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Author Archives: Teo Ballvé
New Book! The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia
In The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region’s violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. Although he takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates … Continue reading
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Grassroots Masquerades: Development, Paramilitaries, and Land Laundering in Colombia
My article “Grassroots Masquerades: Development, Paramilitaries, and Land Laundering” was just published by Geoforum. The article will be out in hardcopy in Volume 50 (December 2013), but it’s already available online. The first version of the article was presented at the … Continue reading
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The Birth of Territory
Stuart Elden has announced the publication of his much anticipated book, The Birth of Territory. At this blog—not least because of its name—we’ve followed the progress of this work very closely. As I said back then: “We’ve admired this work—the royal … Continue reading
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Interview: Mass Protests Rock Colombia
As mass protests in Colombia entered into their tenth day yesterday, I was interviewed by KPFA about the mobilizations that continue spreading throughout the country. Negotiations between the government and protest leaders continue. What began as a strike by peasants … Continue reading
Mapping the Global Arms Trade
The global trade in small arms is booming. This is particularly the case in the developing world. The developing world continues to be the primary focus of arms sales, comprising almost 84% of the dollar value of arms transfer agreements … Continue reading
Interweb Motley # 21
Lapham’s Quarterly‘s new issue, which takes up the topic of the sea, begins with this 1757 quote from Edmund Burke: “The ocean is an object of no small terror. Indeed, terror is in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or … Continue reading
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Friday Fun: Geoguessr
This game is just too fun and addictive (in a nerdy way) to not deserve a post. But first, how many of you geographers have been through something like this: “Oh, you’re a geographer. [PAUSE] Wow.” “Yeah.” “They still have … Continue reading
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Interweb Motley # 20
Happy May Day! Peter Linebaugh has the most “Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day.” “Confessions of a Troll…” about power on the Internets or as a friend put it: the Master-Slave Dialectic in the Age of Digital … Continue reading
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Awkward Seas and Exclusive Economic Zones
New Left Review‘s new issue has an article by Peter Nolan that surveys the national “territorial” claims over the world’s oceans: “Imperial Archipelagos.” The sea as an awkward political space is one of those hobby interests of mine that may … Continue reading
Posted in Boundaries, Frontiers, Historical-Geographies, Land, Law, Nation/Nationalism, Pirates, Post-Colonial, Power, Sovereignty, Spatiality, Territory, The Sea, The State
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Interweb Motley # 19
A new biography by Jonathan Sperber on Karl Marx, which implicitly proposes a materialist account of a materialist thinker, has gotten a glowing review by the NY Times and much less favorable one [PDF] from Terry Eagleton. The University of … Continue reading
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