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.
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 synoptic categories make vastly different contributions to total wind power. (AJC).
Discriminant analysis is used to classify synoptic weather regimes at two contrasting locations in southern African for the purpose of wind power assessment. Due to their differing characteristics and different frequencies of occurrence
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.
Boundary making and regional identities in a globalized environment : rebordering the Nariva Swamp, Trinidad
Conflict ; Environment ; Geopolitics ; Land use ; Power ; Regional identity ; Resource management ; Swamp ; Trinidad and Tobago
From the perspective of critical geopolitics, boundary making for conservation purposes is understood as an act of power embedded within a discourse of environmental geopolitics. The A. illustrates a process of reborderings in which local, state
, and international actors engaged in a contest to define conservation boundaries and produce bounded identities within the Nariva Swamp. State and local practices were influenced in complex ways, and relations of power were altered on multiple levels.
Bringing power back in : collective and distributive forms of power in public participation
influenced the impact of citizen’s demands on public decision making in significant ways. It shows the production and implementation of collective power deriving from citizens depends on distributive power sources residing in governments and bureaucracies
This article analyses collective and distributive forms of power in public participation through the example of a urban development project in Basel, Switzerland. It demonstrates that resourceful and organisationally privileged actors have
. It concludes that participatory arrangements that aim to direct state action have to conform to some extent to the rules and structures underlying ordinary policy-making.
Birds, wind and the making of wind power landscapes in Aude, Southern France
Landscape and birds are an important cause of blocking wind power projects. This paper investigates in the South of France the question of whether birds and wind power can be part of a same landscape and what type of landscape this could compose
. The AA. focuse on the attachments that animals or landscape might develop or entice humans to develop. They show that the process by which such a wind power landscape is composed engages birds into successive translations, which ultimately translate bird
Music is a powerful source of images and symbolism and has a geographical dimension. Examples provided of analyzing music involving rivers and mountains. - (DWG)
Power relations in urban decision-making : neo-liberalism, techno-politicians and authoritarian redevelopment in Santiago, Chile
Chile ; Decision ; Decision making process ; Neo liberalism ; Power ; Redevelopment ; Santiago ; Social life ; Urban change ; Urban planning ; Urban policy
Canada ; Central places ; Centrality ; Competition ; Economic power ; Network ; Offices ; Power of decision making ; Quaternary sector ; Town
The research investigatres the evolution of the system of Canadian decision-making centers using the location of corporate board members as a surrogate for the location of economic control. While Toronto gains importance, Montreal loses connections
Asymmetry ; Demographic structure ; Demography ; Governance ; Norway ; Partnership ; Power of decision making ; Region
This article answers the question of why interlocal partnerships are seen as a viable route to effective governance among local elites in Norway. It shows that partnerships are also based on a more general perception of increased decision-making
power, specifically in relation to forces exogenous to the regional context in which such co-operation is forged. It argues that demography, perceptions of local governance and ideology matter when elites assess the importance of interlocal partnerships.
Spaces of power for action : governance of the Everglades Restudy process (1992-2000)
Decision making process ; Environment ; Florida ; Knowledge ; Management ; Network ; Organization ; Participation ; Power ; United States of America ; Water management
Feminism ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; Power ; Security ; Theory ; War
The A. argues that investigating the gendered assumptions in the study of international relations and forign policy-making, in addition to more explicitly geopolitical reasoning, shows how political spatialisations render women vulnerable.
City;Town ; Decision ; Economic cost ; Entrepreneurship;Spirit of enterprise ; Local policy ; North America ; Power of decision making ; Real estate market ; United States ; Urban development ; Urban renewal
The AA. critically examine some major issues advanced in the literature concerning the merits and problems of local entrepreneurohip for urban redevelopment and revitalization. They include changes in the decision-making process, the power relations
between the public and the private sector in deal making, the social and spatial distribution of costs and benefits. The paper argues with the current recession, the collapse of the commercial real estate market.
Legal plurality : an analysis of power interplay in Mekong hydropower
Dam ; Electricity ; Governance ; Hydraulic works ; Laos ; Mekong ; Political geography ; Power ; Role of the State ; Territorialisation
This article analyzes how the interplay of the power structures shapes the dynamics of natural resource management in one of the world's fastest changing transboundary basins, the Mekong. Taking the Lao People's Democratic Republic as a case study
, it highlights the existing inconsistency and institutional discrepancies in land, water, and environmental policy related to hydropower and illustrate how they are manifested in multiple decision-making frameworks and overlapping legal orders. The resulting
Erosional power in the Swiss Alps : characterization of slope failure in the Illgraben
the power-law tail. Rockslides and rockfalls of high magnitude and relatively low frequency make up 99% of the total failure volume and are thus responsible for the high erosion rate.
. The slope failures form a characteristic magnitude-frequency distribution with a rollover and a power-law tail. This is the result of 2 separate slope failure processes. Type (1) failures are frequent, small slides and slumps within the weathered layer
of highly fractured rock and loose sediment, and make up the rollover. Type (2) failures are less frequent and larger rockslides and rockfalls within the internal bedded and fractured slope along pre-determined potential failure surfaces, and make up