Category Archives: Territory

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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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – Call for papers

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, 28-29 November 2013 Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick Theme: ‘Politics, Spaces, Imaginations’ Keynote: Klaus Dodds (Geography, Royal Holloway) Globalised mobilities today remind us of the inextricable … Continue reading →

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The Golan Heights

Posted on July 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Another fascinating trip on my recent visit to Israel was into the Golan Heights with political geographer Nimrod Luz. The Golan was captured by Israel from Syria in 1967, and very nearly lost in 1973. Israel annexed it in 1981, … Continue reading →

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Gordillo – ‘Opaque Zones of Empire’ and the concept of terrain

Posted on July 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo recently posted the text of his AAG presentation, ‘Opaque Zones of Empire‘ to his Space and Politics blog. Derek Gregory picks up the discussion with a piece entitled ‘Terror and Terrain‘ at Geographical Imaginations. What is especially interesting … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory cover

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

The book will be out in August – University of Chicago Press page here. Here’s what I say about the subject of the picture in the book: Irnerius (c.1050-c.1130) is a largely unknown figure, but he founded the school known … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo on the Imperial Presidency

Posted on June 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo on the Imperial Presidency at Space and Politics.

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