Research and teaching in political geography: national standards and the resurgence of geography's wayward child
Political geography ; Research ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Comments on the roots of political geography, its decline and rebirth, and how this subfield is relevant to teaching geography in American schools. - (DWG)
Identity politics and the religious right : hiding hate in the landscape
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Ideology ; Political geography ; Protestantism ; Religion ; United States of America
In the empirical section, the A. examines the identity politics of a particular movement on the right, that of activist protestant fundamentalism. It is politically equated with the conservative politics of the Republican Party. He also examines how
Baptist fundamentalism and Liberty University conceives its difference from what is often referred to as the world; and how the formation of identity and its spaces become equated with non-religious conservative politics.
Administrative division ; Electoral district ; Foreign policy ; Local policy ; Political geography ; State control ; United States of America
Topics include: a) changing regional responses to political events in American history; b) state and local political geography; c) representation and gerrymandering; d) U.S. and the world; e) post-cold war changes; f) presidential politics
in geographical perspective (with use of factor analysis) ; and g) political geography of the twenty-first century. - (DWG)
The participation of Australian Aboriginal women in a changing political environment in Gender and political geography.
In pre-European times, Aboriginal women played very important economic roles in their societies, in the religious and political spheres. Today, the variation in the position of women in the society is enormous. At the macro-scale of Australian
politics, they have been largely ignored. This runs counter to the position at the micro-level where both women and men hold political power.
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.
International migration and the politics of admission and exclusion in postwar Europe
Destination country ; Europe ; Immigration ; Immigration policy ; International migration ; Naturalization ; Political geography ; Refugees ; Sovereignty
The paper provides a discussion of the complex economic, political and social forces impinging on the politics of admission and exclusion and an analysis of how these forces have been operating in a particular historical and geographical context
Diffusing the light of liberty: the geography of political lecturing in the Chartist movement
Cultural studies ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Political life ; 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
Authorities ; Elections ; Ideology ; Local policy ; Locality ; Political geography ; Politics;Policy ; Social relations
The paper is concerned with the multiple intersections between political geography and the localities debate. Far from attempting an encyclopedic compendium of the relevant literature, it offers an attempt at a synthesis centered around three
Ecopolitical discourse : « environmental security » and political geography
Environment ; Environmental degradation ; International relations ; Political geography ; Security ; Sovereignty ; State ; Territory
Recent reviews of global politics and the future of security policy have repeatedly raised environmental themes. This juxtaposition raises numerous issues of relevance to geographical inquiry. Security is tied closely to themes of sovereignty
and political community understood in territorial terms.
Tanzania's new political regionalism and introductory geography's portrayal of Southern Africa
Cultural studies ; Perception ; Political geography ; Regionalism ; Tanzania ; Uneven development
Regionalism in Tanzania's recent transition to multi-party politics is examined as a means of interrogating themes from political geography as they appear in introductory geography textbooks from North America. The texts can be misleading
Apartheid ; Electoral geography ; Land ; Political geography ; Research ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Town
The sub-discipline of political geography has been a small but vibrant section of geographical research in South Africa in the last thirty years. In large measure this reflects the turbulent history of the country as apartheid planning involved
the spatial ordering of society, while the post-apartheid era has witnessed the beginning of the readjustement of that society to a different political philosophy. - (AJC)