Natalie Koch

Natalie Koch is Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the USA. She is a political geographer who researches geopolitics, identity politics, energy and the environment, and state power, with an empirical focus on the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to editing several collections on political geography, her books include Arid Empire : The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (Verso, 2022) and The geopolitics of spectacle : Space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018).