Stuart Elden의 연구목록

 

Stuart Elden 교수와 내 관심 사항이 상당히 유사하여 그의 연구 목록을 작성한다. 영토는 근대국가 형성 이후 주요한 정치적 개념이다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 기존 정치학 연구자들은 영토에 대해 거의 무관심하여 정치이론이 결여하고 있다. 이러한 문제의식에 따라 최근에 영토에 대한 정치이론화 작업이 소수 학자에 의해서 이루어지고 있다.

 

 

Stuart Elden, The Birth of Territory 2013

 

Stuart Elden, Reading Kant's Geography 2011

 

Stuart Elden, Trevor Barnes, Mike Batty, Bob Bennett, Jamie A Peck, Nigel Thrift(Ed) Environment and Planning 2011

 

Stuart Elden ,Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (Univ Of Minnesota Press 2009)

 

Henri Lefebvre and Stuart Elden, State, Space, World: Selected Essays , 2009

 

Jeremy W. Crampton, Stuart Elden, Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (Ashgate Publishing, 2007)

 

Stuart Elden, Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation (Taking on the Political) 2005

 

Stuart Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre 2004

 

Stuart Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History 2002

 

 

Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory: A response",  Dialogues in Human Geography",  November 2014;  vol. 4, 3: pp. 353-356.

 

S. Elden, "Philosophy and Human Geography", International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009, pp.145-150

Abstract

Human geography has always, implicitly or explicitly, drawn upon philosophy. Both disciplines can be traced to Ancient Greece, and the Western philosophical tradition provides a number of examples of thinkers who explicitly engaged with topics of geographical concern. In the last couple of centuries, geography has more explicitly thought through its relation to philosophy, particularly in the engagement with positivist thought and critiques of this position. Humanist geography and radical geography worked on fundamental assumptions within geography, thus working philosophically. More recently, there has been a re-engagement with theory within large parts of human geography, much of which draws upon a range of works in contemporary European philosophy.

 

Stuart Elden, "Discipline, health and madness: Foucault’s Le pouvoir psychiatrique", History of the Human Sciences,  February 2006;  vol. 19, 1: pp. 39-66.

 

Abstract

This article provides a reading and analysis of Foucault’s 1973-4 lecture course Le pouvoir psychiatrique. It begins by situating the course within the wider context of Foucault’s work, notably in relation to Histoire de la folie and the move of the early 1970s to the conceptual tools of power and genealogy. It is argued that Le pouvoir psychiatrique is a rewriting of the last part of Histoire de la folie from the perspective of these new conceptual tools. Analysis then moves to more thematic concerns, showing how this course enriches our understanding of Foucault’s work on the sources of power, the individual and the family, and the spaces of the disciplinary society. Particular focus is given to the role of the army, public health, the hospital, children, women and hospital architecture. The article concludes by showing how the themes of this course, while not worked up for publication themselves, point the way to concerns in Foucault’s later work, notably The History of Sexuality and collaborative work on urban medicine and habitat.

 

 

Stuart Elden, "Taking the Measure of the Beiträge: Heidegger, National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political", European Journal of Political Theory,  January 2003;  vol. 2, 1: pp.35-56.

 

Abstract

This article provides a political reading of Martin Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis). one of the central themes of the Beiträge is crucial to understanding why Heidegger moved into a position of critical distance from the Nazi regime, because it is an attempt to comprehend what lies behind the events of the time. This is the notion of the politics of calculation, the issue of measure, which relates closely to Heidegger’s late concerns with technology. Through readings of Heidegger on Protagoras and Descartes, the role of calculation in the forgetting of being, and the notions of machination, race, and worldview, I show how the Beiträge, and particularly its explicit political context, is valuable in evaluating Heidegger’s own career, his political position and politics more generally.

 

Stuart Elden, "Plague, Panopticon, Police", Surveillance & Society 1(3) pp.240-253.

 

Abstract

 

This article resituates the Panopticon in Foucault’s work, showing how it emerged from research on social medicine in the early to mid 1970s, and relating it to discussions of the plague and the police. The key sources are lectures and seminars from this period, only partly translated in English. What is of interest here is how Foucault’s concerns with surveillance interrelate with concerns about society as a whole – not in the total institution of the prison, but in the realm of public health. This is pursued through detailed readings of Foucault’s analyses of urban medicine and the hospital. The article closes by making some general remarks about situating Foucault’s books in the context of his lecture courses, and about how the analysis of medicine may be a more profitable model for surveillance than the Panopticon.

 

Stuart Elden, "Reassessing Kant’s geography", Journal of Historical Geography 35 (2009) 3–25.

 

Abstract

This article offers a critical reassessment of Immanuel Kant’s lectures on Physische Geographie and his contribution to geographical thought more generally. There are a number of reasons why this reassessment is needed: the lectures are finally about to be published in English translation; careful philological work in German has exposed how corrupted the standard text of the lectures is; and philosophers are finally beginning to critically integrate an understanding of the Geography into their overall assessment of Kant’s work. English speaking geographers will therefore soon have access to the lectures in a way that they have not done before, but they need to be aware both of the problems of the edition being translated and the work philosophers have undertaken on their situation in Kant’s work and their impact. More broadly, the reassessment requires us to reconsider the position Kant occupies in the discipline of geography as a whole. The article examines the history of the lectures and their publication in some detail; discusses Kant’s purpose in giving them; and looks at the way in which he structured geographical knowledge and understood its relation to history and philosophy. In terms of the broader focus particular attention is given to the topics of race and space. While these lectures are undoubtedly of largely historical interest, it is for precisely that reason that an examination of them and Kant’s thought more generally is of relevance today to the history of the discipline of geography.

Stuart Elden, "Land, terrain, territory", Progress in Human Geography 34(6) 2010 799–817.

 

Abstract

This paper outlines a way toward conceptual and historical clarity around the question of territory. The aim is not to define territory, in the sense of a single meaning; but rather to indicate the issues at stake in grasping how it has been understood in different historical and geographical contexts. It does so first by critically interrogating work on territoriality, suggesting that neither the biological nor the social uses of this term are particularly profitable ways to approach the historically more specific category of ‘territory’. Instead, ideas of ‘land’ and ‘terrain’ are examined, suggesting that these political-economic and political-strategic relations are essential to understanding ‘territory’, yet ultimately insufficient. Territory needs to be understood in terms of its relation to space, itself a calculative category that is dependent on the existence of a range of techniques. Ultimately this requires rethinking unproblematic definitions of territory as a ‘bounded space’ or the state as a ‘bordered power container’, because both presuppose the two things that should be most interrogated, space and boundaries. Rather than boundaries being the distinction between place and space, or land or terrain and territory, boundaries are a second-order problem founded upon a particular sense of calculation and concomitant grasp of space. Territory then can be understood as a political technology: it comprises techniques for measuring land and controlling terrain, and measure and control – the technical and the legal – must be thought alongside the economic and strategic.

 

L Bialasiewicz, D Campbell, S Elden, S Graham, A Jeffrey, AJ Williams, "Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy", Political Geography 26 (4), 405-422.

 

Abstract

Political geographers have recently focused their attention on the performative nature and imaginative geographies of US security strategies. This work has illuminated a number of mechanisms through which geographical knowledge has been interpreted and reformulated to support specific political agendas. This paper builds upon and develops the insights of these recent studies, arguing that current US security strategies are constructed around a policy of integration, whereby states are encouraged, through a range of measures, to mesh with attitudes and perspectives on the world. It assesses the ways in which these integration strategies are being performed, through an analysis of US National Security Strategy documents, the works of writers such as Kagan and Barnett, and the imaginative geographies and popular geopolitical representations of the US and its enemies. This paper contends that these practices combine to produce the effects that they name, bringing to life an imaginary geography that mirrors and supports the particular logics of the US-led ‘war on terror’.

 

Stuart Elden, "Necessary, but not sufficient: Geography, territory and the history of ideas", Dialogues in Human Geography,  November 2014,  vol. 4, 3: pp.320-323.

 

Abstract

This response to John Agnew agrees that the history of ideas is never enough for the project of understanding the world but argues that it is a crucial part of that work. The commentary begins by contesting the claim that there is a turn towards this perspective in geography and suggests that much more needs to be done. I engage with Agnew’s article, especially with regard to the question of territory, by clarifying the project undertaken in The Birth of Territory. The inquiry there, I suggest, examined the complicated relation between words, concepts and practices; and many of the texts examined were not detached works of theory but practical texts – either written by or for political actors, or constitutions, treaties, papal bulls, handbooks of land surveying or law. This commentary closes by suggesting that the history of ideas, genealogy and conceptual history can, as part of what Foucault called ‘the history of the present’, offer valuable tools for critical geography. They are one element within such a project, necessary, but not sufficient.

 

S Elden, "Secure the volume: vertical geopolitics and the depth of power", Political Geography 34, 2013, pp.35-51.

 

Abstract

We all-too-often think of the spaces of geography as areas, not volumes. Territories are bordered, divided and demarcated, but not understood in terms of height and depth. ‘Secure the area’ is a common ｅxpression for the military and police, but what happens if another dimension is taken into account and we think what it means to ‘secure the volume’? This article draws on the emergent literature on vertical geopolitics and Peter Sloterdijk’s work on spheres, but also looks at what happens below the surface, with a particular focus on tunnels. Using Paul Virilio’s work, and some examples from theWest Bank and Israel’s border with Lebanon, it demonstrates how we need to think volumedthink about volume, through volume, with volumedrather than simply the vertical to make sense of the complexities of territory today.

 

JW Crampton, S Elden, "Space, politics, calculation: an introduction", Taylor & Francis Group 7 (5), 681-685.

 

L Bialasiewicz, S Elden, J Painter, "The constitution of EU territory", Comparative European Politics 3 (3), 333-363.

 

Abstract

This paper offers a contribution to debates around the reconfiguration of political space in the project of European integration. Its specific focus is the Draft Constitution of the European Union, and its problematic understanding of territory. It claims that there is a profound ambiguity between senses of territory in the Draft Constitution, which in part aims to transcend existing territorial divisions and notions of territory, particularly those associated with the nation-state. This is an aspirational sense of Europe as a putative space of values and area of solidarity, illustrated through the ideal of territorial cohesion. on the other hand, territory is being re-inscribed in the Constitution in a 'hard' sense, organized through border controls, jurisdictional limits and a concern with territorial integrity and sovereign rights. In providing a reading of the draft Constitution itself, analysing the tensions and silences within its text, the article seeks to contribute to wider debates concerning the European project and its values, and the contribution social theory and political geography can make to an assessment of them.

 

S Elden, "Heidegger's animals", Continental Philosophy Review 39 (3), 273-291.

 

Abstract

This paper provides a reading of Heidegger's work on the question of animality. Like the majority of discussions of this topic it utilises the 1929–30 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, but the analysis seeks to go beyond this course alone in order to look at the figure or figures of animals in Heidegger's work more generally. This broader analysis shows that animals are always figured as lacking: as poor in world, without history, without hands, without dwelling, without space. The article shows how all these claims are grounded upon the most fundamental distinction: that the human is the zoon logon ekhon. In Heidegger's analysis this is not the animal rationale of metaphysical thought, but the living being that has and is held by logos, speech. Looking at how the logos became ratio, the paper notes how the way that animals do not calculate is the sole positive accreditation of animals in Heidegger's work.

 

S Elden, "Thinking territory historically", Geopolitics 15 (4), 757-761.

S Elden, "Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger's questioning the political", Political Geography 19 (4), 407-422.

 

Abstract

Heidegger’s thought has, in recent years, been relentlessly examined for glimpses of the political. This paper approaches that debate by looking at one of themes of Heidegger’s lectures during the Nazi years: one which explicitly questions the notion of the political itself. This questioning, through a rethinking of the Greek word po´li§ [polis], is a result of Heidegger’s retreat from his own political involvement. Heidegger’s active political career was theoretically underpinned by his interpretation of Plato’s call for philosopher-kings: his rethinking is important in understanding his turn away from Nazism. In his rethinking Heidegger suggests that looking at the polis with our modern, political, eyes does not give us fundamental insights into the meaning of this word. Heidegger looks to the choral ode in Sophocles’ Antigone, and focuses on a line which begins “hypsipolis apolis”. Through a detailed reading, Heidegger suggests that polis should be understood not as “city” or “state” but as “site”, the historical site of being. We cannot use our modern understanding of politics to understand the polis, but we can use our understanding of polis to rethink the notion of the political. The political, means relating to the site of abode of human history, and is therefore primarily spatial, or better, platial. Such an understanding allows us to understand Heidegger’s work on technology from a better position; to distance ourselves from the modern, Schmittian notion of the political; and to rethink the principle concepts of politics with due attendance to the role of space, or place. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

S Elden, "There is a politics of space because space is political", Radical philosophy review 10 (2), 101-116.

 

Abstract

This lecture offers a reading of the work of the French Marxist Henri Lefebvre, particularly focusing on his writings on the question of space. It suggests that this is a simultaneously political and philosophical project and that it needs to be understood as such. Accordingly we need to examine and work with both terms in Lefebvre’s book The Production of Space —thinking about the Marxist analysis of production and the question of space which goes beyond the resources Marxism can offer. The paper concludes by offering some reflections on Lefebvre scholarship through the relation of space and history.

 

Stuart Elden, "Place symbolism and land politics in Beowulf", Cultural Geographies,  October 2009;  vol. 16, 4: pp.447-463.

 

Abstract
This article provides a reading of the Old English poem Beowulf, with a focus on its symbolic and political geographies. The key question is the role of place or site in the poem in general terms, and the more specific issue of land. The article first analyses three significant sites in the narrative – the locations of the battles between Beowulf and Grendel, Grendel’s mother and the dragon. Each of these places – the hall, the mere, and the burial-mound – are shot through with powerful emotive, elemental, symbolic and material geographies. Analysis then moves to the politics of land, a resource which is gifted, distributed, disputed and fought over. While part of a larger project which seeks to look at the conceptual and historical relation between land, terrain and territory, this article offers a more modest focused study of a single text from a particular period.

 

S Elden, "Contributions to geography? The spaces of Heidegger's Beitrage", Environment and Planning D 23 (6), 811

 

Abstract

In this paper I provide a reading of Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) [the contributions to philosophy (of propriation)] as a contribution to geography. This collection of manuscripts, written between 1936 and 1938, is extremely important in terms of the development of Heidegger’s work, his political career, and his rethinking of the relation between space and time. This rethinking is one of the key themes discussed, along with the political and geographical implications of Heidegger’s notion of calculation. In order to situate these insights, I first provide a discussion of the context within which Heidegger wrote the work. After outlining this biographical, intellectual, and political situation, I move to the geographical contributions, suggesting ways in which Heidegger’s thought can impact on our thinking of environment, nature, globalisation, and measurement.

 

Stuart Elden, "Genealogy, ontology and the political: three conceptual questions to Engin Isin", Political Geography, Volume 24, Issue 3, March 2005, pp.355-359

Engin Isin has written a remarkable book about citizenship, (Isin, 2002a). Its
challenge to political geographers is both to rethink citizenship and to work through the geographical implications of such a rethinking. Other commentators here and elsewhere have examined the claims made about these issues. But there are three other key words in the title – ‘being’, ‘political’ and ‘genealogies’. Here I would like to offer some thoughts on each of these conceptual terms, as a series of questions on them.