Faculty
Colin Flint
- Professor of Geography
- Research Interests:
- Political Geography
- Geography of War and Peace
- Hate Groups
- Office: 126 Davenport Hall
- Phone: (217) 333-0415
- E-mail: flint@uiuc.edu
Colin Flint is political geographer with interests in war and peace, terrorism, American hegemony, and the Arab world. He has edited two books on pressing contemporary issues; The Geography of War and Peace (Oxford University Press) and Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A. (Routledge). He is currently working on two books: An Introduction to Geopolitics and the fifth edition of Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (with Peter Taylor).
Recent Publications
Falah, G-W., FLINT, C. and Mamadouh, V. (Forthcoming). "Just War and Extra-Territoriality: The Popular Geopolitics of the U.S.'s War on Iraq as reflected in Newspapers of the Arab World." Annals, Association of American Geographers.
FLINT, C. 2005. "Dynamic Meta-Geographies of Terrorism: The Spatial Challenges of Religious Terrorism and the 'War on Terrorism'," in C. FLINT (Ed.), The Geography of War and Peace, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 198-216.
FLINT, C. 2005. "Introduction: Geography of War and Peace," in C. FLINT, (Ed.), The Geography of War and Peace, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-15.
FLINT, C. 2004. "The 'War on Terrorism' and the 'Hegemonic Dilemma': Extra-territoriality, Reterritorialization and the Implications for Globalization," in J. O'Loughlin, L. Staeheli, and E. Greenberg (Eds.), Globalization and its Outcomes, New York: Guilford, pp. 361-385.
FLINT, C. and Falah, G-W. 2004. "How the United States Justified its War on Terrorism: Prime Morality and the Construction of a 'Just War'" Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 1379-1399.
FLINT, C. 2004. "Geopolitical Spaces: The Dialectics of Public and Private Space in the Palestine-Israel Conflict." Arab World Geographer, Vol. 7. Nos. 1-2, pp.17-134.
FLINT, C. 2004. "Introduction: The Contribution and Legacy of Edward W. Said." Arab World Geographer, Vol. 7. Nos. 1-2, pp. 2-3.
FLINT, C. 2004. "Geographies of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism." GeoDate Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 1-4.
FLINT, C. 2003. "Dying for a 'P'? Some Questions Facing Contemporary Political Geography." Political Geography Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 617-620.
FLINT, C. 2003. "Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Geographic Research Questions and Agendas." The Professional Geographer Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 161-169.
FLINT, C. 2002. "The Theoretical and Methodological Utility of Space and Spatial Statistics: The Nazi Party in Geographical Context." Historical Methods Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 32-42.