The political geography of macro-level turnout in American political development
Behaviour ; Citizenship ; Electoral behaviour ; Participation ; Political geography ; Political life ; Scale ; Spatial structure ; United States of America
Army ; Burma ; Policy ; Political life ; Political regime
The book is a collection of editorial and articles published in the three dailies newspaper of the military regime : Myanma Alin, the Kyemon and the New Light of Myanmar from 14 September 2004 to 17 January 2005. It resumes the political stances
The first part of the article discusses some basic features concerning he definition of globalization and its effects. It also presents some current issues of globalization in relation with some key drivers of political geographical transformations
. The latter are more visible in particular on the field of international politics and security, as well as on the field of international commercial and financial flows. On the basis of the discussed development processes, the article finds that political
geographical problems of globalization are closely linked also to the question of concentration and deterritorialization, and the world central-peripheral relations. Globalization then influences political, economic and social balances and interactions between
Investigating hybrids and coproductions : epistemologies, (disciplinary) politics and landscapes
This article investigates hybrids and processes of coproductions and their relevance for geography. Two analyzed examples are political ecology and environmental security. The third part subsequently elucidates ways through which disciplinary
Institution ; Italy ; Northern Italy ; Political geography ; Region ; Regional geography
The June 2006 referendum on changing a number of elements of part 2 of the Italian constituttion provides an interesting opportunity to consider how political attitudes can differ from place to place and how geographical terms, such as the North
and the South, region and place, enter into political discussion. - (NF)
Riding the dialectical waves of gay political economy : a story from Birmingham's commercial gay scene
Birmingham ; Capitalism ; Consumption ; Cultural studies ; England ; Homosexuality ; Market ; Political economy ; Trade ; United Kingdom ; West Midlands
Crisis ; Field experiment ; Indicator ; Minority ; Political geography ; Research technique ; Slovenia ; Social geography
The paper analyses the methods of field research work, used in social geography, as well as the opportunity for use those methods in political geography. Concerning to strong connection between social and political geography in Slovenia, they have
some common research topics, particularly in research of minority patterns and crisis areas. Despite some weaknesses, the method of field indicators is usuable in political geography, too. - (IKR)
Managing politics and consumption in business improvement districts : the geographies of political activism on Burlington, Vermont's Church Street Marketplace
Changes of resource use patterns and state policies since 1978 : a political ecology of the rural Beijing City, China
The aim of this study is to illustrate the changing relationship between resource use patterns and state policies in the rural area of Beijing City from the viewpoint of political ecology in China's rapid economic growth. Policies of state and local