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Dr Ian Shaw

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Lecturer in Human Geography (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)

The Geopolitics of Drone Warfare

I am interested in the geopolitical transformations associated with the rise of drones in U.S. national security strategy and beyond. In particular, my approach emphasises why the drone is a political actor - a technology that is slowly but definitively changing social, territorial, and sovereign relations. In this sense, I think through the ways that drones are existential forces that shape our being-in-the-world.

Ian Shaw and Majed Akhter (2012). 'The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan'. Antipode, 44(4): 1490-1509.
Ian Shaw 'Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of U.S. Drone Warfare', Geopolitics, forthcoming.
Ian Shaw (2012). 'Life and Death in Droneworld'. Critical Asian Studies, 44 (4): pp. 651-658
Ian Shaw (2012). 'Killer Robots: Are we really Losing Humanity?'. e-International Relations.
Ian Shaw (2012). 'From Baseworld to Droneworld'. Antipode Intervention (online).
I also regularly update a blog called Understanding Empire.

More-than-Human Geographies and Object-Oriented Philosophy

The complex relationships between 'nature' and 'society' is crucial in thinking through what is at stake in an ever more hybrid world. Past reserach includes outlining the politics of 'more-than-human events'. Recent collaborations with Katie Meehan and Sallie Marston are centred around the role objects play in configurations and executions of state power.

Ian Shaw (2012). 'Towards an Evental Geography', Progress in Human Geography 36(5): 612–626
Ian Shaw and Katie Meehan (2013). 'Force-Full: Power, Politics, and Object-Oriented Ontology', (in press)
Katie Meehan, Ian Shaw, and Sallie Marston (2013). ‘Political Geographies of the Object’, Political Geography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.11.002
Ian Shaw, Paul Robbins, and John Paul Jones III (2010). ‘A Bug’s Life and the Spatial Ontologies of Mosquito Management’ The Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100(2): 373–392
Ian Shaw, JP Jones, and Melinda Butterworth (2013). 'The Mosquito's Umwelt, or One Monster's Standpoint Ontology', Geoforum, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.11.028.

Political Philosophy and Popular Geopolitcs

I have long-standing engagements with political philosophy, particularly through the work of Alain Badiou and his theory of the 'event', and Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of life. I continue to research video games, with recent work with Jo Sharp investigating the subversive political qualities of aesthetics.

Ian Shaw and Jo Sharp (2013). 'Playing with the Future: Social Irrealism and the Politics of Aesthetics", Social and Cultural Geography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.765027
Ian Shaw, (2010). ‘Sites, Truths, and the Logics of Worlds: Alain Badiou and Human Geography’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(3): 431–442.
Ian Shaw (2010). ‘WALL-E’s World: Animating Badiou’s Philosophy’ Cultural Geographies 17(3): 391–405.
Ian Shaw (2010). ‘Playing War’, Social and Cultural Geography 11(8): 789–803.
Ian Shaw and Barney Warf (2009). ‘Worlds of Affect: Virtual Geographies of Video Games’, Environment and Planning A 41(6): 1332–1343.

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Number of items: 22.

2013

Meehan, K., Shaw, I., and Marston, S. (2013) Political geographies of the object. Political Geography . ISSN 0962-6298 (In Press)

Shaw, I. (2013) Predator empire: the geopolitics of U.S. drone warfare. Geopolitics . ISSN 1465-0045 (In Press)

Shaw, I., Jones III, J.P., and Butterworth, M. (2013) The Mosquito’s Umwelt, or One Monster’s Standpoint Ontology. Geoforum . ISSN 0016-7185 (In Press)

Shaw, I., and Meehan, K. (2013) Force-full: power, politics, and object-oriented philosophy. Area . ISSN 0004-0894 (In Press)

Shaw, I., and Sharp, J. (2013) Playing with the future: social irrealism and the politics of aesthetics. Social and Cultural Geography . ISSN 1464-9365 (In Press)

2012

Shaw, I. (2012) From baseworld to droneworld. Antipode (Online) .

Shaw, I. (2012) Life and death in Droneworld. Critical Asian Studies, 44 (4). pp. 651-658. ISSN 1467-2715

Shaw, I. (2012) The future of killer robots: Are we really losing humanity? E-International Relations .

Shaw, I.G.R. (2012) Towards an evental geography. Progress in Human Geography, 36 (5). pp. 613-627. ISSN 0309-1325 (doi:10.1177/0309132511435002)

Shaw, I.G.R. (2012) The challenge of X. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2 (1). pp. 60-63. ISSN 2043-8206 (doi:10.1177/2043820612436937)

Shaw, I.G.R., and Akhter, M. (2012) The unbearable humanness of drone warfare in FATA, Pakistan. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 44 (4). pp. 1490-1509. ISSN 0066-4812 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00940.x)

2011

Shaw, I. (2011) Assembling Video Game Worlds. In: Brunn, S. (ed.) Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects. Springer. ISBN 9789048199198

Shaw, I. (2011) Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timeline. In: Marston, S., Knox, P., Liverman, D., Robbins, P. and Del Casino, V. (eds.) World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments. Pearson Prentice Hall, pp. 144-145. ISBN 9780130224842

2010

Shaw, I. (2010) WALL-E’s world: animating Badiou’s philosophy. Cultural Geographies, 17 (3). pp. 391-405. ISSN 1474-4740 (doi:10.1177/1474474010368609)

Shaw, I. (2010) Non-representational Theory. In: Warf, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage, pp. 2041-2042. ISBN 9781412956970

Shaw, I. (2010) Peak oil. In: Knox, P. and Marston, S. (eds.) Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography. Pearson Prentice Hall, pp. 152-153. ISBN 9780131414914

Shaw, I. (2010) Playing war. Social and Cultural Geography, 11 (8). pp. 789-803. ISSN 1464-9365 (doi:10.1080/14649365.2010.521855)

Shaw, I. (2010) Sites, truths, and the logics of worlds: Alain Badiou and human geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35 (3). pp. 431-442. ISSN 0020-2754 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00385.x)

Shaw, I. (2010) Video Games and Geography. In: Warf, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage, pp. 3015-3016. ISBN 9781412956970

Shaw, I., Dixon, D., and Jones, J.P. (2010) Theory and methodology. In: Gomez, B. and Jones, J.P. (eds.) Research Methods in Geography: A Critical Introduction. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 9-25. ISBN 9781405107105

Shaw, I., Jones, J.P., and Robbins, P. (2010) A Bug's Life and the spatial ontologies of mosquito management. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100 (2). pp. 373-392. ISSN 0004-5608 (doi:10.1080/00045601003595446)

2009

Shaw, I., and Warf, B. (2009) Worlds of affect: virtual geographies of video games. Environment and Planning A, 41 (6). pp. 1332-1343. ISSN 0308-518X (doi:10.1068/a41284)

This list was generated on Sun May 19 04:06:08 2013 BST.

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