Category Archives: Territory

Israeli Settlement Bus Routes and other infographics

At Territorial Masquerades, Teo Ballvé discusses this remarkable graphic of bus routes between West Jerusalem and Israeli West Bank settlements. I took the bus from Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron back to Jerusalem quite late one evening to the … Continue reading

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The Conflict in Mali – striking images from The Atlantic

The Atlantic has a series of striking and disturbing images from the conflict in Mali.

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Parallel States Project

At Lund University some interesting thinking on the Israel/Palestine situation in a venture called the Parallel States Project. The conference was in 2010 and I’m not sure what has happened since 2011. The site says they are cooperating with faculty from … Continue reading

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – online

My paper ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ is now online – forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the RSA journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The journal requires subscription, so if you can’t easily get hold of it, please … Continue reading

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Klaus Dodds, The Antarctic – interview

Klaus Dodds’s The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction is the focus of an interview at Exploring Geopolitics.

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Kano attacks – one year on

On the 20th January 2012, a series of attacks were launched by the Boko Haram group against the northern Nigerian city of Kano (the second biggest city in the country). A number of government buildings including passport offices and immigration centres, several police … 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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Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading

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Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … 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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