David P Nally BA, PhD

University Lecturer, Fellow and Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College

David Nally is a human geographer and co-convenor, with Dr. Philip Howell, of the Historical-Cultural Research Group. His research focuses primarily on colonial cultures and policies; the relationship between famine and society; the politics of disaster relief; historical origins of development geographies; and theories of political violence. He has recently completed a book, Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine (University Notre Dame Press, 2011) and is presently working on the implications of the so-called 'biorevolution' on contemporary agro-food systems, as well as further historical work on peasant resistance in nineteenth-century Ireland. He teaches courses on historical and contemporary political geography, geographical methods, and geographies of famine and was the editor of the RGS-IBG's monograph series on Historical Geography from 2007-2011.

Biography

Career

2006 - Present: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Jan - April 2005: Visiting Lecturer/Seminar Instructor, University College Cork
2000 - 2005: University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1996 - 1999: University College Cork

Qualifications

PhD 2006, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
BA 1999, Joint Honours, History and Geography, University College Cork

Awards and Honours

University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2003-2004
University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2002-2003
National University of Ireland 'Travelling Studentship in Geography,' 2000-2003 (€40,000)
College Scholar, University College Cork, 1999
Charles J. O'Connell Medal, University College Cork (awarded for first place in Geography), 1999

Publications

Books

Nally, D. Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.

Selected Articles

Nally, D. 'An Early Victorian Holocaust: The Colonial Dimensions of the Great Irish Famine.' John Crowley and William J. Smyth (Eds). An Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. Cork: Cork University Press (Forthcoming 2012).
Nally, D. 'Hunger in an Era of Global Food Security.' Carlos Antonio Soares Ribeiro, Carlos Antônio Moreira Leite, Douglas Mansur da Silva et al (Eds). 1st International Symposium on Food Security and Poverty Reduction. Viçosa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2011 pp 17-28.
Nally, D and Kearns G. 'A Closer Look at Famine: Drought is only Part of What's Happening in East Africa.' The Chronicle of Higher Education, 58(9) Section B, October 21, 2011 pp 10-12.
Nally, D. 'On Lost Causes.' Past Place. 20(1) 2011 pp 4-6.
Nally, D. 'The Biopolitics of Food Provisioning.' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36 (1) 2011 pp 37-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00413.x.
Cook, I.J., Hobson, K., Hallett, L., Guthman, J., Murphy, A., Hulme, A., Sheller, M., Crewe, L., Nally, D.P., Roe, E., et al. 'Geographies of Food: Afters.' Progress in Human Geography 35 (1) 2010 pp 104-120. doi:10.1177/0309132510369035.
Nally, D. 'Ethnicity and Resistance, Historical Geographies of.' Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift (Eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009 pp 620-625.
Nally, D. 'That Coming Storm: the Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics and the Great Irish Famine.' Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98 (3) 2008 pp 714-741. doi:10.1080/00045600802118426.
Kearns, G. and Nally, D. 'Disaster Capitalism in Historical Perspective.' The Geographical Journal. 174 (3) 2008 pp 284-287. [Part of a roundtable review entitled "Considering the Political Utility of Disasters" on Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, ed. by D. Nally]. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.292_1.x.
Nally, D. (2008) 'Maintaining the Marches: Seigneur, Sept and Settlement in Anglo-Norman Thomand.' Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent (Eds.) [William Nolan, Series Editor] Clare: History and Society. Dublin: Geographical Publications, 2008 pp 27-60.
Nally, D. 'From the Kraal to Knackeragua and Back: Colonial and Postcolonial Futurologies.' Irish Geography 39 (1) 2007 pp 172-176.
Nally, D. 'Famine, Geography of.' Barney L. Warf (Ed) The Encyclopedia of Geography, Vol 3. London: Sage Publications, 2006 pp 1082-1085
Nally, D. '"Eternity's Commissioner": Thomas Carlyle, the Great Irish Famine and the Geopolitics of Travel.' Journal of Historical Geography 32 (2) 2006 pp 313-335. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2005.01.020.
Nally, D. 'Geography in Ireland in Transition - Some Comments.' Irish Geography 37 (2) 2005 pp 131-134.
Nally, D. 'Incorrigible Venice and the War Against Cliché. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 22 (1) 2004 pp 295-312. doi:10.1068/d336t.

Media

'Architectures of Violence: Famine and Profits.' Al Jazeera (16 August 2011)
'Somalia: Lessons from Another Time and Another Continent.' Interviewed by Mark Woods. The Baptists Times (12 August 2011)
Appearance on 'Everyday Ethics', BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday 7 Aug 2011 [Listen (MP3 file)]
'Parallels in Famine-stricken Societies.' Interviewed by Owen Ryan, The Clare Champion (4 August, 2011)
'Between the Stomach and the Purse: What We can Learn from the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s' The Huffington Post (23 July 2011)
'The Detention of Ghazi Walid Falah: Israel Arrests Geography Professor from the University of Akron' Counterpunch (26 July, 2006)
'Darfur Genocide Reveals World's Quiet Savagery' Sunday Times (8 August, 2004)
'Genocide in Darfur? Victims without Oppressors; Massacres without Crimes' Counterpunch (31 July 2004)
'Sudan: Our Geographical Blindspot' Counterpunch (17/18 July, 2004)
'A Call for Sudan' ZNet (13 July, 2004)
'Bush visits Ireland' ZNet (3 June, 2004)

Book Reviews

Mark Duffield and Vernon Hewitt Eds (2009) Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present. Suffolk: James Currey, IN Economic History Review (Forthcoming)
David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers Ed (2005) Geography and Revolution Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, IN Social and Cultural Geography (Forthcoming)
"Uncivil Surveys," Review of William J. Smyth (2006) Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c.1530-1750. Cork: Cork University Press, IN HNet HIST-GEOG (published online, 2007)
Mark McCarthy Ed (2005) Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate, IN Cultural Geographies 14 (4) 2007 p 626
Frederick Buell (2004) From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. New York: Routledge, IN Historical Geography 35 2007 pp 277-280
Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift Eds (2003) Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage Publications, IN Progress in Human Geography 28 (3) 2004 pp 408-409
Dirk Hoerder (2000) Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 175, Winter 2002: 150-51
Carlos Teixeira and Victor M. P. Da Rosa Eds (2000) The Portuguese in Canada. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 175, Winter 2002 pp 150-51
Louis Gauthier (1999) Travels with an Umbrella: An Irish Journey. Nuage Editions: Winnipeg, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 175, Winter 2002 pp 120-21
Margot Gayle Backus (1999) The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Duke University Press: London, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 175, Winter 2002 pp 120-21
Keith Jeffery Ed. (1996) An Irish Empire?: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire. Manchester University Press: Manchester, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 175, Winter 2002 pp 120-21
Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, Karen Till Eds (2001) Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies University of Minnesota Press: Minnesota, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 174 Autumn 2002 pp 158-59
Bernhard Klein (2001) Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland. Palgrave: Basingstoke, IN Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review no. 174 Autumn 2002 pp 158-59

Teaching

1A Geopolitics and Political Geography
1A Geographical Skills and Methods
Part II 'Historical Geographies of Food, Famine and Power'
MPhil in Geographical Research
Generic Research Training
Director of Studies, Fitzwilliam College
External Director of Studies, Gonville and Caius College

External activities

Honorary Editor of a research monograph series produced by the RGS-IBG's Historical Geography Research Group
Co-editor of the UCC post-graduate geography journal Chimera (1999-2000)
Member of the Geographical Society of Ireland
Member of the Association of American Geographers