The work of beauty—in disciplining bodies, imagining nations, driving globalized commodity
networks, and fostering booming tourist industries, for example, is a vibrant area of research …

The papers in this themed section collectively explore the intertwined geographies of
corporeality and violence; to explore the ways in which narrow representations of race and …

Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal
geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and …

What it means to be a Muslim woman is a critical and highly contested global (geo) political
issue. Muslim women figure largely in the nativist, nationalist, and Islamist political projects …

Recent research has highlighted the relevance of spaces of international aid and
development as sites where global politics materializes. However, the position of local aid …

This article explores the gendered process that leads to women informal miners' restricted
access to natural resources, their exclusion and their stigmatization in one village in the …

This paper examines racial capitalism through the lens of housing and urban development.
We compare two disparate places Kabul, Afghanistan and Boulder, Colorado in order to …

Afghanistan has been embroiled in several waves of civil and international political conflict
since the late 1970s. Insecurity and uncertainty consume everyday life along with various …

This paper explores the affective dimensions of the Taliban's violence in the Swat Valley of
Pakistan, with a particular focus on the affective atmosphere of women's markets there. This …

This article pushes for a postcolonial, feminist critique of “anti-terrorist” securitization, that
makes space for transformative peace-building. The post-9/11 securitization of the African …