Category Archives: Territory

Israel/Palestine – some striking images and graphics

Posted on May 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A collection of striking images and powerful graphics from Visualizing Palestine; collected and commented upon by The Rival Room.

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‘Peace Walls’ across the world – some striking photographs

Posted on May 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The translation is not good, but the images are striking – a collection of photographs of ‘peace walls’ across the world. Some in divided cities, some on disputed territory, some between states. The original Italian article is here.

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Tom Slater’s Bibliography on ‘Territorial Stigmatization’

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a useful resource – Tom Slater’s ‘An International Bibliography on Territorial Stigmatization‘. The work on this develops from Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts, and earlier references, with the suggestion that “the exploration of contemporary urban poverty must start with the powerful … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen, ‘Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality’ – lectures at Durham, LSE and Dublin

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here (via The Anthropo.scene] And one … Continue reading →

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Urban theory without an outside: Neil Brenner

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This has been online for a few weeks, but now made time to watch it – a very helpful lecture by Neil Brenner outlining the work of the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and his edited collection Implosions/Explosions. This, and other … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – a short piece at the Politics@Warwick blog

Posted on April 28, 2014 by stuartelden

There is a short piece on The Birth of Territory at the Politics@Warwick blog.

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Christopher Pierson, Just Property: A History in the Latin West, Volume One – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on April 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Christopher Pierson, Just Property: A History in the Latin West, Volume One is reviewed at NDPR. This looks a fascinating study, which covers a similar time-period to my own The Birth of Territory, and a related, though distinct, concept. But what a shame … Continue reading →

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Interview with Gastón Gordillo by Stuart Elden in Society and Space

Posted on April 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on an interview with Gastón Gordillo, Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and the author of several books including Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco and the forthcoming Rubble: … Continue reading →

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Reece Jones and Corey Johnson, Placing the Border in Everyday Life – forthcoming in May, and Chapter One free to download

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Reece Jones and Corey Johnson (eds.), Placing the Border in Everyday Life – forthcoming in May 2014. Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Antipode by Phillip Campanile

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

There is a critical review of The Birth of Territory by Phillip Campanile in Antipode (pdf). Campanile clearly found the book frustrating in its mode of execution, but also not linked explicitly enough to contemporary debates. As he rightly notes, though, the book sits … Continue reading →

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