Noncontiguity and political architecture: the parliaments of small island states
Archipelago ; Federalism ; Island ; Microstate ; Political geography ; Political life ; Political regime
For a population of 31 small island states, this paper explores to what extent geography is reflected in the political architecture of legislatures that these political units choose to apply. It searches for possible effects of territorial
noncontiguity on federalism and bicameralism as well as the extent to which parliaments are recruited by means of apportionment and appointment. Although geography does not explain the totality of politics, it does affect the calculations and behaviour
[b1] Dept. of PoliticalScience, Åbo Academy University, Åbo, Finlande
Community ; Police ; Political geography ; Subjectivity ; Urban area ; Urban social movement
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
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
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.
[b1] School of Geographical Sciences, Univ., Bristol, Royaume-Uni
The political geography of the 1970s shows a more interdisciplinary nature either by the adoption of new research areas from other social sciences or by the adoption of new methods from the social sciences. It is possible to identify three major
theoretical foci in political geography: systems approach, territoriality and spatial behavior. It is also possible to identify four themes or directive principles: the areal-differentiation theme, the spatial theme, the man-environment theme
, and the landscape theme. Six types of explanations were found in political geography: the cognitive description, the morphometric analysis, systems analysis, temporal explanation, functional-ecological and cause and effect explanations.
Contextuals models of politics. The political impact of friends and neighbours in Contextual models in politics.
Les modèles contextuels de formation des attitudes et comportements politiques sont de plus en plus utilisés en géographique électorale et en science politique, mais certaines incertitudes demeurent, relatives aux concepts et méthodes. Ce numéro
reinforced and been reinforced by the technocratic inclinations of global climate management. The social organization of climate change science and its articulation with the political process raise important questions about trust, uncertainty, and expertise
. The article concludes with a discussion of the political brittleness of this dominant science-led and global-scale formulation of the climate change problem and the need of a more reflexive politics.
Agronomy ; Asian part of Russia ; Ecology ; Historical geography ; Kyrgyzstan ; Political ecology ; Twentieth Century
geographies that immerse them in and transform the world. By telling them, political ecologists can better illuminate where and how the doing of science has shaped encounters between people and their environments.
The A. present a historical geography of the Lysenkoist and field-based heredity science that in-formed a program of forest modification in Soviet Central Asia in the mid-twentieth century. This program, which used horticultural techniques
to construct forest-orchards (lesosady) in the walnut–fruit forests of Soviet Kirgizia, entered the landscape into scientific controversies, with ramifications for human–forest interactions in Kyrgyzstan today. Field sciences, like Lysenkoist heredity, have
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.
Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences : politics and patronage in early 18th-century France
Académie des Sciences ; Cartographie ; Discipline scientifique ; France ; Géographie historique ; Géographie physique ; Histoire de la géographie ; Ile-de-France ; Paris ; Patronage ; Siècle 18
This essay examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, came to recognise geography as an independent science in 1730. It demonstrates that the rise of Newtonian mathematics and the associated controversy about the shape of the earth challenged
the Academy's epistemological foundations and prompted a debate about the educational and political significance of geography as a scientific practice. It shows that the death in 1726 of Guillaume Delisle, a prominent Academy astronomer, led to a spirited
campaign to elect Philippe Buache, to a new Academy position as a geographer rather than an astronomer. It concludes that this campaign emphasised the social and political utility of geography, though the Academy's decision to recognise this new
and distinctively modern science was ultimately facilitated by traditional networks of patronage within the French Royal Court.
A state scholarship: the political geography of French international science during the nineteenth century
Exploration ; Expédition scientifique ; Français ; Histoire de la géographie ; Histoire des sciences ; Internationalisation ; Siècle 19
Exploration ; Frenches ; History of geography ; History of sciences ; Internationalization ; Nineteenth Century ; Scientific expedition
patronage in the history of other sciences, this essay considers how a powerful, centralized state was able to influence the nature and geographical structure of French international science during the nineteenth century.
the realization of both nationalist economic agenda and industrial interests to materialize. It demonstrates that the so-called complexity, rationality, and certainty associated with forestry science function to disguise the deeply political nature
By investigating the underlying effects of Québec's nationalism, this article illustrates how the institutional realignment following the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s positioned simulation science at the center of a negotiation process allowing
of the production and use of scientific knowledge. It concludes that what is at stake in using science in the management of Québec's boreal forest is not merely related either to the forest industry or to expansion of powers of government but, rather, to its
A systems analysis of political life in Systems behaviour, 2nd ed..
Environnement ; Géographie humaine ; Science politique ; Sciences sociales ; Système ; Système ouvert ; Vie politique
Introduction de l'analyse systémique en science politique. La vie politique, considérée comme un système ouvert est sujet aux influences de l'environnement. L'A. se base, pour ce bref exposé sur un ouvrage qu'il a écrit: A framework for political
Ethnicity, ethnoregionalism, and the political geography of Putin's electoral support
Election ; Electoral geography ; Ethnic minority ; Ethnicity ; Political geography ; Regionalism ; Russia
Deux spécialistes américains de science politique analysent la géographie électorale de l'élection présidentielle russe de 2000 en mettant l'accent sur la dimension ethnique du soutien à Vladimir Poutine.
Research on political institutions and their response to the problem of increasing CO in the atmosphere in Social Science research and climate change. An interdisciplinary appraisal.
Atmosphère ; Axe de recherche ; Changement climatique ; Dioxyde de carbone ; Environnement ; Géographie humaine ; Institution politique ; Législation ; Recherche ; Science politique ; Sciences sociales
Axes de recherche en sciences politiques: perception des besoins et des valeurs, relations avec l'idéologie, stratégies judiciaires ou législatives, mécanismes d'ajustement pour l'agriculture, couverture des préjudices subis, réglementation et
Unthinking subjects : Alain Badiou and the event of thought in thinking politics
La philosophie de Badiou est considérée comme une ressource utile aux sciences sociales car elle permet de repenser le lien entre la philosophie et le politique.
Political relations, cooperation between socio-political organizations, cooperation in the fields of education, science and culture, other forms of cooperation.