Category Archives: Territory

Surviving October

Posted on November 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Well, I survived October. It felt like the perfect storm after the calm of a year of research leave. I did what I thought I could to get in the best possible shape for it – a first draft of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Hollis, Rudwick, Maier

Posted on October 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Charles Maier’s Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500,  Martin Rudwick’s Earth’s Deep History, Gavin Hollis, The Absence of America: The London Stage 1576-1642 and two by Foucault – the recent reedition of his essay Sept propos … Continue reading →

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A new term at Warwick – teaching but also some research

Posted on October 7, 2016 by stuartelden

On Monday a new term at Warwick began. My teaching is blocked into term 1, and most of it is in the first few weeks, so this is a busy time. I’m also heading to California next week for the … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare, Terrain and forthcoming talks

Posted on September 15, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve been fairly quiet on this blog recently. That isn’t to say I haven’t been busy – mainly on the Shakespeare project. (More on this project can be found here). Unlike the work for the Foucault books, I haven’t felt … Continue reading →

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Felicity D. Scott, Outlaw Territories:Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

Posted on July 21, 2016 by stuartelden

Recently out with MIT Press – Felicity D. Scott, Outlaw Territories:Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency. In Outlaw Territories, Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s. Investigating a … Continue reading →

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Article in India Today on ‘The legacies of the Leave EU vote’

Posted on July 1, 2016 by stuartelden

I have a short piece in the new issue of India Today on ‘The legacies of the Leave EU vote’. The piece is available open access. I was asked to write about this for an international audience, so for UK … Continue reading →

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Migration, Borders, Territory – a commentary on the EU referendum

Posted on June 21, 2016 by stuartelden

A few weeks ago I was asked by the Architectural Association to write a commentary on the UK’s EU referendum. The request was for a short piece on how the vote might impact on territory. It was written in late … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Law, Culture and the Humanities by Thanos Zartaloudis

Posted on May 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is reviewed in Law, Culture and the Humanities by Thanos Zartaloudis (requires subscription). It’s a generous summary of the book and says a few things about the legal aspects of the argument. To the legal audience … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory review essay in Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow

Posted on April 7, 2016 by stuartelden

A thoughtful and generous review essay of my 2013 book The Birth of Territory has just been published – “Territory Delimited“, Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow (open access). I was particularly pleased with these two general paragraphs, which follow a detailed survey of what the … Continue reading →

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Autumn and Winter 2016-17 talks – Foucault, Shakespeare and Terrain

Posted on March 31, 2016 by stuartelden

My attempt at keeping the diary clear of talks between January and September this year is just about holding. The last seminar I gave was on Foucault and health research and activism in January, and with the exception of three small … Continue reading →

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