The political geography of presidential speeches, 1946-87
Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; Political geography ; United States ; View of the world
A politicalcommunication-based view of the American presidency combined with a spatial-temporal framework of global politics provides the methodology for the analysis of presidential speeches. An environmental model, relating presidential behavior
as a function of the domestic, political and international conditions is used to explain variations in the foreign policy.
The rise and fall of Afrikaner ethnic political mobilisation 1943-1999
Election ; Ethnic community ; Political geography ; Political party ; South Africa
The dominance of the National Party in South African white politics for nearly five decades represents a highly successful example of ethnic political mobilisation. The paper examines the patterns of consolidation and later fragmentation
Community ; Police ; Political geography ; Subjectivity ; Urban area ; Urban social movement
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
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
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.
Environmental communication and the cultural politics of environmental citizenship
Communication ; Développement durable ; Eindhoven ; England ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Nottingham ; Participation ; Pays-Bas ; Qualité de la vie ; Stratégie d'acteurs ; Ville
Communication ; Decision making process ; England ; Environmental management ; Netherlands (The) ; Participation ; Quality of life ; Sustainable development ; Town
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
The paper presents a comparative analysis of how representatives of the cities of Nottingham and Eindhoven respond to the challenge of communicating more effectively with citizens about issues of sustainability. There is a consensus in attributing
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
to determine the admission of international migrants into national territory and community.
Ecopolitical discourse : « environmental security » and political geography
Environment ; Environmental degradation ; International relations ; Political geography ; Security ; Sovereignty ; State ; Territory
and politicalcommunity understood in territorial terms.
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
Subdividing national territories: the drive to live in a politicalcommunity whose boundaries are congruent with the cultural community
Cultural identity ; Independence ; National territory ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Sovereignty ; State ; View of the world
Two ideals have dominated world politics for two hundred years. in one, called liberal, there are no real differences among peoples (ex. the United States). The opposite ideal is called nationalist or reactionary (Iran is an extreme case
Gender and politics of scale : the Christian Right, sex education, and community in Vista, California, 1990-1994
California ; Christianity ; Community ; Education ; Local policy ; Teaching ; United States of America ; Value system
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)
Politics and community: Chicago's near West Side Black underclass
Attitude ; Blacks ; Chicago ; Community ; Degradation ; Illinois ; Local policy ; Participation ; Poverty ; Residential environment ; Socio-economic system ; United States ; Urban district ; Urban geography
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
Mapping new geographies of religion : politics and poetics in modernity
Community ; Cultural studies ; Identity ; Modernism ; Place ; Policy ; Religion ; Space
Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, the A. suggests that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. He illustrates the key issues
Understanding women's involvement in local politics : how useful is a formal/informal dichotomy? in Gender and political geography.
Local government women's committees and women's community action in London's docklands are studied. The AA. explore the usefulness of the formal-informal dichotomy. They outline the similarities which exist in both spheres, the empirical
Political geographical issues of Hungary's accession to the European Union
European integration ; Hungary ; International relations ; Political geography ; Years 1990-99
In this paper the changes in the political geographical position of Hungary after the collapse of communism are examined. Special attention is paid to the gradual democratisation process of the country and the reestablishment of the old ties
The cultural politics of place: local representation and oppositional discourse in two films
Cinéma ; Communauté ; Communication ; Culturel ; England ; Ethique ; Idéologie ; Image de la ville ; Image mentale ; Lieu ; London ; Perception ; Royaume-Uni
Cinema ; Communication ; Community ; Cultural studies ; England ; Ideology ; London ; Mental image ; Perception ; Perception of the urban environment ; Place ; United Kingdom
The paper suggests that the main reason for the neglect of examples of resistance in the cultural politics of place may be the bipolar model of culture. This model establishes a hegemonic ideology which becomes the focus of critique. The paper
prefers to draw on the notion of cultural hybridity in order to be able to discuss two films made in the early 1970s by local groups in the east of London. Discussion centres on contemporary definitions of community media and on their realist aesthetic.
Belgium ; Election ; Flanders ; Local government ; Political geography ; Political party
Les théories existantes sur les coalitions ont rarement été testées au niveau communal. Dans son essai, l'A. analyse les élections qui ont eu lieu en Flandre depuis 1876 sous divers aspects. Il dissèque aussi le rôle des partis et l'influence du
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
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.
This paper identifies four spatial practices through which marginalised communities in England apply the technology of localism to challenge the limitations of their positioning and imprint promises of empowerment and democracy on space. Drawing
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