Category Archives: Politics

What are Universities for?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Stefan Collini has a book out with that title, with an excerpt in The Guardian. Looks essential. It’s a shame academics are unable to set compulsory reading for their managers as well as their students. Universities are not just good places … Continue reading →

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Cambridge discussion audio

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

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Gerard Toal on political affect

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) on political affect, which links to a piece he wrote for Antipode in 2004, and where he promises to develop an affective geopolitics. Most contemporary geographers will be aware that the discipline … Continue reading →

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Political Concepts

Posted on February 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Political Concepts – new online resource/journal. This project appears to be linked to the Tel Aviv University project Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought that has some English entries, and some Hebrew translations. (The latter was the group that translated … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall interview

Posted on February 13, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Guardian: The examples of this are everywhere, but take as the most pressing the case of the NHS. “How can millions of people have benefited from the NHS and not be on the streets to defend it? Come … Continue reading →

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Leeds talk

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Talk at Leeds to the POLIS department went quite well – small but interesting audience and some good questions. Thanks to Volha Piotukh for arranging this and her and Alice Hills for their hospitality. Particularly interesting to discuss the situation … Continue reading →

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Sahara reporters on Kano

Posted on January 22, 2012 by stuartelden

A different source, including the Boko Haram statement. The news reports all seem to be focusing on the bombs, but from what I’m hearing lots of people were shot too, in a range of locations. The news reports continue to … Continue reading →

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The situation in Kano

Posted on January 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Susan is now in Abuja, having left Kano early this morning. No clear sense of where things go from here, but it was a large, well-coordinated attack on a number of different targets. The story was the lead on the … Continue reading →

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New BBC report on Kano

Posted on January 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Here. The death toll is much higher than official figures, and likely higher than the BBC reports. [Update: there is a Guardian report here, and they now seem to have a reporter in the country, albeit in Lagos, which is … Continue reading →

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A little more on the situation in Kano

Posted on January 21, 2012 by stuartelden

The news reports are not helpful in getting a sense of what is actually going on in Kano. The reports I linked to are being written largely by people outside of the country and relying on the AP reports. Nigerian … Continue reading →

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