Showing papers in "Geografiska Annaler Series B-human Geography in 2004"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the politics of affect as not just incidental but central to the life of cities, given that cities are thought of as inhuman or transhuman entities and that politics is understood as a process of community without unity.
Abstract: This paper attempts to take the politics of affect as not just incidental but central to the life of cities, given that cities are thought of as inhuman or transhuman entities and that politics is understood as a process of community without unity. It is in three main parts. The first part sets out the main approaches to affect that conform with this approach. The second part considers the ways in which the systematic engineering of affect has become central to the political life of Euro‐American cities, and why. The third part then sets out the different kinds of progressive politics that might become possible once affect is taken into account. There are some brief conclusions.
1,594 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between identity and responsibility and the potential geographies of both is explored, and a particular avenue to be explored in this paper is the relation between responsibility and identity.
Abstract: Issues of space, place and politics run deep. There is a long history of the entanglement of the conceptualisation of space and place with the framing of political positions. The injunction to think space relationally is a very general one and, as this collection indicates, can lead in many directions. The particular avenue to be explored in this paper concerns the relationship between identity and responsibility, and the potential geographies of both.
1,213 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a non-territorial reading of a politics of place is proposed, focusing on the politics of contemporary regionalism, arguing that globalisation and the general rise of a society of transnational flows and networks no longer allow a conceptualisation of place politics in terms of spatially bound processes and institutions.
Abstract: This paper proposes a non-territorial reading of a politics of place. Focusing on the politics of contemporary regionalism, it argues that globalisation and the general rise of a society of transnational flows and networks no longer allow a conceptualisation of place politics in terms of spatially bound processes and institutions. The second part of the paper outlines an alternative politics of place that works with the varied distanciated geographies that cut across a given region.
900 citations
TL;DR: In the past 40 years or so, human activities and movements in space-time have attracted considerable research interest in geography as discussed by the authors, and one of the earliest analytical perspectives for the an...
Abstract: Over the past 40 years or so, human activities and movements in space‐time have attracted considerable research interest in geography. One of the earliest analytical perspectives for the an...
317 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a more spatially-curious dialogue of power is opened up which foregrounds associational as well as instrumental forms of power which can make a difference to how we act politically.
Abstract: In a world where it has become almost commonplace to talk about power as centralised or distributed, concentrated or diffuse, deterritorialized or dispersed even, it is all too easy to miss the diverse geographies of power that put us in place. The binary talk that forces us to choose between a centred or a decentred view of power, or to shuffle between them in an effort to blur clearly demarcated scales, leaves little room to move beyond defined distances and settled proximities in relation to the exercise of power. In this paper, a more spatially‐curious dialogue of power is opened up which foregrounds associational as well as instrumental forms of power which can make a difference to how we act politically.
239 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight issues of networks, flows and mobilities as prime organizers and reorganisers of time-space relationships, and argue that such discourse promotes notions of network, flow and mobility.
Abstract: Discourse on the information society currently highlights issues of networks, flows and mobilities as prime organizers and re‐organisers of time—space relationships. Such discourse promotes notions...
147 citations
TL;DR: A user‐centred spatio‐temporal theory of location‐based services is proposed by combining classical time geography with an extended theory of affordances that offers the possibility to account for cognitive time constraints due to the duration of decision‐making processes.
Abstract: Location‐based services assist people in their decision‐making during the performance of tasks in space. They do not consider the user's individual preferences, time constraints and possible subtasks to be performed. In order to account for these important aspects, a user‐centred spatio‐temporal theory of location‐based services is required. We propose such a theory by combining classical time geography with an extended theory of affordances. It assumes that affordances belong to three realms: physical, social‐institutional, and mental. In addition to covering the capability, coupling and authority constraints from time geography, this allows for a user‐centred perspective because affordances describe action possibilities with regard to a specific person. Furthermore, the integration of mental affordances offers the possibility to account for cognitive time constraints due to the duration of decision‐making processes. This new theory for location‐based services is closer to the individual user and...
130 citations
TL;DR: The authors endorses recent pleas for an "institutional turn" within economic geography, revealing and connecting the coherence and distinctiveness of dissenting institutional economic experts. But they do not discuss the role of economic geography.
Abstract: This paper endorses recent pleas for an ‘institutional turn’ within economic geography. In particular, it reveals and connects the coherence and distinctiveness of dissenting institutional economic...
102 citations
TL;DR: This article identified characteristics of importance in environments where exceptionally creative individuals develop and make their abilities visible through the biographies of Nobel laureates, revealing the importance of geographic mobility, the patterns of contact for various creative processes, and show how a small number of biographical sketches can reflect changes in society at large.
Abstract: The focus of attention in this article is that of milieux as forges for creativity and renewal. Among the milieux presented are places, corporations and research institutions. The renewal discussed here includes art, architecture, music and literature as well as science and technology. The goal of this article is to identify characteristics of importance in environments where exceptionally creative individuals develop and make their abilities visible. Individual lives are illustrated through the biographies of Nobel laureates. Their stories reveal the importance of geographic mobility, the patterns of contact for various creative processes, and show how a small number of biographical sketches can reflect changes in society at large. To avoid drowning in wordy descriptions, the observations garnered from various biographies have been systematized with the aid of a few simple time-geography diagrams.
78 citations
TL;DR: The political challenge of relational space: introduction to the vega symposium is discussed in this paper, where the authors introduce the concept of vega and the political challenges of relational spaces.
Abstract: (2004). The political challenge of relational space: introduction to the vega symposium. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 3-3.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce path, prism, project, pocket and population: an introduction to the Geografiska Annaler's Path, Prism, Project, Project and Population.
Abstract: (2004). Path, prism, project, pocket and population: an introduction. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 223-226.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the connections between the three areas of work: first, the theorisation of identity as relational; second, the significance of difference and diversity in...
Abstract: In this paper I want to address the connections between the three areas of work: first, the theorisation of identity as relational; second, the significance of difference and diversity in ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how geographic imaginations constitute an important aspect in geographic research, enriching our understanding of places and societies as well as the contested meanings people have towards spaces.
Abstract: ‘Geographical imaginations’ constitute an important aspect in geographic research, enriching our understanding of places and societies as well as the contested meanings people have towards spaces. ...
TL;DR: The authors illustrates the long-standing and ongoing exclusion of minority groups from social and cultural dominance in the landscape by the exclusion or marginalisation of subordinate and minority groups, including women and ethnic minorities.
Abstract: Social and cultural dominance is (re)produced in the landscape by the exclusion or marginalisation of subordinate and minority groups. This paper illustrates the long‐standing and ongoing exclusion...
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TL;DR: In this article, residential segregation and urban form in divided post-Soviet small cities are investigated. But they focus on two small cities, namely, Leninogorsk and Zyryanovsk, Kazakhstan.
Abstract: Divided Post-Soviet Small Cities? : Residential Segregation and Urban Form in Leninogorsk and Zyryanovsk, Kazakhstan
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TL;DR: The two vistas Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol 86, No 4, pp 315-323 as mentioned in this paper, was published in 2004.
Abstract: (2004) The two vistas Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol 86, No 4, pp 315-323
TL;DR: In this article, the tension between geographicaladministrative considerations and political, particularly geopolitical, issues at two levels: Arab claims and central government decisions is demonstrated. And they emphasize that municipal boundary conflicts provide broader insights on societal transformations and dilemmas, as well as influencing them.
Abstract: Municipal boundaries shape the influence of local government on patterns of development and disparities. Based on a largely qualitative assessment of initiatives to change municipal boundaries of Arab localities in Israel between the 1960s and 2001, we aim to demonstrate the tension between geographical‐administrative considerations and political, particularly geopolitical, issues at two levels: Arab claims and central government decisions. We emphasize that municipal boundary conflicts provide broader insights on societal transformations and dilemmas, as well as influencing them. Growing activism of Arabs and trends of political decentralization led not only to class‐based demands, but also to ethno‐national‐based demands. In addition to development needs with an emphasis on equality, claims of Arab municipalities also reflect aspirations to reverse consequences of the 1948 war and to redefine the Jewish essence of the state. A major dilemma among Arabs is whether to emphasize geographic‐administ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reread the nature of undeclared work and showed that universally portraying it as a form of profit-motivated informal employment over simplifies and obscures its spatially variable nature and heterogeneous meanings.
Abstract: Inspired by a stream of cultural economic geographical thought that has sought to deconstruct the view that monetary transactions are everywhere market‐like and profit‐motivated, this paper seeks to reread the nature of undeclared work. Conventionally, such work has been seen as epitomising unbridled profit‐motivated market‐like monetised exchange, and depictions of the geographical variations in its character have distinguished only between various types of profit‐motivated informal employment in different area types. Drawing upon detailed empirical evidence from eleven deprived and affluent localities in urban and rural England, however, it is here displayed that universally portraying undeclared work as a form of profit‐motivated informal employment over‐simplifies and obscures its spatially variable nature and heterogeneous meanings. Although undeclared work in affluent locality types and urban areas is more likely to be market‐like and conducted for profit‐motivated purposes, undeclared work ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the future of air cargo in Asia-pacific and discuss the role of economic globalization in the region's air cargo growth in the past two decades, which has led to a fast pace of growth of many economies in Asia Pacific.
Abstract: Economic globalization in the past two decades has led to a fast pace of growth of many economies in Asia Pacific, and impacted on the region's growth in air cargo. This paper discusses the future ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the usefulness of spatial innovation diffusion theory for understanding the observed evolution of the social practice of attaining public support as a substitute for working, and examined the spatial diffusion hypothesis by help of a multivariate analysis based on socioeconomic panel data including sick leave benefits and location for each individual in the labour force 1996-2000.
Abstract: This paper explores the usefulness of spatial innovation diffusion theory for understanding the observed evolution of the social practice of attaining public support as a substitute for working. The empirical example chosen is sick leave. Several European countries have experienced a striking increase in costs for sick leave during the recent years, nowhere however as dramatic as in Sweden. Public costs for sick leave have doubled since 1997 while general health and life expectancy continually improve. No more than a small percentage of this change can be assigned to compositional changes in the population and labour market with respect to age, sex, education, location and sector of employment. Neither has economic benefit conditions changed substantially during this period. What essentially remain, as possible explanations, are changes in attitudes and practices among beneficiaries and physicians. One can observe substantial regional differences in the level of sick leave and apparent traces of spatial autocorrelation in the pattern. The spatial diffusion hypothesis was examined by help of a multivariate analysis based on socio-economic panel data including sick leave benefits and location for each individual in the labour force 1996–2000. The analysis indicates that the neighbourhood effect is substantial on the local (290 municipalities) and the regional (21 counties) level. Largely, the regional diffusion effect remains when also controlling for more persistent average differences between counties. A semi-public spatial attitude diffusion process, mainly operating at municipality and county levels, seems to be responsible for a substantial part of the observed increase in cost for sick leave in the period 1996–2000.
TL;DR: Ehrnberg et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a modell for jämförelser mellan flyttningsoch födelseortsfält (1950). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 26, pp.
Abstract: Vädjan till envar. Prolog vid hembygdsfesten i Moheda den 18 juli 1937 (1938). Elof Lindströms tryckeri, Moheda, Småskrift Handel och sjöfart (1942). En bok om Blekinge 1924–1942 . Blekinge museioch hembygdsförbund, Karlskrona, pp. 301–318 En bok om Småland (1943). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 19. Review of Sven Block (ed.), p. 223 Review of Valter Elgeskog, Svensk torpbebyggelse från 1500talet till laga skiftet. En agrarhistorisk studie (1945). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 21, pp. 255–256 Review of Sigurd Erixon, Kila, en östgötsk skogsby. En byundersökning 1912–13 (1946). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 22, p. 191 En landsbygdsbefolknings flyttningsrörelser. Studier över migrationen på grundval av Asby sockens flyttningslängder 1840– 1944 (1947). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 23, pp. 114–142 Balkan, de tappra men fattiga böndernas halvö (1948). V ärldens länder och folk. Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, pp. 1896–1927 Lokaliseringsproblemet. Ett diskussionsinlägg (1948). Geografiska notiser VI:4. pp. 5–9 Flyttningarna till och från Simrishamn under 1900-talet (1949). Simrishamn med omland. AB Ehrnberg & Sons Läderfabrik, Lund, pp. 74–111 Review of Niels Nielsen Atlas over Danmark (1949). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 25, pp. 314–315 Staplar, cirklar eller klot? Ett diskussionsinlägg (1949). geografiska notiser VII:1. En modell for jämförelser mellan flyttningsoch födelseortsfält (1950). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 26, pp. 177–184 Kartografi eller reklamteckning? (1950). Geografiska notiser VIII:2, pp. 15–16 Torp och backstugor i 1800-talets Asby (1950). Från Sommabygd till Vätterstrand. E. Hedkvist et al.(eds):Tranås hembygdsgille, Linköping, pp. 30–38 Värend med Helgasjön (1950). Natur i Småland . Bokförlaget Svensk Natur, Stockholm, pp. 288–296 Migration and the Growth of Culture Regions (1951). Studies in rural-urban interaction, Lund Studies in Geography, Ser. B , No. 3:33–36 Omflyttningen och uppkomsten av kulturregioner (1951). Tätorter och omland. G. Enequist (ed.). Uppsala, pp. 100–110. (English summary in Lund Studies in Geography, Ser B , No.3, pp. 33–36) Review of A . Aagesen: Geografiske studier over jernbanerne Danmark (1951). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 27, pp. 200–201 Review of Tätorter och omland, G. Enequist (ed.) (1951). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 27, p. 200 Atomkraften – data och spekulationer (1952). Geografiska notiser X:2, pp. 1–5 Statistisk årsbok och dess förändringar (1952). Geografiska notiser X:3, p. 24 The Propagation of Innovation Waves (1952). Lund Studies in Geography, Ser B , No. 4, 20 pp. Also in Readings in Cultural Geography (1962). Philip L. Wagner and Marvin W. Mikesell (eds), The University of Chicago Press. pp. 355–368 Innovationsförloppet ur korologisk synpunkt (1953) Meddelanden från Lunds universitets geografiska institution 25. 304 pp. (Translated into English, see Innovation Diffusion as a Spatial Process 1967.) De nya städerna i Storbritannien (1954). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 30, pp. 186–193 Review of Sven Godlund: Busstrafikens framväxt och funktion i de urbana influensfälten (1954). Ymer 74:4, pp. 285–289 Städers storlek och läge (1954). Geografiska notiser XII:1, pp. 3–10 Sommarutflyttningen från sydsvenska städer (1955). Plan 9:1, pp. 3–6 Statistiska primäruppgifter, flygkartering och dataprocessingmaskiner. Ett kombineringsprojekt (1955). Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 31:233–255 Migration and Area. Survey of a Sample of Swedish Migration Fields and Hypothetical Considerations on their Genesis (1957). Migration in Sweden. Lund Studies in Geography Ser. B, No. 13, pp. 27–158 Migration in Sweden – A Symposium (1957). Lund Studies in Geography, Ser B, No. 13. T. Hägerstrand, D. Hannerberg and B. Odeving (eds) Stadsidealets förvandlingar (1957). Installationsföreläsning, Lunds universitet. Also in Om tidens vidd och tingens ordning, G. Carlestam and B. Sollbe (eds), Byggforskningsrådet T21:1991:57–62 A Century of Migration to and from a Rural Parish in Sweden (1958). Les migrations rurales. Communications et changes de Vues. Premier Congrès de la Société Européenne de Sociologie Rurale, Bruxelles-Louvain, pp. 144–15
TL;DR: Torsten hagerstrand 1916-2004 as discussed by the authors was the first to use the Geografiska Annaler series B, Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 86, No. 4, pp 325-326.
Abstract: (2004). Torsten hagerstrand 1916–2004. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 325-326.