‘Rehearsing the State’ by Fiona McConnell, coming out soon
I’ve just seen that Fiona McConnell’s new book Rehearsing the State: The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is coming out very shortly with Wiley-Blackwell in the RGS-IBG series. Here’s the back blurb from Wiley. Rehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions,... Read More →
The End of Airports
A while ago now Rachael Squire and I had been working on airports that have died, gone to rack and ruin, or somehow survived in different and sometimes surprising forms, but here comes news of a wonderful sounding new book from... Read More →
Emergency Mobilities
A video has just gone up on the Mobile Live Forums. Filmed at the beginning of the summer last year, mine deals with my on-going research into the politics of evacuation mobility, although I need to write a lot of this... Read More →
(Dis)assembling State Spaces: Conceptualising new geometries of power
A great sounding grad-conference announcement from Warwick Political Geography You can find more information about the event, which includes keynotes from Mike Woods and Leopold Lambert, from the link below. http://geographywarwickteam.tumblr.com
Moving Together: conference at Durham
Readers of this blog might be interested in the upcoming conference at Durham, featuring the always brilliant Debbie Lisle as keynote speaker. PA POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS Moving Together – Exploring the nexus between disparate approaches to movement Wednesday, 4th... Read More →
Gregynog Ideas Lab V, International Politics summer school, 11-16 July 2016
Great lineup for Gregynog ideas lab; Gregynog is a wonderful setting for discussion.
The Military in the City: a walking tour of London’s memorials
By Alice Oates On the 20th November the Principles of Geopolitics class was led on a tour of the military in London by Alasdair Pinkerton and Pip Thornton, in an exercise in exploring how the military is represented and remembered... Read More →
The Great Hedge of India
By Oliver Dixon. Ollie is a Durham graduate currently studying for an MSc in Geopolitics and Security. He studies issues of conflict analysis, terrorism, and defence policy. He reads widely on these and broader issues of security in both Sub-Saharan... Read More →
Nothing Spreads Like Fear: The Securitisation of Ebola
Josh Holmes is a Durham geography graduate and current masters student in Geopolitics and Security. His research interests range from affect and mobilities to critical security approaches and materiality. “This is more than a health crisis. This is a growing... Read More →
Walks and Memories
It seems a little out of place to write a post essentially about a happy event in the context of sadness as we feel the loss of Neil Smith’s passing over the weekend (there have been several tributes, postings and collations... Read More →