My new paper lifts the bonnet on humanitarian tech adoption. What happens when an aid organisation experimentally applies a blockchain pilot in refugee camps? I argue this innovation comes with genuine promise, authentic expertise, but also blind faith & strategic ignorance.

Dr Margie Cheesman Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] Geopolitics Economic and Social Research Council Another splendid piece by Dr Margie Cheesman. Top on my new courses’ bibliography!

The Howling Phaedrus Dr Margie Cheesman Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] Geopolitics Economic and Social Research Council Thanks for the heads-up, I was waiting this one! Congrats Dr Margie Cheesman :)

Karen Peachey Dr Margie Cheesman Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] Geopolitics Economic and Social Research Council I can't wait to read this! Everything by Dr Margie Cheesman is gold

New and #openaccess in Geopolitics: Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid by Margie Cheesman Dr Margie Cheesman Download and read for free: buff.ly/3YHNI4q

New in Geopolitics: The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB by Yaechan Lee and Saori N. Katada Yaechan Lee Read more here: buff.ly/3yIPsje

New in Geopolitics: The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms by Erik Post and Philippe Le Billon Philippe Le Billon Read more here: buff.ly/3X8nlDE

ICYMI #openaccess in Geopolitics: Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid by Margie Cheesman Dr Margie Cheesman Download and read for free: buff.ly/3YHNI4q

ICYMI in Geopolitics: The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest: How Bilateral Swap Arrangements of India and Japan Counter the Rise of RMB by Yaechan Lee and Saori N. Katada Yaechan Lee Read more here: buff.ly/3yIPsje

ICYMI in Geopolitics: The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms by Erik Post and Philippe Le Billon Philippe Le Billon Read more here: buff.ly/3X8nlDE

New in Geopolitics: "Les Identitaires’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System" by João Carvalho Read more here: buff.ly/475nye3

Conjuring innovation🪄 Tech pilots aren’t just designed to help people. Regardless of what they achieve, they are valuable products for aid industry actors to promote: medium.com/caribou-digita… ^This blog summarises my new research on tech pilots in aid: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to present August’s #EXALTReading, ‘The ‘Green War’: Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms’, by Erik Post & Philippe Le Billon, in Geopolitics. Interestingly, the idea for this paper was first presented during an EXALT Dialogue session! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

ICYMI in Geopolitics: "Les Identitaires’ Impact on French Foreign Policy During the 2015 Crisis of the European Asylum System" by João Carvalho Read more here: buff.ly/475nye3

Pleased to announce the publication of our new article “Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU”. It has appeared in open access form in Geopolitics. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What role does #injury play at that border? New research in Geopolitics shows how EU states routinely 'maim' migrants and avoid public scrutiny by stopping short of direct killing. By Thom Davies Arshad Isakjee Jelena Obradovic: 👉tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 👈 #OpenAccess

My new (also, my first) article is out now in Geopolitics! I draw on Spivak to make the case for essentialising borders around the resistance practices that we want to see against them. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

At the start of a new academic year (for some of us), my latest open access article on attacks on higher education in Palestine has just been published with Geopolitics Full article: Higher Education Under Siege: Attacking Spaces of Hope in Palestine tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New and #openaccess in Geopolitics: Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies by Charlie Price Charlie Price Download and read for free: buff.ly/4gntCCQ

New and #openaccess in Geopolitics: Higher Education Under Siege: Attacking Spaces of Hope in Palestine by Una McGahern Una McGahern Download and read for free: buff.ly/4cYIEfq