Research Agenda for Military Geographies

Edited by Rachel Woodward, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK

• Contents:1. Introduction: a research agenda for military geographyRachel Woodward2. Approaches to researching and teaching military geographyAndrew D. Lohman and Christopher Fuhriman 3. Geography, genocide and global militarism: an agenda for the 21st centuryJames Tyner and Gordon A. Cromley4. Geographies of nuclear warfare: future spaces, zones and technologiesBecky Alexis-Martin5. More blue, less green: considering what an aerial perspective can bring to military geography researchAlison J. Williams6. Bad things happen in the desert: mapping security regimes in the West African Sahel and the ‘problem’ of arid spacesBrittany Meché7. Researching the intersections between war, law and military geographyCraig Jones8. Military geoeconomics: money, finance and warEmily Gilbert9. Towards an everyday military geography: materialities, actors, practicesChih Yuan Woon10. Spirituality and African military geography: soldiers’ deploymentsEdmore Chitukutuku and Godfrey Maringira11. The geographies of military masculinities: a feminist research agendaMatthew Kearns12. Encountering the ‘lively’ in military theatreAlice Cree13. Confounding restoration: environmental politics and ecology in militarized landscapesDavid Havlick14. Exploring post military geographies: Plymouth and the spatialities of Armed Forces DayMatthew F. Rech and Richard YarwoodIndex

‘Fans of military geography have earned a unique addition to the bookshelf in the past year. This book brings with it significant news in two different ways. First, it compiles an impressive collection of fourteen articles in the field of military geography, from different writers, different countries and different disciplines. Second, and even more significant, the book outlines an innovative and fascinating perspective on the direction in which military geography should develop.’