Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Medical-military machines and the casualties of war 1914-2014
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$224,390
Killing space: targeting, techno-culture and the art of bombing
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$127,570
War cultures: military imaginaries and Arab cities
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$88,574

All 6 grants and awards

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Medical-military machines and the casualties of war 1914-2014

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gregory, Derek J.

Keywords: casualties; medical geography; modern war

$224,390

Killing space: targeting, techno-culture and the art of bombing

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Gregory, Derek J.

Keywords: bombing; war; visual technologies; art

$127,570

War cultures: military imaginaries and Arab cities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Gregory, Derek J.

Keywords: war; military occupation; Arab cities; imaginative geographies; simulation; Internet

$88,574

Orientalism and occupation: logics, laws and everyday lives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Gregory, Derek J.

Keywords: orientalism; military occupation; Middle East; imaginative geographies; urbanism

$110,161

Orientalism's geographies: cultures of travel and spatial formations of knowledge

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Gregory, Derek

Keywords: cultural geography; post-Colonialism; travel and tourism; imaginative geographies

$92,055

Descriptions of Egypt: travel, tourism and the production of imaginative geographies, 1820-1914

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Gregory, Derek

Keywords: orientalism; travel-writing; tourism; representation; historical geography

$34,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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