The Long War
GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
SERIES EDITORS
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Mathew Coleman, Ohio State University
Sapana Doshi, University of Arizona
ADVISORY BOARD
Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
Zeynep Gambetti, Bogazici University
Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University
James McCarthy, Clark University
Beverly Mullings, Queens University
Harvey Neo, National University of Singapore
Geraldine Pratt, University of British Columbia
Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center
Jamie Winders, Syracuse University
Melissa W. Wright, Pennsylvania State University
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book began in the autumn of 2007 in a small apartment in the East Village in New York City. I was about to spend a year as a fellow at CUNY Graduate Center in the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. I had a wonderful year at CUNY, reading, thinking, and writing with brilliant, multidisciplinary colleagues. Their thoughts and probing questions mark this book in numerous ways. A heartfelt thanks go to the following: Padmini Biswas, Bruce Braun, Jeff Bussolini, Patricia Clough, Greg Donovan, Zeynep Gambetti, Chris Gunderson, Tina Harris, Peter Hitchcock, Elizabeth Johnson, Cindi Katz, Ervin Kosta, Ros Petchesky, and Charlotte Recoquillon. I must single out the late Neil Smith for special thanks. I was very close to Neil at CUNY, struggling like others to help him as the seriousness of his illness became clearer. I look back now with a deep sense of loss on our many conversations around geopolitics, imperialism, and the essential insecurities of our time. I remember Neil mostly though with fondness: fondness for a lion-hearted man who somehow managed to combine incisive, defiant critique with hope and romanticism, fondness for a man who sought his whole life to shake up the world with ideas and deeds, and fondness for a friend I miss.
On my return to NUI Galway, I reconnected with fantastic colleagues and students, to whom I am variously indebted for the support they offered as the book came to fruition. Thanks especially to the following: Dan Carey, Pat Collins, Ursula Connolly, Nessa Cronin, Shane Darcy, T. J. Hughes, Phil Lawton, Sharon Leahy, Valerie Ledwith, Marie Mahon, Killian McCormack, Niall Dochartaigh, Kevin OSullivan, Kathy Reilly, Anna Stanley, and Ulf Strohmayer. I have long received great support from the broader academy too. I am grateful particularly to John Agnew, David Beckingham, Mark Boyle, Kate Brace, Joe Campbell, Padraig Carmody, Dan Clayton, Mat Coleman, David Dawson, Erin Delaney Joyce, Klaus Dodds, Mona Domosh, Lorraine Dowler, Paddy Duffy, Jim and Nancy Duncan, Jamey Essex, Matt Farish, Colin Flint, Amanda Frie, Emily Gilbert, Fergal Guilfoyle, Tom Harrington, Jennifer Hyndman, Nuala Johnston, Rob Kitchin, Steve Legg, Mike Leyshon, Denis Linehan, Francesca Moore, Alison Mountz, Cian OCallaghan, Simon Reid-Henry, David Ryan, Matt Sparke, David Storey, Mary Thomas, Karen Till, Gerard Toal, and Katie Willis. I want to give a special thanks to Deb Cowen, Simon Dalby, David Harvey, and Marilyn Young: thank you for your belief in me and in the critique at the heart of this book.
I wrote much of this book during fellowship stays at Fitzwilliam College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2013/2014. My time at Cambridge was a joyous one, and that owed much to the fellows I shared conversations with every day over coffee, lunch, and dinner. At Fitzwilliam, my thanks to Kasia Boddy, Dominic Keown, John Leigh, and Nicola Padfield. At Emmanuel, my thanks to Ivano Cardinale, Brnice Guyot-Rchard, Lawrence Klein, David Livesey, and especially Phil Howell and Alex Jeffrey. While at Cambridge, I presented many of the arguments in the book in Emmanuel College, Sidney Sussex College, and the Geography Department; I am grateful for the excellent questions and ideas offered. I also presented the books findings at various international conferences over the years, including a number of annual conferences of the American Association of Geographers, Geographical Society of Ireland, and Royal Geographical SocietyInstitute of British Geographers. My thanks to the audiences at these events and also to those who attended research seminars I gave in recent years at Maynooth University, Royal Holloway, University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Exeter, and Virginia Tech.
My final thanks to individuals in the academy are for Derek Gregory, Craig Jones, Gerry Kearns, and David Nally. Derek has been an inspiration since I was an undergraduate studying geography, and this book is all the richer from his support of my research over the last ten years. Thank you, Derek. Craig Jones has become a dear friend in recent years. His reading of the book at a late stage pushed me to extend discussion in a manner that I did not expect to enjoy as the end line neared; that I did wholly reflects the remarkable thoughtfulness of Craigs own work. Thanks, Craig. For the longest time, my two closest colleagues have been Gerry Kearns and David Nally. Thanks to you both for your inspiring empathy as human geographers, your boundless sense of intellectual commitment, your conversational joy, and your wonderful sense of fun.
I am especially proud to have this book published in one of the most important collections in critical human geography, the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series. My thanks to Nik Heynen, Deb Cowen, and Melissa Wright for believing in the book from the very beginning. At UGA Press, I am also indebted to a number of individuals who have made writing the book an ease. Thanks to Mick Gusinde-Duffy for his steadfast encouragement from the start, to Christina Cotter and Beth Snead for all their assistance, and to Jennifer Comeau and Jon Davies for their careful reading and advice on the text. It was a pleasure to work with you all. My thanks too to Bobbie OBrien, Paul Courtnage, and the
