"The book analytically examines whether Kashmir was a state at any point in history; the effect of the 1947 occupation by India/Pakistan; the international law implications of the constitutional incorporation of this territory and the ongoing human rights violations; whether Kas…
Overview: In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over th…
'Rainforest Warriors' describes the campaign launched by the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname to harness international human rights law as a means of protecting their way or life, part of a larger story of tribal & indigenous peoples that is unfolding across the globe.
Rubber’s Reach is a grounded, transnational study of China’s global economic integration through a focus on rubber expansion in the Sino-Lao borderlands. I examine how, as rubber reaches from China over the Lao border, the political, economic, and social processes engaged in the…
It is now taken for granted that the globe is divided into mutually exclusive territories, each of which belong to a particular community. To be a political community, it is thought, means to have sole possession of a piece of the Earth’s surface and to have complete authority o…
The production of space as an internal condition to the scientific production of knowledge is an under investigated and seldom theorized process within the studies of science, technology, and society (STS), and the spatial disciplines. Through a comparative study of the world’s …
Art occupies a controversial place in processes of gentrification. The role art has in gentrifying neighborhoods plays out uniquely in Los Angeles where cultural erasure is prominent through practices of ‘white-washing’ in a city dense with public art. ‘White-washing’— where art…
This dissertation explores how popular domestic beliefs regarding the meaning and value of disputed lands contribute to the protraction and resolution of international territorial conflict. Using comparative historical analysis and artefactual field experiments, I find in Israel…
This project focuses on domestic political pressures in response to different kinds of international threat. In explaining the domestic politics of external threat, I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts over some issues and not others, against rivals at certain t…
Practices of cultivation and control over land are deeply entangled matters in Israel-Palestine. By the turn of the twentieth century scientists had begun to systematically examine the cultivation practices of Arab farmers. Around the same time, the area was the scene of major l…
This dissertation investigates how the agents and organs of the Seleucid Empire explored, bounded, and endowed with meaning its imperial territory. I argue that king and court responded to the enormous opportunities and challenges of such a landscape with a range of ideological …
This dissertation explores how various actors in Kazakhstan have constituted the state's sovereign authority since gaining independence in 1991, and it contributes to a broad range of literatures, from political and urban geography, to post-Soviet and Central Asian regional stud…
Northern Ireland's contemporary visual culture reflects the ethno-political conflict, known as the Troubles, that spanned four decades from the late 1960s to the Belfast Peace Agreement in 1998. Since the mid 1980s, the Northern Irish artist Willie Doherty has reacted to this pr…
What happens when bodies are the territory through which geopolitical strategies play out? In the Leh district of India's contested Jammu and Kashmir State, religious identity has become politicized and Buddhist/Muslim conflict is being articulated at the site of the body. This …
Monograph examining the allegations concerning the violation of human rights of Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territorys of the West bank and gaza - discusses Israeli disregard of geneva conventions with respect to the legal aspects of land settlements, suppression of …
Professor Cody's monograph emphasizes the role of competition at levels above single species populations, and describes how competition, by way of the niche concept, determines the structure of communities. Communities may be understood in terms of resource gradients, or niche d…
Professor Cody's monograph emphasizes the role of competition at levels above single species populations, and describes how competition, by way of the niche concept, determines the structure of communities. Communities may be understood in terms of resource gradients, or niche d…
