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SUMMARY:Bloody Geography: injured bodies and the spaces of modern war - Pr
 ofessor Derek Gregory\, Department of Geography\, University of British Co
 lumbia
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DESCRIPTION:Modern Geography and modern war have long been locked in a dea
 dly embrace: but what happens when we move outside the usual realms of geo
 politics\, strategy and targeting? This presentation recovers geographies 
 of medical treatment and evacuation in four war zones: the Western Front i
 n the First World War\, the deserts of North Africa in the Second World Wa
 r\, Afghanistan 2001-2018\, and Syria 2012-2018. The movement of casualtie
 s form the Western Front inaugurated the modern military-medical machine t
 hat\, over time\, became steadily faster\, smoother and more effective unt
 il\, in Afghanistan most military casualties reached hospital within the '
 golden hour'. But this impression of progress has to be revised once Afgha
 n casualties are taken into account - both combatant and civilian - and it
  is dispelled altogether by the fate of the sick and wounded in rebel-cont
 rolled areas of Syria under siege from Russian\, Syrian and Iranian forces
 . Does this mean that for most of its victims there is no escape from the 
 boundless violence of modern war and its bloody geographies?\n\nProfessor 
 Derek Gregory is Peter Wall Distinguished Professor at the University of B
 ritish Colombia in Vancouver. He specialises in the spatial modalities of 
 late modern war and the cultural and political geographies of bombing acro
 ss the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, focusing on the Middle East\
 , but also Europe and the Far East. His works include Geographical Imagina
 tions (1994)\, The Colonial Present (2004) and War Cultures (2008).
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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