Dr Oliver Belcher's 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.”

Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military (2019)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., Bigger, P., Neimark, B., & Kennelly, C. (2020). Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(1), 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12319

This paper examines the US military's impact on climate by analysing the geopolitical ecology of its global logistical supply chains. Our geopolitical ecology framework interrogates the material‐ecological metabolic flows (hydrocarbon‐based fuels, wa... Read More about Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military.

The Problem of Access: Site Visits, Selective Disclosure, and Freedom of Information in Qualitative Security Research (2019)
Book Chapter
Belcher, O., & Martin, L. (2019). The Problem of Access: Site Visits, Selective Disclosure, and Freedom of Information in Qualitative Security Research. In M. de Goede, E. Bosma, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), Secrecy and methods in critical security research (33-47). Routledge

This chapter addresses in relation to secrecy and methods is how to examine these “postsecret” places by using a wide range of data sources, some of which may be considered unorthodox by traditional social scientific standards. It offers some guideli... Read More about The Problem of Access: Site Visits, Selective Disclosure, and Freedom of Information in Qualitative Security Research.

Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan (2017)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (2018). Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan. Political Geography, 62, 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.10.006

In autumn 2010, the United States military partially or completely razed several villages in Helmand and Kandahar provinces as part of its counterinsurgency campaign in southern Afghanistan. In the spring 2011, U.S.-led forces rebuilt one of the vill... Read More about Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan.

"Data Anxieties: Objectivity and Difference in Early Vietnam War Computing" (2016)
Book Chapter
Belcher, O. (2016). "Data Anxieties: Objectivity and Difference in Early Vietnam War Computing". In L. Amoore, & V. Piotukh (Eds.), Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in a Digital Age (127-142). Routledge

"Peacekeeping" (2016)
Book Chapter
Belcher, O. (in press). "Peacekeeping". In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, & R. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (1-3). Wiley

"To Build Another World: Activism in Light of Marxist Geographical Thought" (2015)
Book Chapter
Samers, M., Bigger, P., & Belcher, O. (2015). "To Build Another World: Activism in Light of Marxist Geographical Thought". In S. Aitken, & G. Valentine (Eds.), Approaches to Human Geography (344-360). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications

"Tribal Militias, Neo-Orientalism, and the U.S. Military's Art of Coercion" (2015)
Book Chapter
Belcher, O. (2015). "Tribal Militias, Neo-Orientalism, and the U.S. Military's Art of Coercion". In J. Bachmann, C. Bell, & C. Holmqvist (Eds.), War, Police, and Assemblages of Intervention (109-125). Routledge

"Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Ontologies, Politics" (2015)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., Martin, L., & Tazzioli, M. (2015). "Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Ontologies, Politics"

"Postcolonial Theory Now: an Interview with Ann Laura Stoler" (2015)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., & Tazzioli, M. (2015). "Postcolonial Theory Now: an Interview with Ann Laura Stoler"

"Staging the Orient: Counterinsurgency Training Sites and the U.S. Military Imagination" (2014)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (2014). "Staging the Orient: Counterinsurgency Training Sites and the U.S. Military Imagination". Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(5), 1012-1029. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.924736