Category Archives: Political Geography

‘Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism’ in the political geography section of GECO

We have recently published Stepha Velednitsky, Sara Hughes, and Rhys Machold in the political geography section of Geography Compass, on ‘Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism.’ The review article provides a comprehensive survey of tendencies, past and present, at the … Continue reading

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SCRIPTS conference at University of Wyoming — Global Leadership Crisis, Rising Inequalities, and Culture Wars

Colleagues from the Freie Universität Berlin, who are affiliated with the School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies at the University of Wyoming are organizing a conference titled Global Leadership Crisis, Rising Inequalities, and Culture Wars: Contestations of the … Continue reading

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‘Postcolonial geographies and colonialism’s mutations’ in the political geography section of GECO

Geography Compass recently published Ishan Ashutosh (Indiana University) in the political geography section, on the enduring relevance of scholarship at the intersection of post-colonial theory and political geography for understanding dynamics in our contemporary world, in this case, in South … Continue reading

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Free access to “Politicizing disappearance after Mexico’s ‘historic’ election”

Political Geography is providing free access to my guest editorial with Oliver  Hernández Lara, previously described in this post from earlier this year, which emerges from our work on ‘landscapes of disappearance’ in the Mexico City urban region.

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My new article with Guillaume Proulx on “settler colonial landscapes”

A collaboration that began in my American Landscapes course recently resulted in an article published in the Journal of Cultural Geography (free access here). In this article and in a presentation at the 2019 meeting of the American Association of … Continue reading

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“Re-thinking geoeconomics” in the political geography section of GECO

Geography Compass recently published Sami Moisio (University of Helsinki, Finland) in the political geography section, on a reinterpretation of geoeconomics as political geographies of knowledge‐intensive capitalism. ‘Re-thinking geoeconomics: Towards a political geograpy of economic geographies‘ is notable for putting IR … Continue reading

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CFP, ‘Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives,’ conference at Middlebury College

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, at Middlebury College, has circulated a Call for Papers for their Eighth Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference, ‘Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives.’ Political geographers would certainly find a welcoming audience at this … Continue reading

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“Politicizing disappearance after Mexico’s ‘historic’ election” in Political Geography

The corrected proof of Politicizing disappearance after Mexico’s “historic” election, an essay with Oliver Gabriel Hernández Lara at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, is available in Political Geography (find it here and here). This is our first of … Continue reading

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“Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?” in political geography section of GECO

Geography Compass recently published Janae Davis, Alex A. Moulton, Levi Van Sant, and Brian Williams in the political geography section, on a political-geographical approach to “the Plantationocene,” with a particular emphasis on neglected geographies of race and on practices of … Continue reading

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Support for “Banishing Ghosts and Building Solidarities in Central Mexico After the Long Sixties”

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research (WIHR) recently announced its support for a 2019-2020 cohort of faculty fellows. Among the projects supported was my work on the relationship between politics, identity, and space amidst the failures of late liberalism in … Continue reading

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