Category Archives: Politics

Area E1 in the West Bank

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Since the UN vote on giving Palestine non-member observer status, Israel has retaliated in a range of ways. One of them is through suggesting that the moratorium on settlement building in the area known as E1, or East 1, is no … Continue reading →

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Mitchell, Harcourt and Taussig on Occupy

Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

In Critical Inquiry, W.J.T. Mitchell, Bernard Harcourt and Michael Taussig discuss Occupy. Thanks to Alex Vasudevan for the link and some commentary on Mitchell. If journalism is the first draft of history, the following essays might be described as a … Continue reading →

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US-Canada border in Vermont/Quebec

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

The BBC News magazine has a short video about the US-Canadian border between Derby Line, Vermont and Stansted, Quebec. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link.

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Michel Foucher – A Battle of Maps

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

An Ipad app on cartography and politics, by Michel Foucher. Want to understand the modern world and its burning issues, the balance of powers between the major players, the role of the emerging economies and the risks to come? The … Continue reading →

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Mapping the 2012 Gaza attacks

Posted on December 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Rather late linking to these, but Derek Gregory has a good discussion of the mapping of the 2012 Gaza attacks here. Craig Jones has been producing an excellent sequence of posts on this conflict. See, especially, one on the range … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift on the future of Big Ed(ucation)

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s a couple of key paragraphs: It is possible to see a new political economy of higher education coming into existence born out of the huge increase in students around the world, as well … Continue reading →

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Mapping… – reissue of the series from Verso

Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have reissued their Mapping series.  Mapping Ideology; edited by Slavoj Žižek; Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan.

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Everyday Geopolitics

Posted on November 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Sara Fregonese and Adam Ramadan have a blog entitled Everyday Geopolitics; and Craig Jones has just started one called War Law & Space. Derek Gregory has linked to both from his own blog, in apost that also provides a good … Continue reading →

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Council for the Defence of British Universities

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

The Council for the Defence of British Universities has recently been launched. Their message is that British universities occupy a high place in the world, and need to be defended against changes and especially marketisation. Britain’s universities are amongst the world’s … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading →

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