Category Archives: Politics

Owen Hatherley on The Olympian Landscape

Posted on August 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Owen Hatherley is author of the very good A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. Verso have an excerpt from his forthcoming book,  A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain, here. A small taste: What of … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on August 1, 2012 by stuartelden

At Figure/Ground (via Graham Harman). Some interesting discussion of universities, teaching, research, assessment as well as politics and his own writing.

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Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

A series of reflections in Geopolitics – Simon Springer, Heather Chi, Jeremy Crampton, Fiona McConnell, Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, Barney Warf & Wes Attewell. Find it here (requires subscription).  The unfurling of violent rhetoric and the show of force that … Continue reading →

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Policing the Olympics – Territorially?

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

The Territorial Support Group’s map for policing the Olympics is doing the rounds on Twitter (thanks to Nina Power for the alert). This is an area I know quite well – when I had a visiting post at Queen Mary … Continue reading →

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Global Politics: A New Introduction – second edition

Posted on July 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Routledge now have a page up for the second edition of this textbook – 696 pages. It is due out in December. There are a number of new chapters, and revisions to the others. I have a chapter in here … Continue reading →

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Olympics 2012 – Megaevents virtual issue

Posted on July 27, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a very topical virtual theme issue which draws papers from the Environment and Planning series of journals, including Society and Space. It begins with a newly written editorial by Francisco Klauser. The papers are open access. List of papers … Continue reading →

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Ash Amin on Democracy

Posted on July 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Piece at Berfrois – draws on his forthcoming book with Nigel Thrift, Arts of the Political. If democracy means rule by the people for the people, it has broken down. All we have today is rule by elites for national … Continue reading →

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Alasdair Pinkerton on the Falklands

Posted on July 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Political geographer Alasdair Pinkerton has a good piece on the current situation in the Falklands/Malvinas at e-International Relations.

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Radical Philosophy 174 out

Posted on July 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Peter Nyers, Moving Borders: The Politics of Dirt Ackbar Abbas, Adorno and the Weather Peter Osborne, Disguised as a Dog: Cynical Occupy? Andrew McGettigan, The Privatization of Higher Education Nicholas Ray, Jean Laplanche, 1924-2012 Nina Power and Erica Lagalisse on … Continue reading →

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Klaus Dodds on the Falklands/Malvinas situation

Posted on June 28, 2012 by stuartelden

In the journal International Affairs (open access).

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