Category Archives: Territory

“there’s no geographic line” – Obama and assassination

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The leaked US memo on drone strikes is available here. Craig Jones has a good analysis at War, Law & Space. Informed Comment points to this story The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has … Continue reading →

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Conflict in Cities project

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I was down in Cambridge last week to examine a very good PhD thesis by Konstantin Kastrissianakis in the Department of Architecture. The PhD was part of the Conflict in Cities programme, and looked at public space in Beirut. While … Continue reading →

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AAG draft program available

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The draft program for the Association of American Geographers meeting in Los Angeles in early April is now available online. I’m speaking in a panel on Sloterdijk, a panel on the future of publishing, and giving a paper on ‘Urban … Continue reading →

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Counterfire on ‘Beyond Occupation’

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The collection Beyond Occupation is reviewed at Counterfire, suggesting that its legal focus is both its strength and weakness.  A brief quotation: In conclusion, any analysis which sees the legal system as working above and beyond politics and economics will … Continue reading →

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LRB on the Mali Intervention

Posted on January 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Stephen W. Smith has a thoughtful piece in the London Review of Books on the intervention in Mali. Here’s the last paragraph, but the whole thing is worth reading: The bigger question is not why France decided to intervene but … Continue reading →

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Israeli Settlement Bus Routes and other infographics

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

At Territorial Masquerades, Teo Ballvé discusses this remarkable graphic of bus routes between West Jerusalem and Israeli West Bank settlements. I took the bus from Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron back to Jerusalem quite late one evening to the … Continue reading →

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The Conflict in Mali – striking images from The Atlantic

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The Atlantic has a series of striking and disturbing images from the conflict in Mali.

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Parallel States Project

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Lund University some interesting thinking on the Israel/Palestine situation in a venture called the Parallel States Project. The conference was in 2010 and I’m not sure what has happened since 2011. The site says they are cooperating with faculty from … Continue reading →

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – online

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ is now online – forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the RSA journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The journal requires subscription, so if you can’t easily get hold of it, please … Continue reading →

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Klaus Dodds, The Antarctic – interview

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds’s The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction is the focus of an interview at Exploring Geopolitics.

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