Category Archives: Territory

Geo-metrics – audio recording of lecture at Balsillie School

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

In late September I gave the keynote address to the workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. The title of the talk was ‘Geo-metrics’ and you can listen to the audio … Continue reading →

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Jeppe Strandsbjerg on Cartography and Territory in International Relations

Posted on October 2, 2013 by stuartelden

At the e-International Relations website.

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The New York Times redraws borders in the Arabian peninsula

Posted on September 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The New York Times (via The Afternoon Map).

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radio interview on The Birth of Territory

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

I was briefly interviewed earlier this afternoon on the Moncrieff show on Irish Newstalk radio. You can listen to the recording here – begins at about 22 minutes and goes up to 30 minutes. The interview was about The Birth … Continue reading →

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Books received – Global Politics and The Great University Gamble

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Author copies of Global Politics, and The Great University Gamble.

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Joshua Barkan, Corporate Sovereignty

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the advantages of most of my books still being in boxes is that I’m reading a lot of books as I get them, instead of putting them on the ‘to read’ shelf and turning to something more immediately … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading →

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Syria: Mapping the conflict

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The BBC has a good, interactive image mapping the Syria conflict. It is “produced by the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), [and] is based on information from the US government compiled from media sources”.  

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Sassen on Territory and Land grabs

Posted on July 20, 2013 by stuartelden

‘Land Grabs Today: Feeding the Disassembling of National Territory’- open access in Globalisations.

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Thinkers’ Corner – Jean Gottmann, The Significance of Territory in Geographica Helvetica

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

The first 2013 issue of Geographica Helvetica included my assessment of Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory, forty years since it was published. The piece is now available open access here.

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