Category Archives: Territory

Antonsich-Elden exchange

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stuartelden

The exchange on my ”Land, Terrain, Territory” paper is now available online. You can read Marco Antonsich’s critique here, and my reply here. All three pieces are in Progress in Human Geography.

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The Territorial Trap Fifteen Years On

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stuartelden

The latest issue of Geopolitics has a section of essays on John Agnew’s essay ‘The Territorial Trap’. Pieces by Simon Reid-Henry, me, Fiona McConnell, Alexander Murphy, David Newman, and a response by Agnew. The event came out of a workshop … Continue reading →

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Brenner and Elden on Lefebvre, now in Italian

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

The piece Neil Brenner and I wrote on Lefebvre – “Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory”, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377 – has now been translated into Italian – “Stato, Spazio e Territorio”, translated by Pasquale Alferj, … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown – Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Posted on November 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Bit late on this – Wendy Brown’s book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is now out. I saw some of the material for the book in advance of her lecture at the Open University last year, and it’s well worth a … Continue reading →

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography

Posted on November 13, 2010 by stuartelden

This collection now has a release date of April 2011. Details here and table of contents here. It’s edited by John Agnew and Jim Duncan. With each of the contemporary issues there are two chapters on the topic – I … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown lecture

Posted on October 25, 2010 by stuartelden

This happened a while ago, and I knew it was on You Tube, but the Vimeo is better as it is complete instead of in several parts. It’s a lecture by Wendy Brown at Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance … Continue reading →

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The importance of small details

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

As last week’s update on the book said, there were lots of minor things that I wanted to get resolved before I left London. Most of these presented relatively few problems. A few though caused me considerably more work. With Vitoria … Continue reading →

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Territory book update

Posted on October 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Last week felt like a really important step forward with The Birth of Territory manuscript. This week has been less dramatic, but good progress again. The discussion of Grotius and Selden now forms a brief coda to Chapter Seven which … Continue reading →

Posted in Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Martin Luther, Nicholas of Cusa, Robert Filmer, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

Chapter Nine

Posted on October 1, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to concentrate on writing this week. My plan was to have a complete draft of all the chapters to take with me to Seattle, and that’s only about two weeks away and Chapter Nine needed some serious … Continue reading →

Posted in Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicholas of Cusa, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Theodor Reinking | 2 Comments

Territory book progress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on chapter nine of my territory book. A lot of this has been checking minor details in libraries, including original language sources such as the Latin for a few quotes from Newton’s Principia … Continue reading →

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