Oliver Belcher is a Lecturer in Political Geography at Durham University. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the RELATE Center of Excellence (University of Oulu; 2014-2015) and the BIOS Project (University of Lapland; 2013). He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled “Signature Wounds” which focuses on the relationships between technology, violence, and experience through critical accounts of key moments in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan (the 2009-2011 “surge” in Kandahar and Helmand province) and Iraq (the two battles of Fallujah). The project draws on extensive interviews with US military, civilian personnel, Iraqis, and Afghans involved in those operations, as well as memoirs, and the nascent fiction coming out of the wars.