the work of the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and his edited collection Implosions/Explosions. This, and other … Continue reading →

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Reece Jones and Corey Johnson, Placing the Border in Everyday Life – forthcoming in May, and Chapter One free to download

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Reece Jones and Corey Johnson (eds.), Placing the Border in Everyday Life – forthcoming in May 2014. Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in … Continue reading →

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Just about every country in the world is involved in a territorial dispute

Posted on March 21, 2014 by stuartelden

In The Atlantic, with a link to the CIA World Factbook. From a quick look at the data, unsurprisingly many of these are maritime issues, some on relatively small technical details of boundaries yet to be demarcated; and some relate … Continue reading →

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Ukraine – maps and timeline

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Two more useful background resources on the Ukraine crisis – a detailed timeline at Critical Legal Thinking and some maps at the New York Times.

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“The territorial integrity of Ukraine must be respected” – what is territorial integrity?

Posted on March 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Like most people I’ve been following the news of developments in Ukraine with fascination and alarm. I certainly don’t know enough about the country to venture any specific opinions on the situation there. What I would say, though, is there … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman – The Architecture of Ariel Sharon

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman discusses Sharon’s architectural and spatial legacy at Al Jazeera. Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon’s time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both Israelis and … Continue reading →

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