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2023

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36
Citations
12664
World Ranking
659
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stuart Elden is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a total of 21 publications in social sciences and 8 in arts and humanities.

Their work covers several subfields of study including sociology and political science, anthropology, literature and literary theory, geography, planning and development, and political science and international relations. The subfields with the most publications are sociology and political science (10 publications) and anthropology (3 publications).

Key topics addressed in their research include Foucault, power, and ethics; geographies of human-animal interactions; water governance and infrastructure; feminism, gender, and sexuality studies; French literature and criticism; philosophy and social theory; and French urban and social studies. The most frequently covered topic is Foucault, power, and ethics, with 8 publications.

The researcher has published in several venues, with the most common being Dialogues in Human Geography and Theory Culture & Society, each hosting three of their papers. Other publication venues include the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Revue internationale de philosophie, and History of European Ideas.

Recent papers by Stuart Elden include:

  • Terrain, politics, history, 2020, Dialogues in Human Geography
  • The limits of territory and terrain, 2021, Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker, 2020, Theory Culture & Society
  • Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952-1955, 2023, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stuart Elden include Alison Moore, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, and Adam David Morton.

Best Publications

  • The Birth of Territory

    Stuart Elden

  • Land, terrain, territory

    Stuart Elden

  • Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography

    Jeremy W. Crampton;Stuart Elden

  • Secure the volume: Vertical geopolitics and the depth of power

    Stuart Elden

  • Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty

    Stuart Elden

  • Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory

    Neil Brenner;Stuart Elden

  • Governmentality, calculation, territory.

    Stuart Elden

  • Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization and the space of the world

    Stuart Elden

  • Space, Knowledge and Power

    Jeremy W. Crampton;Stuart Elden

  • Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy

    Luiza Bialasiewicz;David Campbell;Stuart Elden;Stephen Graham

  • State, Space, World: Selected Essays

    Henri Lefebvre;Stuart Elden;Neil Brenner;Gerald Moore

  • Governmentality and the mastery of territory in nineteenth-century America

    S Elden

  • Understanding Henri Lefebvre : theory and the possible

    Stuart Elden

  • There is a Politics of Space because Space is Political : Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space

    Stuart Elden

  • Plague, Panopticon, Police

    Stuart Elden

  • Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvre's The Production of Space

    Stuart Elden

  • Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History

    Stuart. Elden

  • Foucault's Last Decade

    Stuart Elden

  • How Should We Do the History of Territory

    Stuart Elden

  • Reading Kant's Geography

    Stuart Elden;Eduardo Mendieta

  • The Constitution of EU Territory

    Luiza Bialasiewicz;Stuart Elden;Joe Painter

  • Space, politics, calculation: an introduction

    Jeremy W. Crampton;Stuart Elden

  • Terror and Territory

    Stuart Elden

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner University of Chicago
Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre Université Paris Cité
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham Newcastle University
Eleonore Kofman
Eleonore Kofman Middlesex University
Klaus Dodds
Klaus Dodds Middlesex University
Anssi Paasi
Anssi Paasi University of Oulu
Adam David Morton
Adam David Morton University of Sydney

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