Category Archives: Boundaries

Race, affect and alterity: rethinking climate change and migration – Workshop at Durham

Call for Papers/Announcement Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013, Durham University Organisers – Andrew Baldwin (Durham University W.A.Baldwin@durham.ac.uk) and Katherine E. Russo  (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) As policy and scholarly debates … Continue reading

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No Borders – review of Bristol exhibition

The TLS has a short review of an interesting looking exhibition on borders. A thought-provoking exhibition recently opened at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with Arnolfini. “No Borders”, featuring a dozen modern artists from the Middle East, … Continue reading

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Land claims conference in Ottawa

Jeremy Schmidt links to information on the forthcoming  Land Claims Coalition Conference in Ottawa, and notes that the agenda is now available.

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Laura Kurgan – Close up at a Distance

Interesting looking book forthcoming from Zone Books – Laura Kurgan, Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics.  The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data … Continue reading

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Über Grenzen/On Borders reviewed

Über Grenzen. On Borders, photographs by  Ostkreuz – Agentur der Fotografen, texts by Andrea Böhm, Wolfgang Büscher, Fabian Dietrich, Anna-Christina Hartmann and Marcus Jauer is reviewed at We Make Money Not Art. There are some striking images in the review as … Continue reading

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“there’s no geographic line” – Obama and assassination

The leaked US memo on drone strikes is available here. Craig Jones has a good analysis at War, Law & Space. Informed Comment points to this story The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has … Continue reading

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Conflict in Cities project

I was down in Cambridge last week to examine a very good PhD thesis by Konstantin Kastrissianakis in the Department of Architecture. The PhD was part of the Conflict in Cities programme, and looked at public space in Beirut. While … Continue reading

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Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading

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Resistance in Area E1

A month ago I posted about Area E1 in the West Bank, an area Israel hopes to build settlements, but at present is a cleared space with the infrastructure for a settlement (roads, power cables, a police station, security apparatus, … Continue reading

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Israel’s border fences

The West Bank wall/fence/barrier gets most of the attention. The containment of Gaza continues on all sides – its land borders with Israel; south to Egypt; most of its territorial sea occupied and certainly its airspace, while the subsoil is a … Continue reading

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