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102. Nudge(ography) and practice theories: Contemporary sites of behavioural science and post-structuralist approaches in geography?
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Reid, Louise and Ellsworth-Krebs, Katherine
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NUDGE theory , *HUMAN behavior , *POSTSTRUCTURALISM , *PSYCHOLOGY , *GEOGRAPHERS , *BEHAVIORAL sciences - Abstract
Within geography there has been considerable debate about the reasons, patterns and consequences of human behaviour. Behavioural science, specifically Nudge, and practice theories are fashionable fields of enquiry, reflecting a long history of conversation between behavioural and poststructuralist approaches. The purpose of this paper is to foster further engagement with and between these perspectives, bringing to the fore the relevant ontologies from which they arise. The paper is thus largely concerned with the 'ontological politics' of approaches seeking to understand human action and concludes with some reflections on an agenda for geography, a discipline well placed to unite disparate concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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103. The proliferation of peripheries: Militarized drones and the reconfiguration of global space.
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Akhter, Majed
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DRONE aircraft , *GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *GLOBALIZATION , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *SOCIAL media - Abstract
By situating drones in a lineage of colonial technologies of pacification, the critical literature on militarized drones suggests a revised concept of peripheries and global space. This paper engages this literature to argue for a conception of peripheries as spaces of colonial state power at multiple scales. It does so by arguing for a distinction between proliferation to the global periphery and the proliferation of peripheries at multiple scales and across scattered sites. The paper also draws on Gramsci and Fanon to elaborate an internationalist anticolonial position on the defense of territorial sovereignty of states in the global periphery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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104. Uttering geographies: Speech acts, felicity conditions and modes of existence.
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Ogborn, Miles
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SPEECH , *GEOGRAPHY , *ENUNCIATION , *THEORISTS - Abstract
The geographies of speech has become stuck in a form of interpretation which considers the potentially infinite detail of spoken performances understood within their equally infinitely complex contexts. This paper offers a way forward by considering the uses, critiques and reworkings of J.L. Austin's speech act theory by those who study everyday talk, by deconstructionists and critical theorists, and by Bruno Latour in his AIME ('An Inquiry into Modes of Existence') project. This offers a rethinking of speech acts in terms of power and space, and a series of ontological differentiations between forms of utterances and enunciations beyond human speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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105. The spaces of diaspora's revitalization: Transregions, infrastructure and urbanism.
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Ashutosh, Ishan
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DIASPORA , *ETHNIC studies , *CITIES & towns , *GEOGRAPHERS - Abstract
This paper assesses the concept of diaspora with the aim of revitalizing its geographical and spatial complexity. It examines contributions made by geographers and scholars in critical area and racial/ethnic studies. It highlights three spatial formations of diaspora: (1) transregional spaces that challenge state territoriality and the boundaries of national community; (2) the infrastructures that shape diaspora through paths of connection and difference; and (3) diaspora urbanism in which new political solidarities in and across cities have emerged. It is argued that these spatial formations conceptually revitalize diaspora by providing a critique of sociospatial borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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106. Contested marketplaces: Retail spaces at the global urban margins.
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González, Sara
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MIXED-use developments , *PUBLIC spaces , *MARKETPLACES , *ONLINE shopping , *URBAN poor ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
This paper argues that retail spaces, such as marketplaces, are increasingly becoming sites of urban contestation. The globalisation of retail, online shopping and the redevelopment of cities has pushed marketplaces to the margins, but they still serve millions of people, particularly the urban poor. Concurrently, marketplaces are branded as authentic consumption experiences for tourists and residents. Building on these contradictions, I propose a novel framework with three analytical lenses to reposition marketplaces as marginal city spaces that serve as productive sites for studying urban transformation processes across the Global North and South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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107. Kinaesthetic cities: Studying the worlds of amateur sports and fitness in contemporary urban environments.
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Latham, Alan and Layton, Jack
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AMATEUR sports , *GLOBALIZATION , *PRACTICE (Sports) ,URBAN ecology (Sociology) - Abstract
Developing the concept of kinaesthetics, this article undertakes a critical re-description of amateur sports and fitness to explore the topographies, materials, innovation, and socialities that make up urban environments. Extending work on affect and urban materiality within geography and elsewhere, we argue that amateur sport and fitness animates many cities in ways that are frequently overlooked. The paper aims to 1) broaden understandings of amateur sport and fitness practices; 2) reframe perspectives on the kinds of environments cities are; 3) develop a prospective politics of provision involving the design and maintenance of a social infrastructure of amateur sport and fitness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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108. Transport provision and the practice of mobilities production.
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Lin, Weiqiang
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TRANSPORTATION geography , *CONTINGENCY theory (Management) , *SPATIAL arrangement , *GEODATABASES - Abstract
This paper propounds a practised understanding of transport provision. While transport geography tends to focus on the effects of planning, mobilities studies view transport provision as framing backdrops of mobile lives. Neither has fully addressed how transport provision is a derivative of mundane practices that contingently lay transport’s structural foundations. This paper argues that delineating these practices imputes a much-needed ‘livingness’ to transport’s formal production and allows for more congruous conversations between transport provision and use. Through a three-part examination, I foreground what potentially goes on during transport’s planning and operations, and highlight the contingencies of these less-than-unitary processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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109. Cloud geographies.
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Amoore, Louise
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CLOUD computing , *GEOPOLITICS , *BORDER security , *DRONE warfare , *ALGORITHMS - Abstract
The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamber of early twentieth century particle physics, this paper explores the geography of the cloud in cloud computing. It addresses the geographical character of cloud computing across two distinct paradigms. The first, ‘Cloud I’ or a geography of cloud forms, is concerned with the identification and spatial location of data centres where the cloud is thought to materialize. Here the cloud is understood within a particular history of observation, one where the apparently abstract and obscure world can be brought into vision and rendered intelligible. In the second variant, ‘Cloud II’ or the geography of a cloud analytic, the cloud is a bundle of experimental algorithmic techniques acting upon the threshold of perception itself. Like the cloud chamber of the twentieth century, contemporary cloud computing is concerned with rendering perceptible and actionable that which would otherwise be beyond the threshold of human observation. The paper proposes three elements of correlative cloud reasoning, suggesting their significance for our geopolitical present: condensing traces; discovering patterns; and archiving the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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110. History and philosophy of geography I: The slow, the turbulent, and the dissenting.
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Keighren, Innes M.
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HISTORY of geography , *GEOGRAPHY , *NEOLIBERALISM , *HISTORIOGRAPHY , *GENEALOGY , *PHILOSOPHY - Abstract
This report takes as its prompt John K. Wright's 1925 'plea for the history of geography' - an early call for an inclusive account of geographical thought and practice, embracing both professional and amateur ways of knowing. In reflecting on the extent to which contemporary histories of geography realize the scope of Wright's ambition, the paper considers how external pressures, such as neoliberalism and academia's audit culture, function to shape and constrain the writing of those histories. The paper argues for the value of 'slow' scholarship as an act of political resistance and as a sine qua non of nuanced and comprehensive historiography. The report concludes by examining how biographical and genealogical approaches to narrating geography's histories have important implications for the decisions made about inclusion and exclusion, about what and who counts in geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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111. Understanding domestic violence in rural spaces.
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Little, Jo
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DOMESTIC violence , *RURAL geography , *FEMINISTS , *MASCULINITY , *SOCIOCULTURAL factors - Abstract
This paper responds to calls for geographers to engage critically with the claim that ‘violence sits in places’ in the analysis of domestic violence in rural areas. It argues the need to develop conceptual understandings of the spatialized and embodied experience of domestic violence in the countryside. Drawing on debates about what counts as violence and on feminist work on domestic violence as intimate terrorism, the paper explores ways in which experiences of violence (and associated fear) are shaped by particular constructions and performances of rural masculinity and by the social and cultural relations that continue to characterize rural communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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112. On geography and encounter.
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Wilson, Helen F.
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GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *SOCIOCULTURAL factors , *POSTCOLONIALISM , *ANIMAL ecology , *METROPOLITAN areas - Abstract
The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio-cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that ‘encounter’ is a conceptually charged construct that is worthy of sustained and critical attention. Drawing on a wide range of geographical interests, including animal geographies, urban diversity, postcolonialism, mobile geographies, and the more-than-human, it offers the first examination of how ‘encounter’ has been deployed across the discipline. By further tracing the historical links between geography and encounter, the paper contends that encounters are distinct genres of contact, and demonstrates why this matters for geographical thought, and how we think about bodies, borders, and difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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113. Slow emergencies: Temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance.
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Anderson, Ben, Grove, Kevin, Rickards, Lauren, and Kearnes, Matthew
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EMERGENCIES , *RACIALIZATION , *FORECLOSURE , *EMERGENCY medical services communication systems , *SCHOLARSHIPS - Abstract
How lives are governed through emergency is a critical issue for our time. In this paper, we build on scholarship on this issue by developing the concept of 'slow emergencies'. We do so to attune to situations of harm that call into question what forms of life can and should be secured by apparatuses of emergency governance. Through drawing together work on emergency and on racialization, we define 'slow emergencies' as situations marked by a) attritional lethality; b) imperceptibility; c) the foreclosure of the capacity to become otherwise; d) emergency claims. We conclude with a call to reclaim 'emergency'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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114. Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency.
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Barker, Adam J. and Pickerill, Jenny
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INDIGENOUS ethnic identity , *HUMAN geography , *TRADITIONAL knowledge , *GEOGRAPHY , *STRENGTH of materials , *GEOGRAPHERS - Abstract
Indigenous and decolonising geographies should be unsettling and challenging to the ontological foundations of the geographical discipline. Yet despite many scholars recognising and arguing for the need for these perspectives, Indigeneity remains marginal and Indigenous knowledge has been denied academic legitimacy within geography. Using 'doings' as an active, emergent, and evolving praxis, this paper examines how we can do Indigenous and settler geographies better. It illustrates how knowledge, emotions, feelings and intuition only come into being through the doings of the body with other bodies, places, and objects, including non-humans. Action and thought are indistinguishable, feeling is knowing, and the world becomes known through doing and movement. In these doings, place – particularly the land and sea – is an active agent in the making of beings and knowledge. By focusing on active doings in place, and acknowledging the temporalities of Indigenous ontologies, geographers are better able to support political and everyday struggles, situate our work in relation to colonialism, recognise and value everyday practices of resurgence, and spend time building relationships. 'Doing' geography differently would decentre academics as the source of knowledge production, employ more diverse voices in our teaching and provide embodied and material resistance to colonialism and neoliberal capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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115. B/ordering the environmental commons.
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Miller, Michelle Ann
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SPATIAL arrangement , *COMMONS - Abstract
Transboundary environmental commons are usually conceived in terms of the spatial arrangements that govern transboundary resources and coordinate responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Borders in this context tend to be viewed as relatively stable institutions in the administration of geographically dispersed resources with well-defined properties by a jurisdictionally divided collective of users. In practice, however, the transboundary commons defy such clear spatial resolution. This paper contributes to emerging scholarship on the transboundary commons by showing how processes of commoning and b/ordering are continually changing in relation to each other to generate flexible new geographies of conservation practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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116. Value–rent–finance.
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Purcell, Thomas F., Loftus, Alex, and March, Hug
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FINANCIALIZATION , *LITERATURE reviews , *POLITICAL ecology , *FINANCE , *RENT - Abstract
In this paper, we develop a novel interpretation of the internal relationship between value, rent and finance, thereby enabling a new reading of the process of financialisation. As we argue, responding to the important question of how best to conceptualise the relationship between value and finance necessitates an understanding of the internal relations with a third moment, that of rent. We therefore develop a triadic understanding of these three interrelated moments. Crucially, we demonstrate that fictitious capital now actively pursues forms of rent, deepening the interrelationship between value, rent and finance. We conclude with a critical review of the literature on the financialisation of water, showing how the conceptual framework we develop sheds light upon the relations out of which water infrastructure has been financialised, as well as suggesting strategic entry points for its contestation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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117. The gendered production of infrastructure.
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Siemiatycki, Matti, Enright, Theresa, and Valverde, Mariana
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EMPLOYMENT practices , *ORGANIZATIONAL structure , *RACIAL minorities , *MASCULINITY , *GENDER - Abstract
Over the years, many studies have documented how the negative impacts of infrastructure investments are disproportionately borne by women, the poor and racial minorities. In this paper, we focus on the ways that unequal gender dynamics are a key feature of the production of infrastructure, a topic that has received far less attention. In particular, we show how masculinity is deeply embedded in the organizational structures, employment practices, symbolic narratives and systems of power that create the vast arrays of infrastructure globally. We discuss the implications of a masculinist network of infrastructure development, and point to directions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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118. Unsettling the taken (for granted).
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Howitt, Richard
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INDIGENOUS rights , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *HUMAN rights , *NEGOTIATION , *INVESTMENT treaties - Abstract
Histories of colonial plunder produced geographies that settler societies take for granted as settled. While some aspects of the conqueror/settler imaginary have been unsettled in specific cases, and through the negotiation of new instruments such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, various national apologies and modern treaties, much unsettling remains to be done. New geographies of plunder, violence and abuse reinstate geographies of various kleptocracies across the planet, reinforcing the unnatural disasters of displacement, disfigurement and loss on many people, places and communities. This paper uses the framing offered by emergent discourses of Indigenous geographies to reconsider the task of unsettling the taken-for-granted privilege of settler dominance in Indigenous domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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119. Beyond capitalist enclosure, commodification and alienation: Postcapitalist praxis as commons, social production and useful doing.
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Chatterton, Paul and Pusey, Andre
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SOCIAL alienation , *COMMODIFICATION , *PUBLIC spaces , *CAPITALISM , *COMMONS , *DEBATE - Abstract
This paper aims to further a geographical agenda through the concept of postcapitalism. We outline its contours across three terrains of transformation between capitalism and postcapitalism: creating commons against enclosure, socially useful production that counters commodification, and joyful doing that negates alienated work. Secondly, we explore how postcapitalism is mobilised with different inflections through three contemporary debates: community economies, post-work and autonomous perspectives. We then illuminate how one area of social practice (platform cooperatives) resonates with postcapitalist terrains and debates. We conclude by exploring the, as yet unclear and partially formed, social and spatial landscape of postcapitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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120. Animals' mobilities.
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Hodgetts, Timothy and Lorimer, Jamie
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ANIMALS , *LABORATORY animals - Abstract
This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals' mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the intellectual foundations for this synthesis, in mobility (over movement), affect, relational space, and ordering practices. It explores what configures an animal's mobility, knowledge practices for researching and evoking animals' mobilities, and how animals' mobilities are governed. The conclusion highlights what these fields gain from this synthesis, and identifies the empirical, political and conceptual contributions that this concept makes to geographical research. The argument is illustrated with examples of large, terrestrial mammals, especially bears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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121. Being surprised and surprising ourselves: A geography of personal and social change.
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Simandan, Dragos
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SOCIAL change , *HUMAN geography , *SURPRISE - Abstract
Surprises are refuted expectations and therefore an inevitable concomitant of errors of anticipating the future. This paper argues that the timing is just right for a spatial account of surprise, or rather, for a geography of personal and social change that deploys the trope of surprise to help explain how and why change happens. Whether we are surprised by what transpires in our surroundings or we are surprising ourselves by leaping forward in impetuous deeds of reinventing who we are, the common denominator of these processes of becoming is that they produce geographical space and are produced by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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122. Urban space and the politics of socially engaged art.
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Olsen, Cecilie Sachs
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SOCIAL practice (Art) , *PUBLIC spaces , *MUNICIPAL government , *CONFIGURATION space - Abstract
This paper interrogates the political potential of socially engaged art within an urban setting. Grounded in Lefebvrian and neo-Marxist critical urban theory, this political potential is examined according to three analytics that mark the definition of 'politics' in this context: the (re)configuration of urban space, the (re)framing of a particular sphere of experience and the (re)thinking of what is taken-for-granted. By bringing together literatures from a range of academic domains, these analytics are used to examine 1) how socially engaged art may expand our understanding of the link between the material environment and the production of urban imaginaries and meanings, and 2) how socially engaged art can open up productive ways of thinking about and engaging with urban space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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123. 'By our metaphors you shall know us': The 'fix' of geographical political economy.
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Bok, Rachel
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ECONOMICS , *METAPHOR , *ECONOMIC geography , *SCALAR field theory - Abstract
This paper traces the transformative travels of the metaphor of the 'fix' across the unbounded terrain of geographical political economy. It argues for taking the fix seriously as a root metaphor of the field, a signifier of its history and theory-cultures. Critically excavating the entwined genealogies of the metaphor and the field, it illuminates several historically successive and thematic moments of 'fix thinking', including: the spatial fix (1980s); institutional and spatio-temporal fixes of regulationist-theoretical approaches (1990s); and the scalar fix of state rescaling theory (2000s). It reviews these stages and their broader intellectual and political implications for critical geographical scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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124. New scholarly pathways on green gentrification: What does the urban 'green turn' mean and where is it going?
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Anguelovski, Isabelle, Connolly, James JT, Garcia-Lamarca, Melissa, Cole, Helen, and Pearsall, Hamil
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ENVIRONMENTAL gentrification , *GREEN business , *POLITICAL ecology , *URBAN geography , *EXPERIMENTAL design - Abstract
Scholars in urban political ecology, urban geography, and planning have suggested that urban greening interventions can create elite enclaves of environmental privilege and green gentrification, and exclude lower-income and minority residents from their benefits. Yet, much remains to be understood in regard to the magnitude, scope, and manifestations of green gentrification and the forms of contestation and resistance articulated against it. In this paper, we propose new questions, theoretical approaches, and research design approaches to examine the socio-spatial dynamics and ramifications of green gentrification and parse out why, how, where, and when green gentrification takes place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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125. Placing race: On the resonance of place with black geographies.
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Allen, Douglas, Lawhon, Mary, and Pierce, Joseph
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RESONANCE , *SCHOLARSHIPS , *HUMAN geography , *BLACK race - Abstract
A range of conceptual terms and diverse theoretical traditions have been used to study geographies of race. Black geographical scholarship has persuasively articulated the need to better understand black agency and experiences. We suggest that the conceptual lens of place, and specifically relational place-making, is particularly congruent with the black geographical interest in agency, experience, and non-material spatial practices. It is also an ontological position that maintains possibilities for multiplicity, considering plural processes, and incorporating diverse methodologies and data sources. Our hope is that this paper contributes conceptual and terminological clarity, enhancing the legibility of the contribution of black geographical scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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126. Everyday austerity: Towards relational geographies of family, friendship and intimacy.
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Hall, Sarah Marie
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FRIENDSHIP , *ECONOMIC systems , *CITIES & towns , *GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 , *FAMILIES , *EUROPEAN Sovereign Debt Crisis, 2009-2018 , *GEOGRAPHY - Abstract
This paper advances ideas about relational geographies to explore 'everyday austerity'. Whilst geographers have analysed the causes and aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the focus largely remains on problems within economic systems and urban governance, rather than austerity as lived experience. I outline how focusing on everyday relationships and relational spaces – family, friendship and intimate relations – provides exciting opportunities for thinking geographically about everyday life in austerity. Using examples of care and support and mundane mobilities, I demonstrate how a relational approach extends current understandings of how austerity cuts through, across and between spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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127. Decolonising territory: Dialogues with Latin American knowledges and grassroots strategies.
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Halvorsen, Sam
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HUMAN geography , *COLONIES , *NON-self-governing territories , *DECOLONIZATION - Abstract
Territory has been increasingly interrogated within Anglophone human geography, yet it has been little examined beyond the context of the modern, Eurocentric state. Developing an open definition of territory, the appropriation of space in pursuit of political projects, this paper opens epistemological dialogue with diverse Latin America strategies to decolonise territory in thought and practice, oriented around the themes of land, terrain and the state. In so doing it aims to contribute to the dismantling and reversing of colonial hierarchies that are both reproduced through Anglophone scholarship and sustained through dominant imaginations and practices of territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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128. Speaking, feeling, mattering: Theatre as method and model for practice-based, collaborative, research.
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Raynor, Ruth
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THEATER , *SHARED workspaces , *THEATERS , *DEBATE , *HUMAN geography - Abstract
This paper examines uses of theatre for practice-based, collaborative, research. It brings a review of existing work and reflections on my own practice into dialogue with participatory geographies, studies of affect and geographies of bodily difference. This demonstrates in-depth and well-justified relationships between forms of practice and the spatial ways of knowing they engage; the surfacing of otherwise background conditions for critique and intervention; and relations between doing and thinking, as well as collaborating partners, that can open a field of possibilities. This is significant for the broader development and assessment of 'creative' or 'artful' collaborations in human geography, as I summarise in conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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129. Structuring the emotional landscape of climate change migration: Towards climate mobilities in geography.
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Parsons, Laurie
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CLIMATE change , *LANDSCAPE changes , *GEOGRAPHY , *CLIMATOLOGY , *CULTURAL landscapes - Abstract
The literature on climate migration is increasingly concerned with linking the natural-environmental and socio-cultural dimensions of risk response. However, the epistemological disjuncture between 'objective' and subjective accounts of the environment is an impediment. In particular, despite clear evidence of mutual relevance, work on the emotional landscape of climate change has remained separate from more systematic analyses. Aiming to resolve this, this paper uses the case of a Cambodian beggar to show how recent developments across three fields have laid the groundwork for the structural and emotional dimensions of climate change response to be engaged with under a coherent theoretical rubric. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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130. Theography.
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Sutherland, Callum
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THEOLOGY , *GEOGRAPHY , *RELIGION , *SCHOLARSHIPS , *TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy) - Abstract
This paper intervenes in the recent movement in religious geographies to produce more nuanced understandings of the religious subject. By introducing the concept of theography, this paper explores a religious reflexivity that directs subjects towards struggles over the content of theology, its effects on their spatial imagination, and their praxis. Theography advances conversations about praxis in the geography of religion by tying together poststructural scholarship regarding the religious subject’s potential to subvert abstract categorization, geographies concerning the subject’s reframing of theology, and philosophical contributions vis-à-vis praxes that stem from particular understandings of transcendence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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131. Education unbound? Enlivening debates with a mobilities perspective on learning.
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Waters, Johanna L.
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DEBATE , *EDUCATIONAL mobility , *LEARNING , *EDUCATION , *GEOGRAPHY - Abstract
This paper contributes to recent debates on the geographies of education. I argue that research in geography over the past decade has conceptualized education principally in terms of attachment to – and boundedness within – particular (often institutional) places and spaces. Yet a productive tension has emerged in contemporary scholarship around the competing concepts of mobilities and emplacement. The paper considers what the ‘mobilities turn’ offers for understanding geographies of education and learning, with a focus on ripple effects, structures and subject positionings. Four different but related bodies of work are identified that productively engage a notion of ‘mobilities’ to challenge bounded conceptions of education through their focus on (i) community and mobility; (ii) ‘alternative’ spaces of education; (iii) student mobilities; and (iv) embedded institutional capital and internationalization. Through the lens of mobilities, the paper advances research agendas within both geography (on ‘geographies of education’) and cognate disciplines (such as sociology and education). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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132. Forced migration and the city.
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Darling, Jonathan
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FORCED migration , *REFUGEE services , *REFUGEE resettlement , *URBAN geography , *CITIZENSHIP - Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between forced migration and the city. The paper outlines four accounts of the city centred on: displacement and the camp-city, dispersal and refugee resettlement, the ‘re-scaling’ of borders, and the city as a sanctuary. Whilst valuable, these discussions maintain a focus on sovereign authority that tends to prioritize the policing of forced migration over the possibilities for contestation that also emerge through cities. Arguing for a fuller engagement with debates in urban geography, this paper considers how discussions of urban informality and the politics of presence may better unpack the urban character of forced migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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133. Beyond proximities.
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Rutten, Roel
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PROXIMITY spaces , *SOCIAL interaction , *HUMAN geography , *SOCIAL exchange , *SOCIAL space - Abstract
Knowledge creation is recognized as interaction between individuals in a social context, but geography-of-knowledge-creation research inadequately connects social context to physical place. The proximities approach reduces physical place to near-far dichotomies and territorial innovation models conflate social context and physical place. This paper introduces the concept of ‘conversations’ as social spaces of knowledge creation and develops typologies of how conversations are connected to physical places, based on the effort required to bridge distance and on the attractiveness of places for knowledge creation. Addressing the socio-spatial dynamics of knowledge creation, the paper explains how conversations may be anchored in multiple locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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134. Measuring the geography of opportunity.
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Lens, Michael C.
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QUANTITATIVE research , *SEGREGATION , *SPATIAL ability , *POPULATION aging , *NEIGHBORHOODS - Abstract
Quantitative segregation research focuses almost exclusively on the spatial sorting of demographic groups. This research largely ignores the structural characteristics of neighborhoods – such as crime, job accessibility, and school quality – that likely help determine important household outcomes. This paper summarizes the research on segregation, neighborhood effects, and concentrated disadvantage, and argues that we should pay more attention to neighborhood structural characteristics, and that the data increasingly exist to include measures of spatial segregation and neighborhood opportunity. The paper concludes with a brief empirical justification for the inclusion of data on neighborhood violence and a discussion on policy applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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135. Between area and discipline.
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Jazeel, Tariq
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HUMAN geography , *POLITICAL science , *AMERICANISMS , *HIGHER education , *GEOGRAPHERS - Abstract
This paper explores tensions that emerge from the injunction to make progress in geographical knowledge production in the globalizing landscape of higher education and research. The paper identifies gaps that emerge between disciplinary geographical knowledge production and area studies knowledge production, particularly connections to non-western areas on which many geographers work. It suggests these gaps are symptomatic and productive of the discipline’s problematically constituted community: the ‘we’ of Geography’s vanguard. The paper charts the precipitation of these tensions within Geography’s disciplinary dispositif before suggesting three alternative knowledge production tactics aimed at closing any such gaps and that in turn democratically reconstitute disciplinary Geography’s ‘we’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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136. State knowledge and recurring patterns of state phobia.
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Hannah, Matthew G.
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PHOBIAS , *POLITICAL science , *ACTIVISM , *EPISTEMICS - Abstract
This paper identifies some key underlying assumptions of critical political analysis by examining two moments that have brought these assumptions to the fore: the Klaus Croissant affair in West Germany and France in the late 1970s, and Edward Snowden’s revelations in the 21st century regarding the activities of the US National Security Agency. Interesting parallels can be identified between ‘distinction-collapsing discourses’ prominent in the two contexts. The core argument of the paper is that understanding Michel Foucault’s critical stance toward the description of West Germany as ‘fascist’ in 1977 and 1978, and more broadly, toward what he called ‘state phobia’, can help us resist undifferentiated condemnation of state representations under the sign of ‘post-politics’ today. An account of the 1977 Croissant affair, the critical discourses prominent at the time, and Foucault’s critical stance toward the notion of fascism provides an historical parallel for a critical reading of Badiou’s discussion of the state in Being and Event and other works. The final section briefly surveys a number of recent forms of epistemic activism that illustrate the shortcomings of a one-sided reading of state knowledge such as that offered by Badiou and seemingly confirmed by the NSA scandal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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137. Placing fashion.
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Crewe, Louise
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FASHION , *CONSUMPTION (Economics) , *CREATIVE ability , *BRAND equity , *SOCIOCULTURAL factors - Abstract
This paper explores the spaces in which fashion is displayed and consumed. In order to ‘place’ fashion space within the contemporary city, the paper focuses on a set of alliances between art and fashion in the making of current consumption space. The collaboration between art and fashion opens up a means to critically explore how representational worlds are brought into being and offers new ways to understand how creative activity can be rooted in (and reflective of) broader social, economic and cultural concerns. Such collisions and collusions represent a key means of making and shaping commodity and brand value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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138. Suicide at a distance.
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Balayannis, Angeliki and Cook, Brian Robert
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SUICIDE , *SELF-destructive behavior , *THEORY of knowledge , *PARADOX , *COMPREHENSION - Abstract
Knowledge of suicide is made through violent epistemologies that sever self-destruction from space, time, and place. As an inherently incomprehensible issue, efforts to make sense of suicide through abstraction have the paradoxical effect of inhibiting understanding. This paper argues that the incoherences characteristic of suicide are not an obstacle for knowing, but rather a cause to accept knowledge that is partial and indirect. Thinking with assemblage, this paper develops a relational conceptualization of distance to interrogate the knowledge that shapes pesticide suicide in India; ‘distancing-through-engagement’ brings to light the contradictions and obscured power relations through which understandings of suicide are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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139. The business of the Anthropocene? Substantivist and diverse economies perspectives on SME engagement in local low carbon transitions.
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North, Peter
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SMALL business , *CARBON offsetting , *CULTURAL geography , *SOCIAL responsibility of business , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
The involvement of private sector actors in low carbon urban transitions is a neglected element of geographical analysis. Drawing on Polanyian, cultural economic geographies and the non-capitalocentric ethics of JK Gibson-Graham’s diverse economies perspective, the paper engages with the wider literature on the engagement of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in environmental action, corporate social responsibility and low carbon transitions to develop a substantivist account of the contribution of SMEs to local low carbon transitions. The paper argues that, contra formalist economic analyses of economic rationality, SME owners should not be thought of as uncritical profit maximizers but as actors in favour of positive low carbon futures. Thus the paper argues that Polanyian economic geographies and diverse economies perspectives, which rarely speak to each other, can be drawn together, and concludes with suggestions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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140. A mythical place: A conversation on the earthly aspects of myth.
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Essebo, Maja
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MYTHOLOGY , *GEOGRAPHICAL research , *ANXIETY , *HUMAN geography , *NATURALIZATION - Abstract
The concept of myth is far from foreign to geographical research, yet its definition and use has been both varied and assumed, leaving much of its potential geographically unexplored. Myths – naturalised stories which reflect ideology, alleviate anxiety, and guide everyday practices – instil place with meaning. Following the tradition within human geography of engaging with issues intersecting perception and place, this paper suggests that to further develop the concept of myth in and through human geography may help advance central disciplinary themes centring on issues of naturalisation and transformation of societal beliefs and, by extension, place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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141. Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice.
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Leshem, Noam and Pinkerton, Alasdair
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EXTRACTION (Linguistics) , *SOCIAL sciences , *VIOLENCE , *THEORY of knowledge , *HUMAN settlements - Abstract
The expedition's complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a malleable practice that can be critically appropriated and manipulated in ways that retain and further the critique of violence and knowledge production, while also experimenting with creative alternatives to some of its conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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142. Re-orienting geographies of urban diversity and coexistence: Analyzing inclusion and difference in public space.
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Ye, Junjia
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PUBLIC spaces , *NEGOTIATION , *MIGRANT labor , *QUALITY of life , *PHILOSOPHY of time - Abstract
Much has been said about diversity and coexistence in public spaces, but there remains a silence on the very nature of incorporation within the spatial negotiations and transformations these involve. This paper examines the spatial and political implications of inclusion by identifying two key strands of geographical imaginations on urban diversity: co-presence and togetherness and the incorporation of difference and diversity in everyday shared spaces. I aim to retain critical analytical purchase on what living with difference in shared spaces – specifically through 'inclusion' – means. Focusing on Asian urban contexts, I illustrate how measures of inclusion can carry out the political work of what form belonging takes and, consequently, who does and does not belong in diversifying cities. Conceptually, this demonstrates how, in the Asian context, the politics of urban diversification are intertwined with the politics of labour to the extent that diversity in everyday shared spaces is shaped by the structuring of migrant labour incorporation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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143. Questions of agency: Capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality.
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Holloway, Sarah L., Holt, Louise, and Mills, Sarah
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CHILD psychology , *CHILD development , *QUALITY of life , *PHILOSOPHY of time , *INTERGENERATIONAL communication - Abstract
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are competent social actors. In a field founded upon liberal notions of agency, we identify a conceptual elision between the benefits of studying agency and the beneficial nature of agency. Embracing post-structuralist feminist challenges, we propose a politically-progressive conceptual framework centred on embodied human agency which emerges within power. We contend this can be achieved though intensive/extensive analyses of space, and a focus on 'biosocial beings and becomings' within dynamic notions of individual/intergenerational time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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144. Beyond the sham of the emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography through decolonizing paths.
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Clement, Vincent
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INDIGENOUS peoples , *HUMAN geography , *DECOLONIZATION , *GEOGRAPHY , *INDIGENOUS rights - Abstract
This article contributes to the current debate on decolonizing geography. It explores rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography from Indigenous perspectives. After deconstructing the Enlightenment as an illusory way towards emancipation and critically exploring the heritage of geography regarding Indigenous peoples, this paper examines the Indigenous epistemologies that are considered counter-discourses that challenge western 'regimes of truth'. It approaches Indigenous knowledges through decolonizing paths to capture the originality and strength of Indigenous epistemologies more fully, and re-centre Indigenous conceptual frameworks as offering new possibilities to write the 'difference differently' in human geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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145. Feminist geolegality.
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Brickell, Katherine and Cuomo, Dana
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FEMINISTS , *GEOPOLITICS , *SOCIAL sciences , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *GLOBALIZATION - Abstract
In this paper we outline the case for feminist geolegality, a project that integrates legal geography and feminist geopolitics. The approach captures the myriad ways that law intermeshes with intimate corollaries of geopolitics and geoeconomics. It includes yet surpasses scholarship on international lawfare and military conflict to examine intimate wars that law mediates in the more mundane battlefields of everyday life. The body and home act as heuristic sites to review existing work and future trajectories of feminist geolegality. Its significance is marked further by the era of Trumpism, the gendered spatial and temporal legal implications of which are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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146. Neoliberal performatives and the 'making' of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES).
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Kolinjivadi, Vijay, Van Hecken, Gert, Almeida, Diana Vela, Dupras, Jérôme, and Kosoy, Nicolás
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PAYMENTS for ecosystem services , *EPISTEMIC logic , *CLIMATE change , *ECOSYSTEM services , *FOREST management - Abstract
This paper argues that Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) serve as a neoliberal performative act, in which idealized conditions are re-constituted by well-resourced and networked epistemic communities with the objective of bringing a distinctly instrumental and utilitarian relationality between humans and nature into existence. We illustrate the performative agency of hegemonic epistemic communities advocating (P)ES imaginaries to differentiate between the cultural construction of an ideal reality, which can and always will fail, and an external reality of actually produced effects. In doing so, we explore human agency to disobey performative acts to craft embodied and life-affirming relationships with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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147. Dialogue, inquiry, and encounter: Critical geographies of online higher education.
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House-Peters, Lily A., Del Casino, Vincent J., and Brooks, Catherine F.
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HIGHER education , *DISTANCE education , *SCHOLARSHIPS , *ONLINE social networks , *CRITICAL pedagogy - Abstract
The rapid expansion of online education compels debate over what accessible higher education should be, how it should be delivered, and whom it should serve. While geographers remain relatively marginal to this debate, they have engaged the question of the neoliberal university, where online education is sometimes characterized as another instantiation of the neoliberal turn. This paper draws geographies of education scholarship into productive conversation with online teaching and learning, critical pedagogy, and public geographies literatures to argue that geographers can reframe the debate over online education and reposition it as a productive space of critical dialogue, inquiry, and encounter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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148. Policy failure mobilities.
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Lovell, Heather
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GOVERNMENT policy , *SCHOLARSHIPS , *POLITICAL science , *ECONOMIC geography , *SCIENCE - Abstract
This paper concerns the movement of negative lessons and worst practice in public policy. It focuses on a relatively new branch of scholarship – policy mobilities – which explores the global movement of policies. Within policy mobilities research there is concern about an empirical bias towards successful policies: there has been insufficient attention to whether policy failures might also be mobile. Ideas and concepts about policy failure from political science, economic geography, and science and technology studies are used to illuminate what is missing from policy mobilities scholarship, why it might be important, and to offer some ways forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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149. Between perfection and damnation: The emerging geography of markets.
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Cohen, Dan
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GEOGRAPHERS , *EARTH scientists , *CAPITALISM , *ECONOMIC systems , *NEOLIBERALISM - Abstract
Economic geographers have recently taken up the study of markets after a long period of inattention. This growing literature has highlighted the diverse spaces, scales, and fields where markets are present, as well as the ways in which markets vary in form. However, the study of markets in economic geography still exists in tension between neoclassical and Marxist conceptions of markets as predictable and approaches like the social studies of economization/marketization which emphasize their contingency. This paper argues that work of Polyani and Gramsci can provide a way forward for the subfield through conceptualizing markets as sites of social struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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150. Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography.
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Harney, Liam, McCurry, Jenny, Scott, James, and Wills, Jane
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PRAGMATISM , *HUMAN geography , *CHICAGO school of sociology , *COMMUNITY-school relationships , *COMMUNITY-based participatory research - Abstract
This paper explores the contribution that pragmatist philosophy can make to the way that we do research and teaching in human geography. It provides a historical overview of the key ideas in the tradition, their influence on the Chicago School of Sociology and community organizing, and the implications of this work for epistemological practice. The paper then looks at the variety of ways in which human geographers are using research as a means to engage in the world today, focusing in particular on the contributions of participatory action research (PAR), before making the case for ‘process pragmatism’ as a framework for doing this kind of research. To illustrate the potential of this approach, the paper outlines current research, teaching and organizing activity being undertaken by geographers at Queen Mary University of London. The paper suggests that pragmatism provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for research and teaching which can facilitate the creation of new publics, and can help to build power and democratic capacity with the aim of remaking the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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