Showing papers in "Political Geography in 2008"

TL;DR: The authors show how states constitute various extra-territorial groups as members of a loyal diaspora, through a diverse range of institutions and practices, and argue that the emigration state has been overlooked by what John Agnew calls "the modern geopolitical imagination" in which territorial nation-state units, locked into competition at a fixed international scale, are thought of as the highest form of political organization.

TL;DR: The authors examined representations of climate change in four daily "working class" tabloid newspapers in UK e The Sun (and News of the World), Daily Mail (and Mail on Sunday), the Daily Express (and Sunday Express), and the Mirror (andSunday Mirror).

TL;DR: The authors argued that the autonomy of the subject has been conceptualized in discourse and argued in favor of dissolving the self-identical subject into multiple subject positions, and then followed the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to conceptualize discourse not only as language, but also as language and practice.

TL;DR: The authors argue that community is a site where contests are waged over citizenship and the terms of membership in society, and community is, therefore, the object of struggle in which different moral geographies are imagined.

TL;DR: The authors explored how UK broadsheet newspapers represent China's complex relations in Africa, and in doing so, how they reflect on the West's own role(s) in Africa and concluded that the importance of these media images at a time when China's rise is being anxiously observed by western publics and policy communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine cross-border re-territorialization from a geopolitical perspective informed by multi-scalar conceptualizations of political territoriality, focusing on the Euroregions established at the current fringes of the EU, in the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan borderlands.

TL;DR: In this article, the major aspects of the SpanisheMoroccan rebordering since Spain joined the European Union in 1986 are analyzed, focusing on the geopolitical, functional, and symbolic aspects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the political mobilization of Amazonian agricultural settlers and petroleum workers in relation to petroleum and explore how petroleum production in Ecuador has shaped common views on citizenship among these actors that center on petroleum as a site of regulation of social life.

TL;DR: This article examined differences in turnout between electors of different religious origins, and how this varies by neighbourhood context, using a case study of the British General Election of 2001, and found that in general turnout is neither higher nor lower in more diverse neighbourhoods, but despite this, the turnout of minority groups increases as diversity and the size of the minority population increases.

TL;DR: The shadow state concept emerged nearly two decades ago as part of scholars' efforts to critically analyze welfare state restructuring as discussed by the authors, and it has been used to examine the relationship between state and civil society in welfare states.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the public and private spaces in a rapidly growing metropolitan area in the Southwestern US and explore their implications for social relations, concluding that the social benefits of public space are overdrawn, while those of private space are commonly overlooked.

TL;DR: The notion of the performative speech act, first espoused by philosopher J. L. Austin, has influenced a range of geographical scholarship, largely through an engagement with the writings of feminist theorist Judith Butler as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relevance of distance to candidate support in election campaigns has been explored and it is shown that distance from a candidate's hometown base exacts a toll on support for that candidate in general elections.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze three movies, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and The Kingdom of Heaven, in terms of the warrior, empire and the particular geographies of combat.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore imaginative spaces for discussing differences and consider the potential of cultural political economy (CPE) to deliver on this, highlighting some of CPE's strengths and weaknesses, identifying missing links, and then making recommendations on how to develop the geographical dimensions of culturalpolitical economy, and finally, urge serious engagement with the sited complexities and contradictions of re-presentations and material practices.

TL;DR: The authors argue for political geographical research on globalization and criminalization that engages with the relationship between criminalization and socioeconomic exclusion across scales, and maps out the geographically particular and historically continuous ways in which neoliberal and illiberal governance articulate to produce excluded populations as subjects that "need" to be governed in other ways.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between forest resources and armed conflict in Burma, Cambodia, and other countries, and found that forest resources have served to fuel armed conflict and that a shorter distance to the coast tends to make the conflicts in forested conflict zones longer.

TL;DR: The authors argue for a broadened vision of political agency to consider age as a relevant influence on individuals' political interests and actions and to recognise young people as engaged in the making, negotiation and contestation of global politics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore two propositions: that islands are constitutive of emotional geographies that may be described as islandness; and that islandness could be a key ontological resource among those who govern (on) islands, particularly where economic development activities generate deep-seated divisions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a version of geopolitics termed "radical geopolitics", which is critical, political economic, and concerned with investigating the "why" (the causes) of policy and political events, without neglecting the "how" (how they unfold).

TL;DR: The authors analyzes evangelical Christian geopolitical imaginations by studying audience interpretations of the Left Behind books and related sacred texts such as the Bible and finds that fans of the left behind series utilize a geopolitical imagination that is focused almost entirely on Israel, with Iran and Islam serving as a specific and general 'Other' respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make use of a geographically disaggregated dataset of multilateral peacekeeping operations, which allows them to capture various dyadic linkages between sending and receiving countries.

TL;DR: Water politics is not a popular phrase among water practitioners as mentioned in this paper, however, it is finding increasing resonance in their mission to explain how to understand water issues in the Middle East until they understand the politics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the theme of professionalisation to re-conceptualise grassroots women's ongoing community organizing by recognising the distinct expertise that these women have accumulated during their many years of voluntary activism.

TL;DR: A perception of un-entitlement develops through a denial of access and belonging, an erasure of historical claims, and claims to identity mobilised around perceived marginalisation from citizen rights as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the potential for fundamental change in modern territorial norms by studying the evolving governance of international migration and develop a sceptical position on state re-territorialisation through an analysis of the South African community enforcement policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the Unmarried Partners Rule (UPR) was explored through interviews conducted with same-sex migrant couples that highlight the heterosexist discourses embedded in the policy with its formulation of a'marriage' model and its emphasis on evidence of at least 2 years cohabitation.

TL;DR: This article used empirical research on Palestinians in diaspora in Greece to add to debates on the nature of diasporic/transnational homeland-oriented politics in relation to identity.