Category Archives: Territory

Five free downloads

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve uploaded the pdfs of these five papers. I’ll put another five up when I have the chance. This page has the complete list of all the things I know are available free online. Elden, S. Another sense of Demos: … Continue reading →

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Map fight

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

This is handy comparison tool for sizes of different countries. I was looking for a rough indicator for the size of Somalia for a lecture, and it’s almost exactly the same size as France.

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King’s College London talk

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Wednesday 1st February, 12 noon, “How should we do the history of territory?” Pyramid Room, Geography Department, King’s College London, 4th floor King’s Building.  

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The Epic Mode and Territory

Posted on January 28, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a question I received that I can’t answer – anyone reading this have a sense of whether this has been done, is possible, or plausible? The request comes from Joel Gladd (jgladd@wisc.edu) but do please reply through comments. … Continue reading →

Posted in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 4 Comments

Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Posted on January 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society – thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading →

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Colin Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Another textbook just received, also in its new second edition, is Colin Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics. Looks good, and also useful for teaching. Chapter Five is on ‘Territorial Geopolitics’. I do admire people who can write textbooks – not something … Continue reading →

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David Storey, Territories

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

David Storey’s Territory: The Claiming of Space has now been published in a second edition, retitled Territories: The Claiming of Space. It’s a really helpful overview of events and debates and a great textbook which I use in my teaching. … Continue reading →

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The Territorial Trap of the Territorial Trap

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Nisha Shah‘s important paper “The Territorial Trap of the Territorial Trap: Global Transformation and the Problem of the State’s Two Territories” has recently been published in International Political Sociology (requires subscription). Here’s the abstract: This paper argues that attempts by theories … Continue reading →

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‘Teritorij bez granica’ – ‘Territory without Borders’ in Croatian

Posted on December 22, 2011 by stuartelden

One of the speaking invitations I unfortunately had to turn down this year was to speak in Zagreb at the Human Rights film festival.  (You know you are busy when you have to turn down expenses-paid trips to interesting places you’ve … Continue reading →

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US bases and Iran

Posted on December 13, 2011 by stuartelden

From From Democratic Underground (via Juan Cole): “Each star is a US base. But just to be clear, Iran is the one that is threatening us; we’re not threatening them.”

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