Alison J Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison J Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison J |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 298 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Aircraft carriers and the capacity to mobilise US power across the Pacific, 1919–1929
This paper analyses how aircraft carriers were developed and positioned within US Navy planning for war in the Pacific during the first decade of the interwar period. Building on Caren Kaplan's framing of military mobility as a capacity, the paper contends that as carrier technologies advanced during the 1920s so recognition of their capacity to act as more than simply mobile islands tasked with supporting the big guns of the fleet emerged. The p…
Militarisation, universities and the university armed service units
This paper asks what militarisation looks like when encountered in university settings, using the example of the UK university armed service units. It identifies a specific definition of militarisation, which is then used as a framework to explore the USUs. The USUs have been subject to critique as emblematic of militarisation, and thus problematic. The paper looks at practices where militarisation can be identified as evident on university campu…
The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific. By Sasha Davis. viii and 176 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. $59.95
Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks
This paper advances the concept of disruption, drawing upon Butler's (1993) work on performativity, her engagement with Goffman's (1974) frame analysis and recent work on performativity within critical geopolitics. It argues this approach provides a useful tool with which to elucidate gaps in the iterative processes of geopolitical discourse production that offer opportunities for momentary distortions to these dominant articulations of power. It…
Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice
Re-Orientating Vertical Geopolitics
Geopolitics has a tradition of adopting a downward looking view-from-above, which is imbued with an imperialistic ‘god's eye’ perspective. Although acknowledged and critiqued, this paper argues that it needs to be actively re-orientated to encompass the discourses and practices of looking up. The paper analyses the practices of looking up and surveilling the sky through which air defence is achieved. It interrogates the ways in which UK air defen…
Beyond the securitisation of development: The limits of intervention, developmentisation of security and repositioning of purpose in the UK Coalition Government’s policy agenda
Enabling persistent presence? Performing the embodied geopolitics of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle assemblage
Reading Peter Adey's Aerial Life
Introduction: Air-target
Why does the air-target and its associated practices matter? This special section is about the politics, practices and ethics surrounding the target and efforts to subvert or circumvent them. Since Eyal Weizman's groundbreaking essay on the 'politics of verticality' in 2002, there have been numerous attempts to critically open up the aerial gaze, but rarely have they come together for sustained analysis and critique, to explore the implications o…
A crisis in aerial sovereignty? Considering the implications of recent military violations of national airspace
The implementation of policies of pre‐emption and securitisation by a number of states has led to an increase in the number of aerial incursions by one state's air force into another state's territory in recent years, often occurring before and, indeed, instead of ground incursions. This paper argues that it is vital that we conceptualise territory as a three‐dimensional volume, rather than simply a flat area, in order to enable an analysis of ho…
Reconceptualising spaces of the air: Performing the multiple spatialities of UK military airspaces
This paper seeks to unpack the complex spatialities of UK airspace, looking beyond traditional civil aviation classifications to focus specifically on the spaces used by military aviation in the UK context. It argues that UK national sovereign airspace should not be viewed as a single homogenous entity, but instead must be reconceptualised as a plethora of multiple, vertically and horizontally, overlapping airspaces that can be activated or deact…
Beyond the Sovereign Realm: The Geopolitics and Power Relations in and of Outer Space
The territorial integrity of Iraq, 2003–2007: Invocation, violation, viability
Delimitation and Demarcation: Analysing the Legacy of Stephen B. Jones'sBoundary-Making
In 1945 Stephen B Jones, an American political geographer, published Boundary-Making: A Handbook for Statesmen, Treaty Editors and Boundary Commissioners in which he set out the practicalities of boundary delimitation, demarcation and maintenance. The significance of this volume to boundary scholars and practitioners cannot be overstated. Jones's book, outlining guidelines for good practice in boundary-making, continues to be consulted as a uniqu…
Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy
Enabling persistent presence? Performing the embodied geopolitics of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle assemblage
Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy
Reconceptualising spaces of the air: Performing the multiple spatialities of UK military airspaces
This paper seeks to unpack the complex spatialities of UK airspace, looking beyond traditional civil aviation classifications to focus specifically on the spaces used by military aviation in the UK context. It argues that UK national sovereign airspace should not be viewed as a single homogenous entity, but instead must be reconceptualised as a plethora of multiple, vertically and horizontally, overlapping airspaces that can be activated or deact…
Introduction: Air-target
Why does the air-target and its associated practices matter? This special section is about the politics, practices and ethics surrounding the target and efforts to subvert or circumvent them. Since Eyal Weizman's groundbreaking essay on the 'politics of verticality' in 2002, there have been numerous attempts to critically open up the aerial gaze, but rarely have they come together for sustained analysis and critique, to explore the implications o…
Re-Orientating Vertical Geopolitics
Geopolitics has a tradition of adopting a downward looking view-from-above, which is imbued with an imperialistic ‘god's eye’ perspective. Although acknowledged and critiqued, this paper argues that it needs to be actively re-orientated to encompass the discourses and practices of looking up. The paper analyses the practices of looking up and surveilling the sky through which air defence is achieved. It interrogates the ways in which UK air defen…
A crisis in aerial sovereignty? Considering the implications of recent military violations of national airspace
The implementation of policies of pre‐emption and securitisation by a number of states has led to an increase in the number of aerial incursions by one state's air force into another state's territory in recent years, often occurring before and, indeed, instead of ground incursions. This paper argues that it is vital that we conceptualise territory as a three‐dimensional volume, rather than simply a flat area, in order to enable an analysis of ho…
Beyond the securitisation of development: The limits of intervention, developmentisation of security and repositioning of purpose in the UK Coalition Government’s policy agenda
Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks
This paper advances the concept of disruption, drawing upon Butler's (1993) work on performativity, her engagement with Goffman's (1974) frame analysis and recent work on performativity within critical geopolitics. It argues this approach provides a useful tool with which to elucidate gaps in the iterative processes of geopolitical discourse production that offer opportunities for momentary distortions to these dominant articulations of power. It…
The territorial integrity of Iraq, 2003–2007: Invocation, violation, viability
Militarisation, universities and the university armed service units
This paper asks what militarisation looks like when encountered in university settings, using the example of the UK university armed service units. It identifies a specific definition of militarisation, which is then used as a framework to explore the USUs. The USUs have been subject to critique as emblematic of militarisation, and thus problematic. The paper looks at practices where militarisation can be identified as evident on university campu…
The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific. By Sasha Davis. viii and 176 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. $59.95
Delimitation and Demarcation: Analysing the Legacy of Stephen B. Jones'sBoundary-Making
In 1945 Stephen B Jones, an American political geographer, published Boundary-Making: A Handbook for Statesmen, Treaty Editors and Boundary Commissioners in which he set out the practicalities of boundary delimitation, demarcation and maintenance. The significance of this volume to boundary scholars and practitioners cannot be overstated. Jones's book, outlining guidelines for good practice in boundary-making, continues to be consulted as a uniqu…
Aircraft carriers and the capacity to mobilise US power across the Pacific, 1919–1929
This paper analyses how aircraft carriers were developed and positioned within US Navy planning for war in the Pacific during the first decade of the interwar period. Building on Caren Kaplan's framing of military mobility as a capacity, the paper contends that as carrier technologies advanced during the 1920s so recognition of their capacity to act as more than simply mobile islands tasked with supporting the big guns of the fleet emerged. The p…
Beyond the Sovereign Realm: The Geopolitics and Power Relations in and of Outer Space
Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy
Delimitation and Demarcation: Analysing the Legacy of Stephen B. Jones'sBoundary-Making
In 1945 Stephen B Jones, an American political geographer, published Boundary-Making: A Handbook for Statesmen, Treaty Editors and Boundary Commissioners in which he set out the practicalities of boundary delimitation, demarcation and maintenance. The significance of this volume to boundary scholars and practitioners cannot be overstated. Jones's book, outlining guidelines for good practice in boundary-making, continues to be consulted as a uniqu…
The territorial integrity of Iraq, 2003–2007: Invocation, violation, viability
A crisis in aerial sovereignty? Considering the implications of recent military violations of national airspace
The implementation of policies of pre‐emption and securitisation by a number of states has led to an increase in the number of aerial incursions by one state's air force into another state's territory in recent years, often occurring before and, indeed, instead of ground incursions. This paper argues that it is vital that we conceptualise territory as a three‐dimensional volume, rather than simply a flat area, in order to enable an analysis of ho…
Reconceptualising spaces of the air: Performing the multiple spatialities of UK military airspaces
This paper seeks to unpack the complex spatialities of UK airspace, looking beyond traditional civil aviation classifications to focus specifically on the spaces used by military aviation in the UK context. It argues that UK national sovereign airspace should not be viewed as a single homogenous entity, but instead must be reconceptualised as a plethora of multiple, vertically and horizontally, overlapping airspaces that can be activated or deact…
Beyond the Sovereign Realm: The Geopolitics and Power Relations in and of Outer Space
Enabling persistent presence? Performing the embodied geopolitics of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle assemblage
Reading Peter Adey's Aerial Life
Introduction: Air-target
Why does the air-target and its associated practices matter? This special section is about the politics, practices and ethics surrounding the target and efforts to subvert or circumvent them. Since Eyal Weizman's groundbreaking essay on the 'politics of verticality' in 2002, there have been numerous attempts to critically open up the aerial gaze, but rarely have they come together for sustained analysis and critique, to explore the implications o…
Beyond the securitisation of development: The limits of intervention, developmentisation of security and repositioning of purpose in the UK Coalition Government’s policy agenda
Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice
Re-Orientating Vertical Geopolitics
Geopolitics has a tradition of adopting a downward looking view-from-above, which is imbued with an imperialistic ‘god's eye’ perspective. Although acknowledged and critiqued, this paper argues that it needs to be actively re-orientated to encompass the discourses and practices of looking up. The paper analyses the practices of looking up and surveilling the sky through which air defence is achieved. It interrogates the ways in which UK air defen…
Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks
This paper advances the concept of disruption, drawing upon Butler's (1993) work on performativity, her engagement with Goffman's (1974) frame analysis and recent work on performativity within critical geopolitics. It argues this approach provides a useful tool with which to elucidate gaps in the iterative processes of geopolitical discourse production that offer opportunities for momentary distortions to these dominant articulations of power. It…
Aircraft carriers and the capacity to mobilise US power across the Pacific, 1919–1929
This paper analyses how aircraft carriers were developed and positioned within US Navy planning for war in the Pacific during the first decade of the interwar period. Building on Caren Kaplan's framing of military mobility as a capacity, the paper contends that as carrier technologies advanced during the 1920s so recognition of their capacity to act as more than simply mobile islands tasked with supporting the big guns of the fleet emerged. The p…
Militarisation, universities and the university armed service units
This paper asks what militarisation looks like when encountered in university settings, using the example of the UK university armed service units. It identifies a specific definition of militarisation, which is then used as a framework to explore the USUs. The USUs have been subject to critique as emblematic of militarisation, and thus problematic. The paper looks at practices where militarisation can be identified as evident on university campu…
The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific. By Sasha Davis. viii and 176 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. $59.95
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