This article is based on the 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography plenary lecture at the
Royal Geographical Society. It has four parts. The first discusses my work on territory in …

This chapter examines how the concept of materiality has been taken up in critical resource
geography and cognate disciplines, focusing on the last 15 years. The first part reexamines …

Recent scholarship in political geography and allied disciplines such as Anthropology and
Architecture has used registers such as the elemental and volumetric to explore the …

A proliferation of examinations of vertical, voluminous, subsurface, subterranean/
subaqueous, geological, or underground relationships has emerged in the last few years of …

Handbooks are products of the careful curation of a diverse collection of contributions, but
we rarely hear about how these collections come together—that is, about the processes of …

Between 1964 and 1969, the US Navy undertook a series of experimental projects designed
to enable 'man'to live and work on the seafloor, in undersea habitats, for prolonged periods …

Coalbed methane exploration in Lorraine (France) is part of a rush to unconventional natural
gas around the world. These resources are envisioned as a “transitional bridge” to a low …

We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Following their establishment as icons of
contemporary warfare, drones are increasingly deployed in a range of more‐than‐military …

While the scholarship on volumetric territory is now gaining momentum, our knowledge of
the in-betweens of spheres is still limited. This paper studies the voluminous territory through …

As Taiwan's most important port city, Kaohsiung is well known for its petrochemical industrial
cluster initially developed during the Japanese colonial period in the first half of the 20th …