Category Archives: Boundaries

Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System

Posted on May 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System was published in September 2013. I missed it when it came out – thanks to Veronica della Dora for the alert. Contemporary international migratiåon makes border controls, bounded citizenship, and … Continue reading →

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Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 – now in paperback

Posted on May 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, Territory, Region is now available in paperback. No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and … Continue reading →

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Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

Posted on May 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I was involved in three events this week. The first was the most wide-ranging – a filmed conversation with Babette Babich at Fordham University, that ranged from contemporary territorial issues to Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre; Greek geography to … Continue reading →

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The Israeli ID-System and Palestinian Segregation – a powerful visualisation

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Visualising Palestine have done it again – a really powerful representation of the Israeli ID-System and Palestinian Segregation. Thanks to Léopold Lambert for the link.

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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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