Category Archives: teaching

Simon Critchley interview

Posted on August 1, 2012 by stuartelden

At Figure/Ground (via Graham Harman). Some interesting discussion of universities, teaching, research, assessment as well as politics and his own writing.

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Global Politics: A New Introduction – second edition

Posted on July 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Routledge now have a page up for the second edition of this textbook – 696 pages. It is due out in December. There are a number of new chapters, and revisions to the others. I have a chapter in here … Continue reading →

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Posts at Durham

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Durham University has advertised a large number of senior level appointments across the university. Details here. Areas include conflict, security and borders; engaged humanities; visual culture; public policy and health; and medieval and renaissance studies.

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Blogging and teaching

Posted on May 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Some interesting thoughts at Chasing Dragons.

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Fascinating wide-ranging discussion with Neil Brenner’s ‘planetary urbanization’ seminar relating to space, territory, urbanization, the globe, world, nature, the planetary, species, capitalism, the state, the anthropocene… readings by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nikolaos Katsikis, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Erle Ellis, Sarah Deyong, Timothy … Continue reading →

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Kentucky Social Theory lecture

Posted on March 31, 2012 by stuartelden

The lecture was yesterday, and seemed to be well received. It was a busy day – an interview with the graduate student journal disClosure, a lunch with the faculty teaching the Social Theory seminar, the lecture itself, followed by questions, … Continue reading →

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Territory and Geopolitics

Posted on March 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Yesterday was the last lecture of new material on my level 3 module Territory and Geopolitics (handbook/reading list here). There is a revision lecture after the Easter break. Obviously it’s for those who took the class to say how it … Continue reading →

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Security and Geopolitical Space – readings

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

My visit to the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory is part of a class on ‘Security’. The idea is that the four visiting speakers give public lectures and then have a discussion session with the students taking … Continue reading →

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Map fight

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

This is handy comparison tool for sizes of different countries. I was looking for a rough indicator for the size of Somalia for a lecture, and it’s almost exactly the same size as France.

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Colin Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Another textbook just received, also in its new second edition, is Colin Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics. Looks good, and also useful for teaching. Chapter Five is on ‘Territorial Geopolitics’. I do admire people who can write textbooks – not something … Continue reading →

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