Outputs (27)

Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq (2023)
Journal Article
Neimark, B., Belcher, O., Ashworth, K., & Larbi, R. (2024). Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 56(3), 983-1005. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13006

Militaries around the world are a major source of carbon emissions, yet very little is known about their carbon footprint. Reliable data around military resource use and environmental damage is highly variable. Researchers are dependent upon military... Read More about Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq.

Decarbonize the military — mandate emissions reporting (2022)
Journal Article
Rajaeifar, M., Belcher, O., Parkinson, S., Neimark, B., Weir, D., Ashworth, K., Larbi, R., & Heidrich, O. (2022). Decarbonize the military — mandate emissions reporting. Nature, 611, 29-32. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03444-7

Greening National Security: The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War by Neta C Crawford (2022)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (2022). Greening National Security: The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War by Neta C Crawford. Science, 377(6613), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add9472

The Politics of Lost Objects (2022)
Journal Article
Featherstone, D., Carter, S., Sylvester, C., Belcher, O., Rogers, A., & Ingram, A. (2022). The Politics of Lost Objects. Political Geography, 95, Article 102567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102567

“How the World’s Militaries Hide Their Huge Carbon Emissions.” (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Weir, D., Neimark, B., & Belcher, O. (in press). “How the World’s Militaries Hide Their Huge Carbon Emissions.”

"The Eye of War, Review by Oliver Belcher" (2020)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (in press). "The Eye of War, Review by Oliver Belcher"

Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene (2020)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., & Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820953855

Hannah Arendt developed a twofold account of ‘being earthbound’ directly relevant to Anthropocene debates regarding the political. For Arendt, both senses of ‘being earthbound’ arose as humans began to act into nature, not merely upon it. The first s... Read More about Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene.

The U.S. military is not sustainable (2020)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., Neimark, B., & Bigger, P. (2020). The U.S. military is not sustainable. Science, 367(6481), 989-990. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb1173

Sensing, territory, population: Computation, embodied sensors, and hamlet control in the Vietnam War (2019)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (2019). Sensing, territory, population: Computation, embodied sensors, and hamlet control in the Vietnam War. Security Dialogue, 50(5), 416-436. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010619862447

This article analyses a mid-20th century computerized pacification reporting system, the Hamlet Evaluation System (HES), used by the US military to measure hamlet-level security and development trends in the Vietnam War. The significance of the HES w... Read More about Sensing, territory, population: Computation, embodied sensors, and hamlet control in the Vietnam War.

“US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must.” (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine
Neimark, B., Belcher, O., & Bigger, P. (in press). “US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must.”