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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Insofar as it’s useful, we’ve tried to discern some logics of contemporary warfare in this paper on dual use. OPEN ACCESS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Next City @nextcity.org · 02/10/2025

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank. nextcity.org/features/che...

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Checkpoint 300 and the Architecture of Control

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank.

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

this was an honour! Congratulations Dr De Smet!

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I’m so happy for / proud of / inspired by my brilliant student Zena Agha who just passed her viva. Congratulations Dr Agha!

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New in TIBG: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper in Transactions by Mark Griffiths (2025) entitled: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' with a red banner at the top.

While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth Povinelli and Kathryne Yusoff) that addresses the idea that political order and subjectivities grow from geological formations and life/non-life divisions. Following this work, I make an argument with obvious significance for geographers: the geos is a theoretically under-explored spatial unit that may predicate manifold spatial relations (e.g., the practices and politics that produce ‘land’ or ‘territory’). The second section considers historical accounts of early Zionist and Israeli settlement to show how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as alternatively life-sustaining or life-threatening in ways that predicate the sequester of land and territorial claims. The stakes are not merely historical or theoretical: the third section focuses on three contemporary sites—(i) the war-affected soils of Gaza, (ii) the cultivation of olive trees in the West Bank (iii) and practices of agri-resistance in Bethlehem—to explicate how geopower and geos remain central to ongoing colonial control and struggles in Palestine.

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Esther Marijnen @esthermarijnen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social

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P066: Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

here's a short summary of our recently published research on the weapons industry and "conflict free" minerals theconversation.com/how-conflict...

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How ‘conflict-free’ minerals are used in the waging of modern wars

Minerals are tied intimately with conflict, at both ends of the supply chain.

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

Book cover of Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine by Mark Griffiths. Blocked title with black and red lettering on a black-and-white image of an institutional hallway divided by a metal gate and enclosed turnstile.

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Here's our article on how arms companies purchase "conflict free" minerals for use in weapons production, connecting wars in Gaza and DRC/Rwanda www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

this book is now shipping. Please be in touch if you want to review it — and to organise a book talk (I have some funding). Thank you @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Very proud to see advances for Mark Griffith's CHECKPOINT 300, a sensitive, detailed, and impeccably researched study of Israel's spatial control over Palestinians.

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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

our commentary on genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography is out and open access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My colleagues are all frantically trying to write their ‘justification’ document for compulsory redundancies at the same time as finish up teaching semesters & do fantastic research, as well as parent, live lives, and carry on regardless. This is an unnecessary cruelty. Brutal.

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Read our new commentary on Gaza:

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

New in TIBG: 'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Transactions by Zena Agha, James Esson, Mark Griffiths & Mikko Joronen (2024) entitled 'Gaza: A decolonial geography' with a red banner at the top.

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Olivia Mason @oliviamason.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

An open letter to the RGS about its decision not to host a PalFest event during Israel's War on Gaza . The piece reflects on the responsibility and histories of our academic societies and the silencing of Palestinian voices. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The War on Gaza, the Royal...

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Ishraq — my PhD student at Newcastle — is trying to help her family in Gaza. Please consider donating if you can. And please share gofund.me/0687b519

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Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine

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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Northumbria University is bringing Lockheed Martin money into Newcastle at a time when its warplanes and bombs are being used to raze Gaza. If anyone is interested in organising around this, please be in touch www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

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