Journeys from No Man’s Land
I’ve agreed to join a panel organised by Noam Leshem on Remnants of No Man’s Land: history, theory and excess at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago next April (I...
View ArticleBodies on the line
The more I think about corpography (see also ‘Corpographies under the DOWNLOADS tab) – especially as part of my project on casualty evacuation from war zones – the more I wonder about Grégoire...
View ArticleWounded
This summer London’s Science Museum is staging an exhibition that is of direct relevance to my current research on casualty evacuation from war zones over the last hundred years: Wounded: Conflict,...
View ArticleWar Stories
The video from our War Stories event in Vancouver last month – including Farah Nosh‘s narration of her wonderful photographs, a superb capsule genealogy of PTSD from Ann Jones, my discussion of...
View ArticleLosing sight
May Jeong – whose excellent investigation of the US air strike on the MSF Trauma Centre at Kunduz I’ve commended before – has a new, equally enthralling extended report over at the Intercept on the...
View ArticleTrauma Geographies
I’ve been invited to give the Antipode lecture at the RGS/IBG conference on 29 August. Here’s the abstract: Trauma Geographies: broken bodies and lethal landscapes Elaine Scarry reminds us that even...
View ArticleThe Leaden Hours
Ever since I attended a conference at Nijmegen on Transmobilities I’ve followed the current interest in ‘mobilities’, though from a distance and perhaps in strange ways: but I think that the following...
View ArticleBeing Wounded
I’ve been working on my essay on ‘Woundscapes of the Western Front, 1914-1918’. What follows is the section dealing with the act of being wounded, drawn from a series of diaries, letters and memoirs;...
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