Category Archives: Politics

Marc Weller on the legal questions around Crimea

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to keep up with the news reports on the situation in Crimea, and haven’t felt a need to link to many of these. But this discussion at the BBC website of the legal issues by Marc Weller, Professor … Continue reading →

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The first volume of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ reviewed in German

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Markus Gabriel discusses the first volume of Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – in Die Welt. Thanks to Marijn for the alert in comments to an earlier post.

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s latest book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, will be published in early April. Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world’s leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will … Continue reading →

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URBAN QUESTIONS: Personal and Political Interrogations

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield discusses Castells’s The Urban Question and his own new book, The New Urban Question.

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Mental health issues in academia – a challenging piece in The Guardian

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There is a challenging piece in The Guardian about the culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia, especially around the expectations of PhD students. Important and worth reading and discussing. For once –…

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The Birth of Territory wins the 2013 Association of American Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography

Posted on March 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I have recently been given the good news that the The Birth of Territory has been awarded the 2013 Association of American Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. I’m obviously delighted by the news, but also … Continue reading →

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Territory, Politics, Governance – Vol 2 No 1 published

Posted on March 6, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of this important new journal published – papers by Michael Keating, Christopher Marc Lilyblad,  John Rennie Short and others.

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Two more pieces on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Two more pieces on Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ at the Chronicle and Critical Animal. The first of the three volumes of these notebooks – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – has now been published.

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Ukraine – maps and timeline

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Two more useful background resources on the Ukraine crisis – a detailed timeline at Critical Legal Thinking and some maps at the New York Times.

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Three historical perspectives on the Crimean crisis

Posted on March 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Juan Cole discusses the parallels with the nineteenth century, though provides a little deeper historical background; Justin Erik Halldór Smith goes back to the eighteenth century; Jim Hughes looks at the secession criteria at the end of the Cold War.

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