Eugenics, fantasies of empire and inverted Whiggism. An essay on the political geography of Vaughan Cornish
Colonialism ; Geostrategy ; History of geography ; Imperialism ; International relations ; Political geography ; Technical progress
Using aspects on the recent literatures on (post)colonialism, the A. seeks to draw out some of the threads of Cornish writings on empire and strategic geography. These writings differ from those of Mackinder. This essay is a contribution to some
Supplement and up-to-date extension to earlier papers on ecological evaluation for planning purposes. Scientific, strategic and political objections against ecological evaluation in its present shape are discussed. Recent Belgian developments.
Postmodern urban politics in South Africa : the case of Stellenbosch (2000-2004)
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)
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
Balkans ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Thematic map
of political borders and with two spatial-political units: large peripheral and small core areas. They are weak and vulnerable and present a high latent crisis potential. On the other hand, the transport, transit and strategic role of this area is increasing
The paper deals with contemporary political map of the Balkans, founded on morphological, structural and functional analysis. Most of nation-states are relatively young, small-sized, ethnic heterogeneous, characterized by frequent changes
Action space ; Participation ; Policy ; Political life ; Private space ; Public space ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Woman
The relationship between women's standing in the public sphere and their activism is problematized. Women's activism is shaped by strategic choices to locate either in public or in private spaces. Publicity and privacy are reconceptualized in ways
Concept ; Geopolitics ; Globalisation ; Oceania ; Pacific Region ; Perception ; Political geography ; View of the world
representations. The alternative conceptualisations reveal that those promoted by the major powers were influenced by aspects of geopolitical reasoning. The analysis highlights the strategic nature of spatial representation.
Asia ; Conflict ; Geopolitics ; Geostrategy ; Middle East ; Political geography
Article suggesting that, as a result of the 1990 Gulf War, the Middle East is now strategically reoriented toward the West. Centrifugal forces that have torn the region apart are fading as a result of migration, capital flows, freshwater allocations
Impact ; Inundation ; Meteorology ; Political geography ; Snow ; War ; Water
On oublie souvent que le théâtre de la guerre n'est jamais un lieu idéal, comme il a été pensé par les stratèges. Subitement, il pleut, il neige, il gèle, l'eau monte dans les rivières. Plus rien n'est comme avant. Les éléments sont de la partie.
Concept ; Eurasia ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Russia ; Sphere of influence
This article presents the geopolitcal concepts of Alexander Dugin, a contemporary political activist from Russia who represents the so-called Euroasiatic Movement. Dugin feels an affinity for the vision of Russia as a great continental empire, while
at the same time involving himself in the geopolitical matters of Europe as a whole, most especially those concerning the states between the Baltic, the Adriatic and the Black Sea (Poland included). He is an advocate of the establishment of a strategic axis
Humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic : humanitarian reason and the political rationalities of the liberal will-to-care
-driven moral economy and a state-driven political morality within humanitarian endeavour. It then examines its strategic function as a ‘liberal diagnostic’: a recursive moral practice that helps constitute a liberal politics as much as it projects
that politics onto other people and places. It concludes by sketching out the implications of this by examining some of the ways that contemporary humanitarianism fulfils this role with respect to issues of global order and capital accumulation.
The political geography of war's end : territorialisation, circulation, and moral anxiety in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Colonization ; Ethnic minority ; Mobility ; Political geography ; Sri Lanka ; Territorialisation ; Territory ; War
This article examines the political geography of war's end through territorialisation, circulation, and moral anxiety in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. First, it shows that this process comprises the consolidation of the government's military victory
through the establishment of military zones and sacred sites, the construction of strategic roads and shifts in the ethnic settlement patterns. Second, that the angle of circulation directs us to flows and influences that become manifest when
Architects of empire : the military–strategic studies complex and the Scripting of US national security
Activism ; Army ; Critical geography ; Geopolitical strategy ; Geopolitics ; Persian Gulf ; Political geography ; Terrorism ; United States of America
. Mais on assiste aussi à l'émergence de mouvements de résistance à la production d'un espace militaire tel qu'il est proposé actuellement par les stratèges militaires américains.
review ; decision making ; impact monitoring ; mitigation ; consultation and participation ; system monitoring ; costs and benefits ; and strategic environmental assessment. South Africa meets 7 of 14 criteria, but requires political will for better
Civilization ; Cultural studies ; Economic situation ; Energy resources ; Geopolitics ; Iran ; Political regime
About Iran we are ready to perceive the strategic role in the geopolitical chessmate of Persian Gulf, the other side in the global economy of the choice in the context of the energetic resource, the fundamentalism, the persistences of arcaic world
. The cultural-industries production system : a case study of employment change in Britain, 1984-91. Civic boosterism in the politics of local economic development - institutional positions and strategic orientations in the consumption of hallmark events.