Category Archives: Politics

Jennifer Bagelman and Sarah Marie Wiebe on the Northern Gateway Pipelines Project

Posted on July 5, 2014 by stuartelden

My ex-Durham colleague Jennifer Bagelman and Sarah Marie Wiebe discuss the Northern Gateway Pipelines Project in The New York Times. They suggest the pipeline would function more as a border than a gateway: If completed, this border would cut across indigenous territory, … Continue reading →

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Completing other tasks – returning to the Foucault’s Last Decade project

Posted on July 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few months I’ve taken a break from the Foucault work, due to other commitments. Some of these were related to The Birth of Territory. One was an author response to ‘critics’ from the session on the book at the Association of American … Continue reading →

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Marc Lombardo, Critique of Sovereignty, Book I – forthcoming from Punctum Books

Posted on July 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Critique of Sovereignty, Book I: Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty by Marc Lombardo – forthcoming from Punctum books Using the Western tradition of metaphysical and political thought as a backdrop, Critique of Sovereignty (a work in 4 volumes) re-examines the concept of sovereignty in order … Continue reading →

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A Conversation between Stuart Elden and Babette Babich – Fordham University video

Posted on June 26, 2014 by stuartelden

A Conversation between Stuart Elden and Babette Babich A long discussion at the Fordham University television studios – ranges across my work and lots of topics, including territory today and historically, Lefebvre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Shakespeare… Many thanks to Babette … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram annotated bibliography updated – now 114 entries

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

An newly updated version of my annotated bibliography of literature on Boko Haram – nine new entries, taking the total to 114. The page the link takes you to have the most up-to-date version as pdf, along with a few notes. The … Continue reading →

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The Past, Present and Future of Drones in the U.S. – the al-Awlaki memo and an infographic

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for alerting me that the official government memo that was used in the targeting and killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki has just been released, and for pointing to the analysis at NPR. This makes this infographic, recently sent … Continue reading →

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Comments on territory for the Ice-Law workshop at Durham – audio recording

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent the second half of last week back in Durham at a workshop organised by Phil Steinberg on Ice Law or, to give it its full title – The IBRU Workshop on International Law, State Sovereignty, and the Ice-Land-Water Interface. I used … Continue reading →

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The theft of Native Americans’ land, in one animated map

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt on “Europeans’ violent seizing of Native Americans’ land“. To supplement his new book, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, Saunt created an interactive map showing the decline of Indian homelands from 1776 to 1887. … Continue reading →

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How powerful is your passport? – infographic

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden
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More on the Constitution of Scottish Territory

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

At Terri-Stories, Randy Schiff adds some thoughts about the constitution of Scottish territory to the brief comments I made yesterday. It is particularly good on the territorial status of the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

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