Military Geographies (RGS-IBG Book Series)
The conference is scheduled to take place on June 30th-July 1st, , at the University of Otago. The construction of walls for security practices related to migration, asylum and refuge, and domestic prisons has significant human rights and social justice implications. Such practices are inextricably tied to social forms of exclusion and discrimination that create barriers to social, political, and economic well-being. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate engagement between academic researchers, criminal justice organisations, and migrant advocates on the local as well as trans-national connections between practices of security and social exclusion as they effect communities of colour, migrants, and Indigenous peoples.
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The conference invites abstracts, panels, and workshop proposals that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:. Sovereignty and Migration in a Carceral Age took place in May, , and included: More information on these events can be found at: Interested participants should send w abstracts and proposals, including a 50w bio, to space. Abstracts will be accepted on a rolling basis until April 1 st , All queries and questions can be sent to space. This time, the reviewers are a group of sixteen men imprisoned in the maximum security Oregon State Penitentiary in the United States, and ten individuals currently or formerly involved in higher education at the University of Oregon and Chemeketa Community College students and faculty who work with them.
Prisoners, Politics and the Vote , a book which, in addressing prisoner dis enfranchisement, is of particular relevance to them. Their jointly written review is a reflection both of their reading of the text, and of their experience in resisting the civil death, isolation, and disempowerment that is characteristic of mass incarceration in the United States.
Read the review here. There is no funding attached to this PhD project — but the supervisors are keen to work with candidates to support any funding applications they may wish to make, and to consider part-time arrangements, as appropriate. The University of Birmingham has a range of PhD funding opportunities available, and any candidates holding partial funding are invited to make this known, since match-funding is sometimes available.
This project examines the ways in which trees feature in secure custodial environments SCEs, such as prisons. SCEs are typically highly-controlled spaces, in which landscape elements buildings, fences etc. They are also environments whose cost, both capital-build and facilities-management, is under constant scrutiny. Olive trees within the high-security prison of Sollicciano, on the outskirts of Florence Photo: Under what circumstances are trees present within SCEs?
What does their presence or otherwise say about the role they are considered to play in these spaces? How is their presence contested, and debated, and what arguments are made to justify their presence? What is the significance of the presence of trees in SCEs for those who live and work in them? What difference do trees make to the experience of custody? A specific and important focus is the intersection between human and forest space- and time-scales.
The project will therefore investigate whether presence of trees e. Findings from the project will contribute to wider debates over the nature and experience of carceral spaces, notions of biophilia, and therapeutic landscape effects; and the formulation of best practice design principles. This is addressed by evaluating the potentially therapeutic effect of trees within secure custodial spaces, considering the functions they can perform, and the meanings that they hold, for persons confined to these spaces, either as inmates or staff.
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State, Science and the Skies Mark Whitehead. Spaces of Colonialism Stephen Legg. Driving Spaces Peter Merriman. Geographies and Moralities Roger Lee. Back cover copy Military Geographies discusses how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, andabout how wider geographies are touched by militarism.
The book sets a new agenda for the study of military geographywith its critical analysis of the ways in which military controlover space is legitimized. Drawing on her own original research, the author explores the ways in which militarism and militaryactivities control development, the use of space and ourunderstanding of place. She concentrates on military lands, establishments and personnel in contemporary peacetime settings, highlighting the pervasiveness of these forces in shaping everydaylives.
The geographies under scrutiny are primarily those of advancedcapitalist economies, particularly in Europe, North America andAustralasia. Maps, plans and other figures are used to illustratethe text where appropriate. Table of contents List of Figures.
Military Geography, Militarism's Geographies. The Study of Military Geographies. Review quote This lively and engaging book sets an exciting new agenda for research into militarism and its geographies. A rich insight into militarism's 'hold' on places.
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