Category Archives: Territory

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 →

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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 →

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“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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