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Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962 (2016)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2017). Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12145

Despite the discipline having undergone a ‘peace turn’ in recent years, the history of the peace movement itself remains curiously under explored by geographers. This paper retraces the World Peace Brigade and its collaboration with the Northern Rhod... Read More about Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962.

Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (in press). Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1203284

This article charts the trip made by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to West Africa in 1952, and examines the unpublished ‘Africa Program’ which he subsequently presented to leading American pacifists. I situate Rustin’s writings within the burgeon... Read More about Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa.