Showing papers in "Geoforum in 2013"

TL;DR: This article explored the extent to which the early political economic critique of the adaptation concept has influenced how it is used in this literature and discussed its main interpretations, concluding with a discussion of continuity and change in the conceptualization of adaptation, and point to new research directions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply elements of poststructuralist discourse theory to a set of influential reports on climate-induced migration and argue that apocalyptic narratives on climate refugees, although not totalizing or uncontested, represent a case of depoliticization of global climate governance.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative study of two wetland communities in Trinidad and Tobago, a country that is expected to bear some of the most severe impacts of climate change, was conducted.

TL;DR: The authors argue that fpe must theorize a more complex and messier notion of gender, one that accounts for race, racialization and racism more explicitly, and argue for a postcolonial intersectional analysis in fpe, putting this theory to work in an analysis of race, gender and whiteness in Honduras.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the emergence of these global rankings reflects a scalar shift in the geopolitics and geoeconomics of higher education from the national to the global that prioritizes academic practices and discourses conducted in particular places and fields of research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use evidence from the Tiruppur garment cluster in Tamil Nadu, South India, to examine how people enter garment work as well as the multiple and everyday forms of agency they engage in.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present five independently conducted studies from Oakland and Chicago that investigate how low-income people eat, where and how they shop, and what motivates their food choices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the complex processes through which this ideal type conceptualization of market-efficient environmental policy was subverted and the practice altered to more closely fit national interests, rural realities and alternative conceptions of the value of socio-nature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a small but growing body of research explores the connections between global production networks, labour and development, and the potential for worker agency within shifting global production network structures, asserting that such agency is shaped both by relations within production networks and territorial institutional systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a content analysis of visual images attached to online articles about climate change during 2010 from 13 US, UK and Australian newspapers, was undertaken, showing broad patterns across all newspapers in the visualization of climate change, and sheds light on how multinational media ownership influences climate imagery portrayals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the applications of governmentality tend to privilege technologies of power and pay insufficient attention to the role of affect, emotions, and embodied practices in shaping human subjectivities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use Foucault's concept of governmentality to investigate changes in the risk management of climate change and demonstrate that the risk construction has shifted significantly from 1988 to 2010, and related policies now include mitigation, adaptation and disaster preparedness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that technical objects are not lifeless mechanisms but actively produce spatio-temporal atmospheres, which shape the humans who are immersed in these atmospheres.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine linkages and tensions at the intersection between commercial dynamics of dominant firms and their societal embeddedness in diverse localities of consumption and production and compare two campaigns, one adversarial, the other collaborative, on corporate purchasing practices pursued by smaller, women-oriented NGOs to improve working conditions of a feminised labour force in fruit and garment GPNs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the experiences of older people as pedestrians in unfamiliar urban spaces and found that there are a number of barriers that are a concern for older people in new environments; these include poor signage, confusing spaces, poor paving and sensory overload.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for examining nonhuman biopolitics and teratology (the study of monsters), identifying fertile tensions between the work of Haraway, Derrida and Deleuze, is presented.

TL;DR: The authors examines how certain inner city spaces in Toronto, Canada are being transformed in part due to changing sexual and gendered identities, and practices variously described as post-gay or post-mo. They argue that a self-styled "post-mo" generation is less interested in (or does not frequent as often), Toronto's traditional gay Village and is utilizing alternative urban spaces in ways that rework the gendered and sexualized meanings of those locations and suggests transformative processes are underway for LGBT social, political and economic life in Toronto.

TL;DR: The EU biofuel targets provide extra incentives for dispossessing rural communities in the global South, especially through land grabs and agro-industrial production methods as mentioned in this paper, thus provoking a high-profile controversy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a second-hand trade network is investigated and the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of GPNs are investigated illuminating how there are coordinated and non-integrated patterns of trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the providence of considering atmospheres and ambiances for the examination of surveillance through the case study of two major railway stations in Britain and France.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that divergent outcomes are largely rooted in differing political bargaining environments and highlight the critical importance of historically informed city-level political economy analysis for understanding divergent urban development outcomes.

TL;DR: The discussion of the Anthropocene focuses attention on the changing geological context for the future of humanity, change wrought by practices that secure particular forms of human life as discussed by the authors, and it is argued that securing the biohuman is now the danger, and as an exigesis of the E3G analysis of "Degrees of Risk" shows, one that conventional understandings of risk management cannot adequately encompass.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors constructed and analyzed statistically for the first time a spatial database with social, economic, environmental, coca production and fumigation data for all 1125 municipalities of Colombia for the period 2001-2008.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on Kunshan, an economically advanced county-level city in the Yangtze River Delta, to answer how, why, and under what circumstances the territorial power of Chinese urban entrepreneurial states is created in response to the dynamics of spatial economic development in the context of market transition and globalization.

TL;DR: The authors investigates the rationale leading growing numbers of West African males to pursue a career in professional football, by taking the particular case of male youth in Accra and exploring how and why they are drawn into the football industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a contribution to the emerging literature on labor agency in global production networks by arguing that labor agency may be highly gendered and tends to be more constrained than facilitated by both vertical forces (the governance of GPNs) and local socioeconomic and labor market contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of slave labour among sugar cane workers within a globalising production network and employ the Global Production Network (GPN) framework to argue that the dynamics of production networks are fundamental to the reproduction of unfree and degrading labour in this case.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the movement and migration of domestic practices, acknowledging that they are constantly shifting from one relatively stable form to another, and introduce the concept of practice memory to explain how some practices thought to be "dead" can be resurrected with relative ease.

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of the right to urban metabolism was explored through an analysis of everyday food production and consumption in homes in an informal settlement in Managua, Nicaragua.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the short term mission experiences of young UK Christians volunteering in Latin America to explore the relationships between international volunteering, faith and subjectivity, and reveal the contingent and multilayered ways subjectivities evolve and are performed through international volunteering.