Category Archives: Territory

Posted on December 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Joshua J. Kurz discusses my 2009 book Terror and Territory at his blog Being-in-Exodus.

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A Marxist Map of History

Posted on December 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Roland Boer has discovered a map of European (mainly German) history between 1476 and 1648 – from the perspective of class struggle. You can also download them – Version 1 and Version 2 (thanks to Christina Petterson via Stalin’s Moustache).

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BLDGBLOG recommends books of 2012

Posted on December 20, 2012 by stuartelden

As a balance to Crooked Timber’s fiction suggestions reblogged yesterday, BLDGBLOG has a number of suggestions for good books to read on mapping, architecture, landscape, urban planning and the like.

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Emotional Geographies of Occupied Territories and Emergency Zones – cfp

Posted on December 18, 2012 by stuartelden

A call for papers – please contact arielhan@yahoo.com with any queries. Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, 1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands Session title: Emotional Geographies of Occupied Territories and Emergency Zones Organizer: Dr. … Continue reading →

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Area E1 in the West Bank

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 10, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 9, 2012 by stuartelden

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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