Survivable life
Just back from St Andrews – the video of the Neil Smith Lecture will be available online shortly, and I’ll post a notice when it’s ready – and so much to catch up on it’s not easy to work out …...
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My main presentation at the AAG in Chicago was part of a session organised by Noam Leshem and Alasdair Pinkerton on Remnants of No Man’s Land: history, theory and excess (more on their larger project...
View ArticleThe Geographies of Sixty Minutes
One of the cardinal principles informing modern casualty evacuation is the Golden Hour. In 1975 R. Adams Cowley, founder of Baltimore’s Shock Trauma Institute, argued that ‘the first hour after injury...
View ArticleCities under siege (I)
This is the first of a two-part post, in which I return (at last!) to a promissory note I issued last year about siege warfare in Syria. My return is prompted by a series of reports about the...
View ArticleMass Murder in Slow Motion (II): Siege Economies
This is the second in a series of posts on East Ghouta (Damascus); the first, providing essential background, is here. The logic of the siege warfare pursued by Syria and its allies has been to cordon...
View ArticleTrauma Geographies online
My Antipode Lecture on Trauma Geographies is now available online via YouTube. (If you wonder why I’m hunched over my laptop, the microphone was fixed to the podium….). Since I’m now turning this into...
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