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Stuart Elden is a British political geographer whose work connects geography with political theory, philosophy, and intellectual history. His 2013 book The Birth of Territory traces how territory emerged as a political and conceptual category through legal, mathematical, theological, and philosophical developments in Western thought. He has also written extensively on Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Shakespeare, and the spatial dimensions of political power.
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Stuart Elden ranks #57 of 172 in the Geographer ranking, behind Mary Somerville, ahead of Henry Yeung.
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