Sasha Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sasha Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keene State College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific
This paper analyses how political agency arises in islands caught in assemblages of competing international security projects. In this paper, we combine theoretical perspectives on geopolitical assemblages with examples of how island states come to exert effective sovereignty in international affairs through institutions which materialise out of non-sovereign entities. We also analyse how US-affiliated island jurisdictions in the Pacific navigate…
Beyond Obstruction: Blockades as Productive Reorientations
This paper examines blockades not as disruptions in logistical circulations, but as entities which aim to reorient and produce different political and social processes. Inspired by Deleuzean conceptualisations of assemblage, this paper emphasises the ways blockades and occupations arise from globe‐spanning networks of social relations which then attempt to produce alternative regimes of governance through reorienting places and their topologies o…
Islands, modernity, and other worlds that never end
In this commentary, I follow up on Chandler and Pugh’s (2021) article, ‘Anthropocene Islands: There Are Only Islands After the End of the World’, to explore two central facets of their argument. First, I explore just why analyses of dynamic patterns of relational entanglements in island environments are particularly detrimental to modernist fantasies of a dichotomous world. Second, I critique whether the frame of ‘the Anthropocene’ is the most ac…
Practicing decolonial political geography: Island perspectives on neocolonialism and the China threat discourse
To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
Invisible radiation reveals who we are as people: Environmental complexity, gendered risk, and biopolitics after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
The March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, and the subsequent tsunami and release of nuclear contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, is clearly one of the largest disasters of the past century and it has devastated large portions of eastern Japan. In this paper we explore the coping mechanisms of people navigating these landscapes of contamination, as well as examine state policies developed to deal with the disaster. We argue that there has…
Sharing the struggle: Constructing transnational solidarity in global social movements
Struggles for peace, self-determination and demilitarization are common near military installations around the world. Increasingly, these struggles have become linked in globe-spanning assemblages of activism. Based on interviews in South Korea, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and Guåhan (Guam) this paper analyzes how activists in these locales develop a sense of shared oppression that serves as a basis for connecting geographically distant activi…
Apparatuses of occupation: Translocal social movements, states and the archipelagic spatialities of power
There has recently been an abundance of scholarly attention in geography to the assemblage‐like nature of contemporary social movements. While assemblage theory has rightly emphasised the performative, translocal, discursive‐material and affective aspects of social movements, less attention has been focused on the way these flexible assemblages territorialise power and attempt to order social activities in place. Through an analysis of contempora…
Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Journal Article Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases Get access Ed. by Edwin A. Martini. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. x, 334 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 223–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw094 Published: 01 June 2016
Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Marc Shell’s Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics is an examination of historical and literary perspectives on islands. Filled with many illustrations, photos, maps, and narratives, this book
Repeating Islands of Resistance: Redefining Security in Militarized Landscapes
Social movements near American military bases have been increasingly successful at opposing the continue militarization of their home communities. Focusing on groups from Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i and Okinawa –as well as the global “No Bases” network – this paper examines how social movements in presently colonized places organize their multi-scalar activism to challenge the legitimacy of militarism. While the American state views many of these …
Repeating Islands of Resistance: Redefining Security in Militarized Landscapes
Social movements near American military bases have been increasingly successful at opposing the continue militarization of their home communities. Focusing on groups from Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i and Okinawa –as well as the global “No Bases” network – this paper examines how social movements in presently colonized places organize their multi-scalar activism to challenge the legitimacy of militarism. While the American state views many of these …
The US military base network and contemporary colonialism: Power projection, resistance and the quest for operational unilateralism
The US military base network and contemporary colonialism: Power projection, resistance and the quest for operational unilateralism
Apparatuses of occupation: Translocal social movements, states and the archipelagic spatialities of power
There has recently been an abundance of scholarly attention in geography to the assemblage‐like nature of contemporary social movements. While assemblage theory has rightly emphasised the performative, translocal, discursive‐material and affective aspects of social movements, less attention has been focused on the way these flexible assemblages territorialise power and attempt to order social activities in place. Through an analysis of contempora…
Practicing decolonial political geography: Island perspectives on neocolonialism and the China threat discourse
Beyond Obstruction: Blockades as Productive Reorientations
This paper examines blockades not as disruptions in logistical circulations, but as entities which aim to reorient and produce different political and social processes. Inspired by Deleuzean conceptualisations of assemblage, this paper emphasises the ways blockades and occupations arise from globe‐spanning networks of social relations which then attempt to produce alternative regimes of governance through reorienting places and their topologies o…
Invisible radiation reveals who we are as people: Environmental complexity, gendered risk, and biopolitics after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
The March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, and the subsequent tsunami and release of nuclear contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, is clearly one of the largest disasters of the past century and it has devastated large portions of eastern Japan. In this paper we explore the coping mechanisms of people navigating these landscapes of contamination, as well as examine state policies developed to deal with the disaster. We argue that there has…
Sharing the struggle: Constructing transnational solidarity in global social movements
Struggles for peace, self-determination and demilitarization are common near military installations around the world. Increasingly, these struggles have become linked in globe-spanning assemblages of activism. Based on interviews in South Korea, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and Guåhan (Guam) this paper analyzes how activists in these locales develop a sense of shared oppression that serves as a basis for connecting geographically distant activi…
Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Journal Article Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases Get access Ed. by Edwin A. Martini. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. x, 334 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 223–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw094 Published: 01 June 2016
Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Marc Shell’s Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics is an examination of historical and literary perspectives on islands. Filled with many illustrations, photos, maps, and narratives, this book
The US military base network and contemporary colonialism: Power projection, resistance and the quest for operational unilateralism
Repeating Islands of Resistance: Redefining Security in Militarized Landscapes
Social movements near American military bases have been increasingly successful at opposing the continue militarization of their home communities. Focusing on groups from Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i and Okinawa –as well as the global “No Bases” network – this paper examines how social movements in presently colonized places organize their multi-scalar activism to challenge the legitimacy of militarism. While the American state views many of these …
Repeating Islands of Resistance: Redefining Security in Militarized Landscapes
Social movements near American military bases have been increasingly successful at opposing the continue militarization of their home communities. Focusing on groups from Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i and Okinawa –as well as the global “No Bases” network – this paper examines how social movements in presently colonized places organize their multi-scalar activism to challenge the legitimacy of militarism. While the American state views many of these …
Apparatuses of occupation: Translocal social movements, states and the archipelagic spatialities of power
There has recently been an abundance of scholarly attention in geography to the assemblage‐like nature of contemporary social movements. While assemblage theory has rightly emphasised the performative, translocal, discursive‐material and affective aspects of social movements, less attention has been focused on the way these flexible assemblages territorialise power and attempt to order social activities in place. Through an analysis of contempora…
Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Journal Article Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases Get access Ed. by Edwin A. Martini. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. x, 334 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 223–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw094 Published: 01 June 2016
Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Marc Shell’s Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics is an examination of historical and literary perspectives on islands. Filled with many illustrations, photos, maps, and narratives, this book
Sharing the struggle: Constructing transnational solidarity in global social movements
Struggles for peace, self-determination and demilitarization are common near military installations around the world. Increasingly, these struggles have become linked in globe-spanning assemblages of activism. Based on interviews in South Korea, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and Guåhan (Guam) this paper analyzes how activists in these locales develop a sense of shared oppression that serves as a basis for connecting geographically distant activi…
Invisible radiation reveals who we are as people: Environmental complexity, gendered risk, and biopolitics after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
The March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, and the subsequent tsunami and release of nuclear contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, is clearly one of the largest disasters of the past century and it has devastated large portions of eastern Japan. In this paper we explore the coping mechanisms of people navigating these landscapes of contamination, as well as examine state policies developed to deal with the disaster. We argue that there has…
To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
Islands, modernity, and other worlds that never end
In this commentary, I follow up on Chandler and Pugh’s (2021) article, ‘Anthropocene Islands: There Are Only Islands After the End of the World’, to explore two central facets of their argument. First, I explore just why analyses of dynamic patterns of relational entanglements in island environments are particularly detrimental to modernist fantasies of a dichotomous world. Second, I critique whether the frame of ‘the Anthropocene’ is the most ac…
Practicing decolonial political geography: Island perspectives on neocolonialism and the China threat discourse
Beyond Obstruction: Blockades as Productive Reorientations
This paper examines blockades not as disruptions in logistical circulations, but as entities which aim to reorient and produce different political and social processes. Inspired by Deleuzean conceptualisations of assemblage, this paper emphasises the ways blockades and occupations arise from globe‐spanning networks of social relations which then attempt to produce alternative regimes of governance through reorienting places and their topologies o…
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific
This paper analyses how political agency arises in islands caught in assemblages of competing international security projects. In this paper, we combine theoretical perspectives on geopolitical assemblages with examples of how island states come to exert effective sovereignty in international affairs through institutions which materialise out of non-sovereign entities. We also analyse how US-affiliated island jurisdictions in the Pacific navigate…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Geography (4 works)