Prof. James Anderson

Professor of Political Geography

Co-Director, Centre for International Borders Research - CIBR
www.qub.ac.uk/cibr
Co-Director, C-STAR: Centre for Spatial Territorial Analysis & Research
www.qub.ac.uk/c-star

Tel: +44 (0)2890 973628
Fax: +44 (0)2890 971280
Email: j.anderson@qub.ac.uk

James Anderson joined the School in October 1999. Educated at Magee and Queen's, the University of Alberta and the London School of Economics, he headed the post-graduate Department of Urban and Regional Development Planning at the Architectural Association School in London, and then worked at The Open University where he chaired the Social Science Foundation Course. Appointed to the Chair of International Development in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Geography Department in 1996, he was Associate Director of the Centre for Transnational Studies which he set up jointly with the Department of Politics.

In Queen's, together with Dr Ian Shuttleworth, he establised C-STAR: the Centre for Spatial Territorial Analysis and Research based in the School of Geography. He was Director of it 2000-2004, and is now Co-Director. Along with colleagues in Sociology, Anthropology and European Studies, he helped set up the University's interdisciplinary Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR) in 2000, and since then has been one of its Co-Directors. In October 2004 he started a year's research leave in the University's Institute of Governance.

His main research and teaching interests are in geopolitics and political geography: state and local territoriality; nationalism and national conflicts; and state borders and cross-border processes, particularly with reference to Ireland and to European integration and enlargement.

Currently his work includes an EU-funded project (involving a joint team from CIBR and the Institute of Governance in Queen's and the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin) on the Irish border and developments in border regions since the paramilitary cease-fires in the 1990s; hosting a Marie Curie Fellowship for a comparative study of EU borders in Hungary and Ireland; and two empirical C-STAR projects funded by the ESRC - on the political demography of the Northern Ireland Census, and the creation of a consistent data base for analysing historical trends 1971-2000. He is involved in theoretical work on the political economy of cross-border labour migration from 'peripheral' to 'core' countries; and is a grant-holder on an ESRC project on 'divided cities' based at the University of Cambridge. Recent projects have included editing a collection on transnational democracy; and 'Mapping the Spaces of Fear' in Belfast as part of the ESRC Violence Research Programme (for further details of projects, see C-STAR and CIBR websites: www.qub.ac.uk/c-star and www.qub.ac.uk/cibr).

A selection of publications and papers includes:

'Transnational Democracy for European Diversity', commissioned by the Council of Europe for Transcultural Diversities, CoE, (in press).

'Saving the world from American hegemony', Environment and Planning D, Society and Space, Vol. 22, 2004 (in press).

'Only Sustain... :The environment, 'anti-globalisation' and the runaway bicycle', Chapter 11 - Afterword, in J. Johnston, M. Gismondi and J. Goodman (eds.), The Revenge of Nature, Broadview, (in press).

' Spaces of Fear and Hope in Belfast', (with I. Shuttleworth) Belfast Ordinary, Factotum, Belfast (in press).

'A New Spatial Fix for Capitalist Crisis? Immigrant labour, state borders and the new ostracising imperialism', (with I. Shuttleworth), Chapter 10 in K. van der Pijl , L. Assassi and D. Wigan (eds.) Global regulation: Managing Crisis after the Imperial Turn, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 145-161.

Bordering on Empire: Capital, labour and the EU's expanding peripheries - Keynote lecture for the Association for Borderlands Studies 2004 European Conference, 'Borders in a New Europe: Between history and new challenges', Graz, Austria, 15-19 September 2004.

Fixing the Peripheries of the European Union: The Case of Poland (with I. Shuttleworth), European Urban and Regional Studies Conference - Spaces, Places and Flows in the New Europe, Pultusk, Poland, 9-12 September 2004.

Theorising State Borders in Capitalism: Spatial Fixes Old and New, (with I. Shuttleworth) Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR), web-based refereed Working Papers Series, 2004: www.qub.ac.uk/cibr.

Discourses of Ethno-National Demography: Northern Ireland from the 1991 Census to the Census of 2001 (with Owen McEldowney and I. Shuttleworth), International Population Geography Conference, University of St. Andrews, August 2004.

Labour migration, capital flows and changing cross-border relations between the European Union and its eastern peripheries: New fix for capitalist crisis?,
(with I. Shuttleworth), ecpr - Implications of a Wider Europe: Politics, Institutions and Diversity, June 2004, Bologna, Italy.

Transnational Democracy for the EU - 'the sick man of Europe'? Guest lecture to 3rd Inter-Isles Forum on 'The Future of Europe', Liberty Hall, Dublin, February 2004.

Trying to take the terror out of territoriality: Themes for comparing politically divided cities, Conflict in Cities Workshop - CRASSH, University of Cambridge, January 2004

American hegemony after September 11: Allies, rivals and contradictions', Geopolitics, Special Issue:11 September and its Aftermath - Vol. 8 (3), 35-60, 2003

Co-edited Special Issue of European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics (an interdisciplinary journal published in Amsterdam and New York), on 'Culture, Co-operation and Conflict at International Borders' - published in book form in 2003.

Co-edited Special Issue of Regional and Federal Studies on 'Reconfiguring State Borders in a Changing Europe' - publication as journal and as a book 2003.

Invited lectures on state borders, Institute of International Sociology Gorizia, University of Trieste, September 2003.

Spaces of fear: communal violence and spatial behaviour, invited paper (with I. Shuttleworth) to 'Cultures of Violence?' colloquium, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), St Johns College, University of Cambridge, January 2003.

Edited Transnational Democracy: Political spaces and border crossings, Routledge Transnationalism Series, London and New York, August 2002

'Questions of Democracy, Territoriality and Globalization', Chapter 1 (pp. 6-38); and
'Transnational Democracy versus National Conflict: Border crossings in Ireland', Chapter 7 (pp. 129-148 (with Douglas Hamilton) in Transnational Democracy: Political spaces and border crossings, James Anderson (ed.), Routledge, London and New York, 2002

'Borders after 11 September 2001', Space & Polity Vol. 6, No. 2, 227-232, 2002 - Special issue on state borders.

'Towards a theory of borders: states, political economy and democracy', Annales - Istran and Mediterranean Studies, Series Historia et Sociologia, 11, 2 (26), 2001 ISSN 1 408-5348.

'The Rise of Regions and Regionalism in Western Europe', Chapter 2, pp. 35-64, in Governing European Diversity, Montserrat Guibernau (ed.), Sage, London, 2001 (ISBN 0 7619 5465 1)

Theorising state borders: 'Politics/economics' and democracy in capitalism, Working Paper No. 1 in the CIBR Working Paper Series, 2001

Co-edited Special Issue of Administration, Journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Ireland, Vol 49, No.2, 2001, on 'Cross-Border Co-operation'

'Borders, border regions and territoriality: contradictory meanings, changing significance'; and 'Contested borders: globalisation and ethno-national conflict in Ireland' - both with Liam O'Dowd, Sociology QUB, in Regional Studies 33, 7, 1999, Special Issue on 'State borders and Border Regions', pp. 593-604, and 681-696, respectively,

'Nationalism, 'postmodern' territorialities and democracy in the European Union' (with J. Goodman), in British Sociological Association book edited by K. Brehony and N. Rassool: Nationalisms, Old and New, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1999, pp. 17-34.

Dis/Agreeing Ireland: contexts, obstacles, hopes, (co-edited with J. Goodman) Pluto Press, London, October 1998, 284 pp - Chapter 4, 'Integrating Europe, integrating Ireland: the socio-economic dynamics'; and (with J. Goodman) Introduction; Chapter 1 Nationalism and transnationalism: Failures and emancipation; and Chapter 13 'North-South agendas for dis/agreeing Ireland'.

'Rethinking national problems in a transnational context', in D. Miller (ed.) Rethinking Northern Ireland, Addison Wesley Longman, London, 1998

'Sectarian demography, territoriality and political development in Northern Ireland', (with I. Shuttleworth) Political Geography 17, 2, 187-208, 1998

'The shifting stage of politics: new medieval and postmodern territorialities?' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14, 2, 133-53, April 1996

A Global World?: Re-ordering political space (co-edited with C. Brook and A. Cochrane), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995 - and 'The exaggerated death of the nation state', Chapter 2, pp.65-112

''Arrested federalization'? Europe, Britain, Ireland', in Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge, G. Smith (ed.), Longman, London, 1995, 279-293

'Regions, states and the European Union: Modernist reaction or postmodern adaptation?' (with J. Goodman) Review of International Political Economy, 2, 4, Autumn 1995, 600-631.

'Rundale, rural economy and agrarian revolution: Tirhugh 1715 - 1855', in M. Dunlevy, W. Nolan and L. Ronayne (eds.) Donegal: History and Society, Interdisciplinary studies on the history of an Irish county, Geography Publications, Dublin, 1995, 447-69.

'Problems of inter-state economic integration: Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic in the European Community', Political Geography 13, 1, 53-72, 1994.