Category Archives: Politics

Two new posts at Politics Reconsidered – from airstrikes to food banks

Posted on October 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Over at Warwick’s Politics and International Studies new blog ‘Politics Reconsidered’, two posts from colleagues: Trevor McCrisken – ‘If at first you don’t succeed… call an airstrike’ (Banksy, 2010) Matthew Watson – Convenience shopping for ethics? Food bank donation boxes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Linklater on land, Stubbs on Krautrock, Recherches 13 and Foucault, Lefebvre et. al. interviews

Posted on October 7, 2014 by stuartelden

A book of interviews with, among others, Foucault and Lefebvre; one of the collaborative projects with which Foucault  was involved; David Stubbs, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany and Andro Linklater‘s last book Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land … Continue reading →

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Ebola reading list updated – including maps from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Posted on October 7, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made some updates to the Ebola Reading List on this site. This now has two sections: General Reference, which includes NGOs, some government information, and some media sites sections, plus regularly updated maps from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap; and individual articles – … Continue reading →

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A Taste for the Secret: Interview with Mark Neocleous

Posted on October 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Mark Neocleous at Critical Legal Thinking, conducted by Gülden Özcan and Ersin Vedat Elgür. The interview was originally published in Turkish.

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Nine visual ‘attempts to explain the crazy complexity of the Middle East’

Posted on October 4, 2014 by stuartelden

The Washington Post has gathered together a number of visual attempts at understanding the current situation in the Middle East. Thanks to Helga Tawil Souri for the link.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – call for papers

Posted on October 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A reminder of this conference coming up at Warwick, with a call for papers. Please spread the word in your institutions to potentially interested participants.Please consider submitting a paper for the next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, held at the … Continue reading →

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Evans & Reid, Deleuze and Fascism – now in paperback

Posted on October 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Brad Evans and Julian Reid’s collection Deleuze and Fascism: Security, War, Aesthetics is now available in paperback. This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and … Continue reading →

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A few updates to the Ebola reading list

Posted on October 1, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made a few updates to the Ebola reading list on this site.

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Towards a reading list on the Ebola crisis – a new resource page on Progressive Geographies

Posted on September 28, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve put together a reading list on Ebola, specifically in relation to the West African situation in 2014. Linking does not mean I necessarily agree with the article. Additional pieces welcome – I’ve tended to avoid mainstream news stories unless they … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden and Todd Reisz opening lectures to ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad’ conference

Posted on September 25, 2014 by stuartelden

This is the video of the opening keynote session of the ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad’ conference, which includes my lecture ‘Crises of Territorial Integrity: Iraq and Nigeria’. My talk is from 11.50-38 minutes – … Continue reading →

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