Book
Unarmed Community Self- Protection and Nonviolent Resistance. Beatriz E. Arias López, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Rachel Julian, Nerve V. Macaspac, Rosemary Okello-Orlale (eds.) In contract with Bristol University Press.
Double-blind peer reviewed journal articles (online & print)
Macaspac, N. V. (2023). Indigenous Geopolitics: Creating Indigenous Spaces of Community Self-Protection and Peace Amid Violent Conflict. Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, 1(2), 181-207.
Macaspac, N. (2022) Spatialities of Peace Zones. Cooperation and Conflict.
, & (2022). Peace geographies and the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies: Integrating parallel conversations through spatial practices. Geography Compass, e12614.
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2019) “Insurgent Peace: Community-led peacebuilding among indigenous peoples in Sagada, Philippines.” Geopolitics.
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2018) “Suspicion and Ethnographic Peace Research.” International Peacekeeping.
Double-blind peer reviewed journal articles (online & open access)
Andreopoulos, G., N. Macaspac, E. Galkin, et.al. (2020). “Whole-of-Nation” Approach to Counterinsurgency and the Closing of Civic Space in the Philippines. Global Dynamics Vol. 13, Issue 54
Book Chapters
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara & Nerve Macaspac. “The Politics of Global Cooperative Research: Reflections of the Creating Safer Space Research Network.” In Karolina Kluczewska and Philipp Lottholz (eds) Cooperative Research: Conceptualising, Reflecting and Debating Socially Engaged Inquiry, in contract with Bristol University Press. (in revision)
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara & Nerve Macaspac (2023). Control, confusion, and failure: fieldwork in areas of violent conflict and limited state authority in Antonio Diaz, Cristina del Real and Lorena Molnar (eds.) Fieldwork Experiences in Criminology and Security: Methods, Ethics, and Emotions. Springer Nature.
Nerve Macaspac, Nerve and A. Moore (2023). Geographies of Peace in Colin Flint and Kara Dempsey (eds.) Making Geographies of Peace. London: Routledge.
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2019) Suspicion and Ethnographic Peace Research, in Gearoid P. Millar (ed.) Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research, Oxford: Routledge.
Book Reviews
Macaspac, N.V. (2023). Maria Ressa and the Fight for Facts: Book Review of How to Stand Up Against A Dictator. Human Rights Review 24, 611–613.
Macaspac, N.V. (2021). The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights by William F. Schulz and Sushma Raman. Human Rights Review 22: 379–380.
Public Syllabus
Macaspac, Nerve V. and Lara Saguisag (2023) “Here Lies Love” in Critical Contexts: A Public Syllabus. wp.nyu.edu/herelieslovesyllabus/
Maps
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2023) Map of Boston, in Lucas Hilderbrand’s The Bars are Ours, Duke University Press, p. 107.
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2022) Map of Bangsamoro, in edited by Randy Jenzen, Ellen Furnari and Rosemary Kabaki (eds.) Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security, Bristol Univeristy Press, p. 155.
Open Access
Anderson, L., A. Anderton, N. Macaspac, et al. (2022) “Light Bulb” Moments in the Humanities Classroom: An Interactive Workshop Recap, Transformative Learning in the Humanities, CUNY Academic Commons
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2021) “Mapping Staten Island: A Field Study Guide,” CUNY Academic Works.
Macaspac, Nerve V. (2021) “My Pandemic”: Centering CUNY Students’ Experiences Through Digital Autoethnography, CUNY Academic Commons.
Lowry, James, Nerve Macaspac, and Cynthia Tobar (2021) “Autoethnographic Pedagogy,” CUNY Academic Commons.
Andreopoulos, G., N. Macaspac, E. Galkin, et.al. (2020). The Closing of Civic Space in the Philippines. New York: Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Calatayud, A., R. Martinez, N. Macaspac, et.al. (2011) In Search of Justice: A Population-based Survey on the Participation of Cambodian-Americans in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Human Rights Center.
Magazine or online articles
“It’s one of the worst crimes in the world” — wife of “disappeared” journalist.(co-authored) Medium.com, August 30, 2018.
“The Continuing Fight to End Torture”.(co-authored) Medium.com, June 26, 2018.
“Torture is more fun in the Philippines.”Amnesty International USA, January 29, 2015.
“Three ways to help end torture in the Philippines.”(co-authored) Amnesty International USA, 2014.
Poetry
Macaspac, Nerve V. 2019. “Night,” in Beyond Bloodlines: Queerness, Kin, Family, ed. Irwin Swirnoff and Marcela Pardo Ariza. San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Macaspac, Nerve V. 2009. “We Lost Everything in A Day,” Bulatlat.
Work cited in
2026
Mewburn, I., Thomson, P., Kara, H., & Grant, A. (2026). Managing Your Research Project: A Guide for Researchers (1st ed.). Routledge.
2025
Vogel, B., Dhungana, N., Džuverović, N., Khanal, N. A., Zapata, M. L., & Fast, L. (2025). Caught in the middle: Local researchers’ experience of mundane ethical harms in crisis settings. Research Ethics, 0(0).
Ali Hamdan. “Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’.” Qualitative Research, November.
Atika Rahmawati and Asep Adang Supriyadi. (2025) “Membangun Ketahanan Dan Keamanan Sosial: Model Pertahanan Non-Militer Berbasis Komunitas” (“Building Social Resilience And Security: A Community Based Non-Military Defense Model”). Inovasi Pembangunan Jurnal Kelitbangan,13(2). Agustus.
Howlett, Marnie, Catherine Parry, Samuel Nicholson, Sinead Lambe, and Alfie Aldridge. (2025) “Sheltering the Nation: The Politicisation of Ukraine’s Civilian Shelters Amidst Russia’s Aggression.” Geopolitics, February, 1–35.
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, (2025). “Ecological Peace Corridors: A new conservation strategy to protect human and biological diversity.” Biological Conservation 302: 110947.
Amaël Cattaruzza (2025). “Conflict.” In Virginie Mamadouh, Natalie Koch, Chih Yuan Woon, John Agnew (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography, 229-246.
Jon Anderson (2025). Spatial Turn. In: Warf, B. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Springer, Cham.
Sayra van den Berg (2025). The art(s) of conflict disruption in South Sudan. Third World Quarterly, 1–17.
Fabien Cante and Philippa Williams (2025). Peace. In Virginie Mamadouh, Natalie Koch, Chih Yuan Woon, John Agnew (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography, Second Editions, 247-264.
Shona Loong (2025). More-Than-Rebel Territory: War, Resistance, and Relations in the Salween Peace Park. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1–20.
Catalina Montoya Londoño (2025). International actors’ promotion of peacebuilding in Colombia through online subsidies: the role of spatial framing. Critical Studies on Security, 1–17.
John Edison Sabogal Venegas (2025). Ecologías de la búsqueda: desapariciones, temporalidades y fricciones en el posacuerdo colombiano. Revista Colombiana De Antropología, 61(1), e2786.
2024
Geografías y ecologías de la paz Los ensamblajes contradictorios de la paz. Territorios.
Claske Dijkema, Priscyll Anctil Avoine, and Sara Koopman. (2024) “Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-War’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches.” Geopolitics 29 (5): 1511–37.
Virginie Mamadouh (2024). La geografía y la guerra, los geógrafos y la paz: ampliando las agendas políticas y de investigación. Territorios, 51(Especial), 1–31.
Roger Mac Ginty (2024). Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict. Cooperation and Conflict.
Matheus Souza (2024) Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar,
(2024). Engineered Spaces: Bordering Peace in Jerusalem and Sarajevo, Ethnopolitics.
Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo & Shuar Kakaram de Buena Esperanza (2024). Making Space for Feminist Decolonial Geographies of Peace with the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Case for ‘Cuerpo Territorio.’ Geopolitics, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2366316
Lucas Pena (2024) Analyzing everyday conflicts from a socio-spatial perspective. Lesson for peace and reconciliation studies. In: Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies.
Matheus Souza. (2024). The spatial turn in peace and conflict studies: contributions, limitations and opportunities for research on space–time heterogeneity. Space and Polity, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2024.2363177
Isabel Inguanzo (2024). The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia: Recent Advances and Current Challenges. In: Facal, G., Lafaye de Micheaux, E., Norén-Nilsson, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9655-1_21
(2024) Peace and Conflict in Public Space: Gendered Murals Shaping Belfast, Geopolitics, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2024.2321164
Oluwaseun Bamidele (2024). On Responsibility for the Security of Others: An Ethnographic Case Study of Civilian Joint Task Force Insurgent Peace in Borno State, North-Eastern Region of Nigeria. In: Erameh, N.I.,
Ojakorotu, V. (eds) Africa’s Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century. Africa’s Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
2023
Noam Brenner & Nufar Avni (2023). בניית שלום בירושלים: התשתיות העירוניות כתשתית לשלום?. (Building peace in Jerusalem: the urban infrastructure as an infrastructure for peace?), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8022860
Catalina Ortiz & Oscar Gómez Córdoba (2023) Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation. Planning Theory.
Fabien Cante (2023) “Everyday peace in a ‘post-conflict’ African metropolis: Radio encounters, indeterminacy, fugitivity.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
(2023) “Cherry-Picking Tradition and Selective Modernisation: The Insurgency of the Indigenous Cordillerans of the Philippines“, Civil Wars
(2023) “The Collective Neglect of Southern Iraq: Missed Opportunities for Development and Good Governance”, International Peacekeeping.
Leonardsson, H. (2023). “Navigating the Local: Politics of Peacebuilding in Lebanese Municipalities.” Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
2022
(2022) “Introducing Space for Peace.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16:5, 536-544.
Harrington, C. (2022). The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221145365
(2022) Youth inclusion in peace processes: the case of the Bangsamoro transition authority in Mindanao, Philippines, Conflict, Security & Development, DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2151201
Estella Carpi, Mona Fawaz, Sara Fregonese, Alan Ingram, Aya Nassar, Olivia Mason. (2022). Review forum: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon, Sara Fregonese, I.B.Tauris (2019). Political Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102777.
Annika Björkdahl & Susanne Buckley-Zistel (2022): Space for Peace: A Research Agenda, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, DOI:10.1080/17502977.2022.2131194
Kodili Henry Chukwuma (2022) ‘Archiving as embodied research and security practice’, Security Dialogue. doi: 10.1177/09670106221075954.
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Ellen Furnari, and Rachel Julian (2021). Unarmed Civilian Protection/Peacekeeping. In: Richmond, O. and Visoka, Gëzim (eds) The Palgrave Encycolopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_178-12021
Postcolonial Studies Volume 36 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839449042
Hanno Brankamp (2021). Feeling the Refugee Camp: Affectual Research, Bodies, and Suspicion. Area. doi: 10.1111/area.12739
Krause Jana (2021) The ethics of ethnographic methods in conflict zones. Journal of Peace Research 58(3):329-341. doi:10.1177/0022343320971021
Nemanja Džuverović, (2021) “‘To Romanticise or Not to Romanticise the Local’: Local Agency and Peacebuilding in the Balkans.” Conflict, security & development 21.1 (2021): 21–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2021.1888517
Nemanja Džuverović. (2021) Confessions of a Local Researcher. In: Mac Ginty R., Brett R., Vogel B. (eds) The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pages 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46433-2_24
2020
Noe John Joseph Endencio Sacramento (2020). Walking the Talk, from Online to Offline? Analyzing Predictors of Political Engagements in the Case of Cebu City, Philippines. Journal Aristo 9(2):305-334. doi.org/10.24269/ars.v9i2.2671
Balazs Aron Kovács. (2020) Peace Infrastructures. In: Richmond O., Visoka G. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
(2020) Researching with ‘Local’ Associates: Power, Trust and Data in an Interpretive Project on Communities’ Conflict Knowledge in Myanmar, Civil Wars
Pol Bargués-Pedreny. (2020) Resilience is “always more” than our practices: Limits, critiques, and skepticism about international intervention. Contemporary Security Policy 41:2, pages 263-286.
Kathrin Hörschelmann, Catherine Cottrell Studemeyer, Peter Hopkins, Matthew Benwell. (2019) Special Section Introduction: “Peripheral Visions: Security By, and For, Whom?”. Geopolitics 24:4, pages 777-786.
2019
(2019) “From expert to experiential knowledge: exploring the inclusion of local experiences in understanding violence in conflict,“ Peacebuilding, 7:2, 210-225
2018
Daniel Grinberg. (2018) Tracing Toxic Legacies: GIS and the Dispersed Violence of Agent Orange. Journal of War & Culture Studies 11:1, pages 38-57.
Timothy Williams et al. (2018) Justice and Reconciliation for the Victims of Khmer Rouge?Victim Participation in Cambodia’s Transitional Justice Process. Marburg: Centre for Conflict Studies; Phnom Penh: Centre for the Study of Humanitarian Law; Bern: swisspeace.
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