Book Review – “Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico”

"...engaged, critical, historical geography as it ought to be done." Here we've an excellent review by Don Mitchell of David Correia's Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern...
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Intervention symposium – 'Explosive geographies'

On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days...
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Video abstract – Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola talks about 'Neoliberalizing Border Management in Finland and Schengen'

"...contemporary performances of border enforcement and security cannot be understood as distinct from the process of neoliberalization." So argues University of Oulu geographer Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola...
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Intervention – Homeland Security and the Precarity of Life in the Borderlands

by Geoffrey Boyce (University of Arizona) and Jill Williams (Clark University) In Precarious Life, Judith Butler (2004) argues for a feminist transnational politics based on the precarity of life -...
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Society and Space mini forum – 'Militarism?'

Our colleagues over at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space have just published an excellent 'mini forum' on their open site. Entitled 'Militarism?', the forum includes pieces from members...
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Occupy Wall Street and 'Israelification'

by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York For my final post in this batch on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine, I’m going to draw heavily on an exchange I had recently with my friends Jimmy...
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