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Professor Stuart Elden - all publications

Journal papers: academic

• Elden, S. Bodies, Books, Beneath: A reply to Adey and Bridge. Political Geography. 2013;32.
• Elden, S. How should we do the history of territory?. Territory, Politics, Governance. 2013;1:5-20.
• Elden, S. Leibniz and Geography: Geologist, Palaeontologist, Biologist, Historian, Political Theorist and Geopolitician. Geographica Helvetica. 2013.
• Elden, S. Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power. Political Geography. 2013;32.
• Elden, S. The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth. Law and Literature. 2013;25.
• Elden, S. טריטוריה. Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought. 2011;4:3-30.
• Elden, S. Author Response (Book Review forum on Terror and Territory). Dialogues in Human Geography. 2011;1:259-62.
• Elden, S., Gregory, D. & Sevilla Buitrago, A. Espacios del pasado, historias del presente: en torno a los rastros de la historia especial. Revista Urban. 2011;1:91-116.
• Palin, M., Earle, S., Livingstone, D., Elden, S., Lowe, J. & Owen, L. Honouring geographers and contemporary exploration: from the archive to the ocean at the RGS-IBG Medals and Awards Ceremony 2011. The Geographical Journal. 2011;177:279-287.
• Elden, S. Response to Antonsich: The role of history. Progress in Human Geography. 2011;35:426-429.
• Elden, S. Society and Space: Writing its History. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2011.
• Elden, S., Gregory, D. & Sevilla-Buitrago, Á. Spaces of the Past, Histories of the Present: An Interview with Stuart Elden and Derek Gregory. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 2011;10:313-339.
• Elden, S. Territory without Borders. Harvard International Review. 2011.
• Elden, S. The Space of the World. New Geographies. 2011;4:26-31.
• Elden, S. What's Shifting?. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2011;1:304-307.
• Elden, S. Land, Terrain, Territory. Progress in Human Geography,. 2010;34:799-817.
• Elden, S. Reading Schmitt Geopolitically: Nomos, Territory and Großraum. Radical Philosophy. 2010;161:18-26.
• Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Stato, Spazio e Territorio. Dialoghi Internazionali. 2010;14:140-67.
• Elden, S. Thinking Territory Historically. Geopolitics. 2010;15:757-761.
• Elden, S. Thinking Territory Politically. Political Geography. 2010;29:238-241.
• Elden, S. & Mendieta, E. Being-With as Making Worlds: The ‘Second Coming’ of Peter Sloterdijk. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2009;27:1-11.
• Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory. International Political Sociology. 2009;3:353-377.
• Elden, S. Place Symbolism and Land Politics in Beowulf. Cultural Geographies. 2009;16:447-463.
• Elden, S. Reassessing Kant's Geography. Journal of Historical Geography. 2009;35:3-25.
• Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417.
• Elden, S. Aspects territoriaux de la «guerre à la terreur». Espaces et sociétés. 2008;134:99-114.
• Elden, S. Dialectics and the Measure of the World. Environment and Planning A. 2008;40:2641-51.
• Elden, S. Eugen Fink and the Question of the World. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. 2008;5:48-59.
• Dodds, K. & Elden, S. Thinking Ahead: David Cameron, the Henry Jackson Society and the British Neoconservatives. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 2008;10:347-363.
• Elden, S. Blair, Neo-Conservatism and The War on Territorial Integrity. International Politics. 2007;44:37-57.
• Elden, S. Governmentality, calculation, territory. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2007;25:562-580.
• Bialasiewicz, L., Campbell, D., Elden, S., Graham, S., Jeffrey, A & Williams, A. J. Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy. Political Geography. 2007;26:357-82.
• Elden, S. Rethinking Governmentality. Political Geography. 2007;26:29-33.
• Elden, S. Terror and Territory. Antipode. 2007;39:821-45.
• Elden, S. There is a Politics of Space because Space is Political: Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space. Radical Philosophy Review. 2007;10:101-116.
• Holden, A. & Elden, S. 'It cannot be a Real Person, a Concrete Individual': Althusser and Foucault on Machiavelli’s Political Technique. Borderlands. 2006;4.
• Elden, S. Contingent Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Sanctity of Borders. SAIS Review of International Affairs. 2006;29:11-24.
• Elden, S. Discipline, Health and Madness: Foucault's 'Le pouvoir psychiatrique'. History of the Human Sciences. 2006;19:39-66.
• Elden, S. Heidegger's Animals. Continental Philosophy Review. 2006;39:273-91.
• Elden, S. Introducing Kostas Axelos and 'The World'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2006;24:639-642.
• Elden, S. National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. Social and Cultural Geography. 2006;7:753-769.
• Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202.
• Crampton, J. & Elden, S. Space, Politics, Calculation: An Introduction. Social and Cultural Geography. 2006;7:681-685.
• Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. 2006;88:477-485.
• Elden, S. & Bialasiewicz, L. The New Geopolitics of Division and the Problem of a Kantian Europe. Review of International Studies. 2006;32:623-644.
• Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. 'The best defence of our security lies in the spread of our values': Europe, America and the question of values. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2005;23:159-164.
• Elden, S. Contributions to geography? The spaces of Heidegger's Beiträge. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2005;23:811-827.
• Elden, S. Genealogy, Ontology and the Political: Three Conceptual Questions to Engin Isin. Political Geography. 2005;24:355-359.
• Elden, S. Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization and the space of the world. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2005;30:8-19.
• Elden, S. Mondialisation without the World: Interview with Kostas Axelos. Radical Philosophy. 2005;130:25-28.
• Elden, S. Reading Logos as Speech: Heidegger, Aristotle and Rhetorical Politics. Philosophy and Rhetoric. 2005;38:281-301.
• Elden, S. Territorial integrity and the war on terror. Environment and Planning A. 2005;37:2083-2104.
• Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. The Constitution of EU territory. Comparative European Politics. 2005;3:333-363.
• Elden, S. The Place of the Polis: Political Blindness in Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim. Theory and Event. 2005;8.
• Elden, S. The Problem of Confession: The Productive Failure of Foucault's 'History of Sexuality'. Journal for Cultural Research. 2005;9:23-41.
• Elden, S. Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvre's 'The Production of Space'. Antipode. 2004;36:86-105.
• Elden, S. Certains naissent de façon posthume: la survie d'Henri Lefebvre. Actuel Marx. 2004;36:181-198.
• Elden, S. La Peste, el Panóptico y la Policía. Nueva Doctrina Penal. 2004;2004/B:509-525.
• Elden, S. To Say Nothing of God: Heidegger's Holy Atheism. The Heythrop Journal. 2004;45:344-348.
• Elden, S. Another sense of Demos: Kleisthenes and the Greek division of the Polis. Democratization. 2003;10:135-156.
• Elden, S. Plague, Panopticon, Police. Surveillance and Society. 2003;1:240-253.
• Elden, S. Taking the measure of the Beiträge: Heidegger, National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. European Journal of Political Theory. 2003;2:35-56.
• Elden, S. The importance of history: A reply to Malpas. Philosophy and Geography. 2003;6:219-224.
• Elden, S. 'Es gibt eine Politik des Raumes, Weil Raum Politisch ist.' Henri Lefèbvre und die Produktion des Raumes. An Architektur. 2002;1:27-35.
• Elden, S. The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault's «Il faut défendre la société» and the Politics of Calculation. Boundary 2. 2002;29:125-151.
• Elden, S. Through the eyes of the fantastic: Lefebvre, Rabelais and intellectual history. Historical Materialism. 2002;10:89-111.
• Cowan, S. & Elden, S. Words, desires and ideas: Freud, Foucault and the hermaphroditic roots of bisexuality. Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy. 2002;13:79-99.
• Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre in contexts: An introduction. Antipode. 2001;33:763-768.
• Elden, S. Politics, philosophy, geography: Henri Lefebvre in recent Anglo-American scholarship. Antipode. 2001;33:809-825.
• Elden, S. The constitution of the normal: monsters and masturbation at the Collège de France. Boundary 2. 2001;28:91-105.
• Elden, S. The place of geometry: Heidegger's mathematical excursus on Aristotle. The Heythrop Journal. 2001;42:311-328.
• Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger's Questioning the Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422.
• Elden, S. Heidegger's Hölderlin and the Importance of Place. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 1999;30:258-274.

Books: authored

• Elden, S. The Birth of Territory. University of Chicago Press; 2013.
• Elden, S. Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2009.
• Elden, S. Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation. Edinburgh.: Edinburgh University Press; 2006.
• Elden, S. Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible. London: Continuum; 2004.
• Elden, S. Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the project of a spatial history. London: Continuum; 2001.

Books: edited

• Elden, S., Thrift, N., Barnes, T.J., Peck, J., Batty, M., Langley, P. A. & Bennett, R. J. Environment and Planning. Sage/Pion; 2012.
• Elden, S. Sloterdijk Now. Cambridge: Polity; 2012.
• Elden, S. & Mendieta, E. Reading Kant's Geography. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press; 2011.
• Brenner, N. & Elden, S. State, Space, World: Selected Essays / Henri Lefebvre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2009.
• Crampton, J. & Elden, S. Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate; 2007.
• Elden, S., Moore, G. (translators) & Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life. London: Continuum; 2004.
• Elden, S., Lebas, E. & Kofman, E. Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings. London: Continuum; 2003.

Books: sections

• Elden, S. Worlds, Engagements, Temperaments. In:Elden, S. Sloterdijk Now. Polity; 2012:1-16.
• Elden, S. Lefebvre on Moments. In: van der Pol, B., Firth-Eagland, A. & Urban Subjects Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events. Western Front; 2011:24-29.
• Elden, S. Reading Schmitt Geopolitically: Nomos, Territory and Großraum. In: Legg, S. Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos . Routledge; 2011:91-105.
• Elden, S. Reintroducing Kant's Geography. In:Elden, S. & Mendieta, E. Reading Kant's Geography. State University of New York Press; 2011:1-15.
• Elden, S. Territory Part I. In: Agnew, J.A. & Duncan, J.S. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011:260-70.
• Elden, S. Interview with Stuart Elden. In: Ennis, P.J. Post-Continental Voices: Selected Interviews. Ropley: Zero Books; 2010:35-47.
• Elden, S. Blair, Neoconservatism, and the War on Territorial Integrity. In: Dodds, K. & Ingram, A. Spaces of Security and Insecurity: New Geographies of the War On Terror. Aldershot: Ashgate; 2009:21-42.
• Elden, S. Entries on “anti-humanism”, “biopolitics”, “disciplinary power”, “episteme”, “genealogy”, “governmentality”, “heterotopia”, “panopticon”, “philosophy”, “production of space”, “rhythmanalysis” and “territorial integrity”. In: Gregory, D., Johnston, R., Pratt, G., Watts, M. & Whatmore, S. Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford: Blackwell; 2009.
• Elden, S. Philosophy and Human Geography. In: Kitchin, R. & Thrift, N. International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier; 2009:145-150.
• Elden, S. Space. In: Kitchin, R. & Thrift, N. International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier; 2009:262-267.
• Brenner, N. & Elden, S. State, Space, World: Henri Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism. In: Brenner, N. & Elden, S. State, Space, World: Selected Essays / Henri Lefebvre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2009:1-48.
• Elden, S. Why is the World Divided Territorially?. In: Zehfuss, M. & Edkins, J. Global Politics: A New Introduction. London: Routledge; 2009:192-219.
• Elden, S. Lefebvre and Axelos: Mondialisation before Globalisation. In: Goonewardena, K., Kipfer, S., Milgrom, R. & Schmid, C. Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre. New York: Routledge; 2008:80-93.
• Elden, S. Reconstituting Iraq. In: Cowen, D. & Gilbert, E. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge; 2008:147-176.
• Elden, S. Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as collaborateur. In: Dillon, M. & Neal, A. Foucault: Politics, Society, and War. London: Palgrave; 2008:21-39.
• Elden, S. The Convalescent: Geographies of Health and Illness. In: Hicks, S. & Rosenberg, A. Reading Nietzsche at the Margins. Ashland: Purdue University Press; 2008:205-218.
• Crampton J. & Elden S. Introduction – Space, Knowledge, and Power: Foucault and Geography. In: Crampton J. & Elden S. Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate; 2007:1-16.
• Elden, S. Sorveglianza, Sicurezza, Spazio. In: Cometa, M. & Vaccaro, S. Lo sguardo di Foucault. Rome: Meltemi; 2007:110-33.
• Elden S. Strategy, Medicine and Habitat: Foucault in 1976. In: Crampton J. & Elden S. Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate; 2007:67-81.
• Elden, S. The State of Territory Under Globalization: Empire and the Politics of Reterritorialization. In: Margaroni, M. & Yiannopoulou, E. Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics. Amsterdam: Rodopi; 2006:47-66.
• Elden, S. 'Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten': Place, Calculation and Politics in Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending. In: De Maeseneer, Y. God out of Place? A Symposium on L.P. Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God. Utrecht: Ars Disputandi; 2005:39-47.
• Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre. In: Harrington, A., Marshall, B. & Müller, H.-P. Encyclopaedia of Social Theory. London: Routledge; 2005.
• Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre: Marxist Philosopher. In: Murray, C. J. Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. Fitzroy Dearborn; 2004:410-413.
• Elden, S. Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle. In: Bourg, J. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. Lanham: Lexington Books; 2004:125-148.
• Elden, S. Rhythmanalysis: An Introduction. In: Elden, S. & Moore, G. Henri Lefebvre: Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life. London: Continuum; 2004:vii-xv.
• Elden S. & Lebas, E. Introduction: Coming to terms with Lefebvre. In: Elden S., Lebas, E. & Kofman, E. Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings. London: Continuum; 2003:xi-xix.
• Elden, S. Reading Genealogy as Historical Ontology. In: Rosenberg, A. & Milchman, A. Foucault/Heidegger: Critical Encounters. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2003:187-205.

Departmental working papers

• Elden, S. Die Enstehung des Territorium. Erlanger Beiträge zur Kulturgeographie. 2011;1.

Edited works: journals

• Elden, S., Mendieta, E. & Thrift, N. The Worlds of Peter Sloterdijk. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27 (1): 2009.
• Elden, S. Rethinking Governmentality. Political Geography, 26 (1): 2007.
• Crampton, J. & Elden, S. Space, Politics, Calculation. Social and Cultural Geography, 7 (5): 2006.
• Brenner, N. & Elden, S. Henri Lefebvre in Contexts. Antipode, 33 (5): 2001.