Category Archives: Territory

Area E1 in the West Bank

Since the UN vote on giving Palestine non-member observer status, Israel has retaliated in a range of ways. One of them is through suggesting that the moratorium on settlement building in the area known as E1, or East 1, is no … Continue reading

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US-Canada border in Vermont/Quebec

The BBC News magazine has a short video about the US-Canadian border between Derby Line, Vermont and Stansted, Quebec. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link.

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Measuring the world

Phil Steinberg put me onto BldgBlog a while back, a great site on architecture, urban planning and the like. They have an interesting post up on measurement, the city of Manhattan, GPS and Ecuador, and the south pole.

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Michel Foucher – A Battle of Maps

An Ipad app on cartography and politics, by Michel Foucher. Want to understand the modern world and its burning issues, the balance of powers between the major players, the role of the emerging economies and the risks to come? The … Continue reading

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Gastón Gordillo on World War Z

Gastón Gordillo provides a good analysis of the forthcoming movie World War Z, which is especially interesting concerning the spatial and territorial issues.

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Mapping the 2012 Gaza attacks

Rather late linking to these, but Derek Gregory has a good discussion of the mapping of the 2012 Gaza attacks here. Craig Jones has been producing an excellent sequence of posts on this conflict. See, especially, one on the range … Continue reading

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Urban/Territory/World

The ‘Thinking Urban Worlds’ workshop at Durham was held on Wednesday. A very interesting afternoon of discussion organised by Colin McFarlane with presentations by Andy Merrifield and Simon Marvin, and discussant comments from Gordon MacLeod along with my own paper. … Continue reading

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Territory and Risk

Two interesting looking collections, edited by Valérie November. More details here, and in the video she talks about the work. A paper on this topic in Society and Space, co-authored with Eduardo Camacho-Hübner and Bruno Latour, entitled “Entering a Risky … Continue reading

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Shakespearean Territories in Oxford – audio available

I’ve posted the audio recording of my talk to the 1887 Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford from earlier this week. The first 18 minutes discuss my work on territory and the Shakespeare project in more general terms; the example in the … Continue reading

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Jean Gottmann – The Significance of Territory

The editors of Geographica Helvetica have asked me to contribute a short piece to their relaunch issue. They asked me to write a piece on past geographical text, reevaluating its contemporary worth and relevance. This is for one of the … Continue reading

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