for geography and politics. He argues that because the representational imaginary is obliterated in simulation it is the end of geography and radical politics which Baudrillard's work presents.
Communauté ; Espace urbain ; Géographie politique ; Mouvement de protestation ; Mouvement social urbain ; Occupation de l'espace ; Police ; RANCIERE (J.) ; Subjectivité
Community ; Police ; Political geography ; Subjectivity ; Urban area ; Urban social movement
This paper focuses on the work of Jacques Rancière, his view of politics, and its relevance for understanding key aspects of social protest movements such as the Occupy movement. It outlines some of Rancière’s key concepts, such as the distinction
between politics and the police, subjectivity, ‘in-between spaces’, and ‘insubstantial communities’, and attempts to locate his concept of politics within a wider spectrum of political forms in order to bring out its distinctive nature. It concludes
with a discussion of some of the critical questions concerning the effectiveness of this style of politics (questions of political organisation and engagement with the state) and the wider consequences for Rancière’s concept of radical politics.
Capitalisme ; Géographie du temps ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie sociale ; Idéologie ; Nationalisme ; Production de l'espace ; Racisme ; Théorie de la structuration
Beijing ; Centralité ; Chine ; Espace urbain ; Géographie politique ; Image de la ville ; Morphologie urbaine ; Paysage urbain ; Politique ; Pouvoir ; Pratique sociale ; Symbolique de l'espace
Beijing ; Centrality ; China ; Perception of the urban environment ; Policy ; Political geography ; Power ; Semiotics of space ; Social practice ; Urban area ; Urban landscape ; Urban morphology
The paper reviews the relevant geographical literature on space, place and politics, then sketches the morphological evolution of the Square and the multiplicity of political meanings concretized in it. It examines the spatial practice of 20th
century oppositional movements focusing on the struggle for the Square in 1989, to demonstrate the extraordinary power of apparently placeless political movements over the production and definition of space.
Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or looking for local politics
Développement local ; Echelle ; Espace d'activité ; Géographie politique ; Politique locale ; Pouvoir local ; Réseau de sociabilité ; Stratégie territoriale
Activity space ; Local authority ; Local development ; Local policy ; Political geography ; Scale ; Social network ; Territorial strategy
Regards sur la politique locale : espaces de dépendance, espaces d'engagement et politique adaptée à l'échelle spatiale. Aspects épistémologiques de cette échelle. Le cas des échelles qui nous échappent. Représentation et pouvoir dans cette
The shifting stage of politics: new medieval and postmodern territorialities
Espace-temps ; Etat ; Europe ; Fédéralisme ; Géographie politique ; Intégration économique ; Nationalisme ; Postmodernisme ; Souveraineté ; Territorialité ; Union Européenne
Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; Federalism ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Post-modernism ; Sovereignty ; Space time ; State ; Territoriality
The A. argues for new medieval and postmodern conceptualizations of territoriality and sovereignty, which recognize that geographic space is becoming more complex and relative: conventional political concepts based on absolute space are increasingly
problematic for understanding the political complexities of globalization. The A. sketches transformations of sovereignty from medieval to modern, and from modern to postmodern. Contemporary configurations of political space are a complex mixture of new
A sonic geography of voice. Towards an affective politics
Affectivité ; Culturel ; Espace sonore ; Langue ; Son ; Voix
The paper seeks to extend disciplinary investigation by calling for a geography of voice and a politics of speaking and of listening. It explores the different characteristics of voices, their affective and ethico-political forces, and how they make
public spaces. Through its polyphonic method of text, audio illustrations and recorded interviews with participants in radical political organization, the experience of the paper itself is a political gesture, one that invites the listener-reader
Philosophy and politics of spatiality : some considerations. The Hettner-Lecture in human geography
Concept ; Espace ; Espace géographique ; Espace social ; Interaction spatiale ; Production de l'espace ; Représentation de l'espace ; Structuralisme
L'A. propose une conceptualisation de l'espace : il est le produit de relations et il s'agit d'un espace intégré et ouvert. Cette vision de l'espace s'oppose à celle du philosophe H. Bergson et des structuralistes. La vision de l'espace suggérée par
Space, times and political responsibility in the midst of global inequality
Concept ; Espace ; Mondialisation ; Politique ; Responsabilité
Reprenant le texte d'une conférence sur le développement de la géographie présentée à l'université de Bonn, cet article revient de façon critique sur le concept d'espace et le relie à celui de responsabilité.
Texts, actors and higher managers: judges, bureaucrats and the political organization of space
Appareil d'Etat ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie politique ; Organisation de l'espace ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Technocratie
Discussion sur le rôle des managers de haut rang dans l'appareil d'Etat (exécutif, législatif, judiciaire) aboutissant à l'organisation politique de l'espace. (ALS).
Love thy neighbourhood - rethinking the politics of scale and Walsall's struggle for neighbourhood democracy
Birmingham ; Concept ; Démocratie ; Espace urbain ; Lieu ; Politique locale ; Production de l'espace ; Quartier ; Royaume-Uni ; Sociologie urbaine ; Voisinage ; Walsall ; West Midlands
In light of its contemporary political popularity, the paper presents a critical reanalysis of the concept of neighbourhood. It explores the ideological and political uses of the ideal of neighbourhood, and how these processes relate to a particular
politics of scale. It combines theories of scale with Lefebvre's work on the production of space. The A. explores the political narratives and practices through which the neighbourhood scale is produced and contested, and question the ability
of neighbourhoods to offer locally empowering scales of political and social organisation.
Débat sur la théorie de la géographie politique ou sur l'absence de théorie. Un approfondissement est nécessaire, par exemple à partir du traitement de l'espace par des sociologues comme Curz, Giddens ou Costelles, les concepts d'espace urbain et
d'état local comme espace d'action au niveau inférieur au national.
Reconstructing an urban and regional political economy : on the state, politics, scale, and explanation
Policy ; Political economy ; Post-Fordism ; Regulation theory ; Research technique ; Scale ; State ; Urban administration ; Urban economy
structuration de l'échelle. Espaces, échelles de dépendance et territorialité de l'Etat. Blocs sociaux, stratégies de l'Etat, projets d'hégémonie et politique de représentation.
The French Revolution reconfigured citizen's views of real and imagined space. This process of reconfiguration and the relationship between politics and space are explored between 1789 and 1815. The spaces of the Revolution were characterized
by a diversity in which each political constituency made a space of its own choosing.
There is danger of moving political ecology toward even greater emphasis on specificity and difference and pushing consideration of broader-scale processes farther into the background. One response to these challenges is to reconsider the concept
of regional political ecologies. Regional approaches can retain the greatest strengths of recent political ecology in revealing the importance of local-scale social dynamics while situating these dynamics within broader scales of regional and global processes.
Technifying public space and publicizing infrastructures : exploring new urban political ecologies through the square of General Vara del Rey
Architecture ; Ecologie politique ; Espace public ; Espace urbain ; Espagne ; Infrastructure ; Madrid ; Planification urbaine ; Technologie
Architecture ; Infrastructure ; Madrid ; Political ecology ; Public space ; Spain ; Technology ; Urban area ; Urban planning
The article explores new ways of integrating technology, nature and infrastructures into urban public spaces. It is done through a case study, the design of this square of Madrid, which is offered here as a model to explore a novel urban political
ecology. Through the double movement of ‘the technification of public space’ and ‘the publicization of infrastructures’, the square aims to rethink the political ecology of urban public spaces. The transformation of infrastructures into fully visible
, public and political agents provides a useful model to address the growing proliferation of infrastructural and technological elements onto contemporary urban surfaces and to open up the possibility of new forms of civic participation and engagement.
Those gorgeous incongruities : politepolitics and public space on the streets of nineteenth-century New York City
Comportement ; Espace public ; Espace urbain ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie historique ; Image de la ville ; New York City ; Rue ; Siècle 19 ; Société urbaine ; Urbanité ; Vie urbaine
Focusing on analyses of three images, the A. argues that Broadway and Fifth Avenue are sites of political activity, but a politics that is defined as micropolitics of tactical transgressions made possible by the structure of social rituals. He shows
Discourse in the production of political space : decolonizing the symbolism of provinces in Finland
Administration ; Discours ; Etat ; Finlande ; Géographie politique ; Géopolitique ; Pouvoir ; Production de l'espace ; Réforme administrative ; Région ; Régionalisation
Administration ; Administrative reform ; Finland ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Power ; Production of space ; Region ; Regionalization ; State