Category Archives: Territory

Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Posted on September 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory is ten years old…

Posted on September 14, 2023 by stuartelden

The book I consider to be my best work – The Birth of Territory – is ten years old this week. It was published by University of Chicago Press in September 2013. It is the most cited, most widely reviewed … Continue reading →

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CFP: Territories and Identities, A Critical Perspective on Belonging – Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy 9-10 November 2023

Posted on May 8, 2023 by stuartelden
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Urban Nature podcast episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski

Posted on May 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Urban Nature episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski I was pleased to be Gabriel’s guest on the Urban Nature podcast for a discussion of several different aspects of my work – on territory, terrain, Lefebvre, Foucault, Shakespeare and even … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas

Posted on April 26, 2023 by stuartelden

In several previous projects – on Foucault, Heidegger, Canguilhem, territory – I’ve briefly mentioned the work of Alexandre Koyré. He’s coming up again in the new work in relation to Benveniste, Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson. Koyré introduced Lévi-Strauss to Jakobson … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Husserl, Emile Benveniste, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 13 Comments

Karen Culcasi, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan – University of Chicago Press, September 2023

Posted on March 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Karen Culcasi, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 Based on fieldwork with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, Displacing Territory explores how the lived realities of refugees are deeply affected by their imaginings … Continue reading →

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Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights – Oxford University Press, March 2022

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights – Oxford University Press, March 2022

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Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022

Posted on January 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022 This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. Recent debates about … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Doreen Massey, Edward Said, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Territory | 4 Comments

Nicholas Blomley, Territory: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, September 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by stuartelden

Nicholas Blomley, Territory: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, September 2022 This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.  Territories can be … Continue reading →

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