A Jeffrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 50019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Jeffrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffrey |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFREY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4753-5825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 522 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Release as a sign of our times
This paper explores the recent public discourse on release from prison in England and Wales as a prism through which to view the wider justice system. There is much we can learn by looking at this pivotal point in someone’s justice journey as it tells us not only about individual experiences on losing and regaining one’s freedom but about fundamental values on liberty and the rule of law as well as a society’s stance on justice. This paper confro…
From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to deliver impartial and universal justice, yet its operations are shaped by geopolitical interests and legal formalism, limiting its inclusivity and effectiveness. This commentary draws on feminist geopolitics to critically examine how the ICC's structural ambiguities constrain but also create opportunities for rethinking justice. By foregrounding intersectionality, structural violence and a…
Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law‐making
While legal geographers have considered the geography of legal processes, there has been less attention on how geographers are contributing to the making of law. By orientating attention to the experiences and attitudes of the geographical profession, this paper examines how specific forms of knowledge become legally useful and the ensuing ethical, legal, and disciplinary implications. We are interested in the situated nature of these productions…
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice
At a time of increasing prominence of the workings and judgements of international courts, recent interdisciplinary work has illuminated the deeply uneven ways in which violence is labelled, understood, and acted upon. Attempting to place work in genocide studies in conversation with current geographical scholarship, this paper argues that there are intrinsic spatial qualities to deliberations over whether an act of violence constitutes genocide.…
Space, abandonment, closure, and performance: Writing about the relationship between law and war
This author’s response responds to the reviews for The Edge of Law and The War Lawyers. This response focuses on four themes that are both present in the reviews and constituted central themes of the books themselves: space-time, abandonment, closure, and performance. Considering each in turn, the response highlights areas of consensus and dissensus between the two books while providing sightlines for future research
Investigating trial spaces: Thinking through legal spatiality beyond the court
This paper examines how the spaces through which legal trials take place shape attitudes towards justice. There has been a growing academic interest in the role of courts in configuring the relationships between trial participants and consequently reproducing pre‐established hierarchies of power. This paper builds on this work to consider the spatiality of trials from the perspective of a particular group of court users: defendants. Drawing on qu…
Youth citizenship after Lynn Staeheli
Practising legal geography
Legal geography is experiencing a “practice turn.” Understanding the material, spatial, and embodied characteristics of law is illuminating hitherto obscured experiences of justice, injustice, and political practice. It is contributions from scholars at the forefront of these concerns, from geography and cognate disciplines, that comprise the papers in the Practising legal geography special section. Across seven papers we are seeking to explore t…
Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on
Politics, feminist geopolitics and aesthetics
In The Sight of Death art historian T. J. Clark (2006) gives an account of daily visits to the Getty Institute in Los Angeles to observe two paintings by Nicolas Poussin: Landscape with a Calm and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake. Clark’s book – ostensibly stimulated by the fortune of both paintings hanging in the same gallery – is organised as a set of diary entries and its purpose is at once prosaic and experimental. At first glance the b…
Legal geography III: Evidence
This report explores scholarship at the interface of geography and law engaging with the concept of evidence. As with the first two reports, this is not a summary of a predefined field, but rather a consideration of how ideas of what constitutes evidence have been differentially understood across geographical and cognate studies. The discussion spans work that has considered the formal barriers to the production of evidence at trials, the politic…
Improvising regions: Diplomatic practices between Russia and the Republika Srpska
There has been growing political and scholarly interest in the diplomatic practices of sub-state regions, sometimes referred to as ‘paradiplomacy’. This work explores how such diplomatic acts challenge the hegemony of the state system while articulating new geopolitical configurations that may centre on religious, territorial or ethnic accounts of identity. The paper examines the nature and significance of relations between the Republika Srpska (…
Legal geography II: Bodies and law
Building on the arguments of the first report concerning court materiality, this progress report examines the various ways in which bodies have become the focal point of legal geographic interest. This work strays across disciplinary boundaries, mirroring other areas of the geographic discipline in understanding bodies both in their corporeal terms (as fleshy and vital) and their discursive construction (emerging through constellations of languag…
Rethinking the spaces of civil society
Drinking coffee, rehearsing civility, making subjects
Phenomenology
Phenomenology is a philosophical approach that studies human consciousness and experience. Geographers began to adopt aspects of phenomenology in the 1960s and 1970s, partly to challenge the abstraction and generalization of prevailing spatial scientific approaches and partly to provide a more invigorated sense of human agency within geographical theory. Phenomenological approaches emphasize the significance of human subjectivity, the complexity …
Idealism
The study of idealism explores how human interpretation shapes understandings of reality. This philosophical approach has been popular in certain strands of human geography, in particular following the challenges to logical positivism advanced from the 1970s onward. While idealist perspectives have been important for qualitative studies that seek to understand human subjectivity, they have also been criticized for failing to adequately account fo…
Critical Geography
There is little consensus about the characteristics of critical geography. The term emerged in the 1970s to refer to Marxist‐influenced geographical works that sought to highlight – and confront – inequalities stemming from the operation of the capitalist system. The theoretical and practical lens of the field widened in subsequent years as feminist, postcolonial, antiracist, and anarchist geographers developed critical perspectives that could il…
Communicating law, building peace: The pedagogy of public outreach from war crimes courts
There has been a growing interdisciplinary concern with the implications of public outreach processes from war crimes trials for new forms of citizenship in the wake of violent conflict. The enactment of such outreach, through seminars, civil society initiatives and workshops, provides a glimpse of the tensions between different conceptions of justice, belonging and rights in the post-conflict period. Specifically, such events constitute a rare p…
Legal geography 1: Court materiality
This report examines the spatiality of court processes, connecting interdisciplinary work that has considered the physical processes of trials with geographical work that has deepened our understanding of the substance and properties of the material world. The specific focus of this discussion is the built materiality of courts, tracing the emergence of work on the nature of trial spaces, court architecture and the arrangement of courtrooms. Rath…
Interventions on Europe's political futures
Oxygen and carbon isotopes in Gerbillinae (gerbil) teeth provide palaeoaridity records in two Late Pleistocene Moroccan sites
Go get a job right after you take a bath”: Occupy Wall Street as Matter Out of Place
Anthropological studies of purity reveal how notions of cleanliness influence political and social life. During its 2011 Zuccotti Park occupation in Lower Manhattan, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) contested spatial and symbolic manifestations of neoliberalism by re-inserting Otherness into sanitized and privatized space. But the demonstration provoked reactions from politicians and news media that entwined discourses of cleanliness and productivity (su…
The State
This chapter seeks to pluralize understandings of the state and trace these through four sections, each overlapping and intertwined. The first explores the imagined foundations of the state as a natural or organic expression of human territoriality. The second looks at the international nature of statehood through consideration of the state system. The third section examines how feminist, anthropological, and poststructural approaches to the stat…
More than a pipe
Rethinking Enclosure: Space, Subjectivity and the Commons
While concepts of "enclosure" and the "commons" are becoming increasingly popular in critical geography, there have been few attempts to think them together. This paper sets out a dialectic of enclosure-commons as a means for thinking through contemporary processes of exclusion, violence and alterity. We examine what is at stake through a geographical reading of enclosure, that is, the processes through which neoliberalism works through-and summo…
Spaces of enclosure
Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy
Legal geography 1: Court materiality
This report examines the spatiality of court processes, connecting interdisciplinary work that has considered the physical processes of trials with geographical work that has deepened our understanding of the substance and properties of the material world. The specific focus of this discussion is the built materiality of courts, tracing the emergence of work on the nature of trial spaces, court architecture and the arrangement of courtrooms. Rath…
Legal geography II: Bodies and law
Building on the arguments of the first report concerning court materiality, this progress report examines the various ways in which bodies have become the focal point of legal geographic interest. This work strays across disciplinary boundaries, mirroring other areas of the geographic discipline in understanding bodies both in their corporeal terms (as fleshy and vital) and their discursive construction (emerging through constellations of languag…
Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on
Understanding legitimacy: Perspectives from anomalous geopolitical spaces
Building state capacity in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: The case of Brčko District
Legal geography III: Evidence
This report explores scholarship at the interface of geography and law engaging with the concept of evidence. As with the first two reports, this is not a summary of a predefined field, but rather a consideration of how ideas of what constitutes evidence have been differentially understood across geographical and cognate studies. The discussion spans work that has considered the formal barriers to the production of evidence at trials, the politic…
The political geographies of transitional justice
This paper examines how geographers can contribute to debates concerning transitional justice. Recent scholarship in criminology has identified a residual ‘legalism’ in the enactment and study of transitional justice: trial processes and the perspectives of jurists have been prioritised over wider processes of social healing and the perceptions of non‐legal actors. This paper explores how geographers can contribute to challenging this prioritisat…
Contesting Europe: The Politics of Bosnian Integration into European Structures
This paper explores what is meant by ‘being European’ in contemporary Bosnia. Over the past two decades, Western politicians have justified interventions in Bosnia through recourse to an Orientalist binary between a rational and progressive ‘Europe’, and an irrational and retrogressive ‘Balkans’. Current efforts to incorporate Bosnia into European structures reproduce this imaginary, in this instance though replacing space with time, suggesting t…
The Hybrid Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court
This article explores the implications of understanding war crime trials as hybrid legal spaces. Drawing on twelve months of residential fieldwork in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, it examines the circulation of evidence, the choreography of the courtroom, and the nature and possibilities for legal observation. Analyzing hybrid legal geographies foregrounds the material and embodied nature of trials, illuminating the forms of comp…
The Geopolitical Framing of Localized Struggles: NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The outbreak of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was widely regarded by the international community as a 'humanitarian nightmare'. Imagining the conflict in these terms ensured that it was non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and aid agencies, rather than military forces, which intervened in the violence. In recent years, international agencies have been keen to reposition Bosnia as a country 'in transition' while advancing a series of initiatives …
Practising legal geography
Legal geography is experiencing a “practice turn.” Understanding the material, spatial, and embodied characteristics of law is illuminating hitherto obscured experiences of justice, injustice, and political practice. It is contributions from scholars at the forefront of these concerns, from geography and cognate disciplines, that comprise the papers in the Practising legal geography special section. Across seven papers we are seeking to explore t…
Interventions on Europe's political futures
Using courts to build states: The competing spaces of citizenship in transitional justice programmes
This paper examines how establishing a new legal institution shapes understandings and practices of citizenship. It does so through a study of the creation of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBiH) between 2002 and 2014 and, in particular, its emerging jurisdiction over war crimes trials since 2006. International sponsors of this institution herald the establishment of the Court as an important step toward achieving justice for the crimes com…
Improvising regions: Diplomatic practices between Russia and the Republika Srpska
There has been growing political and scholarly interest in the diplomatic practices of sub-state regions, sometimes referred to as ‘paradiplomacy’. This work explores how such diplomatic acts challenge the hegemony of the state system while articulating new geopolitical configurations that may centre on religious, territorial or ethnic accounts of identity. The paper examines the nature and significance of relations between the Republika Srpska (…
Drinking coffee, rehearsing civility, making subjects
Adjudications of 'Civility: Gentrifying Civil Society
Beyond trial justice in the former Yugoslavia
The arrest of Ratko Mladić on 26 May 2011 and his almost immediate deportation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has underscored the significance of international legal institutions to the enactment of transitional justice. In this commentary we will seek to illustrate some alternative discourses and practices of transitional justice emerging across the former Yugoslavia. In particular we analyse a 6-year ini…
Justice Incomplete: Radovan Karadžić, the Icty, and the Spaces of International Law
The arrest of Radovan Karadžić in July 2008 and his transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has brought international judicial instruments under renewed scrutiny. In particular, the active pursuit of indicted war criminals across the international borders of the former Yugoslavia has challenged the primacy of the state as the locus of judicial authority. Using the arrest of Radovan Karadžić as a starting p…
The politics of ‘democratization’: Lessons from Bosnia and Iraq
Since the end of the Cold War, the suspension of state sovereignty as a means of encouraging democracy has become a common policy instrument for hegemonic state actors. Deploying discourses of democratization, such interventions have promoted a singular narrative of state building, combining neo-liberal economic norms with a vocabulary of democratic participation. Drawing on the central comparison between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq, this pap…
Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law‐making
While legal geographers have considered the geography of legal processes, there has been less attention on how geographers are contributing to the making of law. By orientating attention to the experiences and attitudes of the geographical profession, this paper examines how specific forms of knowledge become legally useful and the ensuing ethical, legal, and disciplinary implications. We are interested in the situated nature of these productions…
Go get a job right after you take a bath”: Occupy Wall Street as Matter Out of Place
Anthropological studies of purity reveal how notions of cleanliness influence political and social life. During its 2011 Zuccotti Park occupation in Lower Manhattan, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) contested spatial and symbolic manifestations of neoliberalism by re-inserting Otherness into sanitized and privatized space. But the demonstration provoked reactions from politicians and news media that entwined discourses of cleanliness and productivity (su…
Investigating trial spaces: Thinking through legal spatiality beyond the court
This paper examines how the spaces through which legal trials take place shape attitudes towards justice. There has been a growing academic interest in the role of courts in configuring the relationships between trial participants and consequently reproducing pre‐established hierarchies of power. This paper builds on this work to consider the spatiality of trials from the perspective of a particular group of court users: defendants. Drawing on qu…
Polemarchus and Socrates on Justice and Harm
ALL events, even those which on account of their insignificance do not seem to follow the great laws of nature, are a result of it just as necessarily as the revolutions of the sun.In ignorance of the ties which unite such events to the entire system of the universe, they have been made to depend upon final causes or upon hazard, according as they occur and are repeated with regularity, or appear without regard to order; but these imaginary cause…
Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition
Publisher description: An analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition's effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. In particular, prohibition is shown to directly increase violent crime, even in cases where it deters drug use. Miron's analysis leads to a disturbing finding-the…
The Colonial Present by Derek Gregory
The Colonial Present by Derek Gregory
Writing territorial conflict
(2006). Writing territorial conflict. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 830-845
Building state capacity in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: The case of Brčko District
The politics of ‘democratization’: Lessons from Bosnia and Iraq
Since the end of the Cold War, the suspension of state sovereignty as a means of encouraging democracy has become a common policy instrument for hegemonic state actors. Deploying discourses of democratization, such interventions have promoted a singular narrative of state building, combining neo-liberal economic norms with a vocabulary of democratic participation. Drawing on the central comparison between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq, this pap…
Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy
We have something in common: Introduction to four commentaries on A home from home
The Geopolitical Framing of Localized Struggles: NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The outbreak of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was widely regarded by the international community as a 'humanitarian nightmare'. Imagining the conflict in these terms ensured that it was non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and aid agencies, rather than military forces, which intervened in the violence. In recent years, international agencies have been keen to reposition Bosnia as a country 'in transition' while advancing a series of initiatives …
Introduction: A symposium on Global Shadows : Africa in the Neoliberal World Order
Contesting Europe: The Politics of Bosnian Integration into European Structures
This paper explores what is meant by ‘being European’ in contemporary Bosnia. Over the past two decades, Western politicians have justified interventions in Bosnia through recourse to an Orientalist binary between a rational and progressive ‘Europe’, and an irrational and retrogressive ‘Balkans’. Current efforts to incorporate Bosnia into European structures reproduce this imaginary, in this instance though replacing space with time, suggesting t…
Spaces of enclosure
Adjudications of 'Civility: Gentrifying Civil Society
The politics of NGO registration in international protectorates: The cases of Bosnia and Iraq
Following international interventions in Bosnia-Herzegovina1 and Iraq, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have played a central role in delivering humanitarian relief, encouraging participation in new systems of government, and advocating on behalf of marginalised groups. Although intervening agencies have framed such autonomous organisations as unquestionably virtuous, scholars have increasingly questioned the agency of NGOs, pointing to the …
Geopolitics reframed: Security and identity in Europe's eastern enlargement ‐ by Merje Kuus
Justice Incomplete: Radovan Karadžić, the Icty, and the Spaces of International Law
The arrest of Radovan Karadžić in July 2008 and his transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has brought international judicial instruments under renewed scrutiny. In particular, the active pursuit of indicted war criminals across the international borders of the former Yugoslavia has challenged the primacy of the state as the locus of judicial authority. Using the arrest of Radovan Karadžić as a starting p…
Author–critic forum: The politics of peace building in Tajikistan
The political geographies of transitional justice
This paper examines how geographers can contribute to debates concerning transitional justice. Recent scholarship in criminology has identified a residual ‘legalism’ in the enactment and study of transitional justice: trial processes and the perspectives of jurists have been prioritised over wider processes of social healing and the perceptions of non‐legal actors. This paper explores how geographers can contribute to challenging this prioritisat…
Rethinking Enclosure: Space, Subjectivity and the Commons
While concepts of "enclosure" and the "commons" are becoming increasingly popular in critical geography, there have been few attempts to think them together. This paper sets out a dialectic of enclosure-commons as a means for thinking through contemporary processes of exclusion, violence and alterity. We examine what is at stake through a geographical reading of enclosure, that is, the processes through which neoliberalism works through-and summo…
Connecting lectures to current affairs: The “letters to newspapers” assignment
This paper presents the experiences of teaching political geography, in a level 2 BA course, with the use of an innovative assignment – the letters to newspapers assignment. We provide here the aims, rationale and a detailed outline of the assignment. We also discuss student feedback from 67 questionnaires and 2 focus groups. Our findings suggest that the assignment was instrumental in (a) enabling the students to see concepts in action, that is …
Beyond trial justice in the former Yugoslavia
The arrest of Ratko Mladić on 26 May 2011 and his almost immediate deportation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has underscored the significance of international legal institutions to the enactment of transitional justice. In this commentary we will seek to illustrate some alternative discourses and practices of transitional justice emerging across the former Yugoslavia. In particular we analyse a 6-year ini…
Reading Gerard Toal and Carl T. Dahlman's Bosnia Remade: Ethnic cleansing and its reversal
Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice
The Hybrid Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court
This article explores the implications of understanding war crime trials as hybrid legal spaces. Drawing on twelve months of residential fieldwork in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, it examines the circulation of evidence, the choreography of the courtroom, and the nature and possibilities for legal observation. Analyzing hybrid legal geographies foregrounds the material and embodied nature of trials, illuminating the forms of comp…
Sociology (46 works) · Political science (43 works) · Law (41 works) · Politics (36 works) · Law (26 works) · Geopolitics (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works)