I’ve just finished reading the manuscript of Scott Kirsch & Colin Flint (eds.), Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies  forthcoming with Ashgate in 2011. I was asked to write an endorsement which I was pleased to do. It has a number of great contributors including the editors, James Tyner, Rachel Woodward, Jennifer Hyndman, Trevor Barnes and Jeremy Crampton, and Don Mitchell.

Reconstructing Conflict is a powerful examination of the violence that remains in place after the bombs have stopped falling or the guns have been silenced. What makes the book work so well is that the detailed empirical studies always have broader questions in mind while remaining faithful to the particularity of sites.