In southern New Mexico every sunset looks like it might be the end of the world. This picture was taken…
Research as Ruin
Is a research project really ever finished? The academic industry has, for a long time, relied on notions of completion…
Spaces without Hope
It’s been almost two decades since David Harvey’s Spaces of Hope. Writing at the end of the millennium, Harvey saw…
Management on High
In the office of the command […] one may be certain that all human thoughts and desires revolved in a…
The Greenhouse Effect
For a while I’ve been working on an essay about the rise of glass architecture in the technology industry. It…
Crime and the Global City: Migration, Borders, and the Pre-Criminal
A book chapter I wrote with my advisor, Katharyne Mitchell, was published online today. It’s basically a broad overview of crime…
Whither Gramsci?
Antonio Gramsci has enjoyed immense popularity in academia. More than any other Italian Marxist he has been held up time…
A thousand CEOs
A paper of mine was published online today in Progress in Human Geography. It’s called “A thousand CEOs: Relational thought, processual space, and…
Value-Form Theory
Lately I’ve been trying to sort out readings for my exams. One category of literature I have right now is…
Managing the Undesirables
A short review I wrote a few weeks back on Michel Agier’s Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government (2011): Rooted…