Research interests

My research interests are in geopolitics and political geography, with particular reference to:

The geopolitics of global health
I am interested in the ways that health issues have increasingly been framed and governed in terms of globalization and security. My current research draws on concepts of geopolitics, governmentality and biopolitics to examine health-security practices in two contexts: global HIV/AIDS relief; and HIV/AIDS, migration and asylum in the UK. I have contributed to the new edition of Global Health Watch on related issues.

Geographies of security
Together with Klaus Dodds at Royal Holloway I have co-edited a book considering the multiple geographies of the war on terror. My own contribution to this volume explores convergences between the responses of artists and curators to the war on terror and currents in critical geopolitics. With Klaus I am also co-editing a journal special issue on the geographies of counter-terror culture. I am also interested in geographies of security around the European Union.

Russia and the post-Soviet states
My graduate and postdoctoral research considered the re-emergence of nationalism and geopolitical theory in Russia following the end of the Soviet Union. I am currently interested in bringing concepts of geopolitics, governmentality and biopolitics to bear on questions of Russian state formation in the post-Soviet period.

Research supervision
I welcome enquiries from potential graduate students interested in research in and around these areas.