Researching militarized landscapes : a literature review on war and the militarization of the environment
Conflict ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Landscape ; Militarization ; Research ; War ; environment ; landscape ; militarization ; military environmentalism
, earth sciences and archaeology. It is structured around the areas of preparing for war, the battlefield, and the homefront. The challenge is to explore how war and landscapes reciprocally reproduce each other across time and space.
Concept ; Geopolitics ; Social sciences ; Space ; State ; Territorial strategy ; War
This article highlights an understudied phenomenon : the relationship between space and war. The relationship between war and space is presented at two main levels, tactical and strategic. It is argued that despite many changes in relations between
war and space, physical space remains a key issue in any war and, as such, geographers should examine it. Such an examination cannot be limited to critical approaches or geographers will fall short in competition with scholars from other fields
The car indispensable : the hidden influence of the car in inter-war suburban London
The paper uses information from dealer's sales records, motoring magazines and commentary on suburbia to examine the extent to which motoring was adopted by London's wider suburban middle classes in the inter-war years. By the end of the 1930s
Changes in the rural landscape of the Polish Sudety Mountains in the post-war period
In the post-war period, the area of the Sudety Mountains has been subject to two main trends regarding the transformation of the landscape in rural areas. In a first phase, it was possible to observe an abrupt depopulation process
This study is divided into four parts. Part I concerns the Cold War period, which equates to the civilian period in Burma (1948-1962) and the socialist military era (1962-1988). Part II concentrates on the post-Cold War period and covers
the formation in Myanmar of the military State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC, 1988-1997), and its successor the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC, 1997-2011). Cold War attitudes did, however, persist in many circles and in many policies. Part
Community ; Criminality ; Guatemala ; Neighbourhood ; Political geography ; Private sector ; Public policy ; Role of the State ; Security ; Social geography ; Violence ; path dependency ; post-war ; private security companies ; public security
for post-war societies: institutional trajectories and political processes. The article first presents the present situation of commercial and non-commercial private security services in Guatemala (private security companies as well as security
neighbourhood committees). Against this background it reconstructs mechanisms and critical junctures through which the Guatemalan state had sourced out policing functions to the private sector during the war and traces the reinforcement of these mechanisms
in post-war society. It argues that the proliferation of private security services is an outcome of the reinforcing of an institutional pattern of public security displacement to the private sphere. The continuity of self-defence and vigilante
organisations thereby emerges as a stronger explanatory factor of the proliferation of private security services in post-war societies than their self-explained authorisation through high crime rates.
Italian mapmakers in the Spanish civil war (1937–1939)
Civil war ; Corpo Truppe Volontarie ; History of cartography ; Istituto Geografico Militare ; Italians ; Military cartography ; Sezione Topocartografica ; Spain ; Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) ; The 1930's ; Topographic map
Italiens ont redessiné efficacement la Mapa topográfico de España à l’échelle du 1:50 000 et ont achevé avec soin un travail de généralisation topographique pour obtenir la carte routière à l’échelle du 1:200 000.#During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939
Landscapes of political memories : war legacies and land negotiations in Laos
Agriculture ; Land ; Land rights ; Laos ; Legislation ; Non-governmental organization ; Political geography ; Role of the State ; Rural community ; War
This place isn't worth the left boot of one of our boys’ : geopolitics, militarism and memoirs of the Afghanistan war
Afghanistan ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Security ; Social geography ; United Kingdom ; War
Les AA. analysent les récits de guerre des soldats britanniques opérant dans la province d’Helmand en Afghanistan entre 2006 et 2012. Ils insistent particulièrement sur leurs explications des déploiements des troupes, leurs représentations et la
Making War from a Map: Andrada's Atlas for Privateers (1641–1661)
Antonio da Cunha e Andrada ; Atlas ; Historical geography ; Historical mapping ; Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer ; Philip IV ; Portugal ; Portugal's secession ; Seventeenth Century ; Spain ; War ; Willem Blaeu ; charts ; nautical atlas ; privateering
Early research has made the Slovenian ethnic component in Austria, Italy and Hungary a laboratory of studies on the minority–majority relations, as well as on ethnic migration. Studies during the “cold war era” have shown ways to overcome political