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'Anti-racism, deconstruction and 'overdevelopment' (2006)
Journal Article
Power, M. (2006). 'Anti-racism, deconstruction and 'overdevelopment'. Progress in Development Studies, 6(1), 24-39. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993406ps125oa

This paper explores the connections between colonialism and development in order to understand more clearly how discourses on North-South relations continue to be imbued with the imperial representations that preceded them. Beginning with a concern t... Read More about 'Anti-racism, deconstruction and 'overdevelopment'.

Decolonization (2005)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2005). Decolonization. In T. Forsyth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Inernational Development (138-140). Routeldge

'Cold War'. (2005)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2005). 'Cold War'. In T. Forsyth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Development (88-89). Routledge

'War'. (2005)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2005). 'War'. In T. Forsyth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Development (745-746). Routledge

'Mahbub Ul Haq (1934-98)'. (2005)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2005). 'Mahbub Ul Haq (1934-98)'. In D. Simon (Ed.), Fifty key thinkers in development (264-270). Routledge

'Deconstructing twinned towers: Lisbon's Expo '98 and the occluded geographies of discovery' (2005)
Journal Article
Power, M., & Sidaway, J. (2005). 'Deconstructing twinned towers: Lisbon's Expo '98 and the occluded geographies of discovery'. Social and Cultural Geography, 6(6), 865-883. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360500353228

This paper develops a critique of Western representations of discovery, centrality and self-identity via a focus on Portugal's Expo '98. Two of the towers of the title were incorporated into the site of Expo '98 (the last universal exposition of the... Read More about 'Deconstructing twinned towers: Lisbon's Expo '98 and the occluded geographies of discovery'.

'The tears of Portugal': empire, identity, 'race', and destiny in Portuguese geopolitical narratives (2005)
Journal Article
Sidaway, J., & Power, M. (2005). 'The tears of Portugal': empire, identity, 'race', and destiny in Portuguese geopolitical narratives. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(4), 527-554. https://doi.org/10.1068/d345t

Geopolitical discourses are constitutive moments within the expression and construction of ‘national’ identities. Approaching geopolitics and identities as contested and fluid domains, we examine the relationships between geopolitical narratives and... Read More about 'The tears of Portugal': empire, identity, 'race', and destiny in Portuguese geopolitical narratives.

Frames of reference on the geopolitical stage: Saving Private Ryan and the Second World War/Second Gulf War intertext' (2005)
Journal Article
Crampton, A., & Power, M. (2005). Frames of reference on the geopolitical stage: Saving Private Ryan and the Second World War/Second Gulf War intertext'. Geopolitics, 10(2), 244-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650040590946575

As sequels go, Gulf War II: Unfinished Business was a popular and omnipotent movie spectacle. The very process of naming the conflict implied a notion of watching a second episode and encountering the war from afar, whilst numerous media commentators... Read More about Frames of reference on the geopolitical stage: Saving Private Ryan and the Second World War/Second Gulf War intertext'.

‘Geographies of governance and regional politics’. (2004)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2004). ‘Geographies of governance and regional politics’. In D. Potts, & T. Bowyer-Bower (Eds.), Eastern and Southern Africa: Development challenges in a Volatile region (255-294). Pearson

'Worlds apart: global difference and inequality'. (2004)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2004). 'Worlds apart: global difference and inequality'. In P. Daniels, M. Bradshaw, D. Shaw, & J. Sidaway (Eds.), An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the twenty-first century (185-209). Pearson Prentice Hall

The degeneration of tropical geography' (2004)
Journal Article
Power, M., & Sidaway, J. (2004). The degeneration of tropical geography'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(3), 585-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.00415.x

How did colonial and tropical geography as practiced in the aftermath of World War II become development geography by the 1970s? We excavate the genealogy of development geography, relating it to geopolitical, economic, and social traumas of decoloni... Read More about The degeneration of tropical geography'.