Newcastle University

Introduction

I work on questions of war, violence, (in)security, identity, and community. Most of my work to date has focused on the phenomenon of urbicide: the killing of cities. My present research focuses on the manner in which global urbanisation is recasting conflict and geopolitics. My work is informed by post-structuralist international theory and continental philosophy (especially the work of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida).

Qualifications

PhD in Politics, Newcastle University, 2001
MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Essex University, 1995
BA (Hons) in Communication and Image Studies, Kent University, 1994

Previous Positions

Lecturer in International Relations, Sussex University

Research Interests

- (in)security & political violence: urbicide; cities and war; genocide; ethnic-nationalism; contemporary warfare; terrorism.

- Critical International Theory: globalisation; Empire; identity; community.

- Continental Philosophy and Political Theory: Martin Heidegger; Jean-Luc Nancy; Michel Foucault; Jacques Derrida; William Connolly.

Current Work

For further information on my current projects see: www.martincoward.net/research/

Postgraduate Supervision

Jeff Chase

Ulpia Botezatu

Sobia Kaker

Chryssoula Toufexi

Megan O'Branski 

External Supervision
- Nadine Voelkner (Sussex)
- Christina Oelgemoller (Sussex)

Undergraduate Teaching

Global Security

Postgraduate Teaching

The Politics of Fear: Identity and Security in International Politics

• Coward M, Bousquet A, Stenberg S, Fregonese S. Review Forum: 'Urbicide' by Martin Coward. Global Discourse 2011, 1(II), Available at http://globaldiscourse.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/coward-introduction.pdf.
• Coward M. Network-centric Violence, Critical Infrastructure and the Urbanisation of Security. Security Dialogue 2010, 40(4-5), 399-418.
• Coward M. Review of: Calame, J & Charlesworth, E: Divided Cities (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Cambridge Review of International Affairs 2010, 23(1), 192-194.
• Coward M. Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction. London: Routledge, 2009.
• Coward M. Jean-Luc Nancy. In: Edkins, J; Vaughan-Williams, N, ed. Critical Theorists and International Relations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, pp.251-262.
• Coward M. 'Urbicide' Reconsidered. Theory and Event 2007, 10(2).
• Coward M. International Relations in the Post-Globalisation Era. Politics 2006, 26(1), 54-61.
• Coward M. Against Anthropocentrism: The Destruction of the built environment as a distinct form of political violence. Review of International Studies 2006, 32(3), 419-437.
• Coward M, ed. Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community (special issue of Journal for Cultural Research). London: Routledge, 2005.
• Coward M. The Globalisation Of Enclosure: Interrogating The Geopolitics Of Empire. Third World Quarterly 2005, 26(6), 855-871.
• Coward M. Securing the global (bio)political economy: Empire, post-structuralism and political economy. In: De Goede, M, ed. International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics. London: Palgrave, 2006, pp.60-76.
• Coward M. The Imperial Character Of The Contemporary World Order. Theory and Event 2005, 8(1).
• Coward M. Urbicide in Bosnia. In: Graham, S, ed. Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, pp.154-171.
• Coward M. Community as heterogeneous ensemble: Mostar and multiculturalism. Alternatives 2002, 27(1), 29-66.
• Ward K, Anderson B, Coward M, Sheller M, Williams AJ, Cresswell T, Adey P. Reading Peter Adey's Aerial Life. Political Geography 2011, 30(8), 461-469.