Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land: genealogies, political life and critical agendas

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Towards nuclear geography: Zones, bodies, and communities

“…Due to the enforcement of a 2,600 km 2 “Zone of Alienation” (Зoнa вiдчyжeння Чopнoбильcькoї AEC) around the epicentre, about 350,000 people had to evacuate, and 2.1 million Ukrainians still inhabit land officially designated affected by the accident (Davies & Polese, ). As Leshem and Pinkerton () note, the Ukrainian use of the word “alienation” is particularly fitting in this example of a nuclear zone, as it gives “attention to less visible ruptures in the life fabric of individuals and communities medically and economically affected by the event” (p. 8). Communities are another important site of research into nuclear geography, as will be discussed later.…”

Exopolis reloaded: fragmented landscapes and no man’s lands in a North-Eastern Italian border region

“…Leshem and Pinkerton's (2016) recent work on the geographies of no man's lands is here of great significance to understand the production of the unregulated spatialities of what Dominique Moran and others have described as 'carceral mobilities' (see, among others, Moran, 2015;Moran, Gill, & Conlon, 2013).…”

“…It does so, on the one hand, by suggesting that this Italian version of exopolis may be better delineated via an aerial view a la Soja (1989); on the other, by interrogating some its most significant and contested spaces-in-between via the concept of no man's land as recently discussed by Leshem and Pinkerton (2016). In particular, we focus on the informal no man's land around the Gradisca camp complex used by the asylum seekers in ways that have recently become for many-and in particular for the residents-a somehow disturbing visible and invisible presence in the already unstable self-representations of these once quiet and orderly rural and residential territories.…”

Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice

“…For two months in 2015, we undertook an expedition "Into No-Man's Land" (Leshem and Pinkerton 2015). We travelled more than 6,000 miles from Nomansland Common in rural Hertfordshire in southern England toward the unclaimed desert enclave of Bir Tawil on the Egypt-Sudan border.…”