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.
Culture, power and the manufacture of place in Ireland
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Eighteenth Century ; Historical geography ; Ireland ; Landed estate ; Nineteenth Century ; Power ; Production of space ; Rural house
and semiotic construction of the city, are also participants in the cultural production of shared past. He uncovers commemorative street names as a powerful mechanism for the legitimation of the sociopolitical order.
The geopolitics of the police: Foucault, disciplinary power and the tactics of the Los Angeles Police Department
The insights of Foucault are used to analyze the Los Angeles Police Department as an agency of discipline. General formulations concerning disciplinary power are assessed. The ethnographic fieldwork reveals that the department does engage
Special issue: identities, citizenship and power in the cities
is concerned with theorising the nature of power in the cities. There is a need for marginal groups to capture conceptions of citizenship. The papers point towards the continuing importance of political economy approaches and the ability of such approaches
Geopolitics ; International relations ; Policy ; Political geography ; Power ; Social movement ; Sovereignty ; State ; Territoriality
The papers strive to negociate geopolitics with a critical perspective on the force of fusions of geographical knowledge and systems of power. The first problematic is that of the state as a producer, administrator and ruler of space. The second
Devastating critique of the environmental effects and human consequences of dams around the world. Considers the powerful political and economic interests behing large dam projects, many proposed and built for large international aid projects
The A. focuses on certain powerful metaphors embedded in the discourse of urban life in the United States. The influence of such metaphors is examined in the city of Indianapolis. The A. looks at how the metaphors come to affect an impoverished
is also reflective of the power of globalising forces, illustrating the ways in which local resources intersect with global resources in a process of transculturation.
Behaviour ; Cultural studies ; Political geography ; Political reform ; Political regime ; Power ; Social change ; Society ; South Africa ; Value system