Andrew Grant
@angrant.bsky.social
Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare
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Andrew Grant
@angrant.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security
Western China’s border provinces’ domestic economic corridors are positive spaces that erase the negative spaces of the frontier. Frontiers, understood as spaces of incomplete sovereign control, th...
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My new article is out in TPG journal: Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security // From a great new SI on Himalayan Frontiers // 50 eprints www.tandfonline.com/eprint/K6KTF...
How terrified of the administration is @cnn.com to lead with such a limp headline? "Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media" You can't say sleep, you can't say dozed, you can't even say with conviction that he closed his eyes. Cowards.
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
How terrified of the administration is @cnn.com to lead with such a limp headline? "Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media" You can't say sleep, you can't say dozed, you can't even say with conviction that he closed his eyes. Cowards.
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
Digitally visiting Centro SELISI in Venice on 10/23 to give this talk. Open to all who register: Unstable Bordering: Chinese Development at Two Nepalese Border Sites.
Zoom (registration required):
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October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Digitally visiting Centro SELISI in Venice on 10/23 to give this talk. Open to all who register: Unstable Bordering: Chinese Development at Two Nepalese Border Sites.
Zoom (registration required):
unive.zoom.us/mee.../regis...
Zoom (registration required):
unive.zoom.us/mee.../regis...
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They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦♂️
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦♂️
Some of the readings and materials I am folding into my Silk Roads History class this semester. Really enjoying it!
September 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Some of the readings and materials I am folding into my Silk Roads History class this semester. Really enjoying it!
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My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this
September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this
When did promoting cancel culture become part of the DHS mandate?
A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔
DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement | Homeland Security
Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car a...
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September 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
When did promoting cancel culture become part of the DHS mandate?
Khorgos is a self-contained duty-free territorial unit that carves out territory from Kazakhstan and China. You need entry from either side, but then can't cross through the other country's migration: you have to go back home. How common are border sites like this around the world?
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Khorgos is a self-contained duty-free territorial unit that carves out territory from Kazakhstan and China. You need entry from either side, but then can't cross through the other country's migration: you have to go back home. How common are border sites like this around the world?
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Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE.
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August 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE.
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My new essay for @nbr.org that explores the convergence of geopolitical space and propaganda in China's "external periphery." To learn what (and where) that is, read on...
Since 2015, a new concept has emerged in the PRC propaganda sphere: "peripheral communication" (周边传播).
For @nbr.org, @angrant.bsky.social examines how this new propaganda theory purports to help China better penetrate the information space of its neighbors.
strategicspace.nbr.org/expanding-ch...
For @nbr.org, @angrant.bsky.social examines how this new propaganda theory purports to help China better penetrate the information space of its neighbors.
strategicspace.nbr.org/expanding-ch...
Expanding China’s Geopolitical Influence through Peripheral Communication - Mapping China's Strategic Space
The discourse of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and trio of global initiatives implies that the country’s geopolitical interests are firmly global. Nonetheless, in recent years Chinese scholars and ...
strategicspace.nbr.org
August 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My new essay for @nbr.org that explores the convergence of geopolitical space and propaganda in China's "external periphery." To learn what (and where) that is, read on...
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A real honor to work with @tshakya.bsky.social on this incredible piece on the Dalai Lama's book. Please read and share!
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Who Will Be the Next Dalai Lama? | China Books Review
The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?
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July 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A real honor to work with @tshakya.bsky.social on this incredible piece on the Dalai Lama's book. Please read and share!
chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...
chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...
Monsoonal rainfall contributed to the flooding of the Bhote Koshi River at the Rasuwagadhi border of Nepal and China, damaging the dry port and destroying a key bridge. Thankfully, Timure town is above the river. Here are two photos I took there last month.
July 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Monsoonal rainfall contributed to the flooding of the Bhote Koshi River at the Rasuwagadhi border of Nepal and China, damaging the dry port and destroying a key bridge. Thankfully, Timure town is above the river. Here are two photos I took there last month.
Hanging out in the CU Boulder library this morning to access CNKI. Good memories of this campus!
July 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hanging out in the CU Boulder library this morning to access CNKI. Good memories of this campus!
I did my part.
Womp Womp
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I did my part.
Follow up to my last post about maps on the sides of trucks at the Sino-Nepalese borders. This one is painted over. China is a bit sensitive about unauthorized cartography… Who knew?
June 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Follow up to my last post about maps on the sides of trucks at the Sino-Nepalese borders. This one is painted over. China is a bit sensitive about unauthorized cartography… Who knew?
I love the hand applied and painted maps on trucks at the Rasuwagadhi border. #rasuwa #cartography #sinonepalese #borderlands
June 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I love the hand applied and painted maps on trucks at the Rasuwagadhi border. #rasuwa #cartography #sinonepalese #borderlands
Finally, the invitation I've been waiting my whole life to accept! Everything has been building up to this point. 😇🚀🪐
June 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Finally, the invitation I've been waiting my whole life to accept! Everything has been building up to this point. 😇🚀🪐
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You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
Our panel on Global Asia at #aasinasia2025 in #kathmandu Thanks to Sanggay, Dorji, Sonika, and Yowei for being involved.
June 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Our panel on Global Asia at #aasinasia2025 in #kathmandu Thanks to Sanggay, Dorji, Sonika, and Yowei for being involved.
June 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent theonion.com/world-s...
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent theonion.com/world-s...
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“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
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Deadly by design. And they know it.
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May 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
Deadly by design. And they know it.
www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
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This article of mine was published online last fall, but has now been assigned to a 2025 issue of Asian Ethnicity. It's based on discussions with Muslims from a variety of ethnic groups and teaching living in Xining City. Question in a nutshell: How's China's urbanization project treating you?
Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China
In recent decades, market reforms, inter-regional mobility, and urbanization have shaped Muslim groups’ social practices, simultaneously encouraging the development of Islamic places (and reinforci...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This article of mine was published online last fall, but has now been assigned to a 2025 issue of Asian Ethnicity. It's based on discussions with Muslims from a variety of ethnic groups and teaching living in Xining City. Question in a nutshell: How's China's urbanization project treating you?
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Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
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Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
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May 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social