Kurdish women fighters of the Women's Protection Unit, YPJ (Yekîneyên Parastine Jin)
received considerable attention in Western Europe and the United States. They made the …

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 …

This special section builds on recent scholarship on territory and borders to call for attention
to the ways that bodies are central in their constitution. Through a wide range of case studies …

We wrote the proposal for this special issue at the beginning of 2015. From our institutional
home in the United States South, daily life, class discussions, and academic work felt …

With the advent of the Trump presidency we are facing the most anti-refugee and immigrant
administration in recent US history. This follows on the heels of the Obama era …

This article explores the violent geographies of the Vietnam War. It argues that the conflict is
crucial for understanding the security logics and spatialities of US state violence in the war …

This essay advances an affective agenda in urban geopolitics that studies the everyday felt
experience of urban terrorism. It takes as examples the relations between the spatial politics …

This paper develops an agenda for political geographical work on violence, war, and
trauma. Drawing from an analysis of the Great March of Return, a series of mass …

This report focuses on human agency–the capacity to act in a given context–as it is studied
and reflected upon in political geographic research. I first discuss the investigations of …

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 …