Category Archives: Politics

LRB on the Mali Intervention

Posted on January 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Stephen W. Smith has a thoughtful piece in the London Review of Books on the intervention in Mali. Here’s the last paragraph, but the whole thing is worth reading: The bigger question is not why France decided to intervene but … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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Israeli Settlement Bus Routes and other infographics

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

At Territorial Masquerades, Teo Ballvé discusses this remarkable graphic of bus routes between West Jerusalem and Israeli West Bank settlements. I took the bus from Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron back to Jerusalem quite late one evening to the … Continue reading →

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The Conflict in Mali – striking images from The Atlantic

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The Atlantic has a series of striking and disturbing images from the conflict in Mali.

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Migration and Militant Research Workshop – Goldsmiths, 30-31 January 2013

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Migration and Militant Research Workshop – Goldsmiths, University of London, 30-31 January 2013. Keynotes from Nicholas De Genova; Sandro Mezzadra; Federica Sossi; and other speakers include Nirmal Puwar, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, John Pickles (TBC). More details at … Continue reading →

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Davos 2013 – comment and debate on agriculture

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

David Nally of Cambridge’s Geography department is one of the authors of a piece at The Guardian’s Poverty Matters Blog that addresses the implications of Davos 2013 on agriculture, smallholder farmers and food security. The longer version of this piece is … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, Dispossession

Posted on January 26, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Judith Butler’s recent Parting Ways before, but she has a new book coming out with Polity in the next month or so – Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. I’ve not seen this mentioned before. It’s a series … Continue reading →

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Parallel States Project

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Lund University some interesting thinking on the Israel/Palestine situation in a venture called the Parallel States Project. The conference was in 2010 and I’m not sure what has happened since 2011. The site says they are cooperating with faculty from … Continue reading →

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Dittmer on Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Jason Dittmer reviews Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography at The New Inquiry. Thanks to Territorial Masquerades for the link (also points to some discussions of Jarad Diamond’s new book).

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Klaus Dodds, The Antarctic – interview

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds’s The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction is the focus of an interview at Exploring Geopolitics.

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