Acts of Occlusion
Occlusion is a term that describes a technique of erasure. Here, I show how occlusion works specifically in International Development discourses to …
Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh on their book, Language, Space, and Cultural Play
Interview by Ida Hoequist https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-space-and-cultural-play/327DE07D95DC80767188DE0AA9139EDD Ida Hoequist: In this book, you combine affect theory with an …
Black Geographies: New Maroon Studies and the Politics of Place
Jamaican Maroons are the descendants of Africans who escaped enslavement on plantations in the early colonial period. Mentions of the Maroons in …
New Book: Simon Dalby’s Anthropocene Geopolitics
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find …
Presence is Dominance: The History of Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site and Russia’s Influence in Post-Soviet Space, by Sara O’Connor (University of California Irvine)
A Brief History of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS) The Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site was built by Kazakh prisoners as commissioned …
Why the Earth Must Be Mapped
A lidar scan of a site in Mexico reveals the boundaries of a ceremonial area. Chris Fisher The climate crisis represents humanity’s …
Call for papers: SACRED GEOGRAPHY: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN SPACE AND TIME, Nazarbayev University
SACRED GEOGRAPHY: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN SPACE AND TIME International Conference Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan September 24th to 26th, 2020 This conference aims …
Alison Mountz, “Women on the Edge”
The geographer Alison Mountz published a remarkable paper last year, “Women on the edge: Workplace stress at universities in North America” in …
The institutional conditions of possibility of David Harvey
In a 2015 essay by David Harvey (need I add, “the venerable Marxist geographer”?) that reflects on the relations between different radical currents in the …
Selective access or how states make #remoteness
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or …
Taking up Space
Nine years ago when I started my doctoral studies not only was I in a fertile intellectual endeavour undertaking fieldwork, reading …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
Response to Daniel Münster’s review of ‘The Darjeeling Distinction’
The Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and a product. …
Special Issue on Geographies in the Anthropocene from Geographical Research
Some interesting looking papers in the latest issue of Geographical Research on the Anthropocene, the full table of contents is here.
The moment after anticipation #2
(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens …
After knocking: Picturing youth itineraries
Look at me and explain „who do you want to be in ten years?”. „I want to be a famous professor, living …