Stuart Elden

A political theorist and geographer, Elden (United Kingdom, b. 1971) has consistently redefined how space and power are thought together. Trained in politics and history, he has written extensively on the conceptual histories of territory, the state, and the spatial dimensions of political thought. His works probe the genealogies of concepts that shape governance and geopolitics, demonstrating that space is never neutral but always historically and ideologically constituted. Elected Fellow of the British Academy, his scholarship bridges political theory, geography, and history with rare rigor.

How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book Norrland, journalist Po Tidholm opens with a poem that captures a long-standing reality: northern Sweden has long been a site of resource extraction— iron […]

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