Category Archives: Territory

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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Urban Geopolitics

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

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’

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

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?

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

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?

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

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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