Mark Griffiths
@casesofyou.bsky.social
Political geography mostly
here's a short summary of our recently published research on the weapons industry and "conflict free" minerals
theconversation.com/how-conflict...
theconversation.com/how-conflict...
How ‘conflict-free’ minerals are used in the waging of modern wars
Minerals are tied intimately with conflict, at both ends of the supply chain.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
here's a short summary of our recently published research on the weapons industry and "conflict free" minerals
theconversation.com/how-conflict...
theconversation.com/how-conflict...
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🚨 ONLINE EVENT
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨 ONLINE EVENT
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
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Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
September 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
Here's our article on how arms companies purchase "conflict free" minerals for use in weapons production, connecting wars in Gaza and DRC/Rwanda
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Here's our article on how arms companies purchase "conflict free" minerals for use in weapons production, connecting wars in Gaza and DRC/Rwanda
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
this book is now shipping. Please be in touch if you want to review it — and to organise a book talk (I have some funding). Thank you @uminnpress.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
this book is now shipping. Please be in touch if you want to review it — and to organise a book talk (I have some funding). Thank you @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Very proud to see advances for Mark Griffith's CHECKPOINT 300, a sensitive, detailed, and impeccably researched study of Israel's spatial control over Palestinians.
July 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Very proud to see advances for Mark Griffith's CHECKPOINT 300, a sensitive, detailed, and impeccably researched study of Israel's spatial control over Palestinians.
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Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇
Job announcment: post-doc at Newcastle on the War & Geos project (warandgeos.co.uk). Please share and email me with questions!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...
Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains at Newcastle University
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇
Job announcment: post-doc at Newcastle on the War & Geos project (warandgeos.co.uk). Please share and email me with questions!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...
Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains at Newcastle University
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Job announcment: post-doc at Newcastle on the War & Geos project (warandgeos.co.uk). Please share and email me with questions!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...
our commentary on genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography is out and open access
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography
www.sciencedirect.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
our commentary on genocidal warfare in Gaza and the issue of balance in political geography is out and open access
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
we've got a co-authored piece in the latest volume of The American Journal of Public Health: 'The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis'
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7
This essay examines the resulting environmental health conditions in Gaza since October 2023. Evidence is drawn from international agency reports and peer-reviewed literature to document destruction a...
ajph.aphapublications.org
June 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
we've got a co-authored piece in the latest volume of The American Journal of Public Health: 'The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis'
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
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This event is coming up next week! With Mark Griffiths (@casesofyou.bsky.social) and Kali Rubaii. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...
May 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This event is coming up next week! With Mark Griffiths (@casesofyou.bsky.social) and Kali Rubaii. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...
“raising fears of ethnic cleansing” — we’ve been screaming this for more than a year and a half
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“raising fears of ethnic cleansing” — we’ve been screaming this for more than a year and a half
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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My colleagues are all frantically trying to write their ‘justification’ document for compulsory redundancies at the same time as finish up teaching semesters & do fantastic research, as well as parent, live lives, and carry on regardless. This is an unnecessary cruelty. Brutal.
April 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
My colleagues are all frantically trying to write their ‘justification’ document for compulsory redundancies at the same time as finish up teaching semesters & do fantastic research, as well as parent, live lives, and carry on regardless. This is an unnecessary cruelty. Brutal.
all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
Checkpoint 300
Tracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupi...
www.upress.umn.edu
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
all of a sudden, after a decade of research, this book is available to pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...
Reposted by Mark Griffiths
Read our new commentary on Gaza:
New in TIBG:
'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social
This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social
This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 6, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Read our new commentary on Gaza:
Reposted by Mark Griffiths
New in TIBG:
'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social
This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social
This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 6, 2024 at 9:23 AM
New in TIBG:
'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social
This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
'Gaza: A decolonial geography' by Zena Agha, James Esson, @casesofyou.bsky.social & @mikkojorge.bsky.social
This piece considers what geographers can do in response to the ongoing military assault on Gaza - free to access for 3 months.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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An open letter to the RGS about its decision not to host a PalFest event during Israel's War on Gaza . The piece reflects on the responsibility and histories of our academic societies and the silencing of Palestinian voices.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The War on Gaza, the Royal...
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2024 at 12:12 PM
An open letter to the RGS about its decision not to host a PalFest event during Israel's War on Gaza . The piece reflects on the responsibility and histories of our academic societies and the silencing of Palestinian voices.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ishraq — my PhD student at Newcastle — is trying to help her family in Gaza. Please consider donating if you can. And please share
gofund.me/0687b519
gofund.me/0687b519
December 30, 2023 at 8:35 AM
Ishraq — my PhD student at Newcastle — is trying to help her family in Gaza. Please consider donating if you can. And please share
gofund.me/0687b519
gofund.me/0687b519
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’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine
December 23, 2023 at 7:10 AM
’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine
Northumbria University is bringing Lockheed Martin money into Newcastle at a time when its warplanes and bombs are being used to raze Gaza. If anyone is interested in organising around this, please be in touch
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
December 19, 2023 at 11:42 AM
Northumbria University is bringing Lockheed Martin money into Newcastle at a time when its warplanes and bombs are being used to raze Gaza. If anyone is interested in organising around this, please be in touch
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...