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Andrew Grant

@angrant.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Nov 19

My new article is out in TPG journal: Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security // From a great new SI on Himalayan Frontiers // 50 eprints www.tandfonline.com/eprint/K6KTF...

Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security

Western China’s border provinces’ domestic economic corridors are positive spaces that erase the negative spaces of the frontier. Frontiers, understood as spaces of incomplete sovereign control, th...

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Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social · 18d

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · 18d

Some of the readings and materials I am folding into my Silk Roads History class this semester. Really enjoying it!

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20d

My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · 20d

When did promoting cancel culture become part of the DHS mandate?

Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 20d

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement | Homeland Security

Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car a...

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · 22d

Khorgos is a self-contained duty-free territorial unit that carves out territory from Kazakhstan and China. You need entry from either side, but then can't cross through the other country's migration: you have to go back home. How common are border sites like this around the world?

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · Aug 29

Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE.
Subscribe to my rumble to help the cause: rumble.com/v6y7a1c-minn...

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Aug 14

My new essay for @nbr.org that explores the convergence of geopolitical space and propaganda in China's "external periphery." To learn what (and where) that is, read on...

Nadège Rolland @rollandnadege.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since 2015, a new concept has emerged in the PRC propaganda sphere: "peripheral communication" (周边传播).
For @nbr.org, @angrant.bsky.social examines how this new propaganda theory purports to help China better penetrate the information space of its neighbors.
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Expanding China’s Geopolitical Influence through Peripheral Communication - Mapping China's Strategic Space

The discourse of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and trio of global initiatives implies that the country’s geopolitical interests are firmly global. Nonetheless, in recent years Chinese scholars and ...

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Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social · Jul 24

A real honor to work with @tshakya.bsky.social on this incredible piece on the Dalai Lama's book. Please read and share!

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Who Will Be the Next Dalai Lama? | China Books Review

The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jul 8

Monsoonal rainfall contributed to the flooding of the Bhote Koshi River at the Rasuwagadhi border of Nepal and China, damaging the dry port and destroying a key bridge. Thankfully, Timure town is above the river. Here are two photos I took there last month.

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hanging out in the CU Boulder library this morning to access CNKI. Good memories of this campus!

Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 19

I did my part.

May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · Jun 19

Womp Womp

Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 18

It’s Nepali.

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 18

It’s this map

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 18

Follow up to my last post about maps on the sides of trucks at the Sino-Nepalese borders. This one is painted over. China is a bit sensitive about unauthorized cartography… Who knew?

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 14

These are all long-distance goods transport trucks

Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 14

No trade cities to map perhaps?

Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 14

I love the hand applied and painted maps on trucks at the Rasuwagadhi border. #rasuwa #cartography #sinonepalese #borderlands

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 7

Finally, the invitation I've been waiting my whole life to accept! Everything has been building up to this point. 😇🚀🪐

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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · Jun 1

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our panel on Global Asia at #aasinasia2025 in #kathmandu Thanks to Sanggay, Dorji, Sonika, and Yowei for being involved.

Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · Jun 1

First day of the #AASinAsia2025 @bennoweiner.bsky.social Levering the Margins #kathmandu

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The Onion @theonion.com · May 30

World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent theonion.com/world-s...

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · May 19

Don’t forget the Dutch!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · May 18

“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”

Deadly by design. And they know it.

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Graphic showing how vehicle front design affects pedestrian deaths.

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Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · May 19

#booksky

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