Category Archives: Politics

The Pepper-Spray outcomes

Posted on September 28, 2012 by stuartelden

The New APPS blog has a useful post summarising and discussing the outcomes following the pepper-spraying of students at UC Davis last year. Here’s some of it, but the whole post is worth a read. The fallout from these events … Continue reading →

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Richard Seymour – The territorial logic of the capitalist state

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post at Lenin’s Tomb on contemporary politics, states and spaces. Some discussion of Lefebvre, Gregory, Arrighi, and Harvey.

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AAG letter to Israeli Council of Higher Education

Posted on September 24, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to see that the AAG President, Eric Sheppard, has written on behalf of the association to the Israeli Council of Higher Education about the Ben Gurion University Department of Politics and Government. You can read the letter here. … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre on Hitler

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

As I’ve previously mentioned, there is a new Italian translation of Henri Lefebvre’s early book Hitler au pouvoir, les enseignements de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau d’Éditions, 1938. Though I don’t read Italian, I got hold of … Continue reading →

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More on the Ben Gurion University situation

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

A new website has been set up – Israeli Academia Under Attack (and a Hebrew site). A letter people can use as the basis for their own letter is available below. I wrote mine before this was written, and it’s been … Continue reading →

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Letter from ‘friends of the Politics and Government Department, Ben-Gurion University’

Posted on September 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Oren Yiftachel has just sent me this letter to circulate: NATIONALIST ATTACK ON ACADEMIC FREDOM IN ISRAEL:  A THREAT TO CLOSE THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT, BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY Your assistance is needed! As some of you may have heard, the Israeli Council … Continue reading →

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Teo Ballvé – ‘Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier’

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Congratulations to Teo Ballvé for the award of the Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship for his work on ‘Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier’. Teo is behind the excellent Territorial Masquerades blog and is doing really interesting work. I … Continue reading →

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The Far Right in Europe – workshop at Queen Mary

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The Longue Duree of the Far-Right: Ideology, Organisation, State Formation and International Relations October 25-26 2012, Queen Mary University of London The (re)emergence of far-right parties and social movements in various parts of the world ­– and particularly in Europe … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory on Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Both Jeremy Crampton and I have mentioned Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography, to be published this week. Drawing on Kaplan’s previous work, and providing some useful links to other discussions, Derek Gregory discusses it here.

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Stuart Hall at 80

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview in the New Statesman – Englishness, the new Left, Gramsci, Labour, neoliberalism, etc. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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