Category Archives: Territory

Bridge and Adey responses to ‘Secure the Volume’

The responses to my “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” paper are now available. Gavin Bridge – Territory, now in 3D! Peter Adey – Securing the volume/volumen Along with my reply – Bodies, books, beneath.

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New Geographies 5 – The Mediterranean

New Geographies, Vol 5, is out shortly. There is a launch event at the Graduate School of Design later this month. Most literature on the Mediterranean regarding architecture and urbanism has focused on the idea of the Mediterranean city and … Continue reading

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Territory, Politics, Governance – new articles

My essay ‘How should we do the history of territory?‘, forthcoming in the first issue of the journal Territory, Politics, Governance has been downloaded 1,267 times. Being open access certainly helps. There are two more papers available at present, and the … Continue reading

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The Birth of Territory proofs

I’ve recently received the proofs for The Birth of Territory, due out later this year. It looks good and I’ve not spotted anything serious as yet. It’s a strange experience to be reading this in very-near-final form, looking like a … Continue reading

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Race, affect and alterity: rethinking climate change and migration – Workshop at Durham

Call for Papers/Announcement Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013, Durham University Organisers – Andrew Baldwin (Durham University W.A.Baldwin@durham.ac.uk) and Katherine E. Russo  (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) As policy and scholarly debates … Continue reading

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The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

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

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

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

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

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Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

  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

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