Category Archives: Politics

MANCEPT workshop on Methods in Political Theory

Posted on June 1, 2013 by stuartelden

A call for papers for a workshop as part of the Tenth MANCEPT Annual Conference: 4th – 6th September 2013. During the 1960s and 70s the methodological orthodoxy of enquiries into the study of political thought became the target of historical critique. Dissatisfied with … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Politics, Quentin Skinnner, Reinhart Koselleck | 1 Comment

Teaching Political Geography

Posted on May 29, 2013 by stuartelden

The latest issue of Political Geography includes an interesting discussion of teaching the sub-discipline. Written by Alison J. Williams, Alex Jeffrey, Fiona McConnell, Nick Megoran, Kye Askins, Nick Gill, Catherine Nash and Raksha Pande, it discusses actual classroom practices and gives … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The Korean translation of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (including my introduction from the English translation); Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt; Richard J. Bernstein’s Violence; and the 2013 diary from Passia, with a wealth of maps, information and data on Palestine, along with … Continue reading →

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Security Studies

Posted on May 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Security and the Everyday 31 October – 1 November 2013 Keynote: Professor Jutta Weldes (University of Bristol); Professor François Debrix (Virginia Tech) More and more research in critical security studies pays attention to the realm of everyday experience, popular culture … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram bibliography minor updates

Posted on May 25, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve added brief comments on four new pieces in the Boko Haram bibliography –  Adibe (2012); Agbiboa (2013); Idowu (2013); Mantzikos (2010).

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The Northern Nigerian State of Emergency

Posted on May 24, 2013 by stuartelden

My Boko Haram paper is lying dormant while I mark exams, and embark on the buying and selling of homes, and is in danger of being over-taken by events. I’ve been keeping up-to-date on the developments in the north-east of the … Continue reading →

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Planning for exclusion in Abuja

Posted on May 24, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Democracy, an interesting piece on the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Nigeria, a nation deeply scarred by colonialism and years of civil war, took the decision in 1991 to build a new capital city at the country’s centre. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Travel, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

The Funambulist Pamphlets

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

One of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist, teams up with one of the most interesting and challenging new publishing outlets, Punctum Books, to produce a series of little books on themes covered on the blog. The twelve first volumes are … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Politics, Publishing, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments

Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment