Category Archives: Territory

Books received – Chevallier, Behrent, Testa, Bloch & Febvre, Kadercan, Barthes, Koyré

Posted on April 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books I’ve mentioned here recently – Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years; Federico Testa (ed.), Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – a special issue of Revue … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Claude Lévi-Strauss, David Harvey, Georges Bataille, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | 4 Comments

Luke Munn, Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia – University of Michigan Press, 2023

Posted on December 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Luke Munn, Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia – University of Michigan Press, 2023 Territory is shifting. No longer defined by the dotted line of the border or the national footprint of soil, today’s territories are enacted … 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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Oscar Mazzoleni, Territory and Democratic Politics: A Critical Introduction – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on October 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Oscar Mazzoleni, Territory and Democratic Politics: A Critical Introduction – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (print and open access) Despite the publication date, the open access version is available now. The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Posted on September 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Cassirer, Marcel Mauss, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

The Birth of Territory is ten years old…

Posted on September 14, 2023 by stuartelden

The book I consider to be my best work – The Birth of Territory – is ten years old this week. It was published by University of Chicago Press in September 2013. It is the most cited, most widely reviewed … Continue reading →

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CFP: Territories and Identities, A Critical Perspective on Belonging – Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy 9-10 November 2023

Posted on May 8, 2023 by stuartelden
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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, Indo-European Thought, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas

Posted on April 26, 2023 by stuartelden

In several previous projects – on Foucault, Heidegger, Canguilhem, territory – I’ve briefly mentioned the work of Alexandre Koyré. He’s coming up again in the new work in relation to Benveniste, Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson. Koyré introduced Lévi-Strauss to Jakobson … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Husserl, Emile Benveniste, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory | 8 Comments