Category Archives: Territory

Urban Geopolitics

At the Antipode blog, Marijn Nieuwenhuis has an interesting post on Urban Geopolitics in the wake of the London Olympics. He mentions the Territorial Support Group’s ‘Total Policing’ map I linked to a few weeks back. Marijn discusses Foucault and … Continue reading

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More books received

The Pluto ones are for review work, and a couple of others are review copies. More interesting reading here.

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Alec Murphy on ‘Territory’s Continuing Allure’

Also in the Annals of the AAG (requires subscription) Alec Murphy has an interesting piece about questions of territory today. The role of the territorial state has changed in recent decades in the wake of the communications revolution; the explosion … Continue reading

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Policing the Olympics – Territorially?

The Territorial Support Group’s map for policing the Olympics is doing the rounds on Twitter (thanks to Nina Power for the alert). This is an area I know quite well – when I had a visiting post at Queen Mary … Continue reading

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Shakespearean Territories – taking shape?

While in Nigeria I was working on a book proposal for the Shakespearean Territories project, interspersed with re-reading some of the plays that were on my potential list to be included. It’s now looking something like this: Divided Territories: The … Continue reading

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2013 publications

There will be three journal articles out in 2013, along with The Birth of Territory. Two of the articles are related to that book, but take arguments in different directions and link to future projects on Shakespeare and Foucault. The third links … Continue reading

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Global Politics: A New Introduction – second edition

Routledge now have a page up for the second edition of this textbook – 696 pages. It is due out in December. There are a number of new chapters, and revisions to the others. I have a chapter in here … Continue reading

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Alasdair Pinkerton on the Falklands

Political geographer Alasdair Pinkerton has a good piece on the current situation in the Falklands/Malvinas at e-International Relations.

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Next things to do

The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs, index, cover discussions, marketing questionnaires and so on to come, but … Continue reading

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Coriolanus in Edinburgh

Full details of my talk on Coriolanus in Edinburgh on 2nd July, just before the RGS-IBG conference, have been posted at the Bodies in Movement site. My talk is entitled ‘Bellies, Wounds, Infections, Animals, Territories: The Political Bodies of Coriolanus‘.

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