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Category Archives: Geography
Spaces of constructed (in)visibility
Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Further to my previous posts on air strikes in Pakistan here and here, the International Crisis Group today published a new report, Drones: Myths and Reality in Pakistan. From ICG’s media release: ‘The report’s major findings…
Posted in Borders, Drones, Geography, Military, US Foreign Policy, Warfare, Weapons
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Old haunts: is this what happened to postcolonial theory?
Originally posted on Pop Theory:
A couple of days ago, Dissent pointed to an almost real-time, developing ‘debate’ about the trajectories of postcolonial theory – in the form of the response to the publication of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. The…
Posted in Geography, History, Ideology, Postcolonalism, Subaltern Studies
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Border choreography, bare bodies, and penal states
Posted in Art, Biopolitics, Borderlands, Borders, European Union, Geography, Homo Sacer, Immigration, Neoliberalism
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Call for Proposals: Workshop on Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Call for papers for a workshop I’m speaking at in September, along with a number of very interesting other speakers. Call for Proposals: Workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance September 19-20, 2013 Balsillie School…
Homing in
Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’m finally home from Europe – a strange sentence, I think, since I always feel so much at home when I return to Europe. I spent the last week in the Czech Republic, where I…
Posted in Afghanistan, Borders, Drones, Geography, Military, US Foreign Policy, Warfare, Weapons
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Where Souls Dwell
Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’ve had a message from Laila Shawa, whose work I noted earlier, enclosing one of her latest projects (and generously allowing me to show her work here). Where Souls Dwell (above) is from her Gun series…
The Birth of Territory – University of Chicago Press page and preorder
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The University of Chicago Press page for my book The Birth of Territory is now up with the description, an endorsement from John Agnew, and the table of contents. It will be available in cloth and paperback simultaneously.…
Posted in Geography, Philosophy, Research, Sovereignty
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Dirty dancing and spaces of exception in Pakistan
Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Following up my post on the air campaigns waged by the United States and by Pakistan inside the Federally Administered Tribal Territories and the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), here are some screenshots from Chris…
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Visualizations of Conflict
My comment on why up-close-and-personal films about war don’t bring us any closer to the reality of the battlefield on OpenCanada.org as part of their in depth analysis of the Hot Docs festival.