A chorus of activists and intellectuals claim that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has either ceased to exist or become politically irrelevant for Mexico and the world. In this paper I put forward the rather different thesis that despite the enormity of their task, the Zapatista project continues apace and merits careful consideration.

By turning to the novels of The Border Trilogy, my aim here is to outline an approach to the frontiers of both space and history—to advance what can be called spatial history—in order to think through the politics of space, the reorganisation of space and the production of space.

"Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis" is an important collection of geographical essays which provides a coherent and sustained critique of the 2008 crisis and its impacts on Ireland. Building on research projects by its main contributors, the volume aims at identifying the injustices found in the underlying spatial structure of Irish social life.

"Anti-Crisis" is a partial historiography of the idea and the role it plays in the formulation of critique, as well as a thorough exploration of the epistemological premises and assumptions behind crisis narratives. Throughout, Roitman’s aim is to unpack the self-evident nature of the crisis and to denaturalize the claims, narratives, judgments and actions generated by its invocation with particular attention to those actions and judgments the crisis label categorically forecloses.

In this interview, Joseph Masco speaks with Sonia Grant about his current work examining the evolution of the national security state in the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, technology, and threat perception within a national public sphere.