Our Sponsorship Policy - GeoCurrents

To help support the time and resources that go into bringing this website to its visitors, GeoCurrents will accept sponsorships from time to time. The idea behind these sponsorships, in addition to supporting the continued development of the weblog, is to enhance visitors’ time on the site, rather than detract from it. Thus, only sponsorships from businesses offering quality products or services that would prove valuable or interesting to a portion of the GeoCurrents audience will be accepted.

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In addition to individual sponsorships, GeoCurrents is also a publishing member of the Google Advertising Network, and will display ads from this network via Google AdSense. Google AdSense has helped nurture the Web as we know it by enabling publishers develop content while earning revenue for their efforts. AdSense works by displaying advertisements that are potentially relevant to our site and the interests of its readers. As a result, we hope that such ads will enhance visits to GeoCurrents.

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About GeoCurrents

GeoCurrents is dedicated to exploring the geographical and historical patterns that underlie the world’s current events and that structure global and regional relationships. Maps are used in all posts not merely to show where events occur, but also to illustrate the processes involved.

GeoCurrents tries to avoid taking sides on contentious issues, seeking rather to foster an enriching exchange of information and ideas. As its scope is both fully global and deeply historical, the author is usually operating outside of his own fields of expertise. As a result, mistakes and simplifications can be expected. Corrections and elaborations are more than welcome in the comments section. Comments with insulting or abusive language, however, will be deleted.

Readers interested in opinion-based essays by Martin W. Lewis will be able to find them on his personal webpage.

About The Author

Martin W. Lewis is senior lecturer emeritus at Stanford University, where he taught world history and world geography from 2002 to 2022. He earned a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and previously taught at George Washington University and Duke University. A list of his published works will soon be made available on his personal website.

GeoCurrents’ Conceptual Concerns

GeoCurrents is concerned about almost anything that has a geographical expression and hence can be explored and elucidated through maps. Topics of interest range from the deadly serious to the quirky and whimsical.

Many GeoCurrents posts take on issues of political geography, ranging from wars and ethnic conflicts to electoral returns. Behind these writings is a conviction that the basic world political map is unduly simplistic, making the world seem much more orderly than it really is. A book-length elaboration of this thesis – entitled Seduced by the Map – will be available on the author’s personal webpage by the end of 2023, if not earlier. The introduction and initial chapters on this book can be found on this website. A summary of the main arguments in Seduced by the Map can be found here.

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