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Walter Isard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • perspectives of a Political Geographer on the future
    Futures, 1997
    Co-Authors: Walter Isard
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    Abstract In my role as a Geographer, and in particular a Political Geographer, I foresee many possible developments over space and time—a continued building up of hierarchies of all sorts, whose rates of construction are unpredictable, and have mounting specialization, and increasing scale, spatial juxtaposition and agglomeration economies, with respect to some of both existing and new economic, Political, social and cultural functions. At the same time, I see more measurable spatial dispersion and diffusion of other functions and population settlement. I foresee no revolutionary decline or growth of society more drastic than that which followed the railroad, automobile and airplane in transportation, or the telegraph and telephone in communications.

John Agnew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • place and politics in modern italy
    2002
    Co-Authors: John Agnew
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    How do the places where people live help structure and restructure their socioPolitical identities and interests? In this book, renowned Political Geographer John A. Agnew presents a theoretical model that addresses the relation of place to politics and applies it to a series of historicogeographical case studies set in modern Italy. For Agnew, place is not just a static backdrop against which events occur, but a dynamic component of social, economic and Political processes. He shows, for instance, how the lack of a common "landscape ideal" or physical image of Italy delayed the development of a sense of nationhood among Italians after unification. And Agnew uses the post-1992 victory of the Northern League over the Christian Democrats in many parts of northern Italy to explore how parties are replaced geographically during the periods of intense Political change. Providing a fresh new approach to studying the role of space and place in social change, "Place and Politics in Modern Italy" should interest Geographers, Political scientists and social theorists.

Boyce, Geoffrey A - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Neoliberal Underpinnings of Prevention Through Deterrence and the United States Government\u27s Case Against Geographer Scott Warren
    LSU Digital Commons, 2019
    Co-Authors: Boyce, Geoffrey A
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    Scott Warren is a Political Geographer currently facing federal charges in the United States for his work with the Arizona humanitarian organization No More Deaths. On January 17, 2018 Warren was arrested in Ajo, Arizona, along with Kristian Perez-Villanueva and José Sacaria-Goday, two Central American migrants to whom he was providing care. The United States has since charged Warren with two counts of felony harboring under 18 USC § 1324(a) and one count of conspiracy related to harboring. This essay places the Scott Warren case in context. First, it situates the charges against Warren within a longer genealogy of Prevention Through Deterrence (PTD), since 1994 the overarching enforcement strategy pursued by the United States along its border with Mexico. Next, I discuss how the charges against Warren reflect a doubling-down on PTD and its underlying logic. This involves a policy agenda designed to forcibly dismantle long-existing networks of community, care and solidarity across difference in the transnational U.S. / Mexico border region. I then argue that at stake in this policy agenda is an aggressive neoliberal worldview that would reduce all human relationships to pure competition, dividing the world into rigid categories of winners and losers. For this agenda to succeed, it must first rend the social fabric that holds us all together. I conclude by discussing several cases where the tactics of the Trump administration appear, thankfully, to be having precisely the opposite effect. Scott Warren es un geógrafo político que actualmente enfrenta cargos federales en los Estados Unidos por su trabajo con la organización humanitaria de Arizona No More Deaths. El 17 de enero de 2018 Warren fue arrestado en Ajo, Arizona, junto con Kristian Pérez-Villanueva y José Sacaria-Goday, dos migrantes centroamericanos a quienes estaba brindando atención. Desde entonces, los Estados Unidos ha acusado a Warren de dos cargos de delito grave de “albergar” bajo de 18 USC § 1324(a), y un cargo de conspiración relacionada al albergar. Este ensayo coloca el caso de Scott Warren en contexto. Primero, sitúa los cargos contra Warren dentro de una genealogía más larga de Prevención a Través de la Disuasión (PTD), desde 1994 la estrategia general aplicada por los Estados Unidos en su frontera con México. A continuación, analizo cómo los cargos contra Warren reflejan una duplicación del PTD y su lógica subyacente. Esto implica una agenda política diseñada para desmantelar por la fuerza las redes de comunidad, atención y solidaridad existentes a través de la diferencia desde hace mucho tiempo en la región fronteriza transnacional de Estados Unidos / México. Luego sostengo que lo que está en juego en esta agenda política es una cosmovisión neoliberal agresiva que reduciría todas las relaciones humanas a pura competencia, dividiendo el mundo en categorías rígidas de ganadores y perdedores. Para que esta agenda tenga éxito, primero tiene que desgarrar el tejido social que nos mantiene unidos. Concluyo discutiendo varios casos en los que las tácticas de la administración Trump parecen, afortunadamente, a tener precisamente el efecto contrario

Brian Barrett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Malawi Stories: mapping an art-science collaborative process
    Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
    Co-Authors: Philip J. Nicholson, Deborah Dixon, Deepa Pullanikkatil, Boyson Moyo, Hazel Long, Brian Barrett
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    This paper outlines a project drawing together an artist working on creative GIS, a geomatics scholar, an NGO leader, a rural Geographer and soil scientist, an environmental geochemist, and a Political Geographer. With a shared interest in the social and physical processes affecting people’s lives in Malawi, and the possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration, the team engaged in practice-based mapping of our data sources and respective methodologies. The project relates to two sites in Malawi: Tikondwe Freedom Gardens and the Likangala River. The paper details our practices as we shared, debated, and repurposed our data as a means of situating these practices and data. Using paper and pen, whiteboard, PowerPoint, and web-design software, we note here our effort to map a ‘space of experimentation’ highlighting, and reflecting on, our diverse disciplinary orientations, training, instrumentation, recording, and reporting procedures, as well as bodily practices that enable and give animation to these factors

Smith, Patrick Brian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Visualising Spatial Injustice and Exploitation
    2018
    Co-Authors: Connolly Stephen, Gibson Matthew, Smith, Patrick Brian
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    As the noted Political Geographer and urban theorist Edward Soja has suggested, under current socio-Political conditions, "relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life...human geographies become filled with politics and ideology." Within an epoch structured around the machinations of transnational global capital, authoritarian state (and supra-state) governance, the birth of an obfuscated neo-colonialism and neoliberalist Political hegemony, how can contemporary moving image practices capture—and, concomitantly, offer modes of resistance to—the spatial machinations of contemporary power relations? Several contemporary theorists—from Frederic Jameson and his notion of "cognitive mapping" to Alberto Toscano and his formulation of mapping the "social totality"- have tried to understand how aesthetic practices can be employed to expose the semi-discreet, yet interrelated, inner workings of: late-capitalism, authoritarian state governance, neo-colonialism, illegal occupation and internment, natural resource extraction, indigenous displacement and gentrification/urban re-structuring. These spatial exploitations have devastating effects on peoples and communities. Moving image practice presents tools for exploring these processes of exploitation and injustice in new and novel ways. These tools are resources for bearing witness, and bringing into view, the voices of peoples and communities affected. These media forms may offer significant powers of spatial visualisation, hitherto neglected in the foregrounding of their temporal properties. The work of Allan Sekula, James Benning, Ursula Biemann, Patrick Keiller, Susan Schuppli, Jonathan Perel, (amongst others), testifies to the fecundity of this focus of the moving image. The aim of this symposium is to further examine how moving image can play a key role in exposing such spatial injustices and exploitations. Indeed, we contend that such practices have a crucial role to play in undermining the apparently “seamless” functioning of such spatialised power relations; helping to throw into sharp relief their fissures, cracks and contradictions. What strategies of intervention and visualisation have been developed? Which remain underexplored or underdeveloped? This symposium seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary range of scholars and media-makers to explore these questions. Co-organisers: Stephen Connolly (University of the Creative Arts, UK), ​​Matthew Gibson (University of Kent, UK) and Patrick Brian Smith (Concordia University, Canada)