Category Archives: Territory

AAG session on Territoriality and Political Violence

Posted on September 22, 2010 by stuartelden

(I have no involvement in this session, but it may be of interest to some readers -via PGSG) Territoriality, political violence, and armed conflict Call for Papers Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Seattle, WA, April 12-16, 2011 Last Day … Continue reading →

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Arctic claims

Posted on September 22, 2010 by stuartelden

The conference in Moscow on Arctic territorial and resource claims is receiving some mainstream media attention (i.e. the BBC here). For more thorough background you could look at Klaus Dodds’s Society and Space piece ‘Icy Geopolitics’; and my Durham colleagues’ … Continue reading →

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Ron Johnston on Terror and Territory

Posted on September 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Nice review by Ron Johnston of my Terror and Territory book in Environment and Planning A. From the conclusion –    The events of the last decade have stimulated a wealth of responses from academics for whom geopolitical issues have presented … Continue reading →

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Territoriality workshop day 1

Posted on September 16, 2010 by stuartelden

End of the first day of the Territoriality/Raffestin workshop. Papers by Alec Murphy, myself, Jean Ruegg, Mike Heffernan and Juliet Fall. There was also a discussion session led by Elena dell’Agnese around three pieces of Raffestin’s work. The workshop was … Continue reading →

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Peace of Nijmegen

Posted on September 13, 2010 by stuartelden

 Some photographs from the museum…

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Leaving Nijmegen

Posted on September 10, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ll be leaving Nijmegen early in the morning to head back to London. The Alexander von Humboldt lecture seemed to be well received. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I wanted but it was well attended and there were … Continue reading →

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A few shorter pieces

Posted on September 7, 2010 by stuartelden

There will be a few shorter pieces coming out in the next several months. A piece on Lefebvre’s theory of moments, and his work on time more generally, for a book project entitled Learning from Vancouver. This seems an interesting … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory

Posted on September 1, 2010 by stuartelden

The title of most of the lectures I will be giving this autumn will be ‘The Birth of Territory’. It’s increasingly clear to me that this is also the title of the book I’ve been writing, with no complicating subtitle.

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Gratton on Elden on Territory

Posted on September 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Very nice comment from Peter Gratton here.  Two minor corrections. I said it was available online, not free online – but as ever I’m happy to share if anyone can’t get it and drops me an email. And second, my project … Continue reading →

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‘Juridicality and Territory’ – a brief historical response

Posted on August 31, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Open Geography, Jeremy has a post about ‘Juridicality and Territory’, discussing the US and a potential assassination of an American citizen thought to reside in Yemen. In the context of the ‘war on terror’, the US has long … Continue reading →

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