Category Archives: Politics

A critical path: Securing the future of higher education in England

Posted on July 2, 2013 by stuartelden

IPPR report A critical path: Securing the future of higher education in England – free to download and summary here.

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The Birth of Territory cover

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

The book will be out in August – University of Chicago Press page here. Here’s what I say about the subject of the picture in the book: Irnerius (c.1050-c.1130) is a largely unknown figure, but he founded the school known … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo on the Imperial Presidency

Posted on June 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo on the Imperial Presidency at Space and Politics.

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Nigeria at Fifty reviewed

Posted on June 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration, edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi, is reviewed at E-IR.

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Calculative Devices in a Digital Age – Call for Papers

Posted on June 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Department of Geography, Durham University 21-22 November 2013 Keynote speakers (tbc): Prof. Pat O’Malley (Sydney) Prof. Marieke de Goede (Amsterdam) Prof. Rita Raley (UCSB) The Securing against Future Events project is organizing a two day conference on the forms and … Continue reading →

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1963: Cold War Unlimited – Symposium in Sheffield

Posted on June 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Post on behalf of Fabienne Collignon 1963: Cold War Unlimited – University of Sheffield, 20 September 2013 On 5 August 1963, one day short of the 18th anniversary of the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima and after more than … Continue reading →

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Theory of the drone

Posted on June 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’ve been contacted by L’actualité for an interview on drones, which led me to a new book by French philosopher Grégoire Chamayou (CNRS): Théorie du drone (La fabrique, 2013).  I’ve only just ordered it, so this post is…

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Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today

Posted on June 6, 2013 by stuartelden

This autumn I’ll be teaching a course for incoming Masters students at Warwick on global events, which should be useful for their broader studies. The topics are intentionally general so that the examples can be contemporary and potentially updated in … Continue reading →

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Agamben interview

Posted on June 4, 2013 by stuartelden

At the Verso blog Giorgio Agamben clarifies his ‘misunderstood’ recent piece on a ‘Latin Empire‘.

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International Politics and Performance

Posted on June 3, 2013 by stuartelden

This has got to be the quickest edited collection I’ve ever been involved in. Routledge have a publication date for October, and I only submitted my chapter (on political bodies in Coriolanus) in mid-March.

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