Showing papers in "Political Geography in 1999"

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief examination of the discursive framing of Mekong hydrodevelopment is presented, which uncovers some of the implications of an emerging regional geopolitical imagination centred on the naturalising metaphor of the watershed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a number of now fashionable institutionally focused accounts of urban and regional political economy often begin at a point that is analytically flawed (or at least partial) in that the institutional ensembles themselves, whether analyzed as an urban regime, regional thickness or a local regulatory mode, are automatically assumed to be a pre-given part of the explanation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical approach to internationalization of the state is outlined, showing how specific factions of capitalist classes can end up sharing concrete interests in specific state policies across national boundaries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between time and space in the development of heritage attractions in Ireland, and emphasise the mechanisms through which space is privileged over time in a manner that loses sight of the complexities of localised historical processes.

TL;DR: The authors examines the debates over environmental justice in terms of the tension between the scale of the problem itself and the scale at which the problem is to be resolved (or at least ameliorated) via government policy.

TL;DR: Campbell as mentioned in this paper explores the apartheid-like logic of international diplomacy's political anthropology, the way this logic overrode non-nationalist options and legitimised exclusivist projects during the war, and considers the conundrum this bequeaths Bosnia in the post-Dayton period as a number of significant local forces seek to overcome division.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the spatial politics of this process in one particular region, where transmigration has been coloured by environmental authoritarianism and concerns over the activity of "illegal forest squatters".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how geographical scale has shaped the historical and contemporary geography of indigenous peoples in the United States and show that the ability of marginalized populations to reshape scales of power is limited by the persistence of assimilationist attitudes and normative assumptions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the Singapore state continually attempts to establish the boundaries of the nation-state through hegemonic, policy and strategic actions, and examine how Singaporeans maintain this sense of national identity through their everyday actions.

TL;DR: The New Urban Politics (or NUP) of local economic development has become one of the dominant themes in urban political economy in the last twenty years as mentioned in this paper. But despite the volume of research this has generated, basic problems remain in the theories that underlie this academic and political work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the way in which water quality is addressed in seven selected international basin accords and present a framework for the structured comparisons of these basins, based on the following four major forces that were found to influence the extent to which pollution issues were encompassed within the accords: flash-points, financial capacities, globalization/regionalization, and political windows of opportunity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the spatial, socioeconomic and political characteristics of the Arab struggle in Israel provide early signs for the emergence of an ethnoregional movement, which is creating a new collective identity, situated between Palestinian nation and Jewish nation-state.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that there is no necessary relationship between democracy and the environment, and that even where the goals of democracy are realized, these can have negative as well as positive environmental consequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that intra-party electoral reform is not only significant, but, from a political geography perspective, can prove to be as meaningful and consequential as systemic electoral reform.

TL;DR: This article examined the specific case of crime control in the United States to argue that the putative weakening of the state is not in fact occurring, when examined more closely, suggested evidence of decreased state power vis-a-vis crime turns out, if anything, to demonstrate the opposite.

TL;DR: This paper found that residents in the reservoir region have attached their own values to the reservoir, including both rational valuation of specific non-drinking-water benefits and non-instrumental valuation of the reservoir as an integral part of residents' lifeworlds.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the historical reorganization of monetary structures that produced territorial currencies focusing on the North American region and showed that the creation of territorial currencies was seen by state authorities to be intricately connected with the consolidation of three dimensions of nation-states in North America: their economic territoriality, the direct link created between state and domestic society, and the sense of collective identity among their inhabitants.

TL;DR: The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is the formal mechanism by which government departments, agencies and instrumentalities, like the National Heath Service, utilise private sector investment capital and, in particular, pension fund assets, to revitalise public services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the reasons for the supremacy of higher levels of government in conflicts across geographic scales and examine controversies surrounding the future uses of the Hanford nulcear reservation in Washington state.

TL;DR: The 1992 Earth Summit marked the emergence of a new type of global environmentalism in which nation states increasingly sought to represent themselves as key environmental actors as mentioned in this paper, and Japan has attempted to position itself rhetorically as a global environmental leader.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of international integration on ethno-regional relations in multiethnic states and concluded that AII hinders national cohesion by reducing the cultural similarity of the regions, sharpening their disputes over foreign policy, and intensifying their disparate identities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that local interests are not coterminous with the scale of local government, and that the case study of the Hanford Reservation illustrates that local interest is fluid across scales.

TL;DR: In the case of the United States, trade-sensitive industries lobby the bicameral Congress and the executive branch for beneficial trade policies, and their geographic location strongly influences the strategies they adopt as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argue that the shared terrain of Jerusalem obscures deep divisions in the physical and social lives of its Arab and Jewish ethnic communities, and that multiple divisions exist not only among peoples sharing a common space; they are also found among communities of scholars sharing common intellectual interests.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the expected democratisation of post-Soviet politics and the pluralisation of political representation are limited, at least at the local scale, by the playing out of the processes of marketisation and democratisation in grounded contexts, both local and global, by passing of those transformations at a particular moment in history and by their concurrence.