Staff Profile

Professor David Campbell, BA Hons (Melbourne), PhD (Australian National University)

Professor of Cultural & Political Geography in the Department of Geography

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41820

Fax: +44 (0)191 33 41801

Room number: 413

Contact (email at david.campbell@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography, and part of the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies(http://www.dur.ac.uk/dcaps/)

Professor Campbell's academic research deals with visual culture and international politics (photography, multimedia, and the representation of atrocity, famine and war); US foreign and security policy; and political theory and global geopolitics. The last two areas are best represented by his books 'Writing Security' and 'National Deconstruction', the latter of which won International Forum Bosnia's Bosnia-Herzegovina Book of the Year 1999, and was translated and published in Sarajevo in 2003.

Professor Campbell’s research in visual culture has resulted in a number of published articles and essays, as well as two notable public events. In April 2005 he presented the Sem Presser Lecture at the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam, addressing the question of whether ‘concerned photography’ has a future. In August 2005 “Imaging Famine,” a photographic exhibition for which he was one of the curators, opened at the Guardian Newsroom in London. Accompanied by a 24 page catalogue, the exhibition is part of an on-going project on media representations of famine, with information available at http://www.imaging-famine.org/. In 2007-08 Professor Campbell undertook a research project for the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative which examined "The Visual Economy of HIV/AIDS as a Security Issue" -- see http://www.visual-hivaids.org/. He is currently working on book that is concerned with how the dominant pictorial representations of atrocity, famine and war are produced in the global image economy.

Full details and many downloads of Professor Campbell's work can be seen at his personal web site (http://www.david-campbell.org/)

Research Groups

Research Projects

Research Interests

Visual culture and international politics
Political theory and global geopolitics
US foreign and security policy

Selected Publications

Books: authored

Campbell, D. Nacionalna Dekonstukcija: Nasilje, Identitet I Pravda U Bosni. Forum Bosnae; 2003.
Campbell, D. National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia. University of Minnesota Press; 1998.
Campbell, D. Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. University of Minnesota Press/Manchester University Press; 1998.
Campbell, D. Politics Without Principle: Sovereignty, Ethics and the Narratives of the Gulf War. Lynne Rienner Publishers; 1993.

Books: edited

Campbell, D. & Schoolman, M. The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press; 2008. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Campbell, D. & Shapiro, M. J. Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics. University of Minnesota Press; 1999.
Campbell, D. & Dillon, M. The Political Subject of Violence. Manchester University Press; 1993.

Books: sections

Schoolman, M. & Campbell, D. An Interview with William Connolly. In: Campbell, D. & Schoolman, M. The New Pluralism. USA.: Duke University Press; 2008:289-304.
Campbell, D. Identity, Difference, and the Global: William Connolly's International Theory. In: Campbell, D. & Schoolman, M. The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press; 2008:289-304. (Additional information)
Schoolman, M. & Campbell, D. Introduction: Pluralism "Old" and "New". In: Cambpell, D. & Schoolman, M. The New Pluralism. USA.: Duke University Press; 2008:1-16.
Campbell, D. Post-Structuralism. In: Dunne, T., Kurki, M. & Smith, S. International Relations Theories. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006:203-228.
Campbell, D. Deterritorialized Loyalty: Multiculturalism and Bosnia. In: Linklater, A. & Waller, M. Loyalty and the State. Routledge; 2003:43-58.
Campbell, D. Salgado and the Sahel: Documentary Photography and the Imaging of Famine. In: Debrix, F. & Weber, C. Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning. University of Minnesota Press; 2003:69-96.
Campbell, D. Justice and International Order: The Case of Bosnia and Kosovo. In: Coicaud, J. & Warner, D. Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits. United Nations University Press; 2001:103-127.

Edited works: journals

Campbell, D. & Shapiro, M.J. Securitization, Militarization and Visual Culture in the Worlds of post-9/11. Security Dialogue, 38 (2): Sage; 2007. (Additional information)
Campbell, D, Graham, S.D.N. & Monk, D.B. Urbicide: The Killing of Cities?. Theory and Event, 10 (2): Johns Hopkins University Press; 2007. (Additional information)

Journal papers: academic

Campbell, D. Geopolitics and visuality: Sighting the Darfur conflict. Political Geography. 2007;26:357-382. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Campbell, D. & Shapiro, M. J. Guest Editors' Introduction. Security Dialogue. 2007;38:131-138.
Campbell, D, Graham, S.D.N.G & Monk, D.B. Introduction to 'Urbicide: The Killing of Cities'. Theory and Event. 2007;10. (Additional information)
Bialasiewicz, L., Campbell, D., Elden, S., Graham, S.D.N. & Williams, A.J. Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy. Political Geography. 2007;26:405-422.
Campbell, D. Beyond Choice: The Onto-politics of Critique. International Relations. 2005;19:127-134.
Campbell, D. The biopolitics of security: Oil, Empire and the sports utility vehicle. American Quarterly. 2005;57:943-972. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Campbell, D. Construction Site: Architecture and Politics in Israel/Palestine. Theory and Event. 2004;7.
Campbell, D. Horrific Blindness: Images of Death in Contemporary Media. Journal for Cultural Research. 2004;8:55-74.
Campbell, D. Cultural governance and pictorial resistance: reflections on the imaging of war. Review of International Studies. 2003;29:57-73. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Campbell, D. Representing Contemporary War. Ethics and International Affairs. 2003;17:99-108.
Campbell, D. Atrocity, memory, photography: Imaging the concentration camps of Bosnia - the case of ITN versus living Marxism, Part 1. Journal of Human Rights. 2002;1:1-33. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Campbell, D. Atrocity, memory, photography: Imaging the concentration camps of Bosnia - the case of ITN versus living Marxism, Part 2. Journal of Human Rights. 2002;1:143-172. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Campbell, D. Time is Broken: The Return of the Past in the Response to September 11. Theory and Event. 2002;5.
Campbell, D. International Engagements: The Politics of North American International Relations Theory. Political Theory. 2001;29:432-448.

Reports: official

Campbell, D. The Visual Economy of HIV/AIDS: A Report for the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative. 2008;1-133.

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