Category Archives: Territory

The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading →

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Nur Masalha – The Palestine Nakba reviewed

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Nur Masalha’s The Palestine Nakba is reviewed at Warscapes. Here’s the first paragraph The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical traumas. The colonized status of Palestinians and … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo

Posted on February 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail’s Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo is reviewed at NDPR. We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political … Continue reading →

Posted in Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading →

Posted in Frantz Fanon, Politics, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 6 Comments

Land claims conference in Ottawa

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Schmidt links to information on the forthcoming  Land Claims Coalition Conference in Ottawa, and notes that the agenda is now available.

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Laura Kurgan – Close up at a Distance

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book forthcoming from Zone Books – Laura Kurgan, Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics.  The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Boundaries, Politics, Territory | 4 Comments

Über Grenzen/On Borders reviewed

Posted on February 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Über Grenzen. On Borders, photographs by  Ostkreuz – Agentur der Fotografen, texts by Andrea Böhm, Wolfgang Büscher, Fabian Dietrich, Anna-Christina Hartmann and Marcus Jauer is reviewed at We Make Money Not Art. There are some striking images in the review as … Continue reading →

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Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the August 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference. It will be part of the sessions organised by Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff and Arun Saldanha on ‘Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Politics, Territory | 6 Comments

Secure the Volume – Political Geography paper available

Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” has now been published by Political Geography in their ‘articles in press’ section [open access here]. They’ve not yet posted the responses by Peter Adey and Gavin Bridge … Continue reading →

Posted in My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Territory | 8 Comments