Category Archives: Territory

Michael Byers, International Law and the Arctic

I’ve just been sent a copy of Michael Byers, International Law and the Arctic by the author. I’ll be on a panel with Michael and others at the ArcticNet conference in December, in Halifax, so this is essential background reading.

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CFP AAG 2014 – Borders Beyond Securitization: Rethinking the Lines that Bind Us

I’m not going to post many calls for AAG sessions, but this also looks very relevant to this blog’s concerns. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-11, 2014 CFP: Borders Beyond Securitization: Rethinking the Lines that … Continue reading

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Call for Papers AAG 2014 – (Re)imagining Territory as Political Ecological Process

Re-posted from crit-geog-forum. Call for Papers AAG 2014: (Re)imagining Territory as Political Ecological Process Territory is the basis for the political-juridical organization of the international state system.  It is one of the fundamental concepts upon which state sovereignty operates and … Continue reading

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Geo-metrics – audio recording of lecture at Balsillie School

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

At the e-International Relations website.

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The New York Times redraws borders in the Arabian peninsula

The New York Times (via The Afternoon Map).

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radio interview on The Birth of Territory

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

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

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Joshua Barkan, Corporate Sovereignty

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

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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