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Professor Stuart Elden - all publications

Books: authored

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

Books: edited

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

Books: sections

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

Departmental working papers

Elden, S. (2011). Die Enstehung des Territorium. Erlanger Beiträge zur Kulturgeographie 1.

Edited works: journals

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

Journal papers: academic

Elden, S. (2013). Bodies, Books, Beneath: A reply to Adey and Bridge. Political Geography 32.
Elden, S. (2013). How should we do the history of territory?. Territory, Politics, Governance 1(1): 5-20.
Elden, S. (2013). Leibniz and Geography: Geologist, Palaeontologist, Biologist, Historian, Political Theorist and Geopolitician. Geographica Helvetica
Elden, S. (2013). Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power. Political Geography 32.
Elden, S. (2013). The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth. Law and Literature 25.
Elden, S. (2011). טריטוריה. Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought 4: 3-30.
Elden, S. (2011). Author Response (Book Review forum on Terror and Territory). Dialogues in Human Geography 1(2): 259-62.
Elden, S., Gregory, D. & Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2011). Espacios del pasado, historias del presente: en torno a los rastros de la historia especial. Revista Urban 1: 91-116.
Palin, M., Earle, S., Livingstone, D., Elden, S., Lowe, J. & Owen, L. (2011). Honouring geographers and contemporary exploration: from the archive to the ocean at the RGS-IBG Medals and Awards Ceremony 2011. The Geographical Journal 177: 279-287.
Elden, S. (2011). Response to Antonsich: The role of history. Progress in Human Geography 35(3): 426-429.
Elden, S. (2011). Society and Space: Writing its History. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Elden, S., Gregory, D. & Sevilla-Buitrago, Á. (2011). Spaces of the Past, Histories of the Present: An Interview with Stuart Elden and Derek Gregory. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 10(2): 313-339.
Elden, S. (2011). Territory without Borders. Harvard International Review
Elden, S. (2011). The Space of the World. New Geographies 4: 26-31.
Elden, S. (2011). What's Shifting?. Dialogues in Human Geography 1(3): 304-307.
Elden, S. (2010). Land, Terrain, Territory. Progress in Human Geography, 34(6): 799-817.
Elden, S. (2010). Reading Schmitt Geopolitically: Nomos, Territory and Großraum. Radical Philosophy 161: 18-26.
Brenner, N. & Elden, S. (2010). Stato, Spazio e Territorio. Dialoghi Internazionali 14: 140-67.
Elden, S. (2010). Thinking Territory Historically. Geopolitics 15(4): 757-761.
Elden, S. (2010). Thinking Territory Politically. Political Geography 29(4): 238-241.
Elden, S. & Mendieta, E. (2009). Being-With as Making Worlds: The ‘Second Coming’ of Peter Sloterdijk. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27(1): 1-11.
Brenner, N. & Elden, S. (2009). Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory. International Political Sociology 3(4): 353-377.
Elden, S. (2009). Place Symbolism and Land Politics in Beowulf. Cultural Geographies 16(4): 447-463.
Elden, S. (2009). Reassessing Kant's Geography. Journal of Historical Geography 35(1): 3-25.
Elden, S. & Williams, A. (2009). The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum 40(3): 407-417.
Elden, S. (2008). Aspects territoriaux de la «guerre à la terreur». Espaces et sociétés 134: 99-114.
Elden, S. (2008). Dialectics and the Measure of the World. Environment and Planning A 40(11): 2641-51.
Elden, S. (2008). Eugen Fink and the Question of the World. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 5: 48-59.
Dodds, K. & Elden, S. (2008). Thinking Ahead: David Cameron, the Henry Jackson Society and the British Neoconservatives. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 10(3): 347-363.
Elden, S. (2007). Blair, Neo-Conservatism and The War on Territorial Integrity. International Politics 44(1): 37-57.
Elden, S. (2007). Governmentality, calculation, territory. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(3): 562-580.
Bialasiewicz, L., Campbell, D., Elden, S., Graham, S., Jeffrey, A & Williams, A. J. (2007). Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy. Political Geography 26(4): 357-82.
Elden, S. (2007). Rethinking Governmentality. Political Geography 26(1): 29-33.
Elden, S. (2007). Terror and Territory. Antipode 39(5): 821-45.
Elden, S. (2007). There is a Politics of Space because Space is Political: Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space. Radical Philosophy Review 10(2): 101-116.
Holden, A. & Elden, S. (2006). 'It cannot be a Real Person, a Concrete Individual': Althusser and Foucault on Machiavelli’s Political Technique. Borderlands 4(2).
Elden, S. (2006). Contingent Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Sanctity of Borders. SAIS Review of International Affairs 29(1): 11-24.
Elden, S. (2006). Discipline, Health and Madness: Foucault's 'Le pouvoir psychiatrique'. History of the Human Sciences 19(1): 39-66.
Elden, S. (2006). Heidegger's Animals. Continental Philosophy Review 39(3): 273-91.
Elden, S. (2006). Introducing Kostas Axelos and 'The World'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(5): 639-642.
Elden, S. (2006). National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. Social and Cultural Geography 7(5): 753-769.
Elden, S. (2006). Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism 14(4): 185-202.
Crampton, J. & Elden, S. (2006). Space, Politics, Calculation: An Introduction. Social and Cultural Geography 7(5): 681-685.
Elden, S. (2006). Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 88(4): 477-485.
Elden, S. & Bialasiewicz, L. (2006). The New Geopolitics of Division and the Problem of a Kantian Europe. Review of International Studies 32(4): 623-644.
Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. (2005). '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 23(2): 159-164.
Elden, S. (2005). Contributions to geography? The spaces of Heidegger's Beiträge. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23(6): 811-827.
Elden, S. (2005). Genealogy, Ontology and the Political: Three Conceptual Questions to Engin Isin. Political Geography 24(3): 355-359.
Elden, S. (2005). Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization and the space of the world. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30(1): 8-19.
Elden, S. (2005). Mondialisation without the World: Interview with Kostas Axelos. Radical Philosophy 130: 25-28.
Elden, S. (2005). Reading Logos as Speech: Heidegger, Aristotle and Rhetorical Politics. Philosophy and Rhetoric 38(4): 281-301.
Elden, S. (2005). Territorial integrity and the war on terror. Environment and Planning A 37(12): 2083-2104.
Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. (2005). The Constitution of EU territory. Comparative European Politics 3(3): 333-363.
Elden, S. (2005). The Place of the Polis: Political Blindness in Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim. Theory and Event 8(1).
Elden, S. (2005). The Problem of Confession: The Productive Failure of Foucault's 'History of Sexuality'. Journal for Cultural Research 9(1): 23-41.
Elden, S. (2004). Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvre's 'The Production of Space'. Antipode 36(1): 86-105.
Elden, S. (2004). Certains naissent de façon posthume: la survie d'Henri Lefebvre. Actuel Marx 36: 181-198.
Elden, S. (2004). La Peste, el Panóptico y la Policía. Nueva Doctrina Penal 2004/B: 509-525.
Elden, S. (2004). To Say Nothing of God: Heidegger's Holy Atheism. The Heythrop Journal 45(3): 344-348.
Elden, S. (2003). Another sense of Demos: Kleisthenes and the Greek division of the Polis. Democratization 10(1): 135-156.
Elden, S. (2003). Plague, Panopticon, Police. Surveillance and Society 1(3): 240-253.
Elden, S. (2003). Taking the measure of the Beiträge: Heidegger, National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. European Journal of Political Theory 2(1): 35-56.
Elden, S. (2003). The importance of history: A reply to Malpas. Philosophy and Geography 6(2): 219-224.
Elden, S. (2002). 'Es gibt eine Politik des Raumes, Weil Raum Politisch ist.' Henri Lefèbvre und die Produktion des Raumes. An Architektur 1: 27-35.
Elden, S. (2002). The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault's «Il faut défendre la société» and the Politics of Calculation. Boundary 2 29(1): 125-151.
Elden, S. (2002). Through the eyes of the fantastic: Lefebvre, Rabelais and intellectual history. Historical Materialism 10(4): 89-111.
Cowan, S. & Elden, S. (2002). Words, desires and ideas: Freud, Foucault and the hermaphroditic roots of bisexuality. Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy 13: 79-99.
Brenner, N. & Elden, S. (2001). Henri Lefebvre in contexts: An introduction. Antipode 33(5): 763-768.
Elden, S. (2001). Politics, philosophy, geography: Henri Lefebvre in recent Anglo-American scholarship. Antipode 33(5): 809-825.
Elden, S. (2001). The constitution of the normal: monsters and masturbation at the Collège de France. Boundary 2 28(1): 91-105.
Elden, S. (2001). The place of geometry: Heidegger's mathematical excursus on Aristotle. The Heythrop Journal 42(1): 311-328.
Elden, S. (2000). Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger's Questioning the Political. Political Geography 19(4): 407-422.
Elden, S. (1999). Heidegger's Hölderlin and the Importance of Place. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30(3): 258-274.