Category Archives: My Publications

The End of Foucault blog?

Posted on August 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Foucault blog, Jeremy discusses how he is putting it on hiatus. This is partly because of the work involved and partly because his interests are broader than simply Foucault (see the new Open Geography blog). I owe Jeremy … Continue reading →

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On books and their titles

Posted on July 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post ‘on book titles and subtitles’ here. He’s talking about the publisher desire for keywords in titles in order to help position them in the market. Fair enough, although it can have some distorting effects. … Continue reading →

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Terror and Territory reviewed in Choice

Posted on July 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory is reviewed in the July edition of Choice by Matthew O’Gara. The book is described as a “highly welcome work” that “interrogates the seemingly contradictory nature of state sovereignty”. It’s praised for refuting the claim that “the … Continue reading →

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Review of three books on territory

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

This review article has been available as an advance online publication for a while, but it’s now published. “Thinking Territory Politically”, Political Geography, Vol 29 No 4, 2010, pp. 238-41. It can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.013 The three books reviewed … Continue reading →

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New Geographies

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Many people will know that of the US Ivy League institutions only Dartmouth College still has a geography programme. But Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has been putting out some interesting issues of a new journal entitled New Geographies. Geography … Continue reading →

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Terror and Territory reviews

Posted on June 26, 2010 by stuartelden

Some reviews of my book Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty are beginning to be published… Nisha Shah has a review essay entitled ‘Terra Infirma’ forthcoming in Political Geography which discusses the book in relation to John Agnew’s … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

It might appear that my first two books – Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre – are out of print. Amazon no longer has copies, and the publisher’s website doesn’t let you buy them. I’ve checked with the publisher … Continue reading →

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On saying ‘no’

Posted on June 15, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just said ‘no’ to four invitations to write – a working paper, a review, a review essay and a book chapter. All, in themselves, are interesting projects, but the books were too far from what I’m working on, the … Continue reading →

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University of Minnesota Press sale

Posted on June 10, 2010 by stuartelden

http://www.upress.umn.edu/catalog/SeasonalCatalogs.html 30% of Geography books…

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Writing

Posted on June 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a really interesting post on writing here. As I’ve said several times in conversation (and I think once in print) I’m fascinated by how academics write – it’s the one thing we all do, but rarely talk about. … Continue reading →

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