Category Archives: My Publications

Terror and Territory reviewed in Choice

Terror and Territory is reviewed in the July edition of Choice by Matthew O’Gara. The book is described as a “highly welcome work” that “interrogates the seemingly contradictory nature of state sovereignty”. It’s praised for refuting the claim that “the … Continue reading

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Review of three books on territory

This review article has been available as an advance online publication for a while, but it’s now published. “Thinking Territory Politically”, Political Geography, Vol 29 No 4, 2010, pp. 238-41. It can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.013 The three books reviewed … Continue reading

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New Geographies

Many people will know that of the US Ivy League institutions only Dartmouth College still has a geography programme. But Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has been putting out some interesting issues of a new journal entitled New Geographies. Geography … Continue reading

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Terror and Territory reviews

Some reviews of my book Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty are beginning to be published… Nisha Shah has a review essay entitled ‘Terra Infirma’ forthcoming in Political Geography which discusses the book in relation to John Agnew’s … Continue reading

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Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre

It might appear that my first two books – Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre – are out of print. Amazon no longer has copies, and the publisher’s website doesn’t let you buy them. I’ve checked with the publisher … Continue reading

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On saying ‘no’

I’ve just said ‘no’ to four invitations to write – a working paper, a review, a review essay and a book chapter. All, in themselves, are interesting projects, but the books were too far from what I’m working on, the … Continue reading

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University of Minnesota Press sale

http://www.upress.umn.edu/catalog/SeasonalCatalogs.html 30% of Geography books…

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Writing

Graham Harman has a really interesting post on writing here. As I’ve said several times in conversation (and I think once in print) I’m fascinated by how academics write – it’s the one thing we all do, but rarely talk about. … Continue reading

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Amazon recommendations

These are usually pretty good – I guess I buy so much that it has a large dataset to work with – but today they have suggested I might like my own book…

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The End of Aaaarg.org?

Update: please note this post dates from 2010. I am not sure that links or information below is accurate. Aaaarg doesn’t exist – so says their webpage. The academic fileshare site was starting to get ‘cease and desist’ letters from publishers, … Continue reading

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