Economic restructuring ; Election ; Electoral geography ; Hungary ; Political geography ; Political party ; Political reform ; Political regime ; Regional development
The results of the 1994 election are examined within the framework of the maturation of the Hungarian political system, the socio-cultural fragmentation of the society and the voters' attitudes towards modernization. A comparison with the 1990
Those gorgeous incongruities : politepolitics and public space on the streets of nineteenth-century New York City
Focusing on analyses of three images, the A. argues that Broadway and Fifth Avenue are sites of political activity, but a politics that is defined as micropolitics of tactical transgressions made possible by the structure of social rituals. He shows
Cartography ; Documentation ; Hungary ; Information ; Political life ; Twentieth Century
Paper tells the story of how political and poster maps were produced in Hungary for propaganda purposes with the keadership of Sándor Radó a famous cartographer and Russian spy in Switzerland during the Second World War. At his department Radó set
up a team in 1957 with the aim of supplying the press with correct and cartographically appropriate, high quality maps. These maps were intended to inform about the geographical location current political events and phenomena. As a consequence
of the spread of computers the demand for political and poster maps has gradually decreased from the mid-1980 and the activity was abolished after the political changes. - (ZK)
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world : a review
Political ecology examines the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world. The role of unequal power relations in constituting a politicized environment is a central theme. Particular
attention is given to the ways in which conflict over access to environmental resources is linked to systems of political and economic control first elaborated during the colonial era. Studies emphasize the increased marginality and vulnerability of the poor
Gender and politics of scale : the Christian Right, sex education, and community in Vista, California, 1990-1994
of local, place-based communities. Nevertheless, the Christian Right is a community of interest (about 15% of all Americans) using identity politics to force their values on others. - (SLD)
Asia ; China ; Conflict ; Economic integration ; Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; Hong Kong ; Political geography ; Political power ; Political reform ; South-Eastern Asia ; Taiwan
Environmental communication and the cultural politics of environmental citizenship
responsibility for public alienation and resistance to environmental communications to the content and styles of media reporting. There are contrasting discursive constructions of the public, which reflect different political cultures. Participants focus on what
Space, place and politics in Northern Ireland : Special Issue
Activity space ; Belfast ; Catholicism ; Conflict ; Cultural identity ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Electoral behaviour ; Ethnicity ; Nationalism ; Northern Ireland ; Political geography ; Protestantism ; Religion ; Religious practice
protracted. The second theme explores the nature and significance of cultural and political diversity within the communities which comprise society in place. The final theme concerns the effects of protracted violent struggle upon the nature of place
Africa ; Economic integration ; Economic policy ; Political geography ; Region ; Regionalism ; Southern Africa
that the existing political infrastructure supporting regional integration has the potential to promote rivalry between the various regional arrangements and, ultimately, their member states. - (AJC)
. The most important conclusions regarding political preference are given, and a direction in which research into compositional effects should develop is also indicated.
Reworking democracy : contemporary immigration and community politics in Vancouver's Chinatown
Assimilation ; Association ; British Columbia ; Chinese ; Democracy ; Minority ; Political geography ; United States of America ; Urban immigration ; Vancouver