Staff and associates
Staff
Professor Martin Pratt
Director of Research
Martin Pratt's research interests include work on boundary-making and dispute resolution, border management, and maritime boundary delimitation. He has edited Jane's Exclusive Economic Zones and has published on a wide range of boundary-related matters.
He is the main point of contact for IBRU consultancy services and website issues.
Dr John Donaldson
Senior Research Associate
John Donaldson's main research interests include boundary demarcation and maintenance, imperialism and African boundaries, joint border/boundary commissions and cooperative territorial regimes. His recent work also focuses on river boundary delimitation and management.
Recent publications include:
Where Rivers and Boundaries Meet: Building the International River Boundaries Database. Water Policy 11, 2009, 629-644.
Delimitation and Demarcation: Analysing the Legacy of Stephen B. Jones's Boundary-Making. Geopolitics 13:4, 2008, 676-700 (with A. J. Williams).
Pillars and Perspective: Demarcation of the Belgian Congo-Northern Rhodesia boundary. Journal of Historical Geography 24, 2008, 471-493.
Dr Andrew Burridge
Research Associate
Andrew completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Southern California in 2009, and holds a BA in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Melbourne, Australia, 2003. He has conducted extensive research in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, concerned specifically with impacts of border securitization practices upon undocumented migrants and local communities on both sides of the international boundary.
Liz Kennedy
External Relations & Marketing Manager
Liz coordinates IBRU's international activities, including conferences and training workshops. She is the main point of contact for visitors and new business enquiries.
Jane Hogg
Secretary
Jane Hogg is the main point of contact for publication orders and payment of invoices.
Academic associates
Professor Stuart Elden
Academic Director
Stuart Elden's IBRU-related work focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of the question of territory. His book Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) won major awards from the Association of American Geographers and the Royal Geographical Society.
He has recently completed a book manuscript tracing the history of the concept of territory in Western thought, funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
Recent publications include:
Land, Terrain, Territory, Progress in Human Geography, Vol 34, 2010, 799-817.
Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory, International Political Sociology, Vol 3, 2009, 353-377, with Neil Brenner.
Governmentality, Calculation, Territory, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 25, 2007, 562-80.
Department web page - Progressive Geographies blog - Email Stuart Elden
Dr Louise Amoore
Associate
Louise Amoore's IBRU-related work focuses on issues relating to the movement of people across borders. Within this she has specific interests in new border management techniques in the war on terror, risk management relating to the mobility of migrant workers across international boundaries, and problematising biometric borders.
Recent publications include:
Biometric borders Governing mobilities in the war on terror, Political Geography, 25(3): 2006.
Governance, risk and dataveillance in the war on terror, Crime, Law and Social Change, 43(2/3): 2005. (with M. deGoede)
Dr Christopher Harker
Associate
Christopher Harker's IBRU-related work focuses on spaces of connection and fracture that emerge within cities, particularly those that are assigned to a purported Global North-South divide. He is currently exploring these issues in the city of Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Recent publications:
'Geopolitics and family practices in Palestine', Geoforum: 2010
Professor Joe Painter
Associate
Joe Painter's IBRU-related work focuses upon political geographies of the EU and European regions, and issues relating to regional identities and economies.
Recent publications include:
'The best defence of our security lies in the spread of our values': Europe, America and the question of values, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(2): 2005. (with L. Bialasiewicz & S. Elden)
Governmentality and regional economic strategies, J. Hillier & E. Rooksby (eds) Habitus: a sense of place, Aldershot: Ashgate: 2005.
Whose world, whose order? Spatiality, geopolitics and the limits of the world order concept, Cooperation and Conflict, 42: 2007. (with S. Chaturvedi)
Dr Marcus Power
Associate
Marcus Power's work centres around notions of development in the global south with a specific interest in the Lusophone world and the geopolitics of former Portuguese colonies, especially those in Africa. He also has an interest in the visual culture of the war on terror.
Recent publications include:
'The tears of Portugal': empire, identity, 'race', and destiny in Portuguese geopolitical narratives, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(4): 2005. (with J. Sidaway)
Geo-politics and the representation of Portugal's African colonial wars: examining the limits of 'Vietnam syndrome', Political Geography, 20(4): 2001.
Dr Angharad Closs Stephens
Associate
Angharad's research interests connect with the work being carried out at IBRU in two main ways: firstly, through her investigation of 'imagined communities' that disrupt national boundaries and secondly, through her work on critical responses to hightened nationalism (and resulting bordering practices) in the context of the war on terror.
Recent publications:
Terrorism and the Politics of Response , Routledge: 2008. (eds with N. Vaughan-Williams)
''Seven million Londoners, one London'': National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, Alternatives 32: 2007.
