Over the last ten years, scholars in human geography have been paying increasing theoretical and empirical attention to understanding the ways in which the production of scale is implicated in the production of space. Overwhelmingly, this work…
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It seems that a new paradigm is being formed within the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm. Some recent contributions to forming and stabilising this new paradigm include work from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, migration…
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The world is increasingly dominated by movement - of people, images and information. Doreen Massey examines the nature of mobility in the era of globalisation and what this means for our sense of place
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The article discusses the construction of political ecology theory as a key framework in studying the relationship of man and the environment. It notes that a potential theoretical advancement is possible since there exists a tension between the…
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Fruitful new avenues of theorization and research have been opened by recent writings on the production of geographical scale. However, this outpouring of research on scale production and on rescaling processes has been accompanied by a notable…
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The paper draws on ideas in postmodern thinking to redefine the nature of maps as representations of power. The traditional rules of cartography long rooted in a scientific epistemology of the map as an objective form of knowledge will first be…
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This paper revisits the question of the political and theoretical status of neoliberalism, making the case for a processbased analysis of neoliberalization. Drawing on the experience of the heartlands of neoliberal discursive production, North…
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In recent months there has been an explosion of interest in using the Web to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic information provided voluntarily by individuals. Sites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a…
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This paper seeks to develop an alternative account of the geographies of environmental governance to those current conceptions which tend to take space and scale for granted as pre-given, contained, natural entities. Through an engagement with the…
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Despite considerable progress in recent geographic information systems (GIS) research (especially on public-participation GIS), the critical discourse on GIS in the 1990s does not seem to have affected GIS practices in geographic research in…
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This essay elaborates a critical geographical perspective on neoliberalism that emphasizes (a) the path2013dependent character of neoliberal reform projects and (b) the strategic role of cities in the contemporary remaking of political2013economic…
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After briefly sketching the roots and con- temporary expressions of political ecology,this article turns to recent debates about the role of ecology in political ecology, assesses the merits of these arguments, and considers the implications for the…
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In the past two decades human geographers have intensely theorized scale, and extended claims that it is a foundational element of geographic theory. Yet attendant with this move has been a growing concern that scale has become an unwieldy concept…
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In this paper I want to consider whether actor-network theory ANT gives rise to a new kind of geography, or, perhaps more specifically, a new kind of geographical analysis. The paper therefore seeks to identify the main types of spaces implicated in…
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This paper reviews the concept of adaptation of human communities to global changes, especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability. It focuses on scholarship that contributes to practical implementation of…
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This paper uses several events in New York in the late 1990s to launch two central arguments about the changing relationship between neoliberal urbanism and so-called globalization. First, much as the neoliberal state becomes a consummate agent…
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Neoliberalism has become a hegemonic discourse with pervasive effects on ways of thought and political-economic practices to the point where it is now part of the commonsense way we interpret, live in, and understand the world. How did neoliberalism…
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This paper is concerned with exploring the potential of performance and performativity as conceptual tools for a critical human geography. We begin by emphasising the importance of recog- nising the different ways in which performance can be…
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