I've got a new co-authored article out in Australian Geographer with Paul Munro, Andrew Burridge and Marilu Melo Zurita tracing the history of Political Geography in Australia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It is intended as the first of a two part series.
Honoured to have my book included on this list among some excellent books!
Today is my first day back at work after a few weeks off. Over the break I accumulated quite a few new books (including quite a bit of fiction!) that I'm looking forward to reading in 2026. Wishing everyone all the best for the new year! It hasn't been a great start...
Thanks so much!
Thanks so much Briony!
The official book launch of The Spatial Limits of Political Community was great fun last night.
Huge thanks to Ethan Blue, Jamal Barnes and Nardine Alnemr for their kind and thoughtful comments on the book and Megan Price for being a stellar chair.
Great to see my book made it safely!
It is this ambiguity around the figure of the neighbour that makes the politics of neighbouring a productive framework to interrogate how the limits of politics are drawn. I also believe that, if its tensions and ambiguities are kept in mind, it is a worthy political project to pursue. 8/8
While such mobilisations can often be inspiring, the politics of neighbouring is not an inherently emancipatory endeavour as violent distinctions and borders are often drawn between neighbours. Israel's current war of annihilation on Gaza being the most horrific of examples. 7/8
We have also seen neighbourhood assemblies emerge again in the context of a range of movements challenging inequalities, the status quo and building networks of solidarity from Sudan to Chile 6/8
Recently, we have seen increasingly brazen and militarized raids on migrant communities around the world, most notably in the US, as well as important efforts to disrupt and contest these, sometimes explicitly mobilising the figure of the neighbour 5/8
There were moments in the last 10 or so years I thought my focus on the neighbour in these instances was a somewhat niche and potentially dated endeavour, however, recent events have convinced me of the continued urgency of thinking with the politics of neighbouring 4/8
(1) To challenge raids on migrant communities in urban spaces who reimagine collective frameworks of belonging around the neighbour and the neighbourhood and (2) The 15-M movement that organised around neighbourhood assemblies in the wake of square occupations 3/8
The book theorises how borders and notions of political community are articulated, contested and reimagined through the figure of the neighbour, building on research I did in Spain for my PhD thesis. It draws inspiration from two main types of mobilisation of the neighbour by activists: 2/8
Today is publication day for my book "The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain": bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-spatial-... 1/8
Thanks so much for sharing Stuart!
Ari Jerrems (@arijerrems.bsky.social), The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain - @brisunipress.bsky.social, September 2025
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-spatial-...
We have an ongoing Lecturer (International Relations) position open at UWA
We encourage interdisciplinary applicants, including political geography, political sociology, political psychology, and critical security studies.
Full description and details here: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Inspiring scenes coming out of Sydney today.
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
And another honourable mention to Zali Fung for her paper: Fung, Z. (2024). Amorphous infrastructure: Contesting the proposed Yuam River water diversion project in the Salween River Basin. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2386-2412. doi.org/10.1177/2514...
Congratulations to all!
We had fantastic submissions this year and would like to give honourable mentions to two papers, including Henrietta McNeill: McNeill, H. (2023). Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border. Political Geography, 102, 102845. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
We are very happy to announce the winner of the 2025 Political Geography ECR/HDR Paper Award goes to Miriam Deprez for her article titled ‘Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine’. Congratulations! Full article: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
There are two jobs going in the School of Social Sciences at UWA.
In Human Geography: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
And Anthropology: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
The deadline for the IAG @polgeographygroup.bsky.social Paper Award has been extended until Friday the 30th of May. Do submit a paper if you haven't done so already. 500$ AUD are up for grabs! Full guidelines and requirements: politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/i...
Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿💜💜💜💜 un lujo compartir espacio con gran parte de la gente de la #RockSchool (nombre en homenaje a Paco Peñas 😜) del @geri_uam. @gea-uam.bsky.social @uam.es
Thrilled to receive a copy of this new and important textbook on critical international relations theory in Spanish and to have a chapter in it with my good friend Melody Fonseca based on work we have been doing together for many years now @itziarrga.bsky.social
Greetings from Chicago!
Now added!