Category Archives: terrain

Stuart Elden, “Visuality and Vocabulary in Political Geography”, Dialogues in Human Geography, review forum on Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, online first

Posted on January 7, 2026 by stuartelden

My contribution to a review forum on Juliet Fall’s remarkable books Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière (Mētis); Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) has now been published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography Stuart Elden, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography – EPFL Press, April 2025

Posted on March 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography – EPFL Press, April 2025, distributed by University of Chicago Press I’ve mentioned the French version Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière before; but the English also … Continue reading →

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Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 and New Books network discussion with Roberto Mazza

Posted on March 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is a New Books network discussion with Roberto Mazza – thanks to … Continue reading →

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Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025

Posted on December 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024

Posted on December 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024 Bornées. Une histoire illustrée de la frontière raconte la frontière franco-suisse en bande dessinée. L’initiative de cette recherche s’enracine dans le contexte très particulier de la pandémie … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Koyré, Meillet, Gilmartin, Hubbard, Kitchin and Roberts, and Foucault

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Modern Times, older second-hand books by Alexandre Koyré and Antoine Meillet, the new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, and Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024. I am one of the new … Continue reading →

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Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access)

Posted on December 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access) Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehensionMia M. Bennett & Klaus DoddsPages: 1-11 | DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394 Data centres … Continue reading →

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Urban Nature podcast episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski

Posted on May 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Urban Nature episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski I was pleased to be Gabriel’s guest on the Urban Nature podcast for a discussion of several different aspects of my work – on territory, terrain, Lefebvre, Foucault, Shakespeare and even … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography article with responses from Gastón Gordillo, Kimberley Peters, Bruno Latour, Rachael Squire and Deborah P. Dixon, and a reply (most open access)

Posted on July 6, 2021 by stuartelden

My 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography lecture, ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ has been published in the journal (open access). The responses are by: Gastón Gordillo, The power of terrain: The affective materiality of planet Earth in the age of revolution (open … Continue reading →

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