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...
ICE agents taking cosplay in new directions to deceive Americans.
Don’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.
February 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
ICE agents taking cosplay in new directions to deceive Americans.
“Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold.”
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 AM
“Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold.”
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Party of free speech strikes again
Florida bill seeks to ban use of ‘West Bank’ in schools and state agencies
The bill would mandate use of the biblical term ‘Judea and Samaria’ after a similar effort passed in Arkansas
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Party of free speech strikes again
Thanks Jeff! Thanks Zuck! “More together” indeed!
ICE And CBP Bought A Record $140 Million In Cloud Services From Amazon And Microsoft Under Trump
ICE And CBP Have Spent $140 Million On Amazon And Microsoft Clouds Under Trump
The world’s biggest technology companies are among those profiting from the Trump administration’s aggressive funding of immigration agencies like ICE.
the power off.
www.forbes.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Thanks Jeff! Thanks Zuck! “More together” indeed!
Exciting for the kickoff of the Asian Borderlands Research Network conference in Taipei today. It is my first time attending in person. I am presenting on my recent research on China's borders with Nepal and Kazakhstan. What leads to Border Fortune? TLDR: Changes to security and logistics. #ABRN2026
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Exciting for the kickoff of the Asian Borderlands Research Network conference in Taipei today. It is my first time attending in person. I am presenting on my recent research on China's borders with Nepal and Kazakhstan. What leads to Border Fortune? TLDR: Changes to security and logistics. #ABRN2026
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A headline to sum up our times:
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
A headline to sum up our times:
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With this regime anything is possible…
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 AM
With this regime anything is possible…
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In case you thought they just meant undocumented immigrants…
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
In case you thought they just meant undocumented immigrants…
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"Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project in one of their communities, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile, an act of defiance by a community that has been tightly controlled by Beijing." www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Exclusive | Tibetan Activists Say China Has Detained Protesters Who Staged Rare Act of Defiance
Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project in one of their communities, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile, an act of defiance by a community that has been tightly controlled by Beijing." www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
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A Poem for Semester’s End
Twas the night before course evals,
and all through RMP,
the students were bitching,
“I worked too hard for the C!”
The ChatGPT essay,
submitted without care,
And the always faithful, never failing, “this grade just is NOT fair!”
Twas the night before course evals,
and all through RMP,
the students were bitching,
“I worked too hard for the C!”
The ChatGPT essay,
submitted without care,
And the always faithful, never failing, “this grade just is NOT fair!”
December 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A Poem for Semester’s End
Twas the night before course evals,
and all through RMP,
the students were bitching,
“I worked too hard for the C!”
The ChatGPT essay,
submitted without care,
And the always faithful, never failing, “this grade just is NOT fair!”
Twas the night before course evals,
and all through RMP,
the students were bitching,
“I worked too hard for the C!”
The ChatGPT essay,
submitted without care,
And the always faithful, never failing, “this grade just is NOT fair!”
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):
unive.zoom.us/mee.../regis...
Zoom (registration required):
unive.zoom.us/mee.../regis...
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?
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!
chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...
chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...
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?
chinabooksreview.com
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?