Category Archives: Territory

Next things to do

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

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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Border Walls – Reece Jones

Posted on June 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Forthcoming in July with Zed books. At the Zed books blog, Reece discusses 10 years of the Israeli wall in the West Bank. Here’s the blurb on the book: Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are … Continue reading →

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More downloads

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

It’s been a while since I put a few papers up online. Here are five more – Elden, S. Reassessing Kant’s Geography. Journal of Historical Geography. 2009;35:3-25. Elden, S. Taking the measure of the Beiträge: Heidegger, National Socialism and the … Continue reading →

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Designing Geopolitics conference

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

In San Diego this weekend, but with live stream. D:GP is a think-tank focused on how planetary scale computation transforms political geography and models of sovereignty, as seen through the lens of speculative art and design. D:GP collaborates directly with … Continue reading →

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Borderscapes in Trieste

Posted on May 15, 2012 by stuartelden

very interesting looking conference coming up in June. details here.

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Nakba – Manual of Return and Reading List

Posted on May 15, 2012 by stuartelden

May 15th is the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, ‘the catastrophe’, for Palestinians. The Funambulist site has linked to the fascinating ‘manual of return’, with English translations, that is distributed to those who make their way to the borders of Israel … Continue reading →

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Beyond Walls and Cages

Posted on May 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Important collection forthcoming later this year, edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and my Durham IBRU colleague Andrew Burridge. The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cowen website

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

My friend and co-editor of Society and Space, Deborah Cowen, has a nicely designed website about her work. My work is concerned with the politics of space and questions of citizenship. I am captivated by the ways groups claim space, … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Nottingham

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

After the Paris event we were up early the next morning to get the Eurostar to London, and then a train to Nottingham – made a little trickier by the ASLEF strike action (but a strike that doesn’t disrupt things isn’t a … Continue reading →

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