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Alison Mountz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Geography iii bodies
Progress in Human Geography, 2018Co-Authors: Alison MountzAbstract:This third report on the sub-discipline of Political Geography explores how geographers, of late, have approached, analyzed, de- and re-centered bodies in order to expand understandings of the rela...
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Political Geography ii islands and archipelagos
Progress in Human Geography, 2015Co-Authors: Alison MountzAbstract:This second of two progress reports on the subdiscipline of Political Geography explores islands and archipelagos as material sites and Political concepts with which to understand spatial ontologies of power. The piece reviews thematic interests in the interdisciplinary field of island studies as well as those taken up by Political geographers. Areas for future research are also identified.
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Political Geography i reconfiguring geographies of sovereignty
Progress in Human Geography, 2013Co-Authors: Alison MountzAbstract:This first of three progress reports on the subdiscipline of Political Geography reviews recent scholarship on the transformation of geographies of sovereignty. The piece offers a review of major analytical themes that have emerged in recent geographical analyses of sovereignty. These themes include the design of spatial metaphors through which to conceptualize sovereignty, US exceptionalism and the influence of Agamben’s work, productive blurring of onshore and offshore operations and productions of sovereign power, and debate about the kinds of power operating through these newly constituted global topographies of power. The text also visits five kinds of sites where contemporary struggles over sovereignty manifest: prison, island, sea, body, and border. After reviewing recent trends, themes, and locations in studies of sovereign power, recommendations for future research topics are made.
Merje Kuus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Geography iii bounding the international
Progress in Human Geography, 2020Co-Authors: Merje KuusAbstract:This report focuses on the imaginaries and practices that demarcate space at the international and supranational scale. I will first review Political geographic scholarship on region-making and reg...
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Political Geography ii institutions
Progress in Human Geography, 2020Co-Authors: Merje KuusAbstract:Modern power is bureaucratized power, institutionalized formally through governmental and non-governmental structures and informally through unwritten social conventions. This report reviews recent...
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Political Geography i agency
Progress in Human Geography, 2019Co-Authors: Merje KuusAbstract:This report focuses on human agency – the capacity to act in a given context – as it is studied and reflected upon in Political geographic research. I first discuss the investigations of agency in ...
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Political Geography and geopolitics
Canadian Geographer, 2009Co-Authors: Merje KuusAbstract:This essay discusses the key contributions of Canadian Political geographers to the remarkable growth of the subfield in the past two decades. I focus on two burgeoning strands of work: first, the transformation of state power, and second, the current phase of war, militarization and surveillance globally. My goal is not to review the field of Political Geography. Rather, I use the two themes to foreground prominent strands of recent work and delineate some lines of inquiry that require more attention and are likely to grow in importance. In particular, I underscore the need for closer attention to human agency—that is, capacity to act—in Political Geography and geopolitics.
Fiona Mcconnell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Possible futures for Geography and Geographers and Political Geography? A reading from the margins
GeoJournal, 2020Co-Authors: Fiona McconnellAbstract:In thinking about the present utility and possible futures for Geography and Geographers and Political Geography this contribution focuses on the perspective of the margins. At first glance, both books are written from the perspective of the core, yet, margins, in various guises, are frequently mentioned in both texts and in many ways underpin the Political agenda behind these volumes. That said, both present rather static views of the margins and, in terms of possible futures for these books, this contribution discusses how they might bring the margins centre-stage in more dynamic ways. For Political Geography , it is suggested that the creative tension between post-colonial studies and the world-systems approach might usefully be brought to the fore in the book and the volume reworked so that it is written from the vantage point of the margins. In terms of Geography and Geographers the suggestion is to augment the format in order to make the book a less ‘comfortable’ read. Akin to the ‘choose your own adventure’ books that were popular when both volumes were first published, an interactive digital platform accompanying the book might provide a vantage point from which the medley of margins that is contemporary human Geography might more clearly come into view.
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Governments‐in‐Exile: Statehood, Statelessness and the Reconfiguration of Territory and Sovereignty
Geography Compass, 2009Co-Authors: Fiona McconnellAbstract:Governments-in-exile are conventionally viewed as discrepant forms of Political practice and geoPolitical exceptions to the rules of sovereign statehood. However, despite significant limitations, polities such as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile enact state-like functions and are actively forging new Political spaces and modalities of sovereignty. Contextualising governments-in-exile with regards to a range of twentieth-century geoPolitical anomalies, this study argues that such polities raise key questions for Political geographers regarding the relationship between sovereignty and territory, the nature of statehood and the role of ‘the exception’ in geoPolitical discourses. In light of contemporary critical reappraisals of sovereignty, territory and statehood, this study calls for Political Geography – and critical geopolitics in particular – to expand its gaze and engage with issues raised by governments-in-exile. In turn, an empirical and theoretical focus on such non-state entities highlights the utility of ethnographic methodologies within critical geopolitics, enables a critical fusion of literatures of the state and of statelessness, problematises taken-for-granted Political Geography categories and facilitates critical inquiry into alternative Political arrangements.
Lynn A Staeheli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Geography where s citizenship
Progress in Human Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Lynn A StaeheliAbstract:Citizenship is a contested subject in Political Geography, as a quick review of the literature suggests considerable differences in the way it is conceptualized and its importance is understood. This report reviews debates on the salience of citizenship in the context of broad social, Political, and economic changes. Rather than attempting to assign a relative importance to citizenship as status as compared to citizenship as membership, it focuses on the continual rearticulation of the relationships and sites through which citizenship is constructed.
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Political Geography democracy and the disorderly public
Progress in Human Geography, 2010Co-Authors: Lynn A StaeheliAbstract:This progress report reviews recent research on the role that disorder plays in fostering democracy. Disorder can be a powerful tool in fostering democracy because it highlights the conflicts, the agonism, that are inherent in democratic politics. More than a form of government or a set of outcomes, democracy can be conceptualized as a process through which agonism is expressed and action is taken. Yet agonism disrupts what seem to be settled relationships and practices, as new people, voices, and ideas enter the public sphere. Research in Political Geography has examined material and virtual spaces for public address in which groups struggle to expand, and in some cases reorder, democratic publics.
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mapping women making politics feminist perspectives on Political Geography
2004Co-Authors: Lynn A Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman, Linda PeakeAbstract:1. Introduction 2. Feminism and Difference 3. Feminism and Political Theory 4. Development, Post-colonialism, and Political Theory 5. Scale 6. Spheres of Politics 7. Politics of Mobility and Access 8. Political Acts 9. Methodologies 10. Geography, Space, Politics 11. Territory and Territoriality 12. Geopolitics, Empire and Imperialism 13. Globalization, Regionalization and International Trade 14. Nation and Nationalism 15. The State 16. Electoral Geography and Political Participation 17. Local State, Public Services, and Locational Conflict 18. Protest, Resistance and Social Movements 19. Crossing Borders: Migrants, Refugees and Human Rights 20. Politics of the Environment Conclusion
Fabiano Toni - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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from frontier governance to governance frontier the Political Geography of brazil s amazon transition
World Development, 2019Co-Authors: Gregory M Thaler, Cecilia Viana, Fabiano ToniAbstract:The ‘frontier’ is central to a new wave of development scholarship, but the broad deployment of the concept has blurred several key dimensions of frontier development. We focus on the Brazilian Amazon to synthesize classical frontier theory and emerging perspectives with special attention to the role of governance in frontier development. Since 2004, primary deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has declined over 70 percent while agricultural production in the region has increased. Contrary to narratives that view this transition as the result of ‘frontier governance’ – i.e., the imposition of order on a pre-existing frontier – we propose the concept of a ‘governance frontier,’ which recognizes the role of politics in constructing and transforming frontier spaces. This concept politicizes economic accounts of frontier development and spatializes abstract notions of governance. We employ a ‘follow the policy’ methodology to trace the evolution of a governance frontier in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, drawing on original fieldwork across four Amazonian municipalities and inside an environmental non-governmental organization. We show that a key feature of the Amazonian governance frontier has been a distinct geographical configuration of ‘model municipalities’ that function as nodes of policy experimentation, legitimation, and transfer. Our findings support an integration of frontier theory and governance theory in a place-based, Political Geography approach to regional Political-economic transformation, which demands greater attention to the Political dimensions of frontiers and to the spatial dimensions of governance. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
