Faith and Vocation: Christianity and Political Geography - On Faith and Geopolitical Imagination

Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2004)

I am a political geographer. Although I have studied themes as diverse as the identity of the Danish minority in Germany and the Church of England's response to 9/11, my major research has been on the building of nation-states and the imposition of border regimes in the republics of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Since childhood, I have been fascinated by the way that we divide the world up into the familiar map of nation-states, what that political geographic imagination reveals, and what it conceals. In short, I study nationalism and the obstacles that nationalism presents humanity in seeking a peaceful and just existence.

 


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