Dr Craig Jones

Early Career Fellow 2019-20

Wounds Without Borders: War, Injury and Care in the Middle East

The project uses a creative mixed-method approach to capture and spatialise the lived experience of injured patients. Fieldwork will be conducted in key borderland areas in Lebanon and Turkey in conjunction with local and international actors on the ground. This will consist of interviews with patients and medical-care workers, ethnographic methods focused on casualty evacuation routes and care facilities, and audio-visual documentation and mapping of patient journeys.

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Areas of interest

Political Geography Military Lawyers War & Peace Militarisation Palestine International Law Israel Violence

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Biography

Craig Jones is a Lecturer in Political Geography at Newcastle University. Craig completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia, where he researched the involvement of military lawyers in aerial targeting operations and the ‘legalisation’ of later modern war.

Craig’s first monograph, The War Lawyers: US, Israel and the Spaces of Targeting was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Drawing on several years of fieldwork and extensive interviews with military lawyers, Craig argues that international law has become part of the very fabric of later modern war and that US and Israeli military lawyers play a surprisingly crucial role in planning and executing a wide range of lethal and non-lethal military violence. This research was supported by a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship.

Biographical details correct as of 16.01.25