Category Archives: Territory

Richard Seymour – The territorial logic of the capitalist state

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post at Lenin’s Tomb on contemporary politics, states and spaces. Some discussion of Lefebvre, Gregory, Arrighi, and Harvey.

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Teo Ballvé – ‘Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier’

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Congratulations to Teo Ballvé for the award of the Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship for his work on ‘Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier’. Teo is behind the excellent Territorial Masquerades blog and is doing really interesting work. I … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory on Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Both Jeremy Crampton and I have mentioned Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography, to be published this week. Drawing on Kaplan’s previous work, and providing some useful links to other discussions, Derek Gregory discusses it here.

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Forthcoming talks

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading →

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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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