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Alison J Williams

My research draws conceptually from geopolitics and specifically technogeopolitics, with an empirical focus on military geography, especially relating to military air power (both land and sea-based). It seeks to understand how aircraft can be and are used to project state power, and also how that can be challenged and disrupted. My research has predominantly focused on the US and UK and ranges between the inter-war period to the present day. Specific projects include; the use of both naval and civil aviation to project US power across the interwar Pacific; the performance of UK military airspaces in the 21st century; the use of drones to secure international boundaries; the relationships between bodies and technologies in the projection of military power by aircraft; and how military aviation and airspaces can be represented and challenged through engagements with artistic and creative practice.