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Rancière, politics, and the Occupy movement

Rancière, politics, and the Occupy movement
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.
2014

Asylum and the post-political : domopolitics, depoliticisation and acts of citizenship

Asylum and the post-political : domopolitics, depoliticisation and acts of citizenship
Asylum seeking ; Citizenship ; Political geography ; United Kingdom
of political interruption through which new ways of seeing asylum are constructed. It concludes by suggesting that an incremental politics orientated around such acts of interruption is essential to challenge the material, affective and discursive closures
2014

Indigenous Peasant ‘Otherness’: Rural Identities and Political Processes in Bolivia

Indigenous Peasant ‘Otherness’: Rural Identities and Political Processes in Bolivia
Bolivia ; Ethnic minority ; Ethnicity ; Ideology ; Peasantry ; Political geography ; Political party ; Social geography ; Trade unionism ; articulation ; collective identities ; indigenous ; peasant ; rural movements
Since Morales's election, rural movements have become the new protagonists of Bolivian politics. Previous analyses have emphasised their active role in shaping national politics, often focusing on those organisations as a compact block. However
, their relationship is marked by both cooperation and fragmentation. It demonstrates the high degree of interdependence and fluidity of ethnic and class identities, as well as their interconnections with the broader socio-political context and the national legal
2014

Althusserianism and the political culture of the Argentine New Left

Althusserianism and the political culture of the Argentine New Left
Argentina ; Cultural policy ; Cultural studies ; Esthetics ; Ideology ; Political geography ; Political regime ; Twentieth Century
This article investigates the impact of Althusserianism on the cultural politics of the Argentine New Left during the late 1960s and early 1970s. First, it surveys the intellectual trajectory of Juan Carlos Portantiero, a New Left intellectual
, scholar, and political activist whose writings left a mark on the Argentine historiography of Peronism. Second, it turns to Los Libros (1969–1976), a journal of cultural criticism run by a 1960 cohort of internationally renowned Argentine intellectuals
. It analyzes the group’s Althusser-inspired intervention into contemporaneous debates on the meaning of Peronism and the link between aesthetics and politics. It concludes by registering the productive influence of Althusserianism on Argentine intellectual
2014

Practices, politics, performativities : documents in the international negotiations on climate change

Practices, politics, performativities : documents in the international negotiations on climate change
Climate ; Climatic change ; Performativity ; Political geography ; Qatar
This article examines practices, politics, performativities in document production in the 2012 Doha Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. First, it unpacks the manifold practical and material entanglements
of documents that are crucial for their production. Second, it discloses the political dimensions of routinised action and its supporting infrastructures by shedding light on the conflicting practices behind agreed documents. Third, it reconsiders the role
of documents as neutral media in politics by paying tribute to the performative role they play in organisational action. It concludes by arguing that they are not only the necessary condition for international politics but might also inform a social ontology
2014

Political discourse and praxis in the Glasgow church

Political discourse and praxis in the Glasgow church
Activism ; Christianity ; Discourse ; Political geography ; Scotland ; Social geography ; United Kingdom
This article examines the political discourse and praxis in the Glasgow church. What has been reflected is that different discourses and definitions of what it means to be the Church are contested within and between separate churches, creating
different spatial tendencies. It also demonstrates that ; firstly, churches that have engaged with marginalised communities within the city are hubs for new expressions of political progressivism within the Church. Secondly, this political progressivism
is being instigated by leadership that is intent on rejecting their institutional power to ‘keep the peace’ within the Church. Thirdly, political progressivism was being fostered within the Church by two different types of branching out from the Church
2014

Latin American Democracy. What to Do with the Leaders?

Argentina ; Buenos Aires ; Civil society ; Clientelism ; Democracy ; Ecuador ; Montevideo ; Political geography ; Political party ; Quito ; Uruguay ; institutionalisation ; leaders ; political parties
presidents have left government abruptly. While civil society may have been able to provoke the fall of presidents, it has not managed to avoid the re-emergence of deep-rooted political practices under subsequent administrations. Extreme presidentialism
, clientelism and populism have re-emerged strengthened after deep political crises. This article offers some ideas regarding the impact that different types of political leaders can have on how well democracy works.
2014

Building a city for “The People” : the politics of alliance-building in the Sydney Green Ban Movement

Building a city for “The People” : the politics of alliance-building in the Sydney Green Ban Movement
This article analyses the politics of alliance-building in the Sydney Green Ban Movement. It examines the rights and the authority that was invested in “the people” by green ban activists, and traces the work of political subjectification through
which “the people” was constructed. In acting as/for “the people”, green ban activists produced a political subject able to challenge the claims of elected politicians, bureaucrats and developers to represent the interests of the city. It concludes
with reflections on the implications of this construction of “the people” for urban politics today.
2014

“I Want my children to know Sudan” : narrating the long-distance intimacies of diasporic politics

“I Want my children to know Sudan” : narrating the long-distance intimacies of diasporic politics
Citizenship ; Diaspora ; Empowerment ; Political geography ; South Sudan ; United States of America ; Woman
This article focuses on South Sudan and the narrative accounts of U.S.-resettled women collected in the transitional era prior to independence in 2011. It attends to oft-marginalized and gendered subjects and spaces of politics and, second
, by recognizing the intimate and affective scalings through which long-distance political subjects distantly engage with, take responsibility for, and actively remake their home. Finally, this article calls for empirical attention to new nationalisms
and citizenships emerging through places like the contemporary South Sudan, those with histories of multiple colonialisms, marked by shifting geometries of power, and shaped from afar by the political intimacies of the diaspora.
2014

Explaining Policy Outcomes in Federal Contexts: The Politics of Reproductive Rights in Argentina and Mexico

Explaining Policy Outcomes in Federal Contexts: The Politics of Reproductive Rights in Argentina and Mexico
Abortion ; Argentina ; Health ; Ideology ; Institution ; Legislation ; Mexico ; Political geography ; Political party ; Woman ; federalism ; policy outcomes ; reproductive rights ; women and parties
This article explains the political and institutional factors that affect reproductive rights policies in Argentina and Mexico. It explains that women's positions towards abortion and contraception was greatly shaped by partisanship and ideology
, and the relevance of links between women's groups outside legislature and political parties for the success of gender equality policies.
2014

Civil society and support for the political system in times of crisis

Civil society and support for the political system in times of crisis
Bolivia ; Civil society ; Mobilisation ; Political geography ; Social geography ; Social movement ; Social organization
This article examines civil society support for the political system in times of crisis in Bolivia in 2004. It finds that membership in civil society organizations leads to higher levels of diffuse support and even among those who have recently
actively facilitates political protest, civil society continues to be positively associated with support for the political system.
2014

The urban political ecology of post-industrial Scottish towns : examining Greengairs and Ravenscraig

The urban political ecology of post-industrial Scottish towns : examining Greengairs and Ravenscraig
Applied ecology ; Community ; Marginality ; Political ecology ; Scotland ; Social deprivation ; Social geography ; Toxic waste ; United Kingdom ; Waste treatment
This article examines the urban political ecology of post-industrial Scottish towns (Greengairs and Ravenscraig) with the goal of unravelling the understanding and the coping mechanisms of environmentally deprived residents. The towns are permeated
by a widespread, often dissimulated, political ecology that is nonetheless always present. Empirical results demonstrate that a more comprehensive handling of the political ecology of the urban is crucial in order to halt the sources of marginalisation
2014

Volatile ecologies : towards a material politics of human–animal relations

Volatile ecologies : towards a material politics of human–animal relations
Alcoholism ; Applied ecology ; Assam ; Conflict ; Elephant ; Ethology ; India ; Livelihood ; Political ecology ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Rural economy ; Rural population
and political life through concerted interactions between humans, animals, and materials ecologizes politics, making it more attuned to the more-than-human collectivities within which material lives are lived. The paper strives towards a political ecology
2014

Adaptation machines and the parasitic politics of life in Jamaican disaster resilience

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
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.
2014

Competing interests and the political market for smart growth policy

Competing interests and the political market for smart growth policy
Based on the political market framework, this study specifically examines the influence of pro-growth and smart-growth interest groups on smart growth policies adopted by local governments in the state of Massachusetts, USA. The results suggest both
real estate interests and environmental groups influence local policy decisions, and depending on the policy, the characteristics of local political institutions mediate these influences.
2014

Bringing democracy back home : community localism and the domestication of political space

Bringing democracy back home : community localism and the domestication of political space
Decentralization ; Democracy ; Empowerment ; England ; Localism ; Organization ; Political geography ; Power ; Social geography ; Social housing ; United Kingdom
on the work of Judith Butler, the paper theorises these practices as the incursion into the public realm of regulatory norms related to domestic and private spaces, rendering political space familiar and malleable, and suggesting that power and decision making
can be brought within reach. It is argued that these spatial practices of community rehearse a more fundamental transformation of the political ordering of space than that authorised by the state strategies of localism.
2014

Politics of urban development and wildfires in California and Turkey

Politics of urban development and wildfires in California and Turkey
This paper is a comparative analysis that relates the politics of land use in wildland–urban interfaces (WUIs) to the divergent firefighting strategies in California and Turkey. It explains that the decentralized strategy in California allows
of the composite political strategy to open new land for development by completing the hitherto unfinished cadastral records of the WUIs.
2014
[b1] Dept. of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Univ., Ankara, Turquie

Affect, state theory, and the politics of confusion

Affect, state theory, and the politics of confusion
Affect ; New York City ; New York State ; Police ; Political geography ; Power ; United States of America ; Violence
the formulation of an affective ‘politics of confusion.’ Finally, the New York City Police Department's bungled management of protest during the 2004 Republican National Convention offers multiple lenses for reading the spectrum of ways in which deployments
of the state's monopoly on violence and the work of its ostensibly dissociated materialities sustain the political tensions between a state's non-existence and its affectiva-emotive power.
2014

Between God and Caesar? Christianity, ethnic identity, and resistant politics in Shimenkan, China

Between God and Caesar? Christianity, ethnic identity, and resistant politics in Shimenkan, China
China ; Christianity ; Education system ; Ethnic minority ; Ideology ; Political geography ; Role of the State ; Social geography ; Yunnan
This paper focuses on the politics of religious space and hybridized cultural identity in the reconstruction of Miao ethnicity in China. It is argued that translocal flows of cultural resources should be taken into account in order to investigate
the ongoing production and changing political connotations of hybridized cultural identities in heterogeneous time–spaces. It suggests that the creative use of translocally constituted hybridity is an act of resistance which negotiates hegemonic ideologies
2014

Humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic : humanitarian reason and the political rationalities of the liberal will-to-care

Humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic : humanitarian reason and the political rationalities of the liberal will-to-care
-driven moral economy and a state-driven political morality within humanitarian endeavour. It then examines its strategic function as a ‘liberal diagnostic’: a recursive moral practice that helps constitute a liberal politics as much as it projects
that politics onto other people and places. It concludes by sketching out the implications of this by examining some of the ways that contemporary humanitarianism fulfils this role with respect to issues of global order and capital accumulation.
2014

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