Category Archives: Territory

Kaplan – The Revenge of Geography

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Robert D. Kaplan’s book The Revenge of Geography: What the Map tells us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate is out on September 11th. Jeremy Crampton has news of its launch here. This builds on an earlier piece … Continue reading →

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‘Shakespearean Territories’ – abstract for Warwick

Posted on September 5, 2012 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture, University of Warwick, October 3rd 2012. This lecture shows how Shakespeare’s plays can help us to think about the multi-faceted nature of territory as word, concept and … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and War

Posted on August 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has followed up his post on Theatre of/and War with one on Shakespeare and War. Lots of good reading suggestions in both. I’d also suggest Simon Barker, War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Derek kindly … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo – The Terrain as Medium of Violence

Posted on August 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Also in the ‘Violence and Space’ AAG sessions, Gaston Gordillo on ‘The Terrain as Medium of Violence’. He’s posted the abstract here, and also talks about his intriguing sounding book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space, … Continue reading →

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Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano

Posted on August 29, 2012 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the AAG meeting in Los Angeles next April. It will be part of the ‘Violence and Space’ sessions organised by Philippe le Billon and Simon Springer – call for papers here. I’ll also be part … Continue reading →

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Reece Jones on Walls

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

In the New York Times: Over the past decade, some of the world’s leading democracies built walls and fences on their borders. The United States, India and Israel — often respectively described as the world’s oldest democracy, the world’s largest … Continue reading →

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Some more free downloads

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading →

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Violence and Space – Call for Papers

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Session at the Association of American Geographers conference in Los Angeles, 9-13 April 2013: This session will provide a forum to address the interrelated questions of violence and space. Papers will examine how geography mediates the meanings, constructions, effects, foundations, … Continue reading →

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo – The Time of Popular Sovereignty

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Paulina Ochoa Espejo, The Time of Popular Sovereignty (PSU Press, 2011) is an interesting and innovative study of the notion of the ‘people’, because it stresses how we need to think about this notion as developing and changing through time. She … Continue reading →

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John Agnew and Martin Jones on Territory, Politics, Governance

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

In a series of short videos, John Agnew and Martin Jones discuss the new journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The links to the interviews are here– the full interview isn’t currently working – or you can go right to the transcript.

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