Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

The Birth of Territory – audio recording of lecture at RMIT

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my lecture on The Birth of Territory in February at RMIT is available here. I gave a version of the same talk at Monash University the day before but didn’t manage to record it. I say … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett interview on writing and publishing his book Explore Everything

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview with Bradley Garrett on writing and publishing his book Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City.

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URBAN QUESTIONS: Personal and Political Interrogations

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield discusses Castells’s The Urban Question and his own new book, The New Urban Question.

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Monash seminar on the City 2014

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Announcing an exciting new series of seminars and discussions designed to share, stretch and challenge our thinking about cities and urbanisation!  It is the result of a genuine cross-Faculty initiative to stimulate discussion of all things urban.  The seminar takes … Continue reading →

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Urban History Group Conference at Warwick – Urban Poverty: Wealth, Inequality and Experience 1600-2014

Posted on February 16, 2014 by stuartelden

The 2014 Urban History Group Conference programme is now available on the Urban History Group website. This year’s conference, to be held on 27-28 March 2014 at Warwick, promises much and contains keynotes by Professor Mike Savage from LSE and Dr … Continue reading →

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Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s GSD – new website

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has a really good new website. Among other things there is “Introducing the Urban Theory Lab” – a kind of manifesto and mission statement; links to various projects and … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman – The Architecture of Ariel Sharon

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman discusses Sharon’s architectural and spatial legacy at Al Jazeera. Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon’s time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both Israelis and … Continue reading →

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Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago – Hegemonía, gubernamentalidad, territorio

Posted on February 2, 2014 by stuartelden

If you read Spanish, this looks like a really interesting article linking Foucault, Gramsci and Lefebvre to the study of urban planning – ‘Hegemonía, gubernamentalidad, territorio. Apuntes metodológicos para una historia social de la planificación’ (via Álvaro’s blog – Multipliciudades).

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‘Territory and Transgression: A Conversation with Stuart Elden’ @thepolisblog

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

A long interview with me, conducted by Peter Sigrist, has just been published at Polis. It covers most of my current and past interests, including territory, Lefebvre, Foucault, Sloterdijk, Heidegger, politics,  my time in Israel/Palestine, publishing, literature and film… Many … Continue reading →

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