Military Geography

Abstract

Military geography aims to understand how military activities, organizations, institutions, and effects are geographically constituted and expressed. Military geography is broad in scope, and includes analyses of military land use, including and beyond battlefields and the environmental impacts of military activities; explorations of representations and interpretations of military landscapes; investigations of the economic and social relations effected by military capabilities; and the life worlds of military personnel. Future areas for military geographies research include the ways in which the changing nature of warfare produces new geographies of war, and the ways in which militarism as a social process continually reworks its spatialities.