Alasdair Pinkerton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 176980 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alasdair Pinkerton |
| PRENOMES | Alasdair |
| SOBRENOME | Pinkerton |
| ASSINATURA | PINKERTON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An assemblage approach to performances of sovereignty through Gibraltar's hosting of the 2019 International Island Games
This article examines performances of sovereignty using as its entry-point the 2019 International Island Games (IG) held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. We do so by applying assemblage theory to scales, actors, materialities, and practices that have been under-considered in existing work on assemblage in political geography, to illustrate the ways sovereignty was exercised and experienced, as well as challenged, impeded, and negot…
Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory
Research from political geographers has increasingly identified the diverse actors, practices, and performances of diplomacy, challenging narrow conceptions that had tended to associate them with the state alone. The following paper engages this plurality directly through, on the one hand, its focus on young people as diplomatic actors and, on the other, the diplomacy of a British Overseas Territory (OT)—the Falkland Islands—a polity characterise…
Diplomatic Memories
Studies of memory in relation to the Falklands/Malvinas War have typically focused on interrogating narratives, practices and performances associated with its memory within different national contexts (predominantly Argentina, the Falkland Islands and the UK). Far less attention, however, has been placed on how memory of the war is summoned on the international stage, in diplomatic settings like the United Nations (UN). This paper analyses specif…
The 40 th anniversary of the Falklands War
2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. This significant milestone will be commemorated with a plethora of events in the Falkland Islands, Argentina, and the UK. One of these, the Falklands Forty Schools Competition, funded by the Falkland Islands Government, will see a national competition for young people (aged 16–18 years) in the UK that will encourage them to consider why the Falkland Islands matter today. With the editorial ass…
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
The Handbook of Displacement
Everyday invasions
Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of ‘invasion’ of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film …
Heritage, strategic narratives, and the making of geopolitical pasts, presents and futures at Europa Point, Gibraltar
Rethinking expeditions
The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a m…
Blurred lines
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experience, question, and understand the extent to which social media cuts through the private, domestic or public, personal and familial, work and home in an intimate clinch of relations. We do so by exploring how the…
Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land
This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich…
Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute
The word on the street
The Falkland Islands referendum 2013
This note considers the 10–11th March 2013 Falkland Islands referendum. As accredited observers, the authors were granted access not only to the work of the international observation mission but also the actual organisation of the referendum itself. The background to the referendum is explained and thereafter the result and longer-term significance is considered. Notwithstanding Argentine opposition to the referendum, the latter was widely consid…
Celebrity geopolitics
Postcards from Heaven
This article examines a little-known project funded by the US Air Force and CIA, and carried out by communications scientists at the University of Washington during the early 1950s. Project Revere sought to investigate how the seemingly humble information leaflet could be deployed, via air drops, as a “flexible weapon” to spark “interpersonal communications” and spread rumours throughout particular target populations. While the testing ground for…
Weapons of mass communication
Introduction – South Asian diasporas and the BBC World Service
This article sets out the analytical framework of this special issue and outlines the development of BBC radio broadcasting in South Asia. It analyses the ways in which the BBC in South Asia is integrally and indissolubly intertwined with ‘critical events’ and shifting geopolitical priorities: from the imperial and diasporic imaginings of the Empire Service, to its dissolution and the expansion of South Asian language services during World War II…
Radio geopolitics
This paper considers some of the interdisciplinary scholarship on radio and sound more generally for the purposes of considering how geopolitical scholarship might reconsider its predominantly visual focus. The first part considers radio and its relationship to studies of propaganda, international diplomacy and even everyday life. Thereafter, attention is given to new themes such as researching radio cultures, broadcasting infrastructure and tech…
Radio and the Raj
India offers special opportunities for the development of broadcasting. Its distances and wide spaces alone make it a promising field. In India's remote villages there are many who, after the day's work is done, find time hangs nearly enough upon their hands, and there must be many officials and others whose duties carry them into out-of-the-way places where they crave for the company of their friends and the solace of human companionship . There…
A new kind of imperialism? The BBC, cold war broadcasting and the contested geopolitics of south asia
The relationship between the BBC and Indian listeners has been one of love and hate. Love for the professional competence and hate as it represented the voice of a colonial empire. Even during the
Radio geopolitics
This paper considers some of the interdisciplinary scholarship on radio and sound more generally for the purposes of considering how geopolitical scholarship might reconsider its predominantly visual focus. The first part considers radio and its relationship to studies of propaganda, international diplomacy and even everyday life. Thereafter, attention is given to new themes such as researching radio cultures, broadcasting infrastructure and tech…
Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land
This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich…
Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute
A new kind of imperialism? The BBC, cold war broadcasting and the contested geopolitics of south asia
The relationship between the BBC and Indian listeners has been one of love and hate. Love for the professional competence and hate as it represented the voice of a colonial empire. Even during the
Radio and the Raj
India offers special opportunities for the development of broadcasting. Its distances and wide spaces alone make it a promising field. In India's remote villages there are many who, after the day's work is done, find time hangs nearly enough upon their hands, and there must be many officials and others whose duties carry them into out-of-the-way places where they crave for the company of their friends and the solace of human companionship . There…
Celebrity geopolitics
The word on the street
Blurred lines
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experience, question, and understand the extent to which social media cuts through the private, domestic or public, personal and familial, work and home in an intimate clinch of relations. We do so by exploring how the…
Rethinking expeditions
The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a m…
The Falkland Islands referendum 2013
This note considers the 10–11th March 2013 Falkland Islands referendum. As accredited observers, the authors were granted access not only to the work of the international observation mission but also the actual organisation of the referendum itself. The background to the referendum is explained and thereafter the result and longer-term significance is considered. Notwithstanding Argentine opposition to the referendum, the latter was widely consid…
Postcards from Heaven
This article examines a little-known project funded by the US Air Force and CIA, and carried out by communications scientists at the University of Washington during the early 1950s. Project Revere sought to investigate how the seemingly humble information leaflet could be deployed, via air drops, as a “flexible weapon” to spark “interpersonal communications” and spread rumours throughout particular target populations. While the testing ground for…
Weapons of mass communication
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
Everyday invasions
Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of ‘invasion’ of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film …
Heritage, strategic narratives, and the making of geopolitical pasts, presents and futures at Europa Point, Gibraltar
Radio geopolitics
This paper considers some of the interdisciplinary scholarship on radio and sound more generally for the purposes of considering how geopolitical scholarship might reconsider its predominantly visual focus. The first part considers radio and its relationship to studies of propaganda, international diplomacy and even everyday life. Thereafter, attention is given to new themes such as researching radio cultures, broadcasting infrastructure and tech…
Radio and the Raj
India offers special opportunities for the development of broadcasting. Its distances and wide spaces alone make it a promising field. In India's remote villages there are many who, after the day's work is done, find time hangs nearly enough upon their hands, and there must be many officials and others whose duties carry them into out-of-the-way places where they crave for the company of their friends and the solace of human companionship . There…
A new kind of imperialism? The BBC, cold war broadcasting and the contested geopolitics of south asia
The relationship between the BBC and Indian listeners has been one of love and hate. Love for the professional competence and hate as it represented the voice of a colonial empire. Even during the
Introduction – South Asian diasporas and the BBC World Service
This article sets out the analytical framework of this special issue and outlines the development of BBC radio broadcasting in South Asia. It analyses the ways in which the BBC in South Asia is integrally and indissolubly intertwined with ‘critical events’ and shifting geopolitical priorities: from the imperial and diasporic imaginings of the Empire Service, to its dissolution and the expansion of South Asian language services during World War II…
Postcards from Heaven
This article examines a little-known project funded by the US Air Force and CIA, and carried out by communications scientists at the University of Washington during the early 1950s. Project Revere sought to investigate how the seemingly humble information leaflet could be deployed, via air drops, as a “flexible weapon” to spark “interpersonal communications” and spread rumours throughout particular target populations. While the testing ground for…
Weapons of mass communication
Celebrity geopolitics
The Falkland Islands referendum 2013
This note considers the 10–11th March 2013 Falkland Islands referendum. As accredited observers, the authors were granted access not only to the work of the international observation mission but also the actual organisation of the referendum itself. The background to the referendum is explained and thereafter the result and longer-term significance is considered. Notwithstanding Argentine opposition to the referendum, the latter was widely consid…
Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute
The word on the street
Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land
This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich…
Blurred lines
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experience, question, and understand the extent to which social media cuts through the private, domestic or public, personal and familial, work and home in an intimate clinch of relations. We do so by exploring how the…
Heritage, strategic narratives, and the making of geopolitical pasts, presents and futures at Europa Point, Gibraltar
Rethinking expeditions
The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a m…
The Handbook of Displacement
Everyday invasions
Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of ‘invasion’ of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film …
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
Diplomatic Memories
Studies of memory in relation to the Falklands/Malvinas War have typically focused on interrogating narratives, practices and performances associated with its memory within different national contexts (predominantly Argentina, the Falkland Islands and the UK). Far less attention, however, has been placed on how memory of the war is summoned on the international stage, in diplomatic settings like the United Nations (UN). This paper analyses specif…
The 40 th anniversary of the Falklands War
2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. This significant milestone will be commemorated with a plethora of events in the Falkland Islands, Argentina, and the UK. One of these, the Falklands Forty Schools Competition, funded by the Falkland Islands Government, will see a national competition for young people (aged 16–18 years) in the UK that will encourage them to consider why the Falkland Islands matter today. With the editorial ass…
Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory
Research from political geographers has increasingly identified the diverse actors, practices, and performances of diplomacy, challenging narrow conceptions that had tended to associate them with the state alone. The following paper engages this plurality directly through, on the one hand, its focus on young people as diplomatic actors and, on the other, the diplomacy of a British Overseas Territory (OT)—the Falkland Islands—a polity characterise…
An assemblage approach to performances of sovereignty through Gibraltar's hosting of the 2019 International Island Games
This article examines performances of sovereignty using as its entry-point the 2019 International Island Games (IG) held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. We do so by applying assemblage theory to scales, actors, materialities, and practices that have been under-considered in existing work on assemblage in political geography, to illustrate the ways sovereignty was exercised and experienced, as well as challenged, impeded, and negot…
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