“Just Out Looking for a Fight”: American Affect and the Invasion of Iraq

‘Change4Life for your kids’: embodied collectives and public health pedagogy

“…Following Sara Ahmed (2004), work in geography has explored the ways in which emotions matter in the production of embodied collectives. Recent work in political geographies has begun to explore the ways in which politics utilises affect through media campaigns, etc to generate support (see Ó Tuathail, 2003 on the way on Iraq). The emphasis here is not on the ways in which discourse communicates 'meaning' but in how discourses generate an affect.…”

Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp: an introduction

“…The new critical geopolitics of the spaces of flow and cyberspaces were given attention (Luke, 1991(Luke, , 1993Wark, 1994), as the sudden and sometimes unexpected processes of political de-and reterritorialization (ÓTuathail and Luke, 1994;Agnew and Corbridge, 1995) and the eagerness to declare a 'New World Order ' (ÓTuathail, 1993). Finally, the critical geopolitics of environmental problems was thoroughly investigated by Simon Dalby (1992Dalby ( , 1996, 'culminating' in the book Environmental Security (Dalby, 2002) while Gearoid ÓTuathail (Gerard Toal) has focused on the US engagement in the former Yugoslavia (ÓTuathail, 1999(ÓTuathail, , 2002ÓTuathail and Dahlman, 2005) and more recently in Iraq (ÓTuathail, 2003(ÓTuathail, , 2005. 25.…”

Establishing a Constitution for Europe during European Union enlargement? Visions of ‘Europe’ in the referenda campaigns in France and the Netherlands

“…At the crossroads of cultural geography and political geography (more specifically critical geopolitics) issues of identity, meaning and representation have increasingly been addressed (Dijkink 1996;Sharp 1996;Mitchell 2000;Anderson et al 2003;Ó Tuathail 2003;Gregory 2004;Dodds 2005;Dittmer 2005;Dalby 2008). Similarly, the importance of culture and the construction of identities are increasingly being addressed in International Relations and European Studies (Lapid and Kratochwil 1996;Ó Tuathail 1996;Smith 1999).…”