teaching, he was professor at the University of Nancy and later at the Sorbonne, where he concentrated on oceanography and hydrology, with a rapidly developing interest in coral reef morphology. In 1970 he left Paris for a professorial chair at Brest, where
he built up an influential research unit focusing on marine geography. Scientific expeditions took him to coastal and marine locations across the globe. Despite emphasizing physical geography in research, he believed in the unity of the discipline
In this paper, the A. argues that a Midwestern plant conservation science institution (MPCSI) challenges genetic commodification through distinct knowledge-making and social practices. He analyzes the socionatural implications of this institution’s
use of genetic technology in native ecosystem restoration. He focuses on specific techniques used by the MPCSI’s scientists to view genes as embodied relational entities, rather than abstract information. He details the MPCSI’s emerging relationship
with commercial seed nurseries to illustrate how decommodification is integral to commodification. Finally, he argues that that although the MPCSI’s genetic restoration strategy necessitates limited market engagements, their scientific practices and institutional
This A proposes some reflections on regime change and democracy in Bahia, Brazil. First, he explains that Antônio Carlos Magalhães and his associates, known as carlistas, were in office between 1970 and 2006, when Jaques Wagner, from the Worker’s
making. He uses Robert Dahl’s procedural definition of democracy (completed and updated by more recent scholarship) as the guiding criterion to compare carlista and PT rule in Bahia. He concludes with a broad reflection on subnational democratization
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the archaeologist-explorer, whose name became inseparable from the history of the Silk Road, passed away 70 years ago. Although he was not a trained geographer, his contribution to the cartography, historical geography
and ancient topography of Central Asia secure him place among the scholars of 20th century geography. He left Hungary to study and later to work overseas, but he never forgot about his native land and maintained contact with his eminent scholars. The article
The doctoral work of Jean Tricart pioneered French climatic geomorphology and the study of periglaciation. Strongly influenced by his mentors at the Sorbonne, he placed great emphasis on the interaction of physical and human processes to produce
geographical environments, and on the detailed recording of landforms through geomorphological mapping. Spending the whole of his professorial career at Strasbourg, he established an innovative centre for applied geography that used geographical knowledge
geography and ‘ecogeography’. A man of strong opinions, with an allegiance to the far left of politics, he alienated some colleagues while earning the admiration of others. - (HC)
The A. examines the different US preschool programs targeting the poor Blacks in the 1960’s. He shows how the discipline of early childhood education cohered around the term “disadvantaged child”, in turn influencing the War on Poverty policies
, including the basis of Head Start preschool education. He also investigates, through the Sesame Street TV program, how surplus populations became determined and demarcated, as early as three years old. He concludes by questioning how televised preschool
The A contextualises recent critiques and ask what possibilities remain for a politics of tolerance in multicultural Europe. Using an example of dialogue, he argues that tolerance can be intrinsic to the development of alternative relations when
positioned as part of an ongoing struggle to multiply ways of thinking and acting. He finishes by reflecting on the relationship between tolerance, agonism, and dialogue, to outline a more pragmatic politics of difference, arguing that it is not enough
The A. discusses the urban injustices of New Labour's “new urban renewal”, that is the state-led gentrification of British council estates , on the Aylesbury estate in Southwark, London. He looks at what the estate residents thought/think about
the whole process and how they have resisted, and are resisting, the gentrification of their estate. He argues that we urgently need to re-establish the city as the driver of democratic politics with an emancipatory agenda, rather than one that ratifies
In this article, the A. argues that the concept of urban livability is used as a political tool by the Singaporean state to further its pursuit of global city status. He use san embodied approach to analyze state manipulation of two residential
lifeworlds, he shows how indeterminate outcomes arise from the state’s livability project.
The A. examines the outcomes of a neoliberal program designed to privatize communal lands in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. He shows that women became registered land managers and leaders for the first time in the ejido's history. These interlocking
processes stopped the land-titling program in its tracks and reinvigorated collective governance. Even state actors charged with carrying out ejido privatization were implicated in the empowerment of rural women and failure to fully privatize land. He
of the banlieues. He proposes instead that their perceptions of stigma are deeply ambivalent, as evidenced by their abiding attachment to place. Mindful of the danger of romanticising the subaltern, he argues that many transgressions of the norms of dominant
This A. examines statemaking in the Northwest highlands and micropolitical relations between agencies and villages. He explores his access to and denial from village field sites to position the researcher amidst the same power relations under study
. To do so, through the example of the village of Điện Biên Phủ, he shows that tracing idioms back to conflicted power relations engages modern forms of governmentality to reconceptualize political tactics, strategies, and technologies as ideologically
The A. examines the econo-techno-social design of invasive animal management in Far North Queensland through the costs and benefits or beneficiaries and benefactors approaches. He shows how the two management techniques (bounty systems of payment
for feral pig control and a community-based feral pig trapping program)reshape important social and cultural processes through their overlapping technological and economic elements. He argues that ecological-economic theories of pest management may
In this paper, the A. first provides an overview of the rise of homelessness since the late 1980s. Then, he examines changing public and political attitudes towards homelessness in post-socialist Hungary and place the growing trend towards
penalization in the larger context of an emerging criminal paradigm. After analyzing the recent authoritarian turn, he argues that the radical intensifi-cation of criminalization is a strategy not only to secure political dominance, but also to obscure
The A. attemps a “politics of witnessing” of recent Sinixt activities in the Arrow Lakes (British Columbia) as they push back against the colonial enframings and displacement emanating from the the government. He then contextualizes biopower within
settler society to chart the production of the state through a cultural economy of racialization and erasure, and through a clearing of the land. Finally, he examines the limitations of witnessing and the space Indigenous peoples make for alliances.
loan (or no mortgage), the owner will be better off only when there is a large appreciation or depreciation, while he/she cannot be better off under depreciation if he/she bought that house largely via a mortgage loan.
and Cartography, and of the state publishers of the national map and atlas series. Later, he moved to the Department of Economic Geography at the Karl Marx University of Economics; before long he was directing that Department. From this position of power
markets. He argues, that the fragmentation involved in the trans-nationalisation of financial activities does not affect the controlling-power positions of traditional financial centres. The last part of the paper examines the role of the spatial
The A. applies the theory of the four discourses and the mirror stage of development to Singapore's urban development of the two Integrated Resorts at Marina Bay and Sentosa. He critically analyses the rhetoric of the public debate from 2004–2005