Author of “The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Civilizing Machine” Cornell UP 2022; University of Tampa; he/they
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At long last, my book "The Concrete Plateau" is going into print; you can order it and receive it by the end of the month. Save 30% with the code 09BCARD @CornellPress #academictwitter
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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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14 Aug 2025
My new essay for @NBRnews that explores "peripheral communication" in China's external periphery.
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Since 2015, a new concept has emerged in the PRC propaganda sphere: "peripheral communication" (周边传播).
For @NBRnews, @angrant_1 examines how this new propaganda theory purports to help China better penetrate the information space of its neighbors.
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"Domestic economic corridors are positive spaces that erase the negative spaces of the frontier." Excited for this new article that looks at spatial planning, jokes about bandits, and China's understudied domestic corridors.
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5 Dec 2024
Some initial thoughts on Oli's China visit:
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22 Nov 2024
Summer School opportunity for early career researchers working on border issues: "Testing Border Theories and Concepts Across Regions," Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2-6 June, 2025
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19 Nov 2024
My new article is out in @RSA_TPG Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security // From a great new SI on Himalayan Frontiers // 50 eprints tandfonline.com/eprint/K6KTF…
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Good morning for Tristan and Isolde. I suppose the election brought the film Melancholia to mind...
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31 Oct 2024
Still looking for 1 or 2 abstracts for @theAAG Detroit 2025 panel on contemporary borders in Asia. Trying to pericenter China without "centering" China - if you catch my drift.
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31 Oct 2024
Wow, long day working on the AAS-in-Asia portal. Lots of fields to fill out. Looking forward to Kathmandu. Fingers crossed @AASAsianStudies @aasinasia #aasinasia2025
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26 Oct 2024
Any interest in AAS-in-Kathmandu (June 1-4, 2025) ? I am looking for 1 or 2 abstracts for a " contemporary transnational Asia" panel that looks at travel, labor, development, and other issues. The deadline is soon (Oct 31); needn't to be an AAS member.
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18 Oct 2024
A top psychology journal retracts a flawed study by #Chinese scholars claiming #Tibetan children lack empathy. Funny, we invented empathy! The first word Tibetan kids learn is compassion, we even #meditate on cultivating it. rb.gy/o2lnh9
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15 Oct 2024
CFP for #AAG2025 in Detroit: "Understanding Asia’s Post-Pandemic Borders" Please send an abstract by October 25th. We are interested in any borders in East, Central, South, and Southeastern Asia...
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Free eprints of my new article in Asian Ethnicity "Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China" tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U…
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We fled from #HurricaneMilton on Monday. Took 18 hours to do what would have been a 7.5 hour drive from StPete to Atlanta. 🙏 the damage isn’t catastrophic.
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CFP AAG Detroit 2025: Understanding Asia's Post-Pandemic Borders
Please reach out to myself or Galen Murton by October 10th if you have interest in this session at the annual AAG conference in Detroit March 24-28th 2005.
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26 Mar 2024
The Dialogues in Human Geography Book Review Forum for Concrete Plateau is now fully online. Thanks so much to @juneandjune12, Max Woodworth, and Franck Billé for their insightful contributions, as well as to @anu_sabhlok and Galen Murton for organizing!
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19 Feb 2024
Also note that selected contributors will be invited for a (funded) workshop.
19 Feb 2024
Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 012 on Infrastructural Anxieties, edited by Mikel Venhovens and Mona Chettri: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…
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20 Feb 2024
Some wisdom from a website I made for an independent study with @GlobalHigherEd while studying abroad in St. Petersburg in 2005. Revisiting it as I prepare for lectures on Russia in my urban geography class.
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1 Dec 2023
From today, Dec 1st, the #Lhasa City Municipal has imposed a total ban on Rickshaws from the streets of Lhasa. Rickshaws are seen as a sign of poverty & the City Gov wants to foster an image of Lhasa as a modern, developed city. #Tibet #China
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Please stop by if you are in NYC...
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