Please stop by if you are in NYC...

From today, Dec 1st, the #Lhasa City Municipal has imposed a total ban on Rickshaws from the streets of Lhasa. Rickshaws are seen as a sign of poverty & the City Gov wants to foster an image of Lhasa as a modern, developed city. #Tibet #China

Also note that selected contributors will be invited for a (funded) workshop.

Some wisdom from a website I made for an independent study with Kris Olds while studying abroad in St. Petersburg in 2005. Revisiting it as I prepare for lectures on Russia in my urban geography class.

The Dialogues in Human Geography Book Review Forum for Concrete Plateau is now fully online. Thanks so much to June Wang, Max Woodworth, and Franck Billé for their insightful contributions, as well as to Anu Sablok and Galen Murton for organizing! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

CFP AAG Detroit 2025: Understanding Asia's Post-Pandemic Borders Please reach out to myself or Galen Murton by October 10th if you have interest in this session at the annual AAG conference in Detroit March 24-28th 2005.

We fled from #HurricaneMilton on Monday. Took 18 hours to do what would have been a 7.5 hour drive from StPete to Atlanta. 🙏 the damage isn’t catastrophic.

Free eprints of my new article in Asian Ethnicity "Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China" tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97UYT…

CFP for #AAG2025 in Detroit: "Understanding Asia’s Post-Pandemic Borders" Please send an abstract by October 25th. We are interested in any borders in East, Central, South, and Southeastern Asia...

A top psychology journal retracts a flawed study by #Chinese scholars claiming #Tibetan children lack empathy. Funny, we invented empathy! The first word Tibetan kids learn is compassion, we even #meditate on cultivating it. rb.gy/o2lnh9

Any interest in AAS-in-Kathmandu (June 1-4, 2025) ? I am looking for 1 or 2 abstracts for a " contemporary transnational Asia" panel that looks at travel, labor, development, and other issues. The deadline is soon (Oct 31); needn't to be an AAS member. asianstudies.org/conferences/aa…

Wow, long day working on the AAS-in-Asia portal. Lots of fields to fill out. Looking forward to Kathmandu. Fingers crossed Association for Asian Studies AAS-in-Asia 2023 #aasinasia2025

Still looking for 1 or 2 abstracts for American Association of Geographers Detroit 2025 panel on contemporary borders in Asia. Trying to pericenter China without "centering" China - if you catch my drift.

Good morning for Tristan and Isolde. I suppose the election brought the film Melancholia to mind...

My new article is out in @RSA_TPG Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security // From a great new SI on Himalayan Frontiers // 50 eprints tandfonline.com/eprint/K6KTFYR…

Summer School opportunity for early career researchers working on border issues: "Testing Border Theories and Concepts Across Regions," Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2-6 June, 2025 borderlab.eu/activities/bor…

Some initial thoughts on Oli's China visit:

"Domestic economic corridors are positive spaces that erase the negative spaces of the frontier." Excited for this new article that looks at spatial planning, jokes about bandits, and China's understudied domestic corridors. @RSA_TPG tinyurl.com/4cd3sruv

My new essay for The National Bureau of Asian Research that explores "peripheral communication" in China's external periphery.

Digitally visiting Centro SELISI in Venice on 10/23 to give this talk. Open to all who register: Unstable Bordering: Chinese Development at Two Nepalese Border Sites. Zoom (registration required): unive.zoom.us/mee.../registe…