Behaviour ; Democracy ; Historical geography ; Political geography ; Power ; State ; Territorial strategy ; Territoriality
Across the whole of our modern world, territory is directly linked to sovereignty to mould politics into a fundamentally state-centric social process: the state'scapture of politics is premissed upon territoriality. The domination of political
Placing power/siting space: the politics of global and local in the New World Order
Economic system ; Geopolitics ; Information ; National territory ; Political geography ; Power ; Social system ; Sovereignty ; State ; View of the world ; World economic order
The logic of drawing political borders and defining national territory in space as it has been articulated by the theory of political realism is questioned. The dynamics of globalization operating in high-technology informational production systems
The transformation of local politics: manufacturing plant closures and governing coalition fragmentation
Economic restructuring ; Factor of production ; Factory closure ; Government intervention ; Local authority ; Local policy ; Political geography ; United States of America ; Urban policy
A mecanism for regime change is suggested: under conditions of economic restructuring and the subsequent fiscal train, non-local actors (national political actors operating through party connections) can manipulate local political dependencies
Gentrification and the politics of the new middle class
The A. seeks to specify a social lacation for left-liberal politics among a distinctive cadre of social and cultural professionals, the cultural new class. The part played since 1968 by the cultural new class in the gentrifying districts
in redefining the urban politics of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver is examined. The role of a gentrifying middle class in challenging an hegemony of growth boosterism, and the attempt to sustain a regime of reform politics, are assessed.
Politics and community: Chicago's near West Side Black underclass
The AA. examine the attitudes and political response of the black underclass to the decay of their built environment. Resident perception of the problem, resident mobilization around political agendas, leader actions at public forums, and levels
Citizenship ; Democracy ; Local policy ; Political geography ; Power ; Social group ; Social movement ; Social space ; Societal relations ; Territoriality
The papers are concerned with scale in two ways: first, as the processes operating at various scales in the world system set the structural context of action and, second, in terms of the opportunity structure available to political agents and social
Unions and the politics of deindustrialization: some comments on how geography complicates class analysis
It is a reply to a paper which attempts to analyze the relation between local political practice and deindustrialization in the United States, and highlights the mobility of capital. The AA. distinguish three forms of capital mobility
Behaviour ; Berkshire ; Cultural studies ; England ; Military base ; Pacifist movement ; Political geography ; United Kingdom ; Woman
1983 was the year of the cruise's arrival at the US Airforce Base of Greenham (Berkshire, England). Nuclear disarmament became the main issue in the political campaigns for the general elections. Inside the anti-nuclear group, there was a group
of women that marched from Cardiff to Greenham. They were camping outside the gates in the Peace Camp. The actions and the carnival of these women raise important questions concerning political protest in general.