Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land

Genealogies, political life and critical agendas

Bibliographic Data

ID8963495
AuthorsNoam Leshem (0000-0002-7360-9699, Department of Geography Durham University Durham DH1 3LE, corresponding author), Alasdair Pinkerton (Department of Geography Royal Holloway University of London Egham TW20 0EX)
Year2015
Volume41
Issue1
Pages41-53
Publication date2015-10-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12102
OpenAlexW2158399273
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited51

This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich analytical category, which resonates in a broader historical and intellectual corpus. We present a conceptual framework for the study of no‐man's land as a space produced by simultaneous forces of abandonment and enclosure. The analysis explores the function of no‐man's lands as a critical quality that bears on concrete spatio‐political realities. In doing so, we aim to open up future research avenues that will further deepen the conceptual and analytical challenges of no‐man's lands in the 21st century

Abandonment (legal · Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Function (biology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

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