Category Archives: Politics

Juan Cole on Libya

Posted on August 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Juan Cole’s Informed Comment is always worth reading, and this piece from his blog and reprinted on the CNN blog on the ‘Top ten myths about the Libya war’ is worth a look (the CNN link comes via Graham Harman).

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Tyneside Stop the War events

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

From the Tyneside Stop the War coalition: The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan on October 6th 2001 is fast approaching… …and Tyneside Stop the War is organising/supporting two events in early October 1. Wednesday 5th October – public … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on English riots

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In the LRB (via the Verso blog). Well worth a read, and it ranges quite widely to Egypt and the financial crisis, among other things. It does exhibit the general tendency that people looking into the events tend to find what they … Continue reading →

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Collini on British Higher Education

Posted on August 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Stefan Collini in the London Review of Books (via Thom Brooks). Some choice excerpts, but the whole thing is well worth a read, and while the specifics are to the UK, this is surely relevant much further afield. Whether one … Continue reading →

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50 Years of the Berlin Wall, and its Legacy

Posted on August 13, 2011 by stuartelden

The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago today. Political Geographer Reece Jones has an short analysis of how border walls are proliferating today here. His book Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, … Continue reading →

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Society and Space virtual theme issue on Urban Disorder and Policing

Posted on August 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Seven papers from the archive, freely available for two months, have been grouped into a virtual theme issue of Society and Space. The theme is ‘urban disorder and policing’ and we hope that these papers will provide a range of … Continue reading →

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Buck-Morss, Hegel and Haiti

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History is a remarkable book. The core of it originally appeared as ‘Hegel and Haiti’ in Critical Inquiry. (That link takes you directly to the piece, though I’m not sure it should.) The essay is, … Continue reading →

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Writing rhythm and summer reading

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

I have been getting into a good writing rhythm since I got back from Amsterdam, with a dedicated two hour slot each day when I write with no distractions, followed by the rest of the day on editorial work, other … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Soja, Fredric Jameson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgio Agamben, Karl Marx, Politics, Territory | 5 Comments

Global Politics – 2nd edition

Posted on July 28, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just completed revising my chapter “Why is the world divided territorially?” for the second edition of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds.) Global Politics: A New Introduction. The book has an interesting approach – rather than teach international or … Continue reading →

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Left-Right in Europe since 1972

Posted on July 28, 2011 by stuartelden

The Guardian has an interesting interactive map of the changing governments of states in Europe since 1972. Could be useful for teaching.

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