Category Archives: Politics

100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stuartelden

On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatories. Negotiated in Switzerland in October, the final signing was in … Continue reading →

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Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin eds. Handbook of Territorial Government, Edward Elgar, August 2025

Posted on August 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin eds. Handbook of Territorial Government, Edward Elgar, August 2025 Another really expensive hardback, unfortunately. Integrating political, social, and technical dimensions of territorial governance, this timely Handbook provides insights into the topic from scholars across … Continue reading →

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading →

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Mary Bosworth and Lucia Zedner (eds.), Privatising Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on November 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Mary Bosworth and Lucia Zedner, Privatising Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted in Boundaries, Politics, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography lecture now available in journal

Posted on August 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Last year I gave the Dialogues in Human Geography lecture at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers conference in London. It is now available in the journal as ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ – if you can’t access through an institution … Continue reading →

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Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined

Posted on May 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined Many thanks to Nico for this invitation, and for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on nearly everything I’ve worked on. This is part of a series of discussions … Continue reading →

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Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, University of Minnesota Press, April 2021

Posted on May 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, University of Minnesota Press, December 2020 [updated: April 2021] Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) … Continue reading →

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Books received – Pelluchon, Eddé, Alarm Phone, Farrell Krell, Hoffmann, Miller, Jullien, Dumézil

Posted on January 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Books received – Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body; Dominique Eddé, Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel; 5 Years of Alarm Phone (also available as a free download); David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter; Marcelo Hoffmann, Militant … Continue reading →

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Books received – a pile from the Verso sale

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Verso sale runs until the end of December 2019

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Carceral Notebooks 13: Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – now published open access

Posted on April 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Carceral Notebooks 13: Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – now published and essays available open access http://www.thecarceral.org/journal-vol13.html Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Bernard E. Harcourt, Dedication Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da … Continue reading →

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