Showing papers in "Geoforum in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the sharing economy is contingent and complexly articulated, and it has the potential to both shake up and further entrench "business-as-usual" through the ongoing reconfiguration of a divergent range of (economic) activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate four moments in the construction and application of the ecosystem services idea: socio-historical (the emergence of the discourse), ontological (what knowledge does the concept allow?), scientific, and political (who wins, who loses).

TL;DR: The resulting shift from legibility to visibility is explored, and the implications of seeing development interventions as a byproduct of larger-scale processes of informational capitalism are explored.

TL;DR: The authors in this article argue that the current water govermentality project implements reforms that do not challenge established market-based water governance foundations Rather it aims to contain and undermine communities' autonomy and "unruly" polycentric rule-making, which are the result of both historical and present-day processes of change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse DFDR for its frailties, identify these lessons and situate them within the broader political economy, and provide contextual considerations for planners organizing resettlements in response to climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how governmental aspirations for indigenous territories unravelled in practice, producing hybrid, double-edged and "not-quite-neoliberal" spaces, which have, paradoxically, emerged as key sites for the construction of more radical indigenous projects.

TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of the possible opportunities for theoretical explorations and research into the place-based facets of additive manufacturing and its impacts on, or integration with, traditional manufacturing is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the fundamental role that different modes of finance have played in shaping South Africa's emerging renewable energy sector within the context of the country's unique system of accumulation characterised by its minerals-energy complex (MEC).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the interest by policy makers to encourage and develop a green economy, with a particular focus on UK government attempts to engender a shift in the mainstream building and construction sector towards adopting green building methods and techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impacts, stakes and challenges linked to investments in extractive activities and look at how the costs and risks are being differentially distributed within and between the affected communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how Latino residents experience, reflect on, and confront new exclusionary practices in the spaces and discourses of alternative food activism and practices in Boston and show the slow disappearance of affordable or community-based food options in Hyde Square, turning the neighborhood in a food unjust neighborhood.

TL;DR: In this article, a political-industrial ecology approach was developed to explore the urban water metabolism of Los Angeles, which sprawls for thousands of miles across the American West, using interviews and historical analysis, and illustrate how a sustainable transition based on a narrow carbon calculus is problematized by historical circumstances and strategic new paradigms to secure water resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, a more differentiated understanding of the role and the practices of brokers in the middle space of migration, the brokers are used in the recruitment process for transnational migration, and the detected negative reputation of labour brokers is only partially justified.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the defense of grassroots interests and the advancement of more equitable governance greatly hinges on the capacity of these groups to engage in grassroots scalar politics, and develop the concept of grass-land politics, which they use as a lens to analyze two case studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the centralization of forest governance and decision making into the hands of project implementers and brokers, the necessity for legible land rights and boundaries, and the technical requirements for measurement, calculation, and monitoring of carbon have reshaped forest governance in ways that have undermined the social and ecological benefits often associated with common property management schemes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of local institutions and differentiated rural populations in climate change adaptation in Tanzania and found that the dominant policy discourse constructs an anti-politics of adaptation through its framing of climate change as an urgent and generalized threat to development.

TL;DR: In this article, the existence of a socio-technical assemblage for the transmission of natural gas across national boundaries emerging as a result of the erosion of decision-making power away from established state actors, and the rise of new institutional orders.

TL;DR: The expansion of oil palm plantations is linked to processes of territorialization and reterritorialization from the 1960s until today as mentioned in this paper, which played a decisive role in establishing and upholding extractivism as a development pathway.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the Bolivian state's recent use of a pair of indigenous linguistic concepts, Living Well and Earth Mother, representing the identities of citizens and their rights to resources and livelihoods, and find that respatialization at various levels, including territorial transitions of sub-national regional spaces, are associated with the heightened articulation of environmental governance through indigeneity and speaking like an indigenous state.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Heideggerian analysis of the migration stories of western English teachers in South Korea is presented as an example of migration as part of a youth-adult transition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a geographical account of older adults' social capital, by taking the main context of their daily life, the neighbourhood, into consideration, and draw on semi-structured and walking interviews with 17 older adults living in an urban neighbourhood in the Northern Netherlands in order to illustrate the meanings of, the obstacles to and the opportunities for local social contacts.

TL;DR: The authors considers the problem of refugee lives: how various actors define the right way to live as a refugee, what role they ascribe to refugee camps in this way of living, and the complex reality of actual refugee lives amidst these various claims.

TL;DR: This article explored the spatial transformation of urban South Africa since the ending of Apartheid rule two decades ago and explored the extent to which changes identified are shaped by the state, private sector investment, and the everyday actions of households and individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical physical geography of urban soil Pb contamination that considers the dialectical co-production of soil processes and social processes is presented, with particular attention to the materiality of the socio-natural hybrids emerging from processes of capitalist urbanization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the performance of water user associations and the role of actors, power relations, socio-institutional dynamics, and context in supplying water to poor urban and peri-urban neighborhoods of Malawi's two major cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential for leakage effects on adjacent jurisdictions and deleterious implications for forest-dependent communities has been examined, highlighting the ways in which such activities threaten to conflate illegal with informal trade in forest products, and the incentives that they may provide for states to further marginalize indigenous forest-dwelling populations in the region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the transfer of illegitimacy and criminalisation of asylum seeker bodies in the context of the Australian government's newly deployed Operation Sovereign Borders and explore both the subjectivities formed as a function and technique of securing Australia's borders and the way this framing produces a certain governed reality that ‘acts upon the senses' to delimit public discourse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the corporate networks of the energy industry as a historic driver of globalization using social network analysis from an Australia geographical perspective and found that globally and nationally scaled energy networks derived from the Platts and Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) corporate lists are used to explore the convergence of nationally and globally articulated networks, and identify cities instrumental in the globalization of the national industry sub-networks.

TL;DR: It is argued that conferences form a specific type of temporary cluster bringing together knowing communities from cross-industry, functional fields and creating opportunities for diverse knowledge exchanges.

TL;DR: The authors argue that an increasing number of researchers have multiple national affiliations and relationships, and argue that diasporic academics have become central to the creation of global knowledge networks, including the institutional ambitions of universities who are seeking to expand their research remits in increasingly resource constrained environments, international and national funding bodies who are increasingly focused on research ‘grand challenges, and the aspirations of individual researchers for whom global networks are increasingly important to successful careers.