Imagined territories and histories in conflict during the struggles for Western Sahara, 1956–1979

A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies

“…This demonstrates how research rooted in postcolonial studies not only historicises the contemporary legacies of colonial control and the imperial cultural imaginary but also makes room for diverse spaces and voices in critical military geographies to shape understandings of the ways in which military processes are situated, socially constituted, and diverse (Rech et al, ). Examples of this work ranges from the ways in which post‐independence territorial conceptions and conflicts were framed (Campos‐Serrano & Rodriguez‐Esteban, ), how military science shaped traditions of and challenges to national identity (Capello, ), how cities were an entangled hybrid of colonial and indigenous planning and use (Bigon & Hart, ), and how narratives challenge the occlusions of narrow military histories of liberation history (McGregor, ). This diverse, but in no way exhaustive, list of the ways through which postcolonial geographies has challenged critical military studies to extend the temporalities and spatialities of military processes to be included in the natures and legacies of military geographies.…”