Mark Griffiths
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3584397 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark Griffiths |
| PRENOMES | Mark |
| SOBRENOME | Griffiths |
| ASSINATURA | GRIFFITHS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2284-4533 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 123 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 476 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
The Military Violence of White Phosphorus
White phosphorus munitions are known to produce significant thermal effects, burning bodies and scorching lands in multiple contexts of military violence (e.g., in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria). It is less widely discussed that white phosphorus munitions also drift into urban areas and farmlands; they deplete ecosystems and damage agricultural products, causing long-term toxifying effects for both human and nonhuman life. This article attends to accounts…
You are not erased
Tasked with commentary of Lubna Abu Sitta’s ‘Writing against erasure: a geography of resistance in Gaza’, we can add little to her defiant words. We instead seek to speak alongside Abu Sitta and the geographical community in Gaza she carefully memorialises. As part of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, academic life has been systematically taken apart in the bombing of university buildings and the killing of staff and students. Yet Abu Sitta also te…
Geos → territory → security
This forum contribution grapples with the earthly origins of Michael Albert's notion of Abolitionist Ecological Security. We recognize security as an inherently spatial matter and examine security-ecology relations via geographical work on the geos and geopower. We argue that in the binding of security to ecology, the idea takes an analytical concept that is already spatially freighted: the fiction of security obscures the earthly origins of ecol…
Dual use as a political technology of contemporary military violence
Recent wars are marked by a political technology of “dual use” that blurs military and non-military worlds to legitimise military violence. This article sets out three key conceptualisations of dual use that further our understandings of contemporary military violence. Tracing the history of dual use discourses and infrastructures, we demonstrate how military and civilian worlds are disentangled from two diametrically opposed viewpoints: first, i…
Deferral and dispersal
The relationship between specific problematic internet use and hope
Problematic social media use (PSMU) and problematic gaming (PG) among university students as specific types of problematic internet use (PIU) have become a growing concern. PSMU and PG may lead to negative outcomes such as academic exhaustion and diminished hope. However, previous studies have not simultaneously considered the associations among these variables from the perspective of Stressor-Strain-Outcome model. Furthermore, the concept of 'ma…
Problematic Social Media Use and Mental Distress among Indonesian and Taiwanese University Students
The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza
This essay examines the resulting environmental health conditions in Gaza since October 2023. Evidence is drawn from international agency reports and peer-reviewed literature to document destruction and public health impacts over 18 months. Key themes include water, sanitation, contamination, noise and air pollution, food insecurity, susceptible populations, health system collapse, and trauma. Palestinians are beset with a public health crisis re…
Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame
The objective of this article is to set out lines of international complicity in Israel's war on Gaza towards establishing not merely a refreshed agenda for research but also strategic sites of accountability and intervention. The article surveys Israeli military activities in Gaza since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks, drawing focus on three key points of international military collaboration: the F‐16 fighter jet; the GBU type bomb; and the wea…
Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
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 Kathryn Yusoff) that addresses the idea that political order and subjectivities grow from geologi…
When "conflict free" minerals go to war
The article develops a simple but important argument: “conflict free” minerals are essential to the waging of contemporary war. This argument is substantiated over three main sections. First, we provide historical background to the idea of “conflict minerals” to show how they are narrowly associated with the violence of extraction and with consumer products (phones, electric vehicles, etc) in way that forecloses their use in weapons manufacturing…
Genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography
An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG )
Mindful that the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (SJTG) has previously declared that ‘the SJTG hopes to publish more scholarship on the past, present and future geographies of decolonization and the decolonization of geography. We encourage submissions...that advance these agendas.’ (Sidaway et al., 2021: 6) we hope that the SJTG will publish this open letter, as a public and permanent record. During the first week of Israel's war on Gaza…
Moderating effect of sleep quality in the relationship between coping and distress among medical students
The study's findings clearly showed that sleep quality is a significant moderator in the relationship between coping (both adaptive and maladaptive) and distress among medical students
Gaza
This commentary addresses three objectives: (1) to situate and contextualise the ongoing military assault on Gaza within longer colonial histories in Palestine; (2) to collate resources that can equip geographers—specialist and non‐specialist, academic and non‐academic—with resources to build decolonial politics on Palestine–Israel; and (3) to contribute to discussions on what we, as geographers, can do to support Palestinian calls for liberation…
Late modern war and the geos
This article develops the idea that late modern war’s relationship with the geos (the ground and the life it sustains) is doubly destructive. While part of this is recognized in a recent focus on slow violence and ecological aftermaths, there is little consideration of the ‘beforemath’, or the sites of extraction that make advanced military technologies possible. Drawing attention to mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the artic…
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza
Beyond Apartheid Israel
Late Modern War and theGeos
This article works toward an ontology of war centered on the life of the planet, or geos. Noting a disciplinary tendency to focus on the makers of war, we ask: What if our analyses of war begin not with the technologies of killing but with the life that is targeted? Our response proceeds in four sections. We first identify a 'militarized ontology' of war that forms through the ways that militaries figure violence as spatially and temporally 'prec…
The ‘Patrick Matthew Effect’ in Science
Encountering Palestine
Decolonising ecological research
In this article we draw on recent debates in ecology and human geography on the project of decolonising academic practice. Our objective is to address two key questions via a generative discussion across disciplines: what can ecologists learn from ongoing debates in human geography? And how might those learnings translate back into geographical praxis? We make the central argument that vibrant debates in human geography can push ecologists to tak…
Re-thinking children’s work in churches
Elastic Empire
Fabricating Homeland Security
The affective politics of precarity
In this article we discuss the precarities induced by the threat of home demolitions in occupied Palestine. Drawing on fieldwork from four separate sites, the discussion begins by showing how the threat of demolition exposes Palestinians to a powerfully affective future of a violence that will arrive at an uncertain time. From this we develop the notion of 'affectual demolition' to describe how the anticipatory affective dimensions of demolition …
The Stagecraft of Aeschylus
Gaza
This commentary addresses three objectives: (1) to situate and contextualise the ongoing military assault on Gaza within longer colonial histories in Palestine; (2) to collate resources that can equip geographers—specialist and non‐specialist, academic and non‐academic—with resources to build decolonial politics on Palestine–Israel; and (3) to contribute to discussions on what we, as geographers, can do to support Palestinian calls for liberation…
From heterogeneous worlds
The aim of this paper is to meet a repeated challenge that comes from within postcolonial writing: to turn postcolonial theory and strategies 'inward', and to examine our postcoloniality. Specifically I use social class to interrogate the idea of western privilege in a postcolonial context, examining whether postcolonialism can enable the politics of class to intersect with the politics of 'Otherness' in such a way to open up ethnography to a mor…
Sex on the internet
Some academics claim that social pathologies referred to as technological addictions are beginning to surface in cyberspace. One related area that deserves further examination is the concept of sex addiction and its relationship with excessive Internet usage. This article therefore overviews (a) sex‐related uses of the Internet, (b) the concept of “Internet addiction” in relation to excessive sexual behavior, (c) cybersex and cyber‐relationships,…
I’ve got goose bumps just talking about it
In recent years, research has focussed on the ‘neoliberalization’ of volunteering programmes in the developing South. Commonly cited processes include an uncritical pedagogy of development and a heavy emphasis on ‘difference making’ and curriculum vitae building. These neoliberalizing processes, research finds, have come to shape the affective and emotional experience of volunteers on placement. This article presents an alternative reading of the…
South-South volunteering and development
While research to date on volunteering and development has largely focused attention on the global South as a place that "hosts" volunteers and the global North as a place that "sends", in this article we focus on movements of volunteers between countries in the South. Our objective is thus to consider "South-South" flows of volunteers in order to provide a counter to dominant North-South imaginaries of international volunteering. However, we do …
Biopolitics and checkpoint 300 in occupied Palestine
Embodied experiences in international volunteering
In this paper we debate the interpretation of embodied experience on international volunteering placements. Drawing on six in-depth interviews with volunteers recently returned from Northern Thailand, we document the affects and emotions that play a key role in the formation of volunteer–host relations. We then present two interpretations of the data, conceptualising power-body relations in two different ways: from power's affective and emotional…
Women and checkpoints in Palestine
The objective of this article is to bring Palestinian women to the centre of a discussion about the gendered dimensions of Israel’s convoluted permit system and checkpoint security infrastructure. Drawing on fieldwork close to one of the largest checkpoint terminals in the West Bank, Checkpoint 300 between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the article develops knowledge about checkpoints in three important ways: i) as gendered spaces that regulate women’s…
The moment to come
In this article we sketch out a geography of hope in Palestine. We focus on ‘hyperprecarious’ sites, exactly those where exposure to harm is heightened and where thus reasons not to hope seem plentiful. Focusing on fieldwork at such sites, we examine hope as a temporal practice of waiting, attending especially to how a ‘moment to come’ (kairos) constitutes and affirms anti-colonial practices and topologies of everyday Palestinian life. Hope in th…
Governmentalizing Palestinian futures
This article explores a particular futural logic prevalent in Israel’s practices of governing Palestinian life in the West Bank: the governmentalizing of possibility through anticipation and uncertainty. We draw on long-term fieldwork focused on different West Bank contexts – checkpoints, farmland access and house demolitions – where governing functions via prospective futures that call people to anticipate and become attuned to lived uncertainty…
Hope in Hebron
The negative affects of this violent occupation—fear, threat, humiliation—quell hope, setting limits on the potentials of political agency. This article documents the corporeality of the Occupation in Hebron, evoking the body as materially contingent to explore agential capacities within the delimiting affects of the violent sensorium. Drawing on fieldwork with Palestinian activists engaged in providing political tours of Hebron, I argue that by …
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war
Attending to connections between serious health conditions (cancers and congenital disorders) and weapons residues in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, this article develops a geographical agenda for examining power in late modern war from the perspective of the ground and the life it sustains. A case is made for understanding the time-spaces of war as not compressed, vertical or remote but enduring, terranean and proximate in which violence emerges th…
Writing the body, writing others
Scholars have explored the ways that hierarchical North-South relations are preserved and reproduced in the spaces of international volunteering. Global structural inequalities are widely understood to permeate relations between volunteers and hosts where even the intimacies of empathy and care are ascribed values drawn out of North-South divides. This article has two objectives. First, to explore the affective experience of volunteering for deve…
Late modern war and the geos
This article develops the idea that late modern war’s relationship with the geos (the ground and the life it sustains) is doubly destructive. While part of this is recognized in a recent focus on slow violence and ecological aftermaths, there is little consideration of the ‘beforemath’, or the sites of extraction that make advanced military technologies possible. Drawing attention to mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the artic…
Women’s Lives Beyond the Checkpoint in Palestine
This article brings women to the fore of a discussion of checkpoints in Palestine to understand better the ways that Palestinian women’s lives—even as they may not regularly cross checkpoints—are affected by Israeli security infrastructure. Drawing on fieldwork near Checkpoint 300 between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, we examine women’s lives in the context of a gendered system of permits and the nearby checkpoint that makes men’s days of labour both …
Trying to get our message across’
This paper reports data from the evaluation of a coach education programme provided by a major national governing body of sport (NGB) in the UK. The programme was designed for youth sport coaches based on research evidence that suggests that CPD is most effective in supporting practitioner learning when it is interactive, collaborative and located in practice. At the same time, the NGB was keen to ensure that in order to meet the objectives of th…
For speaking against silence
This paper addresses the gap between accounts of subalternity in the field and theoretical positions on ethics we find in the work of Gayatri Spivak. I provide a reading of Spivak's writing on subalternity and the ethics of representation to explicate three ethical injunctions connected to: (1) an antifoundationalist approach to subalternity; (2) “hyper‐self‐reflexivity” of an investigating subject; and (3) the imperative to name subalternity. Se…
Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame
The objective of this article is to set out lines of international complicity in Israel's war on Gaza towards establishing not merely a refreshed agenda for research but also strategic sites of accountability and intervention. The article surveys Israeli military activities in Gaza since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks, drawing focus on three key points of international military collaboration: the F‐16 fighter jet; the GBU type bomb; and the wea…
Ungovernability and ungovernable life in Palestine
This paper elaborates the notion of ungovernability as an irresolvable condition of living. It begins by identifying three distinct modes of ungovernability in current geographical work on Palestine: ungovernability as a failure to govern; as a rationale for governing; and as a technique of governing. To this we develop a further conceptualisation of ungovernability as a condition of living that, firstly, remains irreducible to the strategic doma…
Palestinian futures
In After the Last Sky, a text written more than three decades ago, Edward Said (1986:158) wondered how 'most of us [Palestinians]', though never 'tired enough to give up entirely', 'rally to our cause even through a mixture of scepticism and fatigue (after all, how long can you go on losing?) breaks whenever a new campaign gets under way'.To a contemporary reader, it is the question of how long that engenders incredulity: while Said's words embod…
Decolonising the spaces of geographical knowledge production
In this commentary we draw focus on the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) at Lowther Lodge, Kensington Gore, to discuss the prospect of decolonising in the spaces geographical knowledge production. We propose a focus on the spaces of geography that can exclude and marginalise, and serious engagement with the discomfiting question of whether violent colonial histories should be both so prominent and silent in the spaces of geographical knowled…
Professional coach educators in-situ
Professional coach educators are key to the success of coach education and play a crucial role in developing coaching practice. However, coach education research remains remarkably coach centric with little attention paid to the coach educator or the broader role of the socio-cultural context that frames the learning process. Four professional coach educators working for a Sport Governing Body in-situ with twenty five professional clubs took part…
Late Modern War and theGeos
This article works toward an ontology of war centered on the life of the planet, or geos. Noting a disciplinary tendency to focus on the makers of war, we ask: What if our analyses of war begin not with the technologies of killing but with the life that is targeted? Our response proceeds in four sections. We first identify a 'militarized ontology' of war that forms through the ways that militaries figure violence as spatially and temporally 'prec…
The Stagecraft of Aeschylus
Teenage Gambling
Structured interviews were conducted of 40 gamblers between 17 and 24 years of age. They were males who reported playing 3 or more times per week and spending £1 to £4 per session. Many were unemployed or at school
The observational study of adolescent gambling in UK amusement arcades
In the UK, excessive fruit machine playing is the most documented form of pathological gambling amongst adolescents. Although there have been a few retrospective questionnaire studies in adolescent fruit machine gambling, there has been very little systematic observational fieldwork into the behaviour. The studies reported explore the social world of fruit machine playing using data collected via the monitoring of 33 UK amusement arcades employin…
Gambling and speculation
Factors in problem adolescent fruit machine gambling
Pathological gambling
Fruit machine gambling
Fruit machine addiction in adolescence
An exploratory study of gambling cross addictions
Beating the fruit machine
Technological addictions
The role of subjective mood states in the maintenance of fruit machine gambling behaviour
Current trends in slot machine gambling
Towards a risk factor model of fruit machine addiction
Behavioural addiction
For many people the concept of addiction involves taking drugs. Therefore it is perhaps unsurprising that most official definitions concentrate on drug ingestion. Despite such definitions, there is now a growing movement which views a number of behaviours as potentially addictive, including many behaviours which do not involve the ingestion of a drug. But do behavioural addictions really exist? Answers this question by examining the various commo…
Gambling on the internet
Psychology of Computer Use
This paper adds further comments to a case description by Young on addictive use of the Internet. Brief comments relating to the Internet as a behaviourial addiction and the problem of to what users are actually addicted, are discussed
Arcade Gambling
Preliminary observational data relating to slot machine gamblers in two amusement arcades were collected over 3 mo. in the winter in Plymouth (south-west England). Arcades were frequented largely by males most of whom appeared to be adolescent. Slot machine gambling seemed to be an essentially solitary activity even when people entered the arcades in groups
Computer Game Playing in Early Adolescence
Home computer game playing appears to be one of the social and leisure phenomena of the nineties, yet there is still little known about the acquisition, development, and maintenance of computer game playing among children and adolescents. A survey of 147 eleven-year-old computer game players attending a summer camp revealed that their main reasons for playing were for fun, for a challenge, because there was nothing else to do, and because their f…
Adolescent gambling and drug use
In this study, 4516 adolescents (aged 11–16 years) completed a questionnaire examining the relationship between underage National Lottery gambling, underage scratchcard gambling, cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol and drug use. It was found that these behaviours were closely linked. Adolescent gamblers reported that they were significantly more likely to drink alcohol (particularly ‘alcopops’), smoke tobacco and take drugs compared to non-gamble…
Gambling Technologies
The UK National Telephone Gambling Helpline—Results on the First Year of Operation
Some Comments on ‘Health-Related Correlates of Gambling on the British National Lottery’ by Reid, ET AL
Comments are made on an earlier article by Reid, et al. about health correlates of playing the National Lottery in the UK. This author argues that weekly or biweekly lotteries do not tend to be addictive for adults, and in adolescence rather than adulthood that most concern with lotteries has been noted
Some Comments on 'Health-Related Correlates of Gambling on the British National Lottery' by Reid, Et Al
Risk Factors in Adolescence
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