School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

Dr Ian Shaw

Ian Shaw
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)

email: Ian.Shaw.2@glasgow.ac.uk


I am a political geographer with a variety of research interests, currently centred on the geopolitics of U.S.-led drone warfare. This research branches into two main areas: (1) Along with Majed Akhter, I have explored the historical geographies of Pakistan; particularly the role secrecy has played in shaping modern Pakistan-U.S. relations. (2) What I call the "Predator Empire"--the increasing use of unmanned technologies to perform targeted killings across the planet, and the slow adoption of drones for law enforcement "everywhere". 

I have long-standing engagements in political ontology, particularly through the work of Alain Badiou and his theory of the "event", and Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of immanence. The latter was part of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary research project on the interactions between humans, institutions, and mosquitoes in Arizona with Paul Robbins and JP Jones.

I have written on the politics of popular culture, including cinema and video games. 

More recent work with Katie Meehan and Sallie Marston includes theorizations of the "non-human", particularly the role objects play in (a) configurations and executions of state power; (b) geographic change--what I call the "geo-event". 

I started as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow in July 2011, after obtaining an MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Arizona. 

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Number of items: 14.

2012

Shaw, I., and Akhter, M. (2012) The unbearable humanness of drone warfare in FATA, Pakistan. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography . ISSN 0066-4812 (In Press)

Shaw, I. (2012) Towards an evental geography. Progress in Human Geography . ISSN 0309-1325 (In Press)

Shaw, I. (2012) The challenge of X. Dialogues in Human Geography . ISSN 2043-8206 (In Press)

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., 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)

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

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 Sat May 26 06:40:52 2012 BST.