Network Member Profiles
John Morrissey, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Biography
John Morrissey is Director of the MA in Environment, Society and Development at NUI Galway and Acting Head of Geography. John is a political and cultural geographer, with particular research interests in interventionism, development and international security. John has also written on various aspects of Ireland’s historical geographies, particularly in the context of identity and the political and cultural geographies of its material and discursive construction and contestation. John's recent work draws upon the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault, Michael Dillon and others in critiquing the broad array of interventionary practices in our contemporary world that are underpinned by the mobilization of powerful neoliberal discourses of risk, regulation and securitization. His research also speaks to broader issues of political economy and post-conflict development. He is the author of Negotiating Colonialism (RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Series 2003) and co-author of Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, 2012). His work has also appeared in leading international journals such as Antipode, Geopolitics and Social and Cultural Geography. John was awarded an IRCHSS Fellowship for 2007/2008, which he spent as a Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate School of City University of New York (CUNY). At CUNY, John's research was focused on the evolving geopolitical grand strategy of recent American intervention in the Middle East, with a concern more broadly with the political economy and biopolitics of the so-called war on terror. John was nominated by the Fulbright Commission as Ireland's candidate for a Fulbright US Institute Scholar Award for 2010/2011, for the Institute on US Foreign Policy at the University of Florida. He is a member of the Geopolitics and Governmentality Research Group in Geography at NUI Galway and the Geographical Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.
Contact
john.morrissey@nuigalway.ie
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Research Interests
Geopolitics - interventionism - development - international security.
Themes
Earth.
Selected Publications
Morrissey, J., Nally, D. Strohmayer, U. and Whelan, Y. (in-press) Key Concepts in Historical Geography. Sage Publications Ltd.
Morrissey, J. (in-press) Architects of Empire: The Military-Strategic Studies Complex and the Scripting of US National Security, Antipode, 43 (2).
Morrissey, J. (in-press) Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror, Geopolitics, 16.
Morriessy, J. (2010) Closing the Neoliberal Gap: Risk and Regulation in the Long War of Securitization, Antipode, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00823.x.
Morrissey, J. (2009) Lessons in American Geopolitik: Kaplan and the Return of Spatial Absolutism, Human Geography, 2 (2), 36-39.
Morrissey, J. (2009) Imperial Geopolitics, Foreign Policy, May/June.
Morrissey, J. (2008) The Geoeconomic Pivot of the Global War on Terror: US Central Command and the War in Iraq, In: Ryan, D. and Kiely, P. (eds.), America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics. New York: Routledge, 103-122.
Morrissey, J. (2006) Ireland's Great War: Representation, Public Space and the Place of Dissonant Heritages, Journal of Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, (58), 98-113.
Morrissey, J. (2005) A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness, In: McCarthy, M. (ed.), Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 71-87.
Morrissey, J. (2005) Cultural Geographies of the Contact Zone: Gaels, Galls and Overlapping Territories in Late Medieval Ireland, Social and Cultural Geography, 6 (4), 551-566.
Morrissey, J. (2004) Geography Militant: Resistance and the Essentialisation of Identity in Colonial Ireland, Irish Geography, 37 (2), 166-176.