Category Archives: Territory

100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stuartelden

On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatories. Negotiated in Switzerland in October, the final signing was in … Continue reading →

Posted in Jean Gottmann, Politics, Sunday Histories, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Claude Raffestin (1936–2025) – Juliet Fall tribute, open access articles, and other pieces in English

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The Swiss-French geographer Claude Raffestin died earlier this year. Juliet Fall has a tribute to him here, and Sage have made some articles by or about him available open access until the end of 2025. These articles are mainly from … Continue reading →

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Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin eds. Handbook of Territorial Government, Edward Elgar, August 2025

Posted on August 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin eds. Handbook of Territorial Government, Edward Elgar, August 2025 Another really expensive hardback, unfortunately. Integrating political, social, and technical dimensions of territorial governance, this timely Handbook provides insights into the topic from scholars across … Continue reading →

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Two Greek Words for Kings and the Question of Territory: Wanax, Basileus and Émile Benveniste’s Vocabulaire

Posted on July 13, 2025 by stuartelden

In his Vocabulaire, the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, Émile Benveniste mentions some questions relating to spatiality and territory that I have briefly surveyed here. One question he raised I said was worthy of further attention. In his French text, and its English … Continue reading →

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Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

Posted on July 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Edward Said, Emile Benveniste, Erwin Panofsky, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Hyppolite, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Quinn, Stonebridge, Harari, Donato, Anheim & Pasquali, Kojève, Jakobson, Wilson, Fall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Boundaries, Erwin Panofsky, Hannah Arendt, Juliet Fall, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Georges Canguilhem, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Politics, terrain, Territory, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, David Farrell Krell, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Gillian Rose, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

The Territory of the Vocabulary and the Vocabulary of Territory: Emile Benveniste 

Posted on March 30, 2025 by stuartelden

If I was writing The Birth of Territory again, I would certainly have found a little space for a brief discussion of Émile Benveniste and his Le Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, now available in English again as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society and open access … Continue reading →

Posted in Antoine Meillet, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Reinhart Koselleck, Sunday Histories, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory | 6 Comments