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Forthcoming
2023
-Making Sense of the Ukraine War: Geographers Should Not Be Afraid of Geography . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.-Oppenheimer and the Untold Story of the Destruction of the Japanese Church. Premier Christianity.
-'Ofsted's problems are theological: here's how to fix them'. Premier Christianity.
-'Don't expand NATO, abolish it'. U.S.News, April 2023.
-'The Church at war.' In: Premier Christianity, February 2023 (online and print editions)
2022
- 'Contribuciones geograficas para comprender y resolver el conflicto ruso-ucraniano.'Geopolitica(s) 13 (2): 285-309.
- "Celebrating This Christmas Really Beats Splooting." The Journal, 20-12-2022 2022, J2, p19.
-(with Alexander Diener) "Central Asia as place." In: Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, edited by David Montgomery. University of Pittsburgh Press, 36-51.
- 'Ukraine war: this map holds an important clue about Kremlin fears of Nato expansion'. The Conversation.
- 'NATO expansion is the problem that it claims to be solving' Peace News, August.
- Big Questions In An Age of Global Crises. Oregon: Wipf & Stock.
- '"Russian Troops Out! No to NATO expansion!" Apacific geopolitics for a new Europe' Political Geography.
- (with Olivia Mason). "Geography as a Vocation? Becoming a Geographer under Neoliberalism." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.
- 'Being "human" under regimes of Human Resource Management: Using black theology to Illuminate humanisation and dehumanisation in the workplace. African Journal of Business Ethics 15 (1): 1-24.
- (with Shavkat Rakhmattullaev) 'Authoritarianism, ethnic management and non-securitisation: The Kyrgyz minority & "peoples' friendship" in Uzbekistan.' Europe-Asia Studies.
2021
- (with Megan Hunt, Brian Ward, and Benjamin Houston). "He was shot because America will not give up on racism": Martin Luther King, Jr. and the African American civil rights movement in British schools. Journal of American Studies 55 (2):387-417.
- (with Sara Koopman, Simon Dalby, Jo Sharp, Gerry Kearns, Rachael Squire, Alex Jeffrey, Vicki Squire, and Gerard Toal). Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on. Political Geography.
- 'The 2010 June events and the Kyrgyz of Uzbekistan.' Annals of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic 1:99-112.[in Kyrgyz]
- 'Borders on steroids: Open borders in a Covid-19 world?' Political Geography.
- 'End the silence about the Uyghurs.' Church Times 8269 (10th September 2021):15.
- 'Meet the Christian investigator "equipped by God" to expose China's Uyghur genocide.' Premier Christianity:August 25th.
2020
- (with Will Hughes and Matt Benwell). 'The emotional geopolitics of contested peace: the austerity crisis and the Danish minority of South Schleswig.' Territory, Politics, Governance.
- (with Aksana Ismailbekova). 'Peace in the family is the basis of peace in the country: How women contribute to local peace in southern Kyrgyzstan.' Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 14 (4):483-500.
- 'From "The Schleswig-Holstein Question" to "The Ferghana Valley Question": Minority Education and Conflict Resolution.' In: The Conflict in South Kyrgyzstan Ten Years on: Perspectives, Consequences, Actions edited by A. Ismailbekova and P. Lottholtz. Washington DC: The Central Asia Programme, George Washington University.
- '"Go anywhere I damn well please"? Towards an anarchist vocational ethics of international borders.' In: A Research Agenda for Border Studies, edited by J. Scott. London: Edward Elgar: 183-200.
2019
- We're individuals and every single one of us matters. The Newcastle Journal, 17th December 2019:23.
- (with Olivia Mason) Are we really honouring the legacy of Frederick Douglass? The Journal (13th November 2019).
- It's disgraceful that nuclear weapons are being celebrated at Westminster Abbey . The Guardian 02/05/2019.
- Human Resources? Recognising the Personhood of Workers in the Charity and Public Sectors. Report published by the Newcastle University Institute for Social Science and the William Leech Research Fund.
- Towards a critical Central Asian Studies. Central Asian Affairs, 6(1), 81-87. Part of a review forum with Kerstin Klenke,Asel Myrzabekova, and Alexander Diener.
- (with The Analogue University), Calling all journal editors: Bury the metrics pages!, Political Geography 68 (1): A3-A5.
2018
- "Geography, interdisciplinarity and area studies: reasserting the value of the regional in a violent world," in (With Shona Loong, James Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon et al) Review forum: Reading Nick Megoran's Nationalism in Central Asia, Political Geography
- 2018. 'Framing Andijon, narrating the nation: Islam Karimov’s account of the events of 13 May 2005.' In: Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia, edited by E. Lemon. London: Routledge.
-(with Cat Owen, John Heathershaw, David Lewis, and Shairbek Juraev, eds.) Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia: Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict London: Rowman and Littlefield
- (with Alisher Khamidov and John Heathersahw) 'Bottom-up peacekeeping in Southern Kyrgyzstan.' In: Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia: Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict C. Owen, S. Juraev, D. Lewis, N. Megoran and J. Heathershaw, London: Rowman and Littlefield: 223-247.
- (with Simon Dalby) 'Geopolitics And Peace: A Century of Change in the Discipline of Geography' Geopolitics, 23 (2): 251-276.
2017
- Happy Christmas 2017? Baptist Times, December.
- Nationalism in Central Asia: A biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press.
- Warlike Christians in an Age of Violence Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock.
-(ed) Martin Luther King in the UK: A Resource Pack for Teachers in Key Stages 2,3 & 4. Newcastle: Martin Luther King Peace Committee.
- (with Hartmut Behr and Jane Carnaffan) "Peace education, militarism and neo-liberalism: conceptual reflections with empirical findings from the UK." Journal of Peace Education.
- Warlike Christians in an age of violence - a reflection. Ethicsdaily.com.
-(with Alisher Khamidov and John Heathershaw) "Bottom-up peacekeeping in Southern Kyrgyzstan: How local actors managed to prevent the spread of violence from Osh/Jalal-Abad to Aravan, June 2010." Nationalities Papers 45 (6): 1118-1134.
-(with Russell Foster and Michael Dunn) "Towards a geopolitics of atheism: critical geopolitics post the 'War on Terror'." Political Geography 60:179-189
-(With Liz Morrish and the Analogue University) "Academic Identities in the Managed University: Neoliberalism and Resistance." Australian Universities Review. 59 (2): 23-35.
-(with Matthew Scott) "The Newcastle Upon Tyne Peace Society, 1817-50." Northern History.
-(with The Analogue University) "Control, resistance and the 'Data University': towards a third wave critique." The Antipode Foundation.
2016
2015
2014
- (with Andii Bowsher) 'The day the war stood still', Church Times 19/26 December 2014, Vol no7918/19: pp. 28-9.
- 'Celebrate the truces - because World War I must not be an excuse for militarism.' The Conversation 20/10/2014.
- (with Andii Bowsher) 'How should churches mark the First World War?' Baptist Times 14/10/2014.
- (with Elmira Satybaldieva, David Lewis, and John Heathershaw) Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Projects in Southern Kyrgyzstan. SIPRI/OSF.
- (with McConnell, F. and Williams, P., eds.) Geographies of Peace. London: I.B. Tauris.
-'Migration and peace: the transnational activities of Bukharan Jews', in McConnell, F., Megoran, N. and Williams, P. (eds.) Geographies of Peace. London: I.B. Tauris: 212-228.
- (with Elmira Satybaldieva, David Lewis, and John Heathershaw) Evaluating Peacebuilding Interventions in Kyrgyzstan: SIPRI/OSF.
- 'On (Christian) anarchism and (non)violence: a response to Simon Springer' Space and Polity 18 (1): 97-105..
- 'Stranger danger or angel stranger?' An article for Baptist Times, February 2014.
2013
- (with Alison Williams, Alex Jeffrey, Fiona McConnell, Kye Askins, Nick Gill, Catherine Nash, Raksha Pande) 'Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice', Political Geography, 34(1), pp. 24-34.
- 'Shared space, divided space: narrating ethnic histories of Osh', Environment and Planning A 45 (4): 892-907.
- 'Violence and peace', in Dodds, K., Kuus, M. and Sharp, J. (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 189-207.
- 'Radical politics and the Apocalypse: activist readings of Revelation,' Area, pp. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01125.x.
2012
- (with Jenkings, N. Woodward, R. and Bos, D.), 'Wootton Bassett and the political spaces of remembrance and mourning', Area, 44(3), pp. 356-363.
- 'Rethinking the study of international boundaries: a biography of the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan boundary.' Annals of the Association of American Gepgraphers 102(2), pp. 464-481.
- Averting Violence in Kyrgyzstan: Understanding and Responding to Nationalism.' London: Chatham House.
- ''B/ordering' and biopolitics between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan' In: The Blackwell Companion to Border Studies, edited by T. Wilson and H. Donnan. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.473-491
2011
- War and peace? An agenda for peace research and practice in geography. Political Geography (30) 4: 178-189.
-(with John Heathershaw) Contesting danger: a new agenda for policy and scholarship on Central Asia. International Affairs 87 (3):589-612.
- Osh: one year on. June Open Democracy. Available as 'Osh's greatest blessing, and its greatest curse, is its geography' on the BBC World Service's Central Asian section in Kyrgyz and Uzbek.
- (with John Heathershaw) Central Asia: The Discourse of danger . June Open Democracy.
2010
- Neoclassical geopolitics. Political Geography. 29 (4):187-189.
- (with Anara Karagulova) Discourses of danger and the 'war on terror': Gothic Kyrgyzstan and the collapse of the Akaev regime. Review of International Studies.
- The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary: Stalin's Cartography, Post-Soviet Geography. In Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State, edited by A. Diener and J. Hagen. London: Rowman and Littlefield.
- 'Towards a geography of peace: pacific geopolitics and evangelical Christian Crusade apologies.' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (3):382-398.
2009
- Review of Klaus Dodds ''Geopolitics: a Very Short Introduction', OUP 2007. Area 41 (2):223-225.
- Theocracy. In The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by R. Kitchin and N. Thrift. Oxford: Elsevier.
2008
- Does religion cause war? Published on the website of the Council of Faith and International Affairs, November 2008.
- 'Militarism, realism, just war, or nonviolence? Critical geopolitics and the problem of normativity.' Geopolitics. 13 (3):473-497.
- 'From presidential podiums to pop music: discourses of danger in Uzbekistan', in Fear: Critical Geopolitics of Everyday Life, Rachel Pain, Susan J. Smith, Stephen Graham (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.25-36
- Framing Andijon, narrating the nation: Islam Karimov's account of the events of May 13, 2005. Central Asian Survey 27 (1):15-32.
- 'The task and responsibility of geopolitical analysis.' Geopolitics 13 (2): 402-407.
2007
- (ed) Author-Critic forum: 'Radical Islam in Central Asia?', Central Asian Survey 26 (1):141-154.
- Review of War on Terror - The Boardgame, New Internationalist No 403, August 2007.- The War on Terror: How Should Christians Respond? Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press.
- 'On researching 'ethnic conflict': epistemology, politics, and a Central Asian boundary dispute', Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 59 No.2: 252-277. -'Country report: Tajikistan' New Internationalist, No. 398, March 2007: 38.-'The case for ending migration controls', Antipode 37 (4):638-642.
-(with Sevara Sharapova) (eds), 'On the Centenary of Halford Mackinder's Geographical Pivot of History', special issue of Central Asia and The Caucasus, 4 (34), 2005.
-(with Sevara Sharapova) (redaktori), 'Geograficheskaya os' istorii" Halforda Makindera' [Halford Mackinder's Geographical Axis of the History], Spetsial'nii vipusk jurnala Tsentral'naya Aziya I Kavkaz, 4 (40)
-(with Sevara Sharapova) 'Mackinder's "Heartland": a help or hindrance in understanding Central Asia's international relations?', Central Asia and the Caucasus, 4 (34): 8-20
-(with Sevara Sharapova) 'Pomogaet ili meshaet "Hartlend" Makindera ponyat' Tsentral'nuyu Aziyu?' [Is Mackinder's 'Heartland' a help or hindrance in understanding Central Asia?] Tsentral'naya Aziya I Kavkaz 4 (40): 8-23.
-'The politics of using Mackinder's geopolitics: the example of Uzbekistan', Central Asia and the Caucasus, 4 (34): 89-102
-'Obrashenie k Makinderovoy Geopolitike, Primer Uzbekistana', Tsentral'naya Aziya I Kavkaz 4 (40): 107-124.
-'The critical geopolitics of danger in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2005, 23 (4): 555 - 580.
-'Preventing conflict by building civil society: post-development theory and a Central Asian-UK policy success story.' Central Asian Survey, 24 (1): 84-96.
2004
-Christianity and critical political geography: on faith and geopolitical imagination' The Brandywine Review of Faith and International Affairs, 2 (2): 40-46.
-Review of Yuri Bregel's An Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Published in Central Eurasian Studies Review, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004: 33-34.
-'To survive, villagers buck Uzbek border controls.' Published in Eurasianet Business and Economics (Washington: OSI) 25/05/2004.
2003
-(with Marc de Chazal) Pre-emption perforce? A reply to Chris Seiple. Institute for Global Engagement, February 2003. Originally posted on http://www.globalengagement.org/issues/2003/02/reply.htm
-review of I see Satan Fall Like Lighting by René Girard, Orbis, 2001. In: Third Way 26 (2): 29-30
-'Henry Martyn: Iraq- lessons in a time of war' Evangelical Times 37 (3), March 2003.
-'Turkmenistan Country Profile', New Internationalist 345 (May 2002).
2002
- 'What about Hitler? The meaning of Remembrance Sunday in light of the Iraq crisis.' Posted on Christian Cambridge, November 2002. (http://www.christiancambridge.org: accessed December 2002).
-'Kyrgyzstan Country Profile', New Internationalist 345 (May 2002): 36.
-'Biography of Afghan hero provides lessons for current readers' Review of Easwaran, Eknath Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains (2nd edition). In: Eurasianet Culture (Washington: OSI): 10/05/2002.
-'Demanding Peace: Christian Responses to War and Violence', Harvey, Anthony, 1999 (London: SCM). Review in Christian Socialist 182, Summer 2002:p13 (the journal of the Christian Socialist Movement).
2001
-'The politics of destroying Buddha.' Central Asia Monitor 2001 (2): 26-29
-'Osama bin Laden, the world's first postmodern terrorist' Turkistan Newsletter Volume 5:006 (9th January 2001).
2000
-'Q&A: Presidential Candidate Melis Eshimkanov Discusses Kyrgyzstan's Political Climate and Central Asian Relations', Eurasia Q&A , (Washington: OSI): 08/11/2000.
-'Scrap Metal on the Silk Road', Eurasianet: Business and Economics (Washington: OSI): 25/04/2002.
-'Remembering Batken: Militarism and Pop Concerts',Eurasia Insight , (Washington: OSI): 21/11/2000.
-'O'sh 3000 tantasining zamonaviy ijtimoiy ahamiyati'. In: Istoriya, Kul'tura I Ekonomika Yuga Kirgizstana, volume 1. (Osh: Osh State University): 125-131.
-'Language And Ethnicity In Kyrgyzstan'. RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 108, Part I, 5 June 2000 (Prague: Radio Free Europe/ Radion Liberty).
-(With Antonina Zaharova) 'Osh Ten Years on: Positive Developments in Ethnic Relations', Eurasianet Insight (Washington: OSI): 18/9/2000.
-'Bad Neighbors, Bad Fences'. RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 51, Part I, 13 March 2000 (Prague: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty).
-'Elections and Ethnicity in the South of Kyrgyzstan' ,Eurasia Insight (Washington: OSI): 30/3/2000.
-'Chinggis Aitmatov And The Geopolitics Of Kyrgyzstan', Eurasia Insight , (Washington: OSI): 14/2/2000.
-'The Borders of Eternal Friendship: Kyrgyz-Uzbek Relations in 1999: Part III.' Eurasia Insight , (Washington: OSI): 6/01/2000.
1999
-'Theorizing Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State in Central Asia', Central Asian Survey 18, no.1 (99-110).
-Review of Castells, Manuel, The Power of Identity (Volume 2) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell (1997), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23(2): pp.397-398.
-'The Borders of Eternal Friendship: Kyrgyz-Uzbek Relations in 1999: Part II', Eurasia Insight , (Washington: OSI) 12/1999.
-The Borders of Eternal Friendship: Kyrgyz-Uzbek Relations in 1999: Part I.' Eurasia Insight , (Washington: OSI): 12/1999.
1997