This paper examines the spatial practices of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London (1986–1990). It explains how this movement produced solidarity with those resisting apartheid in South(ern) Africa. It argues that how the need
for anti-apartheid solidarity was framed politically cannot be understood in isolation from how it was performed in practice. The study of solidarity is enriched by paying attention to the micropolitics of the practices through which it is enacted
The AA. undertake a geographically sensitive analysis of Quebec's 2007 Bouchard-Taylor Commis-sion to demonstrate how ignorance of Aboriginal realities works strategically to sustain unequally occupied rhetorical and material space. They analyze how
the law, and ignorance of how it applies to Aboriginal peoples, is mobilized by the Commissioners to create a space from which Aboriginal peoples could be excluded, and highlight the continuity of this strategy with past debates over Que-bec identity
. The case of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission demonstrates how ignorance operates in highly sophisticated and often readily justifiable ways to uphold settler interests.
This article examines slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden in London, England. First, it describes how slugs and gardeners are ‘sticky’: joined together by shared histories, curiosity and disgust. It then shifts to examine how
, and being transformed by that recognition. The analysis shows first, that the emphasis on gathering together and relationality obscures what lies outside relations, and second how detachment emerges not as the negation, but as an enabling constituent of more
This article analyzes how the interplay of the power structures shapes the dynamics of natural resource management in one of the world's fastest changing transboundary basins, the Mekong. Taking the Lao People's Democratic Republic as a case study
, it highlights the existing inconsistency and institutional discrepancies in land, water, and environmental policy related to hydropower and illustrate how they are manifested in multiple decision-making frameworks and overlapping legal orders. The resulting
legal plurality reveals the inherently contested terrain of hydropower but, more important, it illustrates how the central state has been able to use contradictory mandates and interests to further its goals.
Through the example of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, this article explores the presentation of the “American War” in the construction of nationhood. It has three objectives. First, it illustrates how nation-building in a postcolonial
and postimperial context is generated through tourism, specifying how the Communist Party communicates Vietnam to lay international tourist audiences. Tourism's political instrumentality for the party is highlighted here. Second, it shows how the United States
The context of this paper is return visits to the Latvia of labour migrants in Guernsey. It explains how actual experience during the return path is influenced by both past trajectories and future anticipation. Return visits are conceptualized
help researchers to gain important insights into how the path is shaped through the corporeal experiences and how it shapes interpretations about home and possible future orientations.
This paper explores how the problem of sustainability in the childcare sector is being addressed through a neoliberal development rationale. Focusing on the Irish childcare sector and the childcare funding programme introduced in 2006
, it illustrates how a particular entrepreneurial subjectivity has been mobilised to remedy the perceived problems of private sector childcare. After I outline the contours of this subjectivity, the final section of the paper will examine how it is being realised
This article jointly considers elite and non-elite narratives, through an analysis of discourses of modernity as enacted in and through these statist urban projects. It explores how notions of ‘modernity’ are performed and enacted through
the exclusionary practices of elites and non-elites alike. Taking the case of Kazakhstan's new capital city, Astana, it examines how the state-led urban modernisation agenda simultaneously draws upon and re-inscribes a set of interlocking popular geographic
imaginaries (Soviet/modern, urban/rural, north/south), and demonstrate how ordinary citizens are not just passive spectators, but active participants in the political drama of state- and city-building.
Mapping the green building industry : how local are architects and general contractors?
of both architects and contractors are locally-based, suggesting that rather than green building expertise clustering in a few cities, it has diffused nationwide. This has positive implications for the spread of knowledge about how to build more
How technological change affects power relations in global markets : remote developers in the console and mobile games industry
This article analyses how technological change affects power relations in global markets through remote developers in the Australian console and mobile games industry. First, it shows that lead firms in the emerging mobile devices market retain
By drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork at a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, this paper explores how retail affects are unevenly distributed across a diverse public, and how different bodies, in turn, affect the mall in particular
ways. Principally, it analyses embodiment as an affective experience that coheres around raced, classed, and gendered bodies at the mall. As such, this paper helps clarify how ethnographic research can benefit from nonrepresentational theory
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
to outline how migrants in this context attest to and negotiate multiple senses of belonging. In telling their stories, this paper offers new directions in how we approach the nature of belonging for migrant groups by drawing on the practice and performance
Russia’s forests in a global economy : how consumption drives environmental change
The AA. assess the state of Russia’s forest resources and demonstrates how sweeping changes ushered in by perestroika and globalization have forged a highly export-dependent forest sector. In tracking these flows through China to US urban centers
, with timber becoming furniture and flooring sold in big-box stores, they demonstrate how consumption patterns affect ecosystems and socioeconomic relations in resource and manufacturing peripheries far beyond regional and national borders. The “ecological
the role of social memory in identity formation and self representation, how social memory maintains and reinforces community connectedness and collectiveness, and how PV supports indigenous ways of communication, especially the visual. This study provides
some valuable insights into the dynamic nature of the North Rupununi SES social memory, how it is used to make sense of the world, and how PV can be used as a tool for surfacing and recording social memory.
In Henri Lefebvre's work, abstract space entails qualitatively new ways of envisioning and strategically arranging the sites within which capital accumulation and everyday life are to unfold. This paper sets out to delineate how this premise can
be profitably used to decipher contested tactics of primitive accumulation. Arguing from a particular case—nineteenth-century reclamation of mires on the island of Gotland, Sweden—the paper explores how primitive accumulation was made possible through
This article examines gated/gating community and the settlement complex in the West Bank. The emphasis is put on the question of mobilities in order to show how the fortressed points turn into an exclusionary web by means of separated roads
and movement restrictions. By analysing the combined system of settlements, roads, military legislation, spatial design and applied violence, the paper shows how the few hundred points consolidate into one coherent spatial system. The paper wishes to contribute
, the paper illustrates how animals become participants in forging connections across difference. Through their circulation, elephants become cosmopolitan, present in diverse cultures and serving banal global consumption. The paper then illustrates how
Building on research that considers commons through the practices which produce and maintain them—commoning—this article analyzes how privately owned front and backyards participate in urban commons. Through ethnographic research in three
neighborhoods of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the article shows how these commons are made in two key registers: through yards as shared territories and through everyday practices of sharing plants across individual yards. The article’s central claim is that yards