Nick Lising-White investigates the history of race as a concept and examines the ways it has been shaped and reshaped around the world to maintain hegemonic power. Racial difference has come to bear heavily on the lives of many but, genetically, it is not a useful factor by which to differentiate one human from another…
Category: Geopolitics
Drilling Down for Gas in Cabo Delgado: A Dream for Mozambique?
David Figueira Bourton discusses the socio-economic impacts of Mozambique’s plentiful gas reserves, and questions whether there are more problems lying beneath the surface. In 2010, Anadarko Petroleum, the US energy company discovered extensive gas reserves in the ultra-deepwater Rovuma Basin off the coast of Cabo Delgado – the northernmost province of Mozambique bordering Tanzania. Similarly,…
The ‘Agony of the Event’ and COVID-19: Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to illustrate Deleuzian ideas of the Event
Thomas Cross identifies the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic as a Global Event and uses Deleuzian theory to examine our uncertain perceptions of time, narratives and potentiality in this unprecedented and historical Event. This essay is based on the first year ‘Global Events’ module. Introduction The Event lay at the heart of Delueze and Guattari’s…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 