Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Anna Secor, Topological City

Posted on June 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Anna Secor’s 2012 Urban Geography lecture, “Topological City” has now been published in the journal and is available open access.

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Planning for exclusion in Abuja

Posted on May 24, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Democracy, an interesting piece on the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Nigeria, a nation deeply scarred by colonialism and years of civil war, took the decision in 1991 to build a new capital city at the country’s centre. In … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist Pamphlets

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

One of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist, teams up with one of the most interesting and challenging new publishing outlets, Punctum Books, to produce a series of little books on themes covered on the blog. The twelve first volumes are … Continue reading →

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Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading →

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The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

A week at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 14, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve just got back from spending a week working with Al Quds Bard Honors College in the occupied Palestinian territories, as part of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Program. Al Quds Bard is a partnership between Al Quds University and … Continue reading →

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Jerusalem light rail

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

On Sunday I took a couple of hours to explore the fairly new Jerusalem light rail. It opened in late 2011 and when I was last here in 2009 it was still under construction. I’m staying near Damascus Gate, and … Continue reading →

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Thinking Memory Through Space – conference in London

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Conference in July in London – full details here.

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Boko Haram paper at the AAG

Posted on April 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my AAG talk is available here. The title was “Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano”, but between writing the abstract and giving the talk events in Nigeria meant that my focus changed quite … Continue reading →

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IJURR virtual theme issue on Los Angeles

Posted on March 21, 2013 by stuartelden

As Geographers get ready to go to LA for the AAG annual conference, IJURR has assembled a virtual theme issue on the city.

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