Category Archives: Politics

Kano attacks – one year on

Posted on January 20, 2013 by stuartelden

On the 20th January 2012, a series of attacks were launched by the Boko Haram group against the northern Nigerian city of Kano (the second biggest city in the country). A number of government buildings including passport offices and immigration centres, several police … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 5 Comments

Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Books received

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

A pile of new books including six Polity titles received in recompense for review work, Tom McCarthy’s novel C, Esposito’s Living Thought, and a few by Hegel for a possible future project.

Posted in Ash Amin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Politics, Roberto Esposito | Leave a comment

Resistance in Area E1

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A month ago I posted about Area E1 in the West Bank, an area Israel hopes to build settlements, but at present is a cleared space with the infrastructure for a settlement (roads, power cables, a police station, security apparatus, … Continue reading →

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Politics, Territory, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Greenwald on the Mali Intervention

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald discusses the intervention in Mali: As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett’s five new rules for the neoliberal academy

Posted on January 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A suggestion of how to fight back against neoliberalism, by adopting its values. Much of how higher education works would collapse if we seriously adopted these – examining theses, reviewing for journals, speaking at conferences, department seminars, etc. But that … Continue reading →

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The Intervention in Mali

Posted on January 13, 2013 by stuartelden

France’s intervention in Mali over the last few days hasn’t received that much notice in the Anglophone press. It has now been joined by Britain, providing logistical support and supplies, which may change that. The Observer has the story here, and there is a … Continue reading →

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Juan Cole on The Middle East in 2013

Posted on January 9, 2013 by stuartelden

At Informed Comment, Juan Cole offers some thoughts on prospects in the Middle East this year.

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