1st Edition
Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict
1 Introduction: making geographies of peace and conflict
Colin Flint and Kara E. Dempsey
2 Geography and war, geographers and peace: expanding research and political agendas
Virginie Mamadouh
3 Geographies of peace
Nerve V. Macaspac and Adam Moore
4 Spatializing peace and peacebuilding: where is knowledge about peace and peacebuilding produced?
Annika Björkdahl
5 Navigating the ambiguous geographies of war and peace
James A. Tyner
6 Forging shared spaces for building peace
Kara E. Dempsey
7 The violence of development and the prospects for peace
Colin Flint
8 Postcolonial conflict in Southeast Asia: rethinking the shatterbelt with colonial rupture in Asia’s Cold War
Christian C. Lentz and Scott Kirsch
9 Feminist geopolitics and empathetic encounters with the unseen: reconsidering Black Hawk Down twenty years later
Orhon Myadar and Tony Colella
10 The spatialities of nonviolent peace activism in the midst of war: from Colombia to Ukraine
Sara Koopman
11 Peacework: everyday negative peace across South Asian borderscapes
Md Azmeary Ferdoush
12 Hybrid networks: technology, geopolitics and ontology in digital warfare
Ian Slesinger
13 Geographies of environmental peace and conflict
Shannon O’Lear
14 Conflict and cooperation: the adverse effects of climate change
Andrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh
15 Placing peace: the pedagogies of positive peace and environmental justice
Mark Ortiz, María Belén Noroña, Lorraine Dowler and Joshua Inwood
Biography
Colin Flint, a geographer by training, is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. His research interests include geopolitics and world-systems analysis. He is the author of Introduction to Geopolitics (Routledge, 2022), Geopolitical Constructs (2016), and co-author, with Peter J. Taylor, of Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (Routledge, 7th edition, 2018). He is editor of The Geography of War and Peace (2004) and co-editor (with Scott Kirsch) of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (2011). His books have been translated into Spanish, Polish, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and Farsi.
Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at Appalachian State University. She studies ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, international forced migration, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor (with Orhon Myadar) of Making and unmaking refugees: Geopolitics of social ordering and struggle with the global refugee regime (Routledge 2023). She currently is serving as the president of the Political Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the AAG Honors Committee.
