A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies

Forsyth, Isla

Abstract

This paper argues that historical geography is particularly well positioned to make insightful contributions to military geographies and critical military studies more broadly because of its commitment to critically exploring the genealogies and consequences of military violence, which are too often seen as a given or historically non-contingent. This is demonstrated by a review of existing literature which variously acknowledges the emergence of disciplinary geography in concert with the modern military, traces the contributions of geographers to and their entanglements with the military, and, which accounts for the complicities, consequences and legacies of military activities and violence through an historical lens. The paper reveals how historical geography exposes the knowledges, technologies and lives that produce and are shaped by military activities as being spatially and temporally specific. Further, its suggests future directions for historical geography that would extend and expand the discipline's attempts to more fully acknowledge the place of military geographies in our histories, politics, spatialities, cultures and everyday lives.

Citation

Forsyth, I. (2019). A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies. Geography Compass, 13(3), Article e12422. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12422

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 21, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Feb 21, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-03
• Deposit Date: Jan 25, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 22, 2021
• Journal: Geography Compass
• Electronic ISSN: 1749-8198
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: e12422
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12422
• Keywords: Computers in Earth Sciences; Earth-Surface Processes; Atmospheric Science; General Social Sciences; Water Science and Technology
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1497342
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gec3.12422
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Forsyth I. A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies. Geography Compass. 2019;e12422., which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1111%2Fgec3.12422. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.