Category Archives: teaching

Toward Planetary Thinking

Posted on August 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting looking course by Ian Angus at Simon Fraser University – ‘Toward Planetary Thinking’, which takes its title and inspiration from Kostas Axelos. I can’t resist saying it’s an appropriate course for a University whose marketing slogan is ‘Thinking of … Continue reading →

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What I’ve done so far this summer…

Posted on July 30, 2011 by stuartelden

I posted my list of things to do this summer some weeks ago. I don’t feel I’ve been at my most productive by a long way, due to a whole range of things, but… The two introductions to the Sage … Continue reading →

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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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Summer work

Posted on June 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Lots to do this summer (though it doesn’t exactly feel like summer in York)… Finish ‘Society and Space’ volume introduction and draft introduction to ‘Foundations’ volume for the Sage Environment and Planning collection. Submit the paper on King Lear that … Continue reading →

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Teaching Fellows at Durham Geography

Posted on May 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Two posts in the Geography department at Durham Teaching Fellow in Urban/Social Geography Teaching Fellow in Quantitative Geography and GIS/Remote Sensing Please contact either Joe Painter (j.m.painter@durham.ac.uk) or Rachel Pain (Rachel.pain@durham.ac.uk) for further information.

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On reading drafts

Posted on February 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Written from the perspective of students seeking comments, but this reflection by Adam Kotsko holds true more generally. Adam notes that we really want validation, but the comments below the post are interesting too, in that seeking feedback is supposed … Continue reading →

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Paul Mason on the recent global unrest

Posted on February 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Newsnight’s Paul Mason offers some generalisations on the recent global unrest here. He stresses the importance of social media, the decline of ideologies, the role of women, the importance of memes, and so on. Mentions Foucault, Chomsky, Hardt and Negri, … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Hardt, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Politics, teaching, Territory | Leave a comment

Student evaluation of Adam Ferguson

Posted on February 5, 2011 by stuartelden

A student offers their considered opinion of Adam Ferguson’s An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) at amazon.com I had to purchase this material for a class which was extremely boring but somewhat thought provoking in the end it … Continue reading →

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Next year’s teaching

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was largely spent on administrative things at Durham. It feels very early to be planning teaching for the 2011/12 academic year, down to which lectures in which weeks and trying to ensure teaching doesn’t clash with the 2012 Association … Continue reading →

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