ACDIS Director and Associate Professor of Geography (affiliate position in Political Science)

Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Areas of Expertise

Political geography, geography of war and peace, hate groups

Biography

Colin Flint is a political geographer with interests in war and peace, terrorism, American hegemony, and the Arab world. He is the author of Introduction to Geopolitics (Routledge, 2006) and editor of The Geography of War and Peace (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A. (Routledge, 2004). He also co-authored, with Peter Taylor, the fifth edition of Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (Longman, Scientific and Technical, 2006).

Professor Flint teaches courses on geopolitics and the geography of international conflict.

Selected Publications

Books or Edited Collections:

ed. with L. Staeheli and J. Kodras, Transforming American Government: Implications for a Diverse Society (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997)

ed., Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Hate and Intolerance in the United States of America (New York: Routledge, 2004)

ed., The Geography of War and Peace (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Introduction to Geopolitics (London: Routledge, 2006).

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Articles or Book Chapters:

G-W Falah and C. Flint, “Geopolitical Spaces: The Dialectics of Public and Private Space in the Palestine-Israel Conflict,” Arab World Geographer, Vol. 7. Nos. 1-2 (2004), pp. 17-134.

C. Flint and G-W Falah, “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 (2004), pp. 1379-1399.

“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, 2005), pp. 198-216.

G-W. Falah, C. Flint, and V. Mamadouh, “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, Vol. 96, No. 1 (2006), pp. 142-164.

“Mobilizing Civil Society for the Hegemonic State: The Korean War and the Construction of Soldiercitizens in the United States,” in D. Cowen and E. Gilbert (eds.), War, Citizenship, and Territory (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).

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Link(s)

http://www.geog.uiuc.edu/people/flint/index.html

Contact Information

Office

Room 354 Armory Building

Mailing Address

ACDIS, 505 E. Armory Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
MC-533

Phone

217-244-0219

Fax

217-244-5157

Email

flint[AT]uiuc[DOT]edu