Noncontiguity and political architecture: the parliaments of small island states
Archipelago ; Federalism ; Island ; Microstate ; Political geography ; Politicallife ; Political regime
For a population of 31 small island states, this paper explores to what extent geography is reflected in the political architecture of legislatures that these political units choose to apply. It searches for possible effects of territorial
noncontiguity on federalism and bicameralism as well as the extent to which parliaments are recruited by means of apportionment and appointment. Although geography does not explain the totality of politics, it does affect the calculations and behaviour
[b1] Dept. of Political Science, Åbo Academy University, Åbo, Finlande
Daily life ; Theory ; Urban area ; Urban life ; Urban sociology
The A. wants to explore more closely Lefebvre's injunction for a careful examination of the relationship between space, language and politics. He wants to examine the metaphors used by scholars theorizing urban space and everyday urban life
. Conceptual and political problems are associated with the adoption of various metaphors about urban space.
Diffusing the light of liberty: the geography of political lecturing in the Chartist movement
Cultural studies ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Politicallife ; United Kingdom
Lecturing activity was central to the ambitions of thre Chartist movement for universal suffrage in early Victorian Britain because it was emblematic of Chartist political aims. The article describes the organizational geography of the Chartist
Modernity and lifepolitics : conceptualizing the biodiversity crisis
, the hypothesis of an emerging global agenda of lifepolitics. It locates the biodiversity crisis within current controversies. It is suggested to trace the development of this policy area back to the early 20th century and to reread it in the light of different
Adaptation machines and the parasitic politics of life in Jamaican disaster resilience
Adaptation ; Biopolitics ; Catastrophe ; Clientelism ; Humanitarian aid ; Jamaica ; Kingston ; Local population ; Political geography ; Political party ; Project ; Resilience
In this article, the A. explores how staff in Jamaica's national disaster management agency engaged with a qualitatively distinct form of collective life in Kingston's garrison districts. Drawing on Marxist and Deleuzian readings of biopolitics
to identify a new subject of disaster politics that he calls “adaptation machines”, decentralized apparatuses of capture that are parasitically reliant on the population's immanent adaptive capacities. This concept of enables him to envision resilience
politics as a struggle over how to appropriate vulnerable peoples’ world-forming constituent power.
Teaching political economy and social theory in human geography
Human geography ; Political geography ; Social structure ; Social theory ; Teaching of geography
Presents five themes useful in integrating into geography courses: 1) the historical specificity of geography; 2) interconnectness of regions; 3) interpenetration of human and biophysical systems; 4) centrality of culture and everyday life
in the creation of spatial relations; and 5) political economy as a means of comprehending social structure. - (DWG)
The political geography of macro-level turnout in American political development
Behaviour ; Citizenship ; Electoral behaviour ; Participation ; Political geography ; Politicallife ; Scale ; Spatial structure ; United States of America
Boundary ; Economy ; Germany ; National territory ; Political geography ; Population ; Population distribution
Brief exposition of the meaning of German unification for population distribution, political reorganization, agriculture, energy, manufacturing, transport, environment and life styles. - (DWG)
Urbanity as a way of life. On the criticism of the scope of cultural facilities
Cultural studies ; Germany ; Middle class ; Quality of life ; Town ; Urbanism ; Way of life
Key words for a reformulation of the concept of urbanity which carries on the emancipatory tradition of middle-class town culture under the social conditions experienced today are : overcoming social inequality, political participation, the multi
-cultural town, reconciliation with nature, the presence of the past, a new unity of everyday life and preservation of contrasts. - (L'A.).
Situating cultural politics: fringe festivals and the production of spaces of intersubjectivity
Art ; Canada ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Participation ; Social life ; Urban area ; Urban life ; Vancouver ; Winnipeg
Canada's fringe festivals are important interventions in the discourses and institutions framing Canadian theatre, leading some to recognize them as sites of a radical cultural politics. The focus is on the manner in which these events reorganize