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  • Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change : insights from Australia
  • Australia ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Ecological footprint ; Governance ; Post-politics ; Temporality ; Theory
  • This paper examines the post-politics of climate change in Australia and discuss an important but otherwise little remarked temporality. First, we note the spatial structuring of Rancière's post-political theorization as it informs geographical
  • research on the governance of social and environmental issues. Second, we identify a post-politics in climate change policy developed by the Australian federal government (under Rudd then Gillard) which culminated in 2011 with its carbon pricing proposals
  • and subsequent clean energy plan. Third, referring to the discursive material associated with these developments, we discuss the critical importance of time in the climate change debate, returning us to comment on the problematic temporality of post-politics
  • with a word of caution about any re-emergence here of the political.
  • 2013
  • The regional dimension of the socio-political urban-rural conflict in Slovakia
  • Behaviour ; Cleavage ; Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Political behaviour ; Political party ; Rural-urban relations ; Slovak Republic ; Social conflict ; Social geography ; Urban region
  • Political behaviour of citizens is traditionally formed by a wide range of factors that influence their voting decision in the election. Dichotomy of both the space and society into the town and the countryside generates different election results
  • constantly. A key aim of this paper is to assess the extent of rurality concerning the electoral support of relevant political parties operating on the Slovak political scene after the groundbreaking elections held in 1998 until ballots of 2010 not only
  • at national, but also at the regional level. Evaluation of level and dynamics in socio-political cleavage between rural and urban space is one of the most important research ambitions of this study. - (EN)
  • 2013
  • Messing with gender in feminist political ecology
  • Feminism ; Gender ; Honduras ; Political ecology ; Post-colonialism ; Race ; Whites
  • The AA. argue that feminist political ecology must theorize a more complex and messier notion of gender that accounts for race , racialization and racism more explicitly. Building on the work of feminist geography and critical race scholarship
  • the understanding of the politics of natural resource access and control in the Global South.
  • 2013
  • Technifying public space and publicizing infrastructures : exploring new urban political ecologies through the square of General Vara del Rey
  • Architecture ; Infrastructure ; Madrid ; Political ecology ; Public space ; Spain ; Technology ; Urban area ; Urban planning
  • The article explores new ways of integrating technology, nature and infrastructures into urban public spaces. It is done through a case study, the design of this square of Madrid, which is offered here as a model to explore a novel urban political
  • ecology. Through the double movement of ‘the technification of public space’ and ‘the publicization of infrastructures’, the square aims to rethink the political ecology of urban public spaces. The transformation of infrastructures into fully visible
  • , public and political agents provides a useful model to address the growing proliferation of infrastructural and technological elements onto contemporary urban surfaces and to open up the possibility of new forms of civic participation and engagement.
  • 2013
  • Dissimulated landscapes : poscolonial method and the politics of space in southern Sri Lanka
  • The paper puts forward a broadly postcolonial method for engaging with landscapes in southern Sri Lanka. Landscapes risk dissimulating the politics of places as they are produced and lived contextually. This argument is worked through a critical
  • engagement of the landscape architecture of a tropical-modernist architect (G. Bawa). The A. shows how some of the familiar concept-metaphors (nature, religion, subjectivity) hold particular kinds of landscape politics that emerge from human relationships
  • 2013
  • Territorial politics and the statewide party : Towards a regional political science : data and methods ‘beyond methodological nationalism’
  • Electoral geography ; Ideology ; Organization ; Political geography ; Political party ; Power
  • 2013
  • [b1] School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Queen's Univ., Belfast, Royaume-Uni
  • [b2] Politics and International Relations, Univ., Edinburgh, Royaume-Uni
  • The microfoundations of political clientelism : lessons from the Argentine case
  • Agency ; Argentina ; Candidate ; Clientelism ; Election ; Electoral geography ; Income ; Political geography ; Political party ; Social class ; Social geography
  • an account of the microfoundations of political clientelism in Argentina. By combining quantitative and qualitative data at the municipal level, I find that the number of pragmatist candidates, who are capable of using clientelism and prefer to turn
  • 2013
  • Antipode to terror : spaces of performative politics
  • Pakistan ; Performativity ; Political geography ; Public space ; Space ; Spatial organization ; Violence
  • Focusing on the activities of Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, this article argues that organized political violence is not only about death and destruction but also, about the control of the public sphere, and vitally
  • measures to resist violence should protect the performance of politics in an extended public sphere.
  • 2013
  • Activising space : the spatial politics of the 2011 protest movement in Israel
  • This article focuses on the spatial politics of the political protest that held in Tel Aviv, analysing the particular strategies it used to activise urban public space. It initially reflected the lack of affordable housing but as, as it materialised
  • of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This analysis points pointing to the spatial politics of centrality, multiplicity and ‘media-space’, a mutually enforcing relationship between physical public space and mainstream and social media.
  • 2013
  • Army ; Burma ; Diplomacy ; Geopolitics ; History ; Institution ; International relations ; Political geography ; Political regime ; Power
  • Burma has undergone some extraordinary developments since political power was transferred from the military regime of Than Shwe to the government of President Thein Sein in March 2011. The study reveals a “praetorian” Burma within its geopolitical
  • environment and the globalised world. The enduring “praetorian” policymaking process in Burma remains extremely opaque and sometimes seem to elude the rationality expected from political actors and state leaders. The work relates internal power dynamics
  • to both the internal structures of military rule as well as the full spectrum of foreign states with their diversified interests in Myanmar. Burma’s long road to democracy is far from over and its reintegration into the international politics is still
  • 2013
  • New spatial media, new knowledge politics
  • Activism ; Epistemology ; Geovisualization ; Geoweb ; Information ; Knowledge ; Non-governmental organization ; Political geography ; Social interaction
  • Drawing upon evidence from an inductive analysis of five online initiatives that engage new spatial media in activism and civic engagement, we explore new dimensions of the knowledge politics advanced through new spatial media and the mechanisms
  • through which they emerge. The significance of these practices is in their role in advancing different epistemological strategies for establishing the legitimacy and authority of knowledge claims. They conclude that these new knowledge politics entail
  • 2013
  • The concept of rhizomic and arborescent assemblages ies used to theorise a transition in the practice of political representation, drawing on empirical study of Brirish rural politics. The AA. outline the principles of arborescent political
  • assemblages, associated with traditional forms of political organisation, and the principles of rhizomic politics, associated with new social movements and protest activity. The AA. argue that binary opposition of arborescent and rhizomic forms is misleading.
  • 2013
  • Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political
  • The AA. review the work of geographers who have been thinking about love as spatial relational and political. They prompt geographers to think critically about love in its entire multisensory, lived, embodied, felt and contradictory guises.
  • 2013
  • Conflict ; Crisis ; Political geography ; Political party ; Thailand ; Twentieth Century ; Urban social movement
  • , the crisis was instigated and provoked by the Red Shirts movement. The book relates to the political conflict between the Democrat Party and the so-called Red Shirts encouraged by the former Prime Minister Thaksin. - (GL)
  • 2013
  • Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site
  • on the material understanding of spatiality, but in accordance with the rich understanding we could gain by exploring the politics of finite ontologies, the politics intrinsic for the different happenings of revealing.
  • 2013
  • Nationalism, (dis)simulation, and the politics of science in Québec's forest crisis
  • Boreal forest ; Canada ; Expertise ; Forest resources ; Forestry ; Modelling ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Quebec ; Resource management ; Simulation ; Wood industry
  • the realization of both nationalist economic agenda and industrial interests to materialize. It demonstrates that the so-called complexity, rationality, and certainty associated with forestry science function to disguise the deeply political nature
  • 2013
  • And now for something different : modelling socio-political landscapes
  • Australia ; Electoral behaviour ; Modelling ; Political geography ; Political party ; Socio-economic system ; Spatial analysis
  • 2013
  • Political geographies of surveillance. Themed issue
  • Actor network theory ; Globalization ; Mobile phone ; Monitoring ; Neo liberalism ; Outsourcing ; Participation ; Political economy ; Political geography ; Security ; Security market ; Space
  • 2013
  • Administration ; Administrative structure ; Burma ; Democracy ; Institution ; Policy ; Political party
  • Over 200 pages contain the names and a short bibliography of each of the representatives in the parliaments, followed by a list of political groups in Pyithu Hluttaw (after by-election 2012). - (GL)
  • 2013
  • The making of a void sovereignty : political implications of the military checkpoints in the West Bank
  • 2013