This article examines geopolitical violence, gender and political constructions of scale from
the site of the body to international discourse and politics. The political constructions of scale …

In this paper we bring together Billig's notion of banal nationalism and recent feminist
geopolitical examinations of fear in order to analyze two cases studies of fear among US …

This article examines embodied geopolitics in Afghanistan by way of gender roles and
relations among and between international workers and Afghan recipients of international …

A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly
called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or …

This paper examines corporeal modernity as part of the larger 'savior and liberation'trope
produced for Afghan women by US-led military, political and economic intervention post …

The military-industrial complex in the United States has grown exponentially in recent
decades, yet the realities of war remain invisible to most Americans. The US has created a …

At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have
transformed US military power. In the mid-2000s, the US military used development as a …

This article provides an outline of the project of queer theory and the ways that this project
has (and has not) engaged with the question of Palestine. Ultimately, the author argues that …

A discussion of Orientalism can usefully begin with the Professor of English and
Comparative Literature and Palestinian activist Edward Said (1935–2003). Said …

More than one year since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan we must ask,“what should
we expect from Taliban governance?” Governance necessitates a group's navigation of …