Category Archives: Territory

Why Google Maps gets Africa wrong

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Decent piece in The Guardian on maps and projections in relation to Africa. I often use examples just like this at the beginning of courses on territory and geopolitics.

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Just about every country in the world is involved in a territorial dispute

Posted on March 21, 2014 by stuartelden

In The Atlantic, with a link to the CIA World Factbook. From a quick look at the data, unsurprisingly many of these are maritime issues, some on relatively small technical details of boundaries yet to be demarcated; and some relate … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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Andy Doolen, Territories of Empire – forthcoming OUP book

Posted on March 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Andy Doolen’s Territories of Empire: U.S. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence is forthcoming later this year. I read the book in manuscript for the press to write an endorsement. It’s a really interesting work that looks at the interrelation … Continue reading →

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Marc Weller on the legal questions around Crimea

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to keep up with the news reports on the situation in Crimea, and haven’t felt a need to link to many of these. But this discussion at the BBC website of the legal issues by Marc Weller, Professor … Continue reading →

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Speaking styles and speaking spaces

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Having given four talks over the past two weeks – two on The Birth of Territory and two on the Foucault’s Last Decade project – I thought I’d write a little about the different spaces I spoke in, and how these change … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory wins the 2013 Association of American Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography

Posted on March 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I have recently been given the good news that the The Birth of Territory has been awarded the 2013 Association of American Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. I’m obviously delighted by the news, but also … Continue reading →

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Territory, Politics, Governance – Vol 2 No 1 published

Posted on March 6, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of this important new journal published – papers by Michael Keating, Christopher Marc Lilyblad,  John Rennie Short and others.

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Ukraine – maps and timeline

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Two more useful background resources on the Ukraine crisis – a detailed timeline at Critical Legal Thinking and some maps at the New York Times.

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Three historical perspectives on the Crimean crisis

Posted on March 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Juan Cole discusses the parallels with the nineteenth century, though provides a little deeper historical background; Justin Erik Halldór Smith goes back to the eighteenth century; Jim Hughes looks at the secession criteria at the end of the Cold War.

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