Clik here to view.
From hotels to hostilities
I’m just back from a wonderful time at Ohio State giving the Taafe Lecture, and still trying to catch my breath: lots of good conversation and good company. More on this later – as always, I learned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Imagination bodies forth…’
Following from my previous post, I’ve been thinking a lot about bodies recently, and for two reasons. The first is the workshop on War & Medicine I attended in Paris just before Christmas. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
War tourism
I spent part of the week-end at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, which is currently hosting Safar/Voyage: contemporary works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish artists (until 15 September). I’d written an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Safe bombs and refusing pilots
My first attempt to think through the histories and geographies of bombing from the air was, appropriately enough, a plenary address to the Arab World Geographer conference in Beirut in 2006 – a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A mile in these shoes
I’m just back from Beirut, and trying to catch up. Every day I went for a walk along the Corniche, and on the second morning a young Syrian boy asked if he could clean my shoes. I was wearing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
War and therapeutic geographies
I previously noted the problems of providing medical care to those fleeing the war in Syria – and to those who’ve been left behind – and an article by Thanassis Cambanis in the Boston Globe (‘Medical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paris of/in the Middle East
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for last night’s co-ordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, calling them the ‘first of the storm’ and castigating the French capital as ‘the capital of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vertical fields
I’ve just been reading and thinking about Lisa Parks‘s short but immensely suggestive essay, ‘Drones, Vertical Mediation, and the Targeted Class’, in Feminist Studies 42 (2016) 227-35. Lisa develops...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The War Yet To Come
I fell in love with Beirut (its people and its food!) on my first visit, and I’ve returned many times since. The first was in 2005, when I gave a plenary lecture to a conference on ‘“America in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Landscapes of intervention
An excellent new edition of Middle East Report (290) on The New Landscape of Intervention; full download details here. The concept of intervention brings to mind foreign military actions that violate a...
View Article
