Category Archives: Territory

“The geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria’s ‘war on terror’” – now published in The Geographical Journal

Posted on November 14, 2014 by stuartelden

My paper on Boko Haram is now published in The Geographical Journal. The paper requires subscription, but if you can’t get it another way, please feel free to ask me for a copy. Here’s the abstract. The April 2014 kidnapping of … Continue reading →

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Critical review of Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone

Posted on November 12, 2014 by stuartelden

A very critical review of Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer has been translated at booksandideas.net (original here). This book is forthcoming next year in English translation with Penguin as Drone Theory. For other takes on Chamayou’s work, see … Continue reading →

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Review essay of Branch, Sassen, Scott and Vigneswaran on historical and political understandings of territory, forthcoming in Society and Space

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

I have a review essay of four books coming out in Society and Space in issue 1 next year. The books are Jordan Branch, The Cartographic State; Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy; Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 and Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration, … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo – ‘Passion for Terrain’; Léopold Lambert – ‘Spinozist Body/Terrain’

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

There is an interesting piece by Gastón Gordillo on ‘Passion for Terrain’ at his Space and Politics blog. It’s mainly about wingsuit flying, but indicates some of the arguments of his book in progress Opaque Planet: Outline of a Theory … Continue reading →

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Two sessions on ‘Terrain’ at the Chicago AAG – organised by Stuart Elden and Gastón Gordillo

Posted on November 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Despite the AAG website meltdown, Gastón Gordillo and I have organised two sessions on Terrain for the Chicago Association of American Geographers meeting in April 2015. These sessions seeks to think critically, theoretically, and politically about the question of terrain. This … Continue reading →

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Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL

Posted on November 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL. I’ll be part of the first conversation on Powerful Urban Territories on November 18th 2014, along with Wendy Pullan, Allan Cochrane and Janet Newman. Here’s the description for … Continue reading →

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A new project on Lefebvre’s rural writings with Adam David Morton

Posted on November 6, 2014 by stuartelden

At the Warwick Politics and International Studies blog, Politics Reconsidered, Adam David Morton and I have a short post introducing a new research project. Entitled ‘Why read a long dead French Marxist to think about land struggles today?‘ the post discusses Lefebvre’s … Continue reading →

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Video of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’

Posted on October 31, 2014 by stuartelden

This is the video recording of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’. More details about the lectures and the videos of the previous lecture from Mick Dillon here. Thanks to Luis Lobo-Guerrero for the invitation and chairing the … Continue reading →

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Timothy Raeymakers – ‘What is a border?’ at Liminal Geographies

Posted on October 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Timothy Raeymakers asks ‘What is a border?’ at Liminal Geographies. Here’s the first paragraph and first image: What is a border? This question formed the backbone of a talk I was invited to give on ‘Borders & Conflicts in an Age … Continue reading →

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Edward S. Casey and Mary Watkins, Up Against the Wall

Posted on October 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Out in the next couple of weeks – the much-anticipated Edward S. Casey and Mary Watkins, Up Against the Wall: Re-Imagining the US-Mexico Border.  As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, … Continue reading →

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