Not too many good guys around these days, but Aseem Trivedi in India is one of them:
‘My Cartoons Did Nothing But Tell the Truth’.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/09/10/my-cartoons-did-nothing-but-tell-the-truth/
Dr Jon Cloke
LCEDN/MEGS Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
Office: 01509 228193
Mob: 07984 813681
________________________________________
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Deb Ranjan Sinha [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 September 2012 20:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: Pub: Occupying Syria under the French Mandate
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Neep <[log in to unmask]>
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Occupying Syria
under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation (Cambridge
University Press, 2012).
Adopting the approach of cultural historical sociology, 'Occupying Syria
under the French Mandate' argues that colonial state formation in Syria was
not just shaped by the politics of conquest, but warped by specific
practices of occupation, patterned violence and spatial order.
The book explores a turbulent period in which conflict between armed Syrian
insurgents and French military forces may have defined the overall strategic
objectives of the colonial state, but in doing so these practices of
violence fundamentally transformed how the colonial state organised,
controlled and understood Syrian society, geography and population.
In addition to coercive techniques, civilian technologies such as urban
planning and engineering were commandeered in the effort to undermine rebel
advances, blurring the lines between violent and non-violent forms of power
in occupied Syria.
Table of contents
1. Rethinking violence
2. The architecture of the colonial state
3. Political rationalities of violence
4. Time, science and space
5. Rebel movements and the great revolt
6. Urban planning, hygiene and counter-insurgency
7. Nomad space: securing the desert.
Further details can be found on the Cambridge website:
http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6817923/?site_locale=en_US
The Introduction can be read at:
http://cbrl.academia.edu/DanielNeep/Books/1604471/Occupying_Syria_under_the_
French_Mandate_Insurgency_Space_and_State_Formation
Best wishes,
Daniel
--
Dr Daniel Neep
British Institute in Amman
|