Maps as social constructions : power, communication and visualization
Cartography ; Communication ; Map ; Power
Two developments in cartography mark an epistemic break with the assumption that maps are unproblematic communication devices. These are 1) investigations of maps as practices of power-knowledge, and 2) geographic visualization which uses the map's
power to explore, analyze and visualize spatial datasets to understand patterns better. These developments are key components of a maps as social constructions approach, emphasizing the genealogy of power in mapping practices, and enabling multiple
Army ; Historical geography ; Imperialism ; Iraq ; Political geography ; Power ; Security ; Technology ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; War
This paper makes a case for understanding air power through the lens of police. After first rethinking a key period in the history of air power (colonial bombing campaigns) as a police mechanism, the paper then moves to consider the impoverished
conception of war and police in contemporary critical theory. The final section turns to perhaps the most pressing issue in current air power debates, namely drones, and suggests that a consideration of air power as police power helps us read drones
as a continuation of the police logic inherent in air power since its inception.
Possible contributions of wind power to South Africa's energy needs
Factors influencing the availability of wind power in South Africa are examined, and possible ways in which wind power could be implemented are discussed. (AJC).
Contingency ; Planning ; Post-structuralism ; Power ; System
This paper analyses the role and reception of poststructuralist perspectives on power in planning since the 1990s. It makes a distinction between the power of planning (the impact in society), power in planning (relations between players active
in planning), and power on planning (the influence of broader society on the planning system), to refine the analysis of planning/power. It is argued that an interpretation of Deleuze, Luhmann, and Foucault, as thinkers of power in a theoretical framework
that is based on the idea of contingency, can help to refine the analysis of power in planning. Planning then can be regarded as a system in other systems, with roles, values, procedures, and materialities in constant transformation, with the results of each
The importance of electrical energy to the European economy is discussed before attention is focused on the spatial and temporal aspects of nuclear power production between 1956 and 1990. It is demonstrated how the diffusion of nuclear power
in western Europe is being affected by public unrest over certain environmental and safety problems. The need for some kind of energy policy is emphasized. Despite efforts to stress the importance of nuclear power to the energy economy, a lack of integration
Naming and placing the other: power and the urban landscape in Zanzibar
Ethnography ; Place names ; Power ; Tanzania ; Urban landscape ; Urbanization
Toponymy has to be reexamined in light of human geography's recent philosophical and theoretical emphasis on power and language. The example of Zanzibar's Ng'ambo neighborhoods is used to show how toponymy and boundary-making embody a complex
spatial discourse on power. Toponymy can be a rich source for analysis capillary nature of power.
Mapping the terrain of time-space compression : power networks in everyday life
Capitalism ; Concept ; Daily life ; Economic system ; Partnership ; Power ; Social network ; Societal relations ; Space time
The A. seeks a more comprehensive mapping of the experience of time-space in late modernity. Building on Massey's notion of power geometry, he integrates discussions of time-space with an application of different understandings of power
and their manifestations - in latent-power conditions, socioeconomic networks, actor networks, local interpersonal relations, and the network spaces of subjectivity.
Economic geographies of power : methodological challenges and interdisciplinary analytical possibilities
Discourse ; Economic geography ; Globalization ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Power ; Social relations ; Social sciences
The paper shows how issues of validity and reflexivity restrict existing empirical work’s ability to advance understandings of power, and demonstrates how such issues can be overcome through the refined use of methods and analytical techniques
that tease out the double contingencies of the social relations that underlie power. Refinements are shown to be possible by learning, in particular, from approaches to analysing power elsewhere in the social sciences, and particularly from management studies
Since its introduction by Svensson in 1959, the power law curve has been widely used in morphological analysis of glacial through cross-profiles. In this paper a general power law is proposed. A unique and unbiased solution for this equation