Insofar as it’s useful, we’ve tried to discern some logics of contemporary warfare in this paper on dual use. OPEN ACCESS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank. nextcity.org/features/che...

Checkpoint 300 and the Architecture of Control

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank.

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this was an honour! Congratulations Dr De Smet!

Bram | برام@academic.coffee · 7mo ago

Defended my PhD yesterday 🍉. Huge thanks to @casesofyou.bsky.social for stepping in as opponent in extremis and for such a genuinely enjoyable discussion. Couldn't have asked for a better way to close out this chapter (book, really). Thanks, Mark! #Palestine #Genocide #PhD

I’m so happy for / proud of / inspired by my brilliant student Zena Agha who just passed her viva. Congratulations Dr Agha!

Long in the making, my first monograph has been born today. Chuffed and a bit terrified. Thanks, as always, to my many interlocutors. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-lea...

Women Leaders, Queer Faithfuls

With a vivid ethnographic lens on a Spanish village, Josep Almudéver Chanzà brings to life the resurgence of religion at the heart of European public life amid…

bloomsbury.com

New in TIBG: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

for anyone interested, here's a new article (open-access) on geopower and Palestine: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. It shows how geopower....

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social

here's a short summary of our recently published research on the weapons industry and "conflict free" minerals theconversation.com/how-conflict...

How ‘conflict-free’ minerals are used in the waging of modern wars

Minerals are tied intimately with conflict, at both ends of the supply chain.

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🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

Here's our article on how arms companies purchase "conflict free" minerals for use in weapons production, connecting wars in Gaza and DRC/Rwanda www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

this book is now shipping. Please be in touch if you want to review it — and to organise a book talk (I have some funding). Thank you @uminnpress.bsky.social

Very proud to see advances for Mark Griffith's CHECKPOINT 300, a sensitive, detailed, and impeccably researched study of Israel's spatial control over Palestinians.

Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇

Mark Griffiths@casesofyou.bsky.social · last yr.

Job announcment: post-doc at Newcastle on the War & Geos project (warandgeos.co.uk). Please share and email me with questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...

Job announcment: post-doc at Newcastle on the War & Geos project (warandgeos.co.uk). Please share and email me with questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...

Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains at Newcastle University

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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our commentary on genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography is out and open access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography

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we've got a co-authored piece in the latest volume of The American Journal of Public Health: 'The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis' ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7

This essay examines the resulting environmental health conditions in Gaza since October 2023. Evidence is drawn from international agency reports and peer-reviewed literature to document destruction a...

ajph.aphapublications.org

This event is coming up next week! With Mark Griffiths (@casesofyou.bsky.social) and Kali Rubaii. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...

Late modern war and the geos, discussion with Mark Griffiths + Kali Rubaii

Mark Griffiths + Kali Rubaii on their article Late modern war and the geos: The ecological ‘beforemaths’ of advanced military technologies

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Patrick Brian Smith@patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · last yr.

Pleased to share details for this forthcoming event at the Emergent Nonfiction Lab. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...

“raising fears of ethnic cleansing” — we’ve been screaming this for more than a year and a half www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

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My colleagues are all frantically trying to write their ‘justification’ document for compulsory redundancies at the same time as finish up teaching semesters & do fantastic research, as well as parent, live lives, and carry on regardless. This is an unnecessary cruelty. Brutal.

all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

Checkpoint 300

Tracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine   Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupi...

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Read our new commentary on Gaza:

TIBG@tibg.bsky.social · 2y ago

New in TIBG: 'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New in TIBG: 'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

An open letter to the RGS about its decision not to host a PalFest event during Israel's War on Gaza . The piece reflects on the responsibility and histories of our academic societies and the silencing of Palestinian voices. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ishraq — my PhD student at Newcastle — is trying to help her family in Gaza. Please consider donating if you can. And please share gofund.me/0687b519

’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine

Northumbria University is bringing Lockheed Martin money into Newcastle at a time when its warplanes and bombs are being used to raze Gaza. If anyone is interested in organising around this, please be in touch www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...