Category Archives: Politics

Security Dialogue new issue

Posted on April 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Full details here – papers by Maja Zehfuss, Ben Anderson, Peter Adey and others. Themes include preemption, emergency, photography and the human terrain system.

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Secure the Volume – Kentucky video

Posted on April 17, 2012 by stuartelden

The video of my presentation at the University of Kentucky. [Update: the higher resolution version has replaced the earlier one] The slides are somewhat blurred and the audience questions quiet, but may be of interest.

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Eyal Weizman, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory | 13 Comments

Yale conference and homeward bound

Posted on April 15, 2012 by stuartelden

The Yale conference was good, with a wide range of perspectives. Though there was a clear clash of perspectives between the historians and geographies on the one hand, and the political scientists on the other, this was not unpleasant. The … Continue reading →

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Yale borders conference

Posted on April 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Arrived in New Haven yesterday for the ‘Walls and Fences’ conference after several great days in and around the GSD. Neil was a great host, and some good conversations with him, his colleagues at the GSD and visitors. Got to … Continue reading →

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Politics of Place

Posted on April 12, 2012 by stuartelden

New postgraduate journal – Politics of Place is a peer-reviewed journal for postgraduates. It publishes exceptional research focusing on the relationship between culture and spatiality in works of literature, engaging particularly with issues of nationhood, community, class, marginality, and the … Continue reading →

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Matt Hannah interview on Dark Territory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview about his book Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Boycotts of the 1980s at Exploring Geopolitics. Part one and follow the link at the end for part two.

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Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

OpenSpace is pleased to announce this Leverhulme Visiting Professorship event at The University of Manchester: “Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?” Presentations by: Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting … Continue reading →

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More on Yale-NUS

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

A very critical, and detailed, analysis here.

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More downloads

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger’s Questioning the  Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422. Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202. Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley – The Faith of the Faithless and reading

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

via the Verso blog, an interview with Simon Critchley which mentions Obama and the Occupy movement, and a list of some of the books that inspired his latest book, The Faith of the Faithless.

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