Matthew Tillotson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Tillotson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Tillotson |
| SIGNATURE | TILLOTSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1016-6480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Frontiers: ‘Curzonic’ order, frontier expansion and the 1907 Romanes lecture
George Curzon’s 1907 Romanes lecture, delivered soon after his tenure as Viceroy of India, articulated a vision of geopolitical order at a moment of British imperial decline. Curzon, however, argued that he lived at a historical zenith of frontier competition characterised by British India’s land power and complex frontiers. He invoked ancient precedents to assert the inevitability of modern imperial expansion, obscuring the specific geopolitical…
White Guys in the Borderlands: Boundary Surveying, Imperial Technoscience, and Environmental Change in the Nile Valley and at Lake Rudolf (Turkana), 1898-1909
Through a focus on British imperial boundary surveys in Anglo-Ethiopian borderlands, this article argues that an elite White masculine subjectivity emerged from surveying’s technical practices. I suggest, drawing on Barad (Citation2007), that ontological interpretations of surveying practice could help us understand how this elite subjectivity was formed through both surveying’s drive to abstraction and its embodied, “nomadic” (Deleuze and Guatta…
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968-1974
How does a monumental building – the former headquarters of the Halifax Building Society – in a northern English town embody a material expression of the mutualised mortgage industry dominant in the UK at the time of its conception and construction? How does this building correspond to a specific dispositif of mutuality? I consider questions such as these through documentary research, an interview, and correspondence with an architect who worked …
An Arendtian geopolitics: Action, power and the deferral of work
This article conceptualises a mode of geopolitical ‘action’ based on the writings of Hannah Arendt. It does so to issue challenges to a hegemonic ‘artificial’ geopolitics characterised by the logics of ‘work’, and the material relations mistrusted by Arendt, which has marginalised ‘action’ as a basis for politics. While recognising that action and work are entwined, we draw attention to action-based geopolitical alternatives and the possibilities…
Nature, space and distances in an imperial boundary network: The delimitation of the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau boundary
The topologies and topographies of hydro-social territorialisation in Jordan
Antipode to Terror: Spaces of Performative Politics
Focusing on Pakistan we address the human geography of politics and violence to argue that organized political violence is not only about death and destruction but also, more importantly, about the control of the public sphere, and vitally, the reorganization of space. To make this argument we also extend Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism and the human condition. Our argument is grounded in a review of the activities of Tehrik‐e‐Taliban, Pakista…
The topologies and topographies of hydro-social territorialisation in Jordan
Antipode to Terror: Spaces of Performative Politics
Focusing on Pakistan we address the human geography of politics and violence to argue that organized political violence is not only about death and destruction but also, more importantly, about the control of the public sphere, and vitally, the reorganization of space. To make this argument we also extend Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism and the human condition. Our argument is grounded in a review of the activities of Tehrik‐e‐Taliban, Pakista…
White Guys in the Borderlands: Boundary Surveying, Imperial Technoscience, and Environmental Change in the Nile Valley and at Lake Rudolf (Turkana), 1898-1909
Through a focus on British imperial boundary surveys in Anglo-Ethiopian borderlands, this article argues that an elite White masculine subjectivity emerged from surveying’s technical practices. I suggest, drawing on Barad (Citation2007), that ontological interpretations of surveying practice could help us understand how this elite subjectivity was formed through both surveying’s drive to abstraction and its embodied, “nomadic” (Deleuze and Guatta…
An Arendtian geopolitics: Action, power and the deferral of work
This article conceptualises a mode of geopolitical ‘action’ based on the writings of Hannah Arendt. It does so to issue challenges to a hegemonic ‘artificial’ geopolitics characterised by the logics of ‘work’, and the material relations mistrusted by Arendt, which has marginalised ‘action’ as a basis for politics. While recognising that action and work are entwined, we draw attention to action-based geopolitical alternatives and the possibilities…
Nature, space and distances in an imperial boundary network: The delimitation of the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau boundary
Antipode to Terror: Spaces of Performative Politics
Focusing on Pakistan we address the human geography of politics and violence to argue that organized political violence is not only about death and destruction but also, more importantly, about the control of the public sphere, and vitally, the reorganization of space. To make this argument we also extend Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism and the human condition. Our argument is grounded in a review of the activities of Tehrik‐e‐Taliban, Pakista…
The topologies and topographies of hydro-social territorialisation in Jordan
An Arendtian geopolitics: Action, power and the deferral of work
This article conceptualises a mode of geopolitical ‘action’ based on the writings of Hannah Arendt. It does so to issue challenges to a hegemonic ‘artificial’ geopolitics characterised by the logics of ‘work’, and the material relations mistrusted by Arendt, which has marginalised ‘action’ as a basis for politics. While recognising that action and work are entwined, we draw attention to action-based geopolitical alternatives and the possibilities…
Nature, space and distances in an imperial boundary network: The delimitation of the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau boundary
White Guys in the Borderlands: Boundary Surveying, Imperial Technoscience, and Environmental Change in the Nile Valley and at Lake Rudolf (Turkana), 1898-1909
Through a focus on British imperial boundary surveys in Anglo-Ethiopian borderlands, this article argues that an elite White masculine subjectivity emerged from surveying’s technical practices. I suggest, drawing on Barad (Citation2007), that ontological interpretations of surveying practice could help us understand how this elite subjectivity was formed through both surveying’s drive to abstraction and its embodied, “nomadic” (Deleuze and Guatta…
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968-1974
How does a monumental building – the former headquarters of the Halifax Building Society – in a northern English town embody a material expression of the mutualised mortgage industry dominant in the UK at the time of its conception and construction? How does this building correspond to a specific dispositif of mutuality? I consider questions such as these through documentary research, an interview, and correspondence with an architect who worked …
Beyond Frontiers: ‘Curzonic’ order, frontier expansion and the 1907 Romanes lecture
George Curzon’s 1907 Romanes lecture, delivered soon after his tenure as Viceroy of India, articulated a vision of geopolitical order at a moment of British imperial decline. Curzon, however, argued that he lived at a historical zenith of frontier competition characterised by British India’s land power and complex frontiers. He invoked ancient precedents to assert the inevitability of modern imperial expansion, obscuring the specific geopolitical…
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