“Postcolonial Conflict in Southeast Asia”

Posted by on May 31, 2024 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Our chapter in the new volume Making Geographies of Peace and War explores geographical dimensions of postcolonial conflict in Southeast Asia, rethinking the classical political geographical concept of the shatterbelt in light of contemporary understandings of colonial and post-colonial violence in three national settings: Vietnam, Philippines, and Indonesia. Lentz, C.C. and Kirsch, S. 2024. “Postcolonial Conflict […]

“American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire”

Posted by on May 2, 2024 in Uncategorized | No Comments

  My new book is American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire (Routledge, 2023). American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of US colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space. From concrete interventions in infrastructure, […]