Category Archives: Boundaries

The New York Times redraws borders in the Arabian peninsula

The New York Times (via The Afternoon Map).

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Syria: Mapping the conflict

The BBC has a good, interactive image mapping the Syria conflict. It is “produced by the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), [and] is based on information from the US government compiled from media sources”.  

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Alexander Betts, Survival Migration

Alexander Betts, Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement is now out. International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, … Continue reading

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Mezzadra and Neilson, Border as Method

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor is now out. The table of contents and introduction are available as pdf here. Thanks to Charles Heller for the link. Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated … Continue reading

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African Geographical Review – Special Issue Call for Papers

Posted on behalf of Kevin DeJesus: African Geographical Review – Special Issue Call for Papers Out of Place, Into Extremis:        Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa Guest Editors: Kevin M. DeJesus, Rhode Island College and Daisuke Maruyama, Kyoto … Continue reading

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Conference: Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization

Originally posted on UTS Urban Forum:
Please have a look at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, San Antonio, TX, USA, March 19-22, 2014. Urban areas have grown at an unprecedented rate in the last decade. More of the…

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The Golan Heights

Another fascinating trip on my recent visit to Israel was into the Golan Heights with political geographer Nimrod Luz. The Golan was captured by Israel from Syria in 1967, and very nearly lost in 1973. Israel annexed it in 1981, … Continue reading

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Pangaea with today’s boundaries

Click on image for larger sizes. I can imagine this as the beginning of an interesting class discussion. Thanks to Antoine Bousquet for the link.

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Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today

This autumn I’ll be teaching a course for incoming Masters students at Warwick on global events, which should be useful for their broader studies. The topics are intentionally general so that the examples can be contemporary and potentially updated in … Continue reading

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Books received

The Korean translation of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (including my introduction from the English translation); Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt; Richard J. Bernstein’s Violence; and the 2013 diary from Passia, with a wealth of maps, information and data on Palestine, along with … Continue reading

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