Sandy Marshall has a degree in Politics from Queen’s University of Belfast and received his MA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona.  His research interests have tended to focus on diaspora identity formation and identity creation in contested spaces.  Most recently  his work has focused on the movement of people, goods, information and capital and the restriction and regimentation of this movement by state bodies (in the form of walls, checkpoints, prisons and detention centers).  Likewise he is interested in the subversion or re-appropriation that takes place at the community level (in the form of barricades, tunnels, informal networks and the like) in the margins of state control.  Not coincidentally, Sandy is also interested in anarchist practice and thought and the possible contributions it can make to geographic practice and thought.  While his research has been situated in occupied Palestine, Sandy’s main interest is in conducting research that has the potential to assist in putting communities of resistance in communication with one another.