Showing papers in "Geoforum in 2010"

TL;DR: In the special issue on mobilizing policy as mentioned in this paper, the authors contrast traditional approaches to policy transfer with an emerging body of work in the interdisciplinary field of critical policy studies, where the governing metaphors are those of mobility and mutation (rather than transfer, transit, and transaction).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the most useful and appropriate approach to understand contemporary urban governance in global context is to develop a conceptualization that is equally sensitive to the role of relational and territorial geographies, of fixity and flow, of global contexts and place-specificities (and vice versa), of structural imperatives and embodied practices, in the production of cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for unpacking the messy histories, geographies and sociologies of privatisation using both publicly available documents and ethnographic methods to understand why certain courses of action were pursued in particular times and places, why other actions dropped out, and reveal more about the national imaginaries and embodied knowledges underpinning the globalisation of privatization.

TL;DR: This article explored both positive and negative opinions of volunteer tourism from the perspective of host-communities, and attempted to contribute a balanced discussion to the limited literature regarding host communities' perspectives in tourism development.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptualisation of "immanent" and "intentional" localisation is developed, with the former a simple move by businesses of economic activities that have high transport costs closer to their markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the arts of transience re-work materials from rubbish value ships into new forms and objects in the household furnishing sector, which are then appropriated by Bangladeshi middle class consumers.

TL;DR: In the case of Ecuador, state employees drew on their labor relations and political training to oppose the government's efforts to privatize the state oil company, and urban popular movements opposed the privatization of the hydrocarbons industry and its domination by foreign firms as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An approach to conceptualize problems of unsustainability by embedding the Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) scheme within a multi-level institutional framework represented by Hagerstrand's system of nested domains is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the shifting cultural politics of development as expressed in the changing narratives and discursive transparencies of fair trade marketing tactics in the UK, focusing on two parallel processes complicit in the "mainstreaming" of fair-trade markets and the desire to develop fair trade as a product of "quality".

TL;DR: In this paper, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) process to revise tree plantation certification standards is examined, and the role of plantation certification in strategies for natural forest conservation is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the notion of everyday life to critically examine an apparent gap between bushfire risk awareness and preparedness among diverse landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a genealogy of the Bloomberg administration's Opportunity NYC program, launched in 2007 as part of New York City's explicitly experimental anti-poverty strategy, drawing direct inspiration from Mexico's widely touted Oportunidades program.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the process of corporate mainstreaming influences the structure and outcomes of Fairtrade, and specifically the challenges it poses for the realization of fairtrade's development aspirations.

TL;DR: The Transition Network as discussed by the authors is a UK-originated relocalization movement that aims to achieve a comprehensive reduction in oil dependency through community-scale initiatives, using addiction metaphors and participatory techniques.

TL;DR: The post-Washington consensus, through which neoliberal global capitalist governance gained hegemony over the third world, entered a crisis in the late 1990s, triggered by the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and by contestations of neoliberal governance from global civil society as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relation between processes of security and futurity in the context of efforts to govern the complexity and contingency of events of terror, arguing that processes of securing function by generating a dangerous or promissory supplement to the present that thereafter propels the extension of forms of security.

TL;DR: The authors argue that finance has emancipated the circulation of oil from its circulation in physical space, fragmenting the oil market into a physical and a financial component, but reintegrating both under the dominance of financial logic without transcending their duality and their differences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the effect of the status of women as "farm operators" on women's ability to participate in producer unions and in fair-trade-organic coffee networks and find that women have greater access to network benefits, women gain greater control over farm practices, and women enjoy increased access to cash.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore hybridity in Australian natural resource governance, both inside and outside of neoliberalism, and develop an understanding of this governance regime as an assemblage of subjects, ethics, ends and techniques that constitute a hybrid of practices directed by three mentalities of government.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors weigh up the forces for inertia against the impulse for change in methods of housing construction, and argue that social, cultural and technical differences are the critical issues underpinning UK resistance to prefabrication.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how farmers experience a simple reproduction squeeze that hinders them from "bootstrapping" their own economic development and argue that the effort to raise the Fair Trade minimum price and premium for coffee through Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) in 2008 demonstrated a good first step toward improving farm-gate prices, however, these gains must be understood in the context of long-term indebtedness as well as rising production costs and household consumption costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a model to illustrate decoupling and recoupling mechanisms, and argue that recoupled social-ecological systems are necessary for long-term conservation of biodiversity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the immigration process in a group of rural inland municipalities close to the Costa Brava, a Mediterranean coastal region with extensive tourism, is presented from a study based on census data and statistical records, as well as extensive fieldwork including interviews with local residents, newcomers and key informants.

TL;DR: Geographical analysis of peak oil has been studied in a recent issue of Geoforum as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on the geographies of the peak oil claim and the key protagonists in the debate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored young people's experiences and perceptions of mobility and mobility constraints in poorer urban areas of Ghana, Malawi and South Africa within the specific context of intergenerational relations.

TL;DR: This paper examined how personal fears and hopes intersect with wider anxieties about youth, urban crime and terrorism, and found that global-everyday emotions are not separated out in young people's analyses, while undertaking the day to day business of navigating what are sometimes challenging emotional topographies.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical theoretical exploration of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and its reauthorization in Washington DC in 2008 through the conceptual lens of governmentality is presented.

TL;DR: The authors discusses connections between the internationalisation of education, and in particular the growth in international students, and processes of urban transformation, and draws on research with South Korean international students and a range of secondary materials to interrogate the connections between student mobilities and changing urban form.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the sustainable livelihoods framework to identify the risks and vulnerabilities mitigated, or generated, by fisherfolk movement, and analyzed how these sources of vulnerability affect livelihood outcomes, looking at the experiences and situation of both male boat crew and women involved in processing and trading fish.

TL;DR: This paper explored the complexities of, and intra-community disagreements about, Kanak villagers' decisions about whether to trust information provided by, or seemingly in support of, a multinational mining project in southern New Caledonia (South Pacific).