Category Archives: Politics

The Great University Gamble reviewed

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble is reviewed in Radical Philosophy (open access). RP subscribers or people whose institution have a subscription can get the book at 25% off here.

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Alexander Betts, Survival Migration

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Alexander Betts, Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement is now out. International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, … Continue reading →

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Mezzadra and Neilson, Border as Method

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor is now out. The table of contents and introduction are available as pdf here. Thanks to Charles Heller for the link. Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated … Continue reading →

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African Geographical Review – Special Issue Call for Papers

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Kevin DeJesus: African Geographical Review – Special Issue Call for Papers Out of Place, Into Extremis:        Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa Guest Editors: Kevin M. DeJesus, Rhode Island College and Daisuke Maruyama, Kyoto … Continue reading →

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Arun Saldanha – Some Principles of Geocommunism

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

At Geocritique: Concentration of CO2 has hit 400 ppm. The economic crisis has from the start been an opportunity for an entrenchment of the economic power of the global elite. Hiding their oxymoronic status, green capitalism, ethical consumerism and geo-engineering … Continue reading →

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Willing the impossible: an interview with Judith Butler

Posted on July 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Democracy (via Maoquai)

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Thinkers’ Corner – Jean Gottmann, The Significance of Territory in Geographica Helvetica

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

The first 2013 issue of Geographica Helvetica included my assessment of Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory, forty years since it was published. The piece is now available open access here.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – Call for papers

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, 28-29 November 2013 Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick Theme: ‘Politics, Spaces, Imaginations’ Keynote: Klaus Dodds (Geography, Royal Holloway) Globalised mobilities today remind us of the inextricable … Continue reading →

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The Golan Heights

Posted on July 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Another fascinating trip on my recent visit to Israel was into the Golan Heights with political geographer Nimrod Luz. The Golan was captured by Israel from Syria in 1967, and very nearly lost in 1973. Israel annexed it in 1981, … Continue reading →

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Gordillo – ‘Opaque Zones of Empire’ and the concept of terrain

Posted on July 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo recently posted the text of his AAG presentation, ‘Opaque Zones of Empire‘ to his Space and Politics blog. Derek Gregory picks up the discussion with a piece entitled ‘Terror and Terrain‘ at Geographical Imaginations. What is especially interesting … Continue reading →

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