John Morrissey
I am a political and cultural geographer with research interests in geopolitics, security and international development. My research over the last ten years has been concerned with the geopolitical scripting, political economy and biopolitics of contemporary US foreign policy in the Middle East and Central Asia, with a particular focus on United States Central Command. More recently, I have begun work on the challenge of envisioning and enacting human security, especially in the context of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean. More broadly, my research and writing seek to interrogate the discourses and practices of security defining our contemporary world. By drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and others, it critiques how Western interventionary practices are commonly underpinned by instrumental discourse of risk and security.
Phone: +35391492267
Address: Room 111, Geography
School of Geography, Archaeology & Irish Studies
University of Galway
University Road
Galway H91 CF50
Ireland
Phone: +35391492267
Address: Room 111, Geography
School of Geography, Archaeology & Irish Studies
University of Galway
University Road
Galway H91 CF50
Ireland
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Books by John Morrissey
“Morrissey’s impeccably researched history of CENTCOM uncovers the roots of 'national security' as the sacred mantra of U.S. foreign and domestic policy—roots that long predate Donald Trump or even the post-9/11 'war on terror.' The Long War not only sheds critical light on why the U.S. has remained bogged down for a quarter-century in the Middle East and Central Asia in unending war and fossil fuel mania, it also helps us to understand why an ex-CEO of Exxon became U.S. Secretary of State and why Israel remains the U.S.’s closest and perhaps last strategic partner in the disastrous global security game. An invaluable book for today.” — Rosalind Petchesky, City University of New York.
Contents
- Introduction: Historical Geographies in the Present
- Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies (1) Imperialism and Empire (2) Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism (3) Development
- Nation-Building and Geopolitics (4) Territory and Place (5) Identity and the Nation (6) Imaginative Geographies and Geopolitics
- Historical Hierarchies (7) Class, Hegemony and Resistance (8) Race (9) Gender
- The Built Environment (10) Nature and the Environment ( 11 ) Making Sense of Urban Settlement ( 12 ) Geographies of Urban Morphology
- Place and Meaning (13) Landscape and Iconography (14) Conceptualising Heritage (15) Performance, Spectacle and Power
- Modernity and Modernisation (16) Capitalism and Industrialisation (17) Cultures of Science and Technology (18) Modernity and Democracy
- Beyond the Border (19) Globalisation (20) Governmentality (21) Nature-Culture
- The Production of Historical Geographical Knowledge (22) Historical Geographical Traditions (23) Illustrative Geographies (24) Evidence and Representation
Papers by John Morrissey
“Morrissey’s impeccably researched history of CENTCOM uncovers the roots of 'national security' as the sacred mantra of U.S. foreign and domestic policy—roots that long predate Donald Trump or even the post-9/11 'war on terror.' The Long War not only sheds critical light on why the U.S. has remained bogged down for a quarter-century in the Middle East and Central Asia in unending war and fossil fuel mania, it also helps us to understand why an ex-CEO of Exxon became U.S. Secretary of State and why Israel remains the U.S.’s closest and perhaps last strategic partner in the disastrous global security game. An invaluable book for today.” — Rosalind Petchesky, City University of New York.
Contents
- Introduction: Historical Geographies in the Present
- Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies (1) Imperialism and Empire (2) Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism (3) Development
- Nation-Building and Geopolitics (4) Territory and Place (5) Identity and the Nation (6) Imaginative Geographies and Geopolitics
- Historical Hierarchies (7) Class, Hegemony and Resistance (8) Race (9) Gender
- The Built Environment (10) Nature and the Environment ( 11 ) Making Sense of Urban Settlement ( 12 ) Geographies of Urban Morphology
- Place and Meaning (13) Landscape and Iconography (14) Conceptualising Heritage (15) Performance, Spectacle and Power
- Modernity and Modernisation (16) Capitalism and Industrialisation (17) Cultures of Science and Technology (18) Modernity and Democracy
- Beyond the Border (19) Globalisation (20) Governmentality (21) Nature-Culture
- The Production of Historical Geographical Knowledge (22) Historical Geographical Traditions (23) Illustrative Geographies (24) Evidence and Representation