Category Archives: Politics

Sighting Oil

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

On a related topic to the last – I was teaching on ‘resource wars’ this morning – Adrian Ivakhiv points to the current issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, a special issue on Sighting Oil. He writes: The … Continue reading →

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“Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Dear, author of the recent book Why Walls Won’t Work, and founding editor of Society and Space, writes on the US-Mexico border in The New York Times. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link. NEARLY 700 miles of walls now … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Three volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Stefano Guzzini’s The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? and the ‘Speculative Geographies’ volume of The State.

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Mark Blyth, Austerity

Posted on March 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea is out shortly. There are several endorsements at the OUP page, and also a review by Henry Farrell in Washington Monthly. A series of videos show a talk he gave at … Continue reading →

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Bridge and Adey responses to ‘Secure the Volume’

Posted on March 8, 2013 by stuartelden

The responses to my “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” paper are now available. Gavin Bridge – Territory, now in 3D! Peter Adey – Securing the volume/volumen Along with my reply – Bodies, books, beneath.

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Will Self on the Right in Britain

Posted on March 8, 2013 by stuartelden

While overblown at times, this is nonetheless a very readable analysis of the Right in Britain (or perhaps England) in the present moment.

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ESRC benchmarking report on Human Geography

Posted on March 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Last year I was involved in the Political Geography focus group of the ESRC’s review of UK human geography. This was an international evaluation of the discipline. The final report has now been published – International Benchmarking Review of UK Human Geography. … Continue reading →

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Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve accepted an invitation to give the keynote address to a workshop on ‘Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance’, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, 19-20 September 2013.

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The Birth of Territory proofs

Posted on February 28, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve recently received the proofs for The Birth of Territory, due out later this year. It looks good and I’ve not spotted anything serious as yet. It’s a strange experience to be reading this in very-near-final form, looking like a … Continue reading →

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Race, affect and alterity: rethinking climate change and migration – Workshop at Durham

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers/Announcement Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013, Durham University Organisers – Andrew Baldwin (Durham University W.A.Baldwin@durham.ac.uk) and Katherine E. Russo  (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) As policy and scholarly debates … Continue reading →

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