Series: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

The Spatial Limits of Political Community by Ari Jerrems uses urban spaces in Spain as a case study. The book explores what the figure of the geographic neighbour can reveal about the current political conjuncture. It interrogates the possibilities offered for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community.

The Army-State and Spatial Politics in Burma paints a clear picture of Burmese political and social dynamics between 1958 and 2024. This examination avoids the common pitfall of viewing Burma simply as another case of failed Western-inspired democratisation. The book argues that the country's spatial constitution is fundamental to understanding its post-1948 failure to function as a state.

The Political Economy of Japanese and Chinese Infrastructure Financing Governance explores the political economy of infrastructure financing in Indonesia. It examines how Chinese and Japanese actors utilise diverse modes, including Official Development Assistance (ODA), commercial loans, export credits, business-to-business (B-to-B) investments, and public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Trajectories of Governance studies the complex dynamics of order-making, violence, and governance in peripheral cities in Latin America from a comparative, historical, and multi-scalar approach. It aims to discover more about the drivers, contexts, and uneven levels of violence through the case studies of Chalatenango and Sonsonate in El Salvador and Pereira and Tunja in Colombia. Based on a multidisciplinary...

Memory Politics after Mass Violence draws on detailed accounts of post-war Cambodia, Rwanda, and Indonesia. This book provides an original exploration of how memory is utilised politically in societies that have experienced mass violence.