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.
Changement climatique ; Changement global ; Consensus post-politique ; Etat-nation ; Mondialisation ; Politique ; Territorialité
This paper builds on previous geographical and social science work at the boundaries of climate change by(re)asserting the significance of the territoriality of the national state in global climate negotiations. Using post-political consensus
as a theoretical framework and drawing upon examples from climate change negotiations like Kyoto and Copenhagen, it argues that it is too premature to fetishize the consensus of, and collectivism between national states in global climate politics. As geographers
, ‘territoriality’, both as a material and discursive device, is fundamental in, and constitutive of, how we interpret and understand climate change and the politics thereof.
The political economy of place at the post-socialist urban periphery : governing growth on the edge of Moscow
Croissance urbaine ; Edge city ; Moskva ; Planification urbaine ; Post-communisme ; Russie d'Europe ; Région urbaine ; Transition économique ; Urbanisation ; Zone périurbaine
Economic transition ; Edge city ; European part of Russia ; Moscow ; Outer conurbation area ; Post-communism ; Urban growth ; Urban planning ; Urban region ; Urbanization
The AA. consider the case of the rapidly growing city of Khimki at the edge of Moskow, in order to expose the post-Soviet variety of the political economy of place on the metropolitan periphery. They analyse a broader institutional context of post
-socialist urbanisation and more specific aspects of local growth and placemaking. Recent development includes elements that resemble those apparent in edge cities and even appear to be promoted by a post-socialist variety of growth machine politics
. Accumulation strategies in the post-socialist case are found to be less cartelised and localised than in the West.
Postmodern urban politics in South Africa : the case of Stellenbosch (2000-2004)
Afrique du Sud ; Collectivité locale ; Différence ; Identité ; Multiculturalisme ; Politique urbaine ; Post-apartheid ; Post-modernisme ; Stellenbosch ; Western Cape
Difference ; Identity ; Local government ; Multiculturalism ; Post-apartheid ; South Africa ; Urban policy ; Western Cape
The paper adopts a postmodern perspective to account for post2000 electoral urban politics in the municipality of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa. The significance of the changes in the political party control of the municipality
are analysed, including the impact of the floor crossing legislation. The paper highlights the critical elements of the new politics of multiplicity, difference and identity, and strategic alliances. - (AJC)
History after the end : post-socialist difference in a (post)modern world
Cultural studies ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Political reform ; Post-modernism ; Social change ; Society ; Thuringia
Allemagne ; Allemagne RDA ; Changement social ; Culturel ; Mutation politique ; Post-socialisme ; Postmodernisme ; Société ; Thüringen
the uncritical acceptance of the end of history metanarrative. Post-socialist transformation is shown to be a complex process that fits uneasily into pre-given categories.
Down the post-colonial road : reconstructing the post-apartheid state in South Africa
Afrique du Sud ; Election ; Etat ; Géographie politique ; Nation ; Parti politique ; Post-apartheid ; Post-colonialisme ; Pouvoir local ; Structure territoriale
Election ; Local authority ; Nation ; Political geography ; Political party ; South Africa ; State ; Territorial structure
Analyse de la reconstruction de l'Etat post-apartheid avec en toile de fond l'Etat post-colonial en Afrique. L'accent est mis sur la restructuration territoriale et l'édification de la nation, ainsi que sur les principaux défis que doit affronter la
nouvelle politique. Ces défis ne sont pas spécifiques à l'Afrique du Sud, et ils se retrouvent dans les post-colonies du continent.
A review of political ecology. Issues, epistemology and analytical narratives
The paper includes the following chapters : 1. Political ecology : all things to all people ? 2. Issues, narratives and epistemologies. 3. Disjunctures. 4. Cartography of political ecology. 5. Analytical narratives for political ecology. 6. Post
Dislocation of the state and the emergence of factional politics in post-revolutionary Iran
Conflict ; Iran ; Policy ; Political life ; Political regime ; Power ; Trade ; World system
L'A. entreprend une analyse politique des causes de l'émergence de factions politiques, et de ses conséquences dans l'Iran post-révolutionnaire. Etude des relations réciproques de la désorganisation de l'Etat iranien dans ses composantes régionale
Les AA. montrent dans quelle mesure la recherche ethnographique permet une meilleure compréhension des pratiques sociales et culturelles qui accompagnent la mutation post-communiste, et permet aussi la production de nouveaux aperçus conceptuels à
Recent changes in administrative-territorial division of post-soviet area
Administration ; CEI ; Collectivité territoriale ; Division administrative ; Espace post-soviétique ; Ex-URSS ; Géographie politique
Administration ; Administrative unit ; Former USSR ; IEC ; Political geography ; Territorial unit
This paper presents the main tendencies of the changes in administrative-territorial division at the post-soviet area (15 countries) and show where the changes are most significant and where was the increase or decrease of administrative units
Development ; Frontier ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Post-colonialism ; Sovereignty
Développement ; Frontière ; Géographie politique ; Géopolitique ; Post-colonialisme ; Post-développement ; Souveraineté
L'A. montre qu'un examen critique de la nouvelle configuration des souverainetés post-coloniales aide à repenser les géographies du développement et du post-développement. La relation des discours sur le développement à ces nouvelles configurations
produit une géographie complexe du développement et du post-développement, qui demande une attention plus soutenue aux interactions entre enclosures, limites et subjectivités.
Metropolitan processes in post-communist states : an introduction
Metropolitan processes in post-communist states
Central Europe ; Centralisation ; Defence ; Eastern Europe ; Economy ; Europe ; Ideology ; Land use ; Planning ; Political party ; Post-communism ; Town
Centralisation ; Défense ; Economie ; Europe ; Europe centrale ; Europe de l'Est ; Idéologie ; Parti politique ; Planification ; Post-communisme ; Utilisation du sol ; Ville
Identification et discussion de 5 aspects clés significatifs du legs de l'ère socialiste qui continuent à marquer le déroulement des événements de la scène urbaine post-communiste. Ce sont la planification centrale, l'allocation des terres, la
Apartheid ; Electoral geography ; Land ; Political geography ; Research ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Town
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)
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
Reconstructing an urban and regional political economy : on the state, politics, scale, and explanation
Policy ; Political economy ; Post-Fordism ; Regulation theory ; Research technique ; Scale ; State ; Urban administration ; Urban economy
Echelle ; Economie politique ; Economie urbaine ; Etat ; Gestion urbaine ; Politique ; Post-Fordisme ; Technique de recherche ; Théorie de la régulation
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.
Asylum and the post-political : domopolitics, depoliticisation and acts of citizenship
Asylum seeking ; Citizenship ; Political geography ; United Kingdom
of political interruption through which new ways of seeing asylum are constructed. It concludes by suggesting that an incremental politics orientated around such acts of interruption is essential to challenge the material, affective and discursive closures
Where in the world are we? Geographic understanding for political survival and progress
Partial reprint of an article written by an American political geographer still alive in 1990 and first published in 1953 on the North Atlantic orientation of the USA in the post-World War II era. - (DWG)