Category Archives: Politics

Global Discourse book award symposium on The Birth of Territory

Posted on November 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve previously linked to the two reviews in the Global Discourse book award symposium on The Birth of Territory, by Jordan Branch and Jeppe Strandsbjerg. My response is now online. It requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Foucault, citizenship and refugees – translations and commentaries at Open Democracy

Posted on November 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s text ‘The rights and duties of international citizenship‘ is translated at Open Democracy. This statement was read by Foucault at a press conference on June 19, 1981, organized in association with Médecins du monde and Terre des hommes, in the presence of … Continue reading →

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Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmfant for sharing this news – Tom Sperlinger’s book Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation. It’s about the experience of teaching at Al-Quds University – which I visited in 2013 (see here) – especially on Shakespeare. There is … Continue reading →

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Journal of Historical Geography review forum on The Birth of Territory published (Legg, Heffernan, McDonagh, Cohen, Sassen, Elden)

Posted on November 6, 2015 by stuartelden

The review forum on The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography is now published. Reviews by Stephen Legg, Michael Heffernan, Briony McDonagh, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Saskia Sassen, and a response by me. The full article requires subscription, but there is a preprint … Continue reading →

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Critical Reflections on Multispatial Metagovernance: video of Bob Jessop’s 2015 Territory, Politics, Governance Lecture

Posted on October 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Critical Reflections on Multispatial Metagovernance: video of Bob Jessop’s 2015 Territory, Politics, Governance Lecture

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Stuart Elden, “Territory – Political Technology, Volume, Terrain”, video of Architectural Association lecture

Posted on October 16, 2015 by stuartelden

The video of my lecture on “Territory – Political Technology, Volume, Terrain“, given as a Landscape Urbanism Open School Event, Architectural Association lecture on  7/10/2015 is now available. The volume is very quiet, and it begins a few moments in … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Politics, terrain, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory | 2 Comments

The Funambulist launch in London with The Westminster Law and Theory Lab, 2 November 7pm

Posted on October 12, 2015 by stuartelden

The Funambulist launch in London – Léopold Lambert introduces his new project, with contributions by Reina Lewis and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. The event is free but places are strictly limited – book here.

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Geography and Politics Redux? – open access virtual theme issue of Transactions, edited by Richard Powell (including essay by me)

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

‘Geography and Politics Redux?‘ – open access virtual theme issue of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, edited by Richard Powell. It includes my 2005 piece ‘Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization and the space of the world‘. That piece took … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground interview with Günter Figal on his work and his recent resignation as president of the Heidegger society in the wake of the ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on August 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Günter Figal – discusses his work and his recent resignation as president of the Heidegger society in the wake of the ‘Black Notebooks’.

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Audio recording of talk on terrain and territory from AAG 2015

Posted on August 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my 22 April 2015 AAG talk on ‘The Geophysics of Territory’ is available here (18 minutes). This was in sessions co-organised with Gastón Gordillo; Derek Gregory and Setha Low acted as discussants. The talk ranges across quite … Continue reading →

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