No Go World

No Go World is an ambitious and wide-ranging exploration of how risk, danger and fear are 'remapping' the world with dire ethical and practical consequences. In examining how 'remote zones of insecurity are becoming central to our new world disorder' (p. 3), the book seizes an ambitious remit and is a worthwhile read for a broad range of readers interested in security studies, insurance, risk, human geography and questions of social-science method itself. * Journal of Refugee Studies * The? ?history of Western map making serves Andersson as a particularly? ?powerful metaphor throughout the book. It allows? ?him to illustrate the Western gaze, time horizons, beliefs,? ?hopes, and fears in relation to the Orient. * American Anthropologist * Vividly and convincingly, No Go World describes a global shift toward cordoning off more and more zones labeled violent and high-risk, making them inaccessible to outsiders. . . . Andersson's argument is devastating and crucial. * Public Books * Andersson's adventuring is almost impossible to contain in just one sentence, as it weaves in and out of locations, through maps both real and those mappae mundi full of monsters he was obsessed with as a child. . . . The value, ultimately, and there is real value, in No Go World is in the discovery of the mostly unseen everyday that refuses to be defeated by the military border. * Society and Space *