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Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice (2018)
Journal Article
Leshem, N., & Pinkerton, A. (2019). Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice. Progress in Human Geography, 43(3), 496-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518768413

The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the... Read More about Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice.

Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons (2016)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2017). Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(4), 620-636. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816683189

Abandonment has a long presence in Western cultural, philosophical and legal canon, though most contemporary critical debates focus on its sovereign and juridico-political functions. This article considers the concept of abandonment through its more... Read More about Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons.

Re-inhabiting no-man's land: genealogies, political life and critical agendas (2015)
Journal Article
Leshem, N., & Pinkerton, A. (2016). Re-inhabiting no-man's land: genealogies, political life and critical agendas. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12102

This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no-man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken-for-granted status of no-man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to... Read More about Re-inhabiting no-man's land: genealogies, political life and critical agendas.

“Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism (2014)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2015). “Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism. Political Geography, 45, 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.003

Analysing a struggle between Palestinian campaigners and Israeli authorities over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, this paper explores the role of necrogeography in contesting urban boundaries, asserting historical legitimacy and realizing em... Read More about “Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism.

Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine (2013)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2013). Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31(3), 522-537. https://doi.org/10.1068/d15711

This paper critically examines the notions of spatial emptiness and ruination through their unsettled appearance in the archive of colonization. Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine/Eretz Israel, it illustrates how the encount... Read More about Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine.

Towards a spatial history of Israel (2011)
Book Chapter
Leshem, N., & Ronel, A. (2011). Towards a spatial history of Israel. In H. Yacobi, & T. Fenster (Eds.), Memory Forgetfulness and the Construction of Space (81-105). Hakibutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute