Category Archives: Politics

blog from Egypt

Posted on January 31, 2011 by stuartelden

‘The people want the regime to fall’ – in its own words This blog is a collection of comments, contributions and visual media from the Egyptian uprising. It is sent out from one of the few locations in Cairo with … Continue reading →

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Egyptian protest planning leaflet

Posted on January 30, 2011 by stuartelden

 Bit late linking to this – it’s been around for a few days – but The Atlantic has translated some of the leaflet which makes for interesting reading – with some background in The Guardian here. Because of the … Continue reading →

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Turkel report on IDF Gaza boat raid

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stuartelden

The Turkel report into the attack on the aid ship to Gaza has concluded that Israel acted within international law, and that the soldiers acted in self-defence. As a reminder, nine activists died and several more were injured. Some IDF … Continue reading →

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The spatial politics of occupation

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting piece here on the student occupations (via Alex at Experimental Geographies).

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Tunisia’s revolution

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Those people interested in what’s happening in Tunisia, and dismayed by the media coverage, could do worse than check out the posts at Lenin’s Tomb here and here; and those at Informed Comment here, here and here.

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Trevor Paglen – Invisible

Posted on January 10, 2011 by stuartelden

Trevor Paglen is one of the most interesting new voices to appear in geography recently. He received his PhD from Berkeley, where he was initially supervised by the late Allan Pred. He is also an artist. He has several books … Continue reading →

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About Lord Browne

Posted on January 5, 2011 by stuartelden

He chaired the team that wrote the report on the future of British Higher Education, which the coalition government are part implementing… This site claims to tell us who he is. http://aboutlordbrowne.com/

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Book Bloc

Posted on January 2, 2011 by stuartelden

The ‘book bloc’ has been one of the most interesting things in the recent student protests. There is a genealogy of the term here. This is a guide to making your own:- All these links are courtesy of Wu Ming … Continue reading →

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Territorial Integrity

Posted on December 16, 2010 by stuartelden

A four part discussion of the notion of territorial integrity by Jamie Scudder can be found here (and follow the links at the end of each part). It makes quite a bit of use of my Terror and Territory and some … Continue reading →

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Geographies of the Kettle

Posted on December 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting piece here by Rory Rowan. A couple of excerpts:- if these protests have rinsed the smile from Cameron’s face and applied the defibrillator of dissensus to the heart of British democracy they also raise questions about the strategies of … Continue reading →

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