Category Archives: Politics

Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … 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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Africa and the War on Drugs

Africa as the new site of the war on terror has been receiving a lot of attention recently, and the civil wars on the continent have long been discussed, but a recently published book looks at the war on drugs … Continue reading

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Ben Gurion University politics department

Haaretz has the news that the threat to the Ben Gurion University politics department has been withdrawn, with student recruitment allowed for next academic year.

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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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Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

This is my abstract for the August 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference. It will be part of the sessions organised by Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff and Arun Saldanha on ‘Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the … Continue reading

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Judith Butler’s remarks at Brooklyn College

The Nation has published Judith Butler’s talk to the event at Brooklyn College on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

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Secure the Volume – Political Geography paper available

My paper “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” has now been published by Political Geography in their ‘articles in press’ section [open access here]. They’ve not yet posted the responses by Peter Adey and Gavin Bridge … Continue reading

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Boko Haram in World Policy Journal

World Policy Journal has a short and useful piece on Boko Haram by Carlo Davis, including this diagram of its political anatomy – clicking on the image will take you to their much larger version. The full piece is available … Continue reading

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