Category Archives: Territory

Kano attacks – one year on

Posted on January 20, 2013 by stuartelden

On the 20th January 2012, a series of attacks were launched by the Boko Haram group against the northern Nigerian city of Kano (the second biggest city in the country). A number of government buildings including passport offices and immigration centres, several police … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … Continue reading →

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Resistance in Area E1

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A month ago I posted about Area E1 in the West Bank, an area Israel hopes to build settlements, but at present is a cleared space with the infrastructure for a settlement (roads, power cables, a police station, security apparatus, … Continue reading →

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

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Greenwald on the Mali Intervention

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald discusses the intervention in Mali: As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which … Continue reading →

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The Intervention in Mali

Posted on January 13, 2013 by stuartelden

France’s intervention in Mali over the last few days hasn’t received that much notice in the Anglophone press. It has now been joined by Britain, providing logistical support and supplies, which may change that. The Observer has the story here, and there is a … Continue reading →

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Israel’s border fences

Posted on January 9, 2013 by stuartelden

The West Bank wall/fence/barrier gets most of the attention. The containment of Gaza continues on all sides – its land borders with Israel; south to Egypt; most of its territorial sea occupied and certainly its airspace, while the subsoil is a … Continue reading →

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Politicised Literary Geographies audio recordings

Posted on January 7, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recordings of the talks at the Durham workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies are available here. Following a brief introduction, there are talks by James Kneale, Carolyn Pedwell, Angharad Closs Stephens and me. my talk is on the Shakespearean … Continue reading →

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