Category Archives: Politics

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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Bombs in Kano

Posted on January 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Yesterday there were a number of bombs and some shootings in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where Susan is living and working. We’ve spoken on the phone a few times and the plan is that she and other British … Continue reading →

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Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Posted on January 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society – thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading →

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More on Occupy

Posted on December 21, 2011 by stuartelden

this is also a useful collection of links and images

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On the Occupy movement

Posted on December 19, 2011 by stuartelden

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology has a whole host of links on the Occupy movement.

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Crampton and Elden on Exploring Geopolitics

Posted on December 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at Exploring Geopolitics, Jeremy Crampton and I are two of the first to offer our thoughts on the year in geopolitics. Jeremy discusses Wikileaks; I say something about the Occupy movement. Saul Cohen offers much more comprehensive thoughts here.

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Stanley Cavell on Coriolanus and political readings

Posted on December 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Fortunately I got there on my own first, but this is why I was right to abandon my initial idea of a narrowly political reading of Coriolanus. In the critical discussions I have read so far, the psychoanalytic perspective has produced more … Continue reading →

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Foreign Policy – To the Barricades

Posted on December 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Some great photos of a year in protests, in Foreign Policy. Thanks to Leonhardt van Efferink for the link.

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Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – political geographies, bodies and animals

Posted on December 15, 2011 by stuartelden

Having finished teaching, cleared a whole host of other things, got on top of journal work, put the Leibniz paper to rest, and still in limbo on another project, I was able to turn to a long-dormant idea yesterday. The … Continue reading →

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Reading the Riots

Posted on December 15, 2011 by stuartelden

The Guardian and the LSE have been doing some very important work on the English riots of the summer. The front page for all their writing on this is ‘Reading the Riots’. There is now an e-book of highlights – … Continue reading →

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