Showing papers in "Political Geography in 2004"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the changing political geographies of alternative development as practiced and envisioned in the global South and explore the moral business of latte drinkers and other reflexive consumers in Europe and US.

TL;DR: The notion of a feminist geopolitics as mentioned in this paper aims to bridge scholarship in feminist and political geography by creating a theoretical and political space in which geopolitics becomes a more gendered and racialized project, one that is epistemologically situated and embodied in its conception of security.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a more subtle reading of strong indigenous claims to territory, cultural artefacts and informational resources, rather than criticising such arguments for the geographical apartheid that seemingly underpins them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore two moral dimensions of resource conflict, namely, political interests, moralities, and resource access, and consider the ethics of how we portray resource conflict.

TL;DR: In this article, the moral justification for shoot-on-sight protocols in African biodiversity protection and examine the ramifications for the overall level of violence in national parks is examined. But the authors conclude that a moral justification cannot be demonstrated within the various philosophical approaches to environmental ethics.

TL;DR: The authors argue that a shift in the scale of analysis of the nation-state, from national and global scales to the finer scale of the body reveals processes, relations, and experiences otherwise obscured.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the Indonesian and Saudi states' involvement in shaping the migration and working conditions of Indonesian domestic servants employed in Saudi Arabia and examine key aspects of both states' direct and indirect influences on the feminization of the migrant labor force, the limitations of their policies for protecting overseas migrant women, and the political strategies that activists are employing to broaden the states' spaces and scales of jurisdiction.

TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary political-geographical theory of ethnocratic regimes is proposed, which identifies such regimes as a distinct type, neither democratic, nor authoritarian, and examines their impact on ethnic relations and political stability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of landscape in the creation of national identity in Catalonia is analyzed from both a historical and a contemporary perspective, and it is shown how landscape, seen as the cultural projection of a society on a certain space, becomes a fundamental element in the creating process of a national identity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the post-Mao state in China has fostered a migrant labor regime and the incorporation of young, single rural women, dubbed “maiden workers,” into urban work.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretically informed and empirically grounded account of recent mobilisations by the social movement of black communities in the Pacific coast region of Colombia is presented, drawing on both the objective aspects of place and the subjective feelings that are derived from living in a place.

TL;DR: In this paper, the contribution of deconstruction to democratic theory is discussed, and it is argued that this approach ontologizes the politics/political distinction, and elides together two distinct senses of otherness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that changes of scale in political-economic processes are often associated with changes in class relations, articulated by particular class projects, and developed through class struggle, and that such "jumping of scale" may be not only an expression of class power but a constitutive element of it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used census data on "bespoke neighbourhoods" (small areas centred on survey respondents' homes) integrated with individual level data and found that patterns consistent with neighbourhood effects were present throughout the 1990s and their intensity varied according to the political situation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the ways cultural questions relating to identity and meaning-making are fundamentally connected to political questions about power and the adjudicating role of the state and explore the theoretical relevance of culture to political geography by using the South Boston St. Patrick's Day parade conflict as a way of exposing how the state is responding to the demands for inclusion of newly emerging identity groups.

TL;DR: This article argued that the border crisis was the product of complex domestic power struggles in both countries, the boundary itself acting as a material and discursive site where elites struggled for the power to inscribe conflicting gendered, nationalistic visions of geopolitical identity.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the Montreal world city project through a historical study of class relations in the city and the wider political-economic environment since the 1960s, finding that small business and working classes have largely been left holding the bag, paying for cost overruns and industrial incentives, suffering increased air and noise pollution and declining public services, and largely failing to benefit at all from the developing global connectivity.

TL;DR: This article examined the coexistence of supranational cartography and national imagery on 120 euro coins and found that images printed on money support the production and maintenance of national narratives, thus helping to legitimize power structures in the finest tradition of "banal nationalism".

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of dominant-use zoning in coastal British Columbia suggests that conservation territories need not place social justice and biocentric ethics at odds, and that the recognition and protection of wilderness are fully compatible with a model of humans-in-nature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the role played by international non-governmental organisations in the configuration of global citizenship through a case study of international development NGOs in the UK, and the relationship they build with the public.

TL;DR: The authors argue that public scholarship can make political ecology's approach more concrete for students, because it focuses upon problems of inequality and resource access in their own communities and can foster ethically informed research projects useful to state and nongovernmental organizations.

TL;DR: The authors examine the political effects of local age distributions, with an eye to understanding geographic variations in voter turnout, and find that aggregate local turnout is highly sensitive to the age distribution, rising with the percentage over age 60, falling sharply with increases in the percentage between age 18 and 29.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace how the participation of immigrant women in Canada advanced the rights of women in the development of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which came into law in June 2002.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the state practices associated with the development of redistricting GIS created a system that reproduced a limited, conventional, geographically bounded conception of communities of interest.

TL;DR: This paper explored the role of ethnic ancestry in explaining the political divide in the region's presidential voting in over 1500 New England towns and found that ethnic origin does retain some explanatory power in models of recent voting behavior, and ethnic cleavages have not been entirely replaced by economic divisions in the electorate.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of the 1994 and 2000 federal representative elections in the 89 largest cities in Mexico were analyzed using Moran spatial autocorrelation coefficients and a spatial lag regression model with diagnostics for spatial effects.