Category Archives: Territory

Outside Territory – video recording of my 2012 Paris lecture

This is the video recording of my talk at the Extraterritoriality conference of the Exterritory project in Paris in May 2012. Watching the video recording now, almost two years on, is a strange experience. I said a bit at the time about … Continue reading

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Phil Steinberg comments on Scotland’s Territorial Waters

Phil Steinberg provides some analysis of the map on the cover of the report The Land of Scotland and the Common Good. You can read my initial comments – and see the full map and key – here. Phil is especially … Continue reading

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Scotland’s Maritime Boundaries? – the cover of the Land Reform Review report

  There is a interesting image on the front cover of the newly released report of The Land Reform Review Group – The Land of Scotland and the Common Good. The report is a 263 page document, but the image is striking for … Continue reading

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Gastón Gordillo, The Politics of Ruins – interview with Léopold Lambert of The Funambulist

A recording of a fascinating discussion between Léopold Lambert and Gastón Gordillo, “The Politics of Ruins: What’s Hidden Under Rubble” at The Archipelago – the podcast platform of The Funambulist. Here’s Léopold’s description of the discussion: In early May, Gastón Gordillo received me at … Continue reading

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Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System

Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System was published in September 2013. I missed it when it came out – thanks to Veronica della Dora for the alert. Contemporary international migratiåon makes border controls, bounded citizenship, and … Continue reading

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Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 – now in paperback

Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, Territory, Region is now available in paperback. No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and … Continue reading

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Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

I was involved in three events this week. The first was the most wide-ranging – a filmed conversation with Babette Babich at Fordham University, that ranged from contemporary territorial issues to Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre; Greek geography to … Continue reading

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Michael Watts on Boko Haram in the Huffington Post

Michael Watts in interviewed about Boko Haram in the Huffington Post. Thanks to Teo Ballvé for the link. As a reminder, my annotated bibliography on Boko Haram – which includes pieces by Michael – is available here.

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The Israeli ID-System and Palestinian Segregation – a powerful visualisation

Visualising Palestine have done it again – a really powerful representation of the Israeli ID-System and Palestinian Segregation. Thanks to Léopold Lambert for the link.

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Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics – coming soon

A forthcoming book from my friend and co-Society and Space editor, Deborah Cowen – The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. The book is due out in September 2014. A genealogy of logistics, tracing the link between markets and militaries, territory … Continue reading

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