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Simon Springer - assistant professor
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Research Interests
My research agenda explores the political, social, and geographical exclusions that neoliberalization has engendered in post-transitional Cambodia, emphasizing the spatialities of violence and power. I cultivate a cutting edge approach to human geography through a theoretical edifice that foregrounds emerging thematic concerns within the discipline by incorporating both poststructuralist critique and a radical revival of anarchist philosophy in advancing a postanarchist positionality. In particular, my research has explored the relationships between neoliberalism, violence, governmentality, and biopolitics; the productions of space and discourse that underlie processes of othering and the creation of regimes of truth; a critical de-centering of capitalism through attention to the dialectic between contemporary regimes of accumulation and ongoing primitive accumulation; and a radical approach to democracy that seeks to open geographical imaginations to the possibility of remaking space in ways that might enable an emancipatory politics.
Career Impact
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Google Scholar lists my h-index as 10.
Publications
Authored Books
Springer, S. 2010. Cambodia's Neoliberal Order: Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space. New York: Routledge. (Paperback version issued in 2012).
Springer, S. In Review. Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia. Singapore: NUS Press.
Edited Books and Special Editions
Springer, S., Ince, A., Pickerill, J., Brown, G., and Barker, A. eds. 2012. ‘Anarchist Geographies.’ Special issue on anarchism for Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 44 (5), 1579-1754.
Springer, S. ed. 2012. Leaky Geopolitics: the ruptures and transgressions of WikiLeaks. Forum on WikiLeaks. Geopolitics. 17 (3), 681-711.
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
Springer, S. 2013. Anarchism and geography: a brief genealogy of anarchist geographies. Geography Compass. 7(1): 46-60.
Springer, S. 2013. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia. Journal of Agrarian Change.
Springer, S. 2013. Postneoliberalism? Review of Radical Political Economics.
Springer, S. 2013. Violent accumulation: a postanarchist critique of property, dispossession, and the state of exception in neoliberalizing Cambodia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 103(3): 608-626.
Springer, S. 2013. War and pieces. Space and Polity.
Springer, S. 2012. Anarchism! What geography still ought to be. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 44 (5), 1605-1624.
Springer, S., and Chi, H. 2012. Rhetoric, prejudice, and violence in the face of WikiLeaks. Geopolitics. 17 (3), 682-687.
Springer, S., Ince, A., Pickerill, J., Brown, G., and Barker, A. 2012. Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 44 (5), 1591-1604.
Springer, S. 2012. Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism. Critical Discourse Studies. 9 (2), 133-147.
Springer, S. 2012. Neoliberalising violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments. Area. 44 (2), 136-143.
Springer, S. 2011. Articulated neoliberalism: the specificity of patronage, kleptocracy, and violence in Cambodia's neoliberalization. Environment and Planning A. 43 (11), 2554-2570.
Springer, S. 2011. For a nonviolent, non-essentialist Cambodia: a reply to Ryerson Christie. South East Asia Research. 19 (3), 701-707.
Springer, S. 2011. Public space as emancipation: meditations on anarchism, radical democracy, neoliberalism and violence. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 43 (2), 525-562.
Springer, S. 2011. Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies. Political Geography. 30 (2), 90-98.
Springer, S. 2010. Neoliberal discursive formations: on the contours of subjectivation, good governance, and symbolic violence in posttransitional Cambodia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 28 (5), 931-950.
Springer, S. 2010. Neoliberalism and geography: expansions, variegations, formations. Geography Compass. 4 (8), 1025-1038.
Springer, S. 2009. Culture of violence or violent Orientalism? Neoliberalisation and imagining the "savage other" in post-transitional Cambodia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 34 (3), 305-319.
Springer, S. 2009. Renewed authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: undermining democracy through neoliberal reform. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 50 (3), 271-276.
Springer, S. 2009. Violence, democracy, and the neoliberal "order": the contestation of public space in posttransitional Cambodia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99 (1), 138-162.
Springer, S. 2008. The nonillusory effects of neoliberalisation: linking geographies of poverty, inequality, and violence. Geoforum. 39 (4), 1520-1525.
Springer, S. In Review. Human geography without hierarchy. Progress in Human Geography.
Springer, S. In Review. Olympic violence: memory, colonialism, and the politics of place. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies.
Springer, S. In Review. Why a radical geography must be anarchist. Dialogues in Human Geography.
Book Chapters
Springer, S. 2013. Neoliberalism. The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics. Eds. K. Dodds, M. Kuus, and J. Sharp. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Springer, S. 2009. The neoliberalization of security and violence in Cambodia's transition. Human Security in East Asia: Challenges for Collaborative Action. Ed. S. Peou. New York: Routledge, pp. 125-141.
Le Billon, P. and Springer, S. 2007. Between war and peace: violence and accommodation in the Cambodian logging sector. Extreme Conflict and Tropical Forests. Eds. W. de Jong, D. Donovan, and K. Abe. New York: Springer, pp. 17-36.
Editorials
Springer, S. 2013. Rules bloody rules: safety, security, Stockholm syndrome, and the state. Antipode Foundation.
Springer, S. 2011. The straw man critique of neoliberalism in Cambodia. New Mandala: New Perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia.
Book Reviews
Springer, S. 2013. Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order by Swapna Banerjee-Guha (Ed). Urban Studies.
Springer, S. 2012. Domesticating Neo-liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-socialist Cities by Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, Alena Rochovská, and Dariusz Swiatek. New Zealand Geographer. 68 (1), 75-76.
Springer, S. 2010. Social Justice and Neoliberalism: Global Perspectives by Adrian Smith, Alison Stenning and Katie Willis (Eds). Journal of Economic Geography, 10 (3), 481-483.
Springer, S. 2009. Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples by Kim England and Kevin Ward (Eds). Journal of Economic Geography, 9 (1), 143-145.
Springer, S. 2007. A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey. Journal of Peace Research, 44 (1), 126-127.
Springer, S. 2006. Globalization and Inequality: Neoliberalism's Downward Spiral by John Rapley. Journal of Peace Research, 43 (6), 757.
Conference Papers
Springer, S. and Le Billon, P. 2013. Violence and space: reflections on geographies of (non)violence; Presented to: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Los Angeles, USA.
Springer, S. 2012. Articulated neoliberalism: the specificity of patronage, kleptocracy, and violence in Cambodia's neoliberalization; Presented to: The 6th East Asia Regional Conference on Alternative Geographies; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Springer, S. 2010. Neoliberal discursive formations: on the contours of subjectivation, good governance, and symbolic violence in post-transitional Cambodia; Presented to: New Zealand Geographical Society Biennial Conference, with the Institute of Australian Geographers; Christchurch, New Zealand.
Springer, S. 2010. Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies; Presented to: Oceanic Conference on International Studies IV; Auckland, New Zealand.
Springer, S. 2010. Violent accumulation: a postanarchist critique of property, dispossession, and the state of exception in neoliberalizing Cambodia; Presented to: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Washington DC, USA.
Springer, S. 2010. Violent accumulation: a postanarchist critique of property, dispossession, and the state of exception in neoliberalizing Cambodia; Presented to: Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference; Alexandia, VA, USA.
Springer, S. 2008. Culture of violence or violent Orientalism? Democracy, authoritarianism, and racist geographical imaginations in post-conflict Cambodia; Presented to: Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting; Geographies of Violence International Symposium, sponsored by the IGU-Commission Cultural Approach in Geography; Quebec, Canada.
Springer, S. 2005. The neoliberal order in Cambodia: political violence, democracy, and the contestation of public space. Presented to: Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies; Re-visioning Southeast Asia: conflicts, connections and vulnerabilities; Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Published as part of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) Working Paper Series. Toronto: Canadian Southeast Asian Trilateral Initiative (CSEASTI).
Reports
Nolin, C. and Springer, S. 2003. Second Workshop Proceedings of Immigrant Women Making Place in Canadian Cities: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Their Social Networks. SSHRC Strategic Research Collective (Women and Change), pp 18.
Public Seminars and Lectures
Springer, S. 2013. Human geography without hierarchy; Presented to: National University of Singapore, Department of Geography; Seminar, Singapore
Springer, S. 2013. Why a radical geography must be anarchist; Presented to: Politics, Economies and Space (PEAS) Reasearch Group, National University of Singapore,Department of Geography; Seminar, Singapore
Springer, S. 2013. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia; Presented to: University of Northern British Columbia, Global Friday Speaker Series; Seminar, Vancouver, Canada
Springer, S. 2012. Violent accumulation: a postanarchist critique of property, dispossession, and the state of exception in neoliberalizing Cambodia; Presented to: University of British Columbia, Department of Geography; Seminar, Vancouver, Canada
Springer, S. 2012. Coastal speculation: violence, greed and tragedy in Sihanoukville, Cambodia; Presented To: University of Victoria, Department of Geography; Invited Lecture; Victoria, BC, Canada
Springer, S. 2012. Direct action and civil disobedience; Presented to: Camas Books; “Beauty is in the Streets!” A Weekend of Direct Action; Seminar, Victoria, BC, Canada
Springer, S. 2012. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia; Presented to: Massey University, School of People, Environment and Planning; Seminar, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Springer, S. 2012. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia; Presented to: National University of Singapore, Department of Geography; Seminar, Singapore
Springer, S. 2012. Internment: urban governance and the fate of the homeless in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Presented to: Politics, Economies and Space (PEAS) Reasearch Group, National University of Singapore,Department of Geography; Seminar, Singapore
Springer, S. 2012. Public space, social justice, and homelessness: urban governance in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Presented to: University of Victoria, Department of Geography; Invited Lecture; Victoria, Canada
Springer, S. 2012. Violent neoliberalism: development, discourse, and dispossession in post-transitional Cambodia; Presented to: University of Victoria, Department of Geography; Invited Speaker; Victoria, Canada
Springer, S. 2010. Neoliberal exclusions: geographies of homelessness, dispossession, and othering in post-transitional Cambodia; Presented to: University of Otago, Department of Geography; Invited Speaker; Dunedin, New Zealand
Springer, S. 2008. Neoliberalizing violence: political economy, poststructuralism, and imaginative geographies in 'post-conflict' Cambodia; Presented to: National University of Singapore, Department of Geography; Invited Speaker, Singapore
Springer, S. 2005. Neoliberalism in Cambodia: political violence and the contestation of public space; Presented to: University of British Columbia, Liu Institute for Global Issues; Seminar; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Springer, S. 2005. Democracy and development in Cambodia: public space and the paradox of violence; Presented to: University of Northern British Columbia, Geography Program; Seminar; Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Theses and Dissertations
Springer, S. 2009. Neoliberalizing violence: (post)Marxian political economy, poststructuralism, and the production of space in 'postconflict' Cambodia. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia. PhD Dissertation. (Co-Supervisors: Philippe Le Billon and Jamie Peck. Committee Members: Derek Gregory, Jim Glassman, Sorpong Peou. External Examiner: James Sidaway).
Springer, S. 2005. Cambodia's fractured crucible: democratic development, political violence, and the contestation of public space. Department of Geography, Queen's University at Kingston. MA Thesis. (Supervisor: Barry Riddell. Committee Members: Audrey Kobayashi, Anne Godlewska, Villia Jefremovas).
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