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 held at Queen Mary, University of London last year.

The issue also has pieces by Jonathan Mendel, Alison Williams and James Sidaway, among others. You can find the issue here.

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Roundup – Key Thinkers, Browne report, RPA, Tom Waits

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Key Thinkers on Space and Place is now available in a second edition. A valuable, albeit partial, resource.

Nina Power on the Brown report here

Devin Shaw offers some thoughts on the Radical Philosophy Association conference here.

Tom Waits in concert, from 2008 – listen to it free on NPR here.

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Derek Gregory Miliband Lecture

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Ralph Miliband series on the restructuring of World Power

War in the borderlands

Derek Gregory

Professor Gregory discusses the evolving character of conflicts in the borderlands of former empires and the blurring of the conceptual borders of war itself.

Wednesday 1 December 2010 , 6.30 – 8.00 p.m.

Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

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Sloterdijk Now cover

Posted on November 19, 2010 by stuartelden

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A busy week

Posted on November 19, 2010 by stuartelden

Gave a workshop on publishing with graduate students in geography at University of Washington on Monday, plus a few follow-up meetings. I was invited to come to a class in the Geopolitics course at UW, where the students had been reading my Terror and Territory, for a question and answer session. Then a trip to the University of Victoria to have a discussion over some of my more recent conceptual and historical work on territory. Tomorrow I move onto Vancouver for the weekend. I’m giving a talk at University of British Columbia on Tuesday and have meetings there on Monday with Jamie Peck and Trevor Barnes to discuss the Environment and Planning volumes we are doing for Sage.

In between I’m still working on Chapter Four, which is coming together slowly. The special collections library at University of Washington has some very interesting things, and some books I struggled to find in London are here. So I found a copy of the 1551 edition of Baldus de Ubaldis’s commentary on Gregory IX’s Decretales, which enabled me to finalise a few references. This one has been causing problems for some time. Also dealing with a huge amount of journal work. 218 submissions so far this year, which is a substantial increase on last.

But the talk at UBC is the last speaking commitment of 2010. The next ones are in Australia in the new year.

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Mark Blyth on austerity

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

This is a terrific video of Mark Blyth explaining and criticising ‘austerity’ (via here). Although the animations help, this is really good counter-argument to people who think you cannot achieve anything in a 20 minute conference slot. This is just over five minutes and achieves more than most people do in several times that amount.

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David Livingstone on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

A moment of Kantian enlightenment! In a splendid, interdisciplinary set of interrogations, the nature and significance of Immanuel Kant’s geography is brought into full light for the very first time. This remarkable work of retrieval thus enlightens, at once, Kant’s own Enlightenment project, and geography’s place in the project of Enlightenment. Whether dealing with racial geography, philosophical topography, or cosmopolitan politics, Reading Kant’s Geography constantly illuminates and instructs. If, as is sometimes said, geography is too important to be left to geographers, it’s no less true that it’s too important to be left to philosophers.

David N. Livingstone, author of Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins

Full details of the book – due out in June next year – here.

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Society and Space – Global Borders issue

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Issue 6 of this year is now available online here. It’s a theme issue on ‘Global Borders’ guest edited by Chris Rumford of Royal Holloway. A whole range of papers on the EU, migration, Denmark, Sweden and Canada, virtual biopolitics, Trieste and Rabelais. A couple of thematically related review essays and some reviews round off the issue.

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And it still wasn’t enough

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Many people will be aware of the ‘what is it like to be a woman in philosophy’ blog, which makes for very depressing reading. Here’s an example from history – both in time (from 1954) and the discipline… From the preface to an edited book:-

Lastly I must thank my wife… for what amounts to collaboration with me in the production of the book. As a scholar in a field allied to my own, she has always offered valuable criticism of everything I produce before anyone else sees it. As an expert in styling and arranging of manuscripts, she has saved both me, my collaborators, and the publisher much. In addition, she has typed the manuscript and prepared the index.

And just the man’s name appears as editor.

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