Category Archives: Territory

Erlangen – academic

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Some academic thoughts on the trip to Erlangen. The lecture seemed to go well. A good size audience in a nice modern lecture room in the castle – now part of the University. Though I knew it was being recorded … Continue reading →

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Erlangen Cultural Geography lecture

Posted on July 27, 2010 by stuartelden

I’m finishing writing the lecture I’ll give in Erlangen tomorrow evening. I think I’ve managed to find a balance between a lecture that will work and one that will be sufficiently different for me to find it interesting. One of the … Continue reading →

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Terror and Territory reviewed in Choice

Posted on July 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory is reviewed in the July edition of Choice by Matthew O’Gara. The book is described as a “highly welcome work” that “interrogates the seemingly contradictory nature of state sovereignty”. It’s praised for refuting the claim that “the … Continue reading →

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Taaffe Human Geography lecture

Posted on July 12, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been asked to give the Taaffe Human Geography lecture at Ohio State University later this year, probably in November. The lectures are named after Edward J. (‘Ned’) Taaffe. Taaffe himself gave the first lecture, and John Agnew, Brian Berry, Mike … Continue reading →

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Initial thoughts on Andreas Knichen

Posted on July 9, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been slowly struggling my way through Andreas Knichen’s 1600 book, De sublimi et regio territorii iure synoptica tractatio. Knichen was a German jurist and political advisor. Some thoughts:- – Knichen explicitly links the notion of Landeshoheit with superioritas territorialis. … Continue reading →

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Review of three books on territory

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

This review article has been available as an advance online publication for a while, but it’s now published. “Thinking Territory Politically”, Political Geography, Vol 29 No 4, 2010, pp. 238-41. It can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.013 The three books reviewed … Continue reading →

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Kaiyan Kaikobad

Posted on July 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Some very sad news – Professor Kaiyan Kaikobad, of Brunel University has died suddenly. Kaiyan used to be at Durham, and was on the interview panel when I was appointed in 2002. He was a regular at the boundary events … Continue reading →

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When is a state not a state?

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

It may seem in bad taste to find something of academic interest in the sexual abuse cases concerning the Catholic church, but this piece in The Guardian raises some important political and geographical issues. These include the Pope’s temporal power … Continue reading →

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Althusius, territory, and his sources

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Althusius refers to a few sources in his definition of the territory of the kingdom as the bounded place within which the law of the kingdom is exercised. I know that put like that alone it sounds pretty mundane: but … Continue reading →

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New Geographies

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Many people will know that of the US Ivy League institutions only Dartmouth College still has a geography programme. But Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has been putting out some interesting issues of a new journal entitled New Geographies. Geography … Continue reading →

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