Category Archives: Politics

Land claims conference in Ottawa

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Schmidt links to information on the forthcoming  Land Claims Coalition Conference in Ottawa, and notes that the agenda is now available.

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Laura Kurgan – Close up at a Distance

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book forthcoming from Zone Books – Laura Kurgan, Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics.  The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data … Continue reading →

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Africa and the War on Drugs

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Africa as the new site of the war on terror has been receiving a lot of attention recently, and the civil wars on the continent have long been discussed, but a recently published book looks at the war on drugs … Continue reading →

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Ben Gurion University politics department

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Haaretz has the news that the threat to the Ben Gurion University politics department has been withdrawn, with student recruitment allowed for next academic year.

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Über Grenzen/On Borders reviewed

Posted on February 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Über Grenzen. On Borders, photographs by  Ostkreuz – Agentur der Fotografen, texts by Andrea Böhm, Wolfgang Büscher, Fabian Dietrich, Anna-Christina Hartmann and Marcus Jauer is reviewed at We Make Money Not Art. There are some striking images in the review as … Continue reading →

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Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the August 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference. It will be part of the sessions organised by Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff and Arun Saldanha on ‘Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler’s remarks at Brooklyn College

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

The Nation has published Judith Butler’s talk to the event at Brooklyn College on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

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Secure the Volume – Political Geography paper available

Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” has now been published by Political Geography in their ‘articles in press’ section [open access here]. They’ve not yet posted the responses by Peter Adey and Gavin Bridge … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram in World Policy Journal

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

World Policy Journal has a short and useful piece on Boko Haram by Carlo Davis, including this diagram of its political anatomy – clicking on the image will take you to their much larger version. The full piece is available … Continue reading →

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Greenwald and Cole on the Obama administration memo

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The Obama adminstration memo on assassination, that I linked to this morning, is dissected by Glenn Greenwald and Juan Cole. Greenwald is especially good on the political and geographical elements; Cole on the legal/constitutional issues.

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