Distance, dissonance, occupation
Your World – Tel AvivCraig Jones 01/02/2013 I’m no photographer, but when I stumbled across this street art this morning I couldn’t help but snap it. I’m in Tel Aviv, and this is far away from the...
View ArticleThe not war and the not law
No prizes for guessing what provoked this entry. Nothing less than the ‘Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated...
View ArticleGeography unlimited and not quite extra-judicial killing
Following up from my previous post (not war and the not law) I now want to make a more substantive point about the issues raised by the execution memo. Before I do: some noteworthy related news. Ahead...
View ArticleOther asymmetric conflicts: ontology in asymmetric war
Today: two pieces of news – one old, one new – that speak to the myopic nature of the debate about drones and targeted killing. Liberals are applauding the arrival of the public debate about the...
View ArticlePrisoner X = 4157
Readers all over the world will no doubt be familiar with the story of so-called ‘Mr. X’: the story, that is, of Ben Zygier – an Australian-Israeli citizen who perished in a prison in Israel in 2010....
View ArticleAgainst the grain: Gideon Levy
I’m busy wrapping up my part one of my fieldwork and it’s my last week here in Tel Aviv. I’ve gathered a serious amount of material – grit for the mill – and have met with some fantastically...
View ArticleFoucault: Lectures on the Will to Know (2013)
Reblogged from Foucault News: Michel Foucault, Lectures on the Will to Know. Edited by Daniel Defert. Translated by Graham Burchell. Series: Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France....
View ArticleWhy Israel?
Phase one of the fieldwork is over and I’m back in Vancouver – at least for now. My immediate task is to work through the material I collected and to spend what will likely be many arduous hours...
View ArticleThe War Lawyers
And so the process of transcribing my interviews begins. Before I really get into it, I want to pause to reflect on the purpose of my fieldwork in Israel and to share with you some of things I was...
View ArticleLegitimate target?
Legitimate TargetAmos Guoria News recently that legal scholar Amos Guoria has a new book – highly relevant to this blog – coming out in the Oxford University Press Terrorism & Global Justice...
View ArticleWhere drones matter: Notes on U.S. ‘drone policy’
I have been silent but I have not been idle, I promise. More on exactly what I have been doing – if not blogging – later because for now I want to turn my attention to a series of related questions...
View ArticleWhere drones matter: Notes on Israeli sikul memukad
On the heels of my last post, I now turn to a second geography of drones: how much do drones matter in Israel? Last Tuesday (April 30) the Israeli Defense Force targeted and killed Hitham Masshal, a...
View ArticleIt wasn’t me
I’m just out of a fascinating ‘interview’ – it was more like a conversation – with Reprieve’s Jennifer Gibson. If you don’t know about Reprive, they are a UK-based legal charity which works to promote...
View ArticleLaw & documentary (in these parts)
I have been meaning to write this review since I first saw ‘The law in these parts’ (henceforth LTP) in Jerusalem back in January 2011 but I’m taking the opportunity now because it has just been...
View ArticleNourishing torture: medicine, security and joint operations
I try to refrain from writing ‘look at what I read over breakfast this morning’ posts, but I must make an exception for the video I watched over my unusually bleak bowl of porridge this morning. A...
View ArticleCFP — Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death
The annual Association American of Geographers meeting is a while away yet, and normally the early calls for papers send me into panic mode. Not this time: receiving the following CFP just makes me...
View ArticleResearch update – method in the madness?
After a long radio silence – my apologies – I’m back in the UK (although whether I’m back ‘home’, I’m not so sure…). I’m here for a number of reasons, and want to thank Peter Adey and the Department of...
View ArticleDevelopments in Late Modern War
My supervisor Derek Gregory and I are organising a session at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in Tampa in April 2014. For those interested in participating, do write to us. For...
View ArticleGeographies of War & Peace RGS-IBG CFP
Please see the below call for papers for the RGS-IBG conference in London in August 2014. Jayel Aheram RGS-IBG 2014 Paper Session Proposal The geography of war and peace Conveners: Derek Gregory...
View ArticleNew paper: travelling law (and travelling theory)
I have just added a new paper under the ‘Downloads’ tab: you can access it here. Its a book chapter for a forthcoming collection edited by Alex Lubin and Marwan Kraidy called Shifting Borders: American...
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