Other Wars Imagined
In early October I’m giving a keynote at a conference in Leipzig on Imaginations and Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition. There’s an interesting interview with the organiser Steffi...
View ArticleTrauma geographies, woundscapes and the clinic
I returned from the RGS/IBG Conference in Cardiff to the start of term (which explains and I hope excuses my silence: I’ve updated my two course outlines for this term, and you can find them under the...
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...
View ArticleWar in Black-and-White?
Peter Jackson‘s They Shall Not Grow Old receives its premiere tomorrow (16 October) as the Special Presentation at the BFI London Film Festival. Four years ago the director of Lord of the Rings was...
View ArticleProject(ion)s
Happy New Year! With this, as with so much else, I’m late – but the greeting is none the less sincere, and I’m grateful for your continued interest and engagement with my work. I’ve resolved to return...
View ArticleThe Longest Journey
The Field Ambulances from the Royal Army Medical Corps were put to work in the war-ravaged landscapes of the Aisne, the Somme, Arras and Ypres; the broken bodies in their charge (above) were...
View Article‘Is this thy body’s end?’
There are all sorts of ways in which the war on Syria has been a throwback to the First World War – and all sorts of differences too – but today brought news of yet another (and, unusually, a welcome …...
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 ArticleMore-than-human casualties
Apologies for the long silence – I’ve made several trips to the UK to deliver lectures, but I’ve also been (almost literally) in the trenches. My supposed-to-be 8,000 word essay on ‘Woundscapes of the...
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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