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Paasi, Anssi. "Geography, space and the re-emergence of topological thinking." Dialogues in Human Geography 1, no. 3 (November 2011): 299–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820611421547.

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‘Topological twists’ is one part of John Allen’s long project where he has profoundly examined the spatialities of (political) power and has considerably expanded our horizons. This commentary will reflect four themes related to his article ( Allen, 2011 ). Since there are currently several challenging views on the changing forms of power, I will first briefly compare his ideas of power with that of others. Second, I will scrutinize the re-emergence of topological thinking in social sciences and geography – ‘re-emergence’ because this idea has long roots. I will then comment on current ideas and related ‘geometric’ vocabularies, and finally discuss the issue of generalization versus context in the social sciences.

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Snyder, J. "Political geography and interest-group power." Social Choice and Welfare 6, no. 2 (April 1989): 103–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00303166.

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Thom, B. G., and E. Woolmington. "The Integrative Power of Interdisciplinary Geography." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 13, no. 1 (March 1988): 52–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/isr.1988.13.1.52.

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Prince, Russell. "The geography of statistics: Social statistics from moral science to big data." Progress in Human Geography 44, no. 6 (September 15, 2019): 1047–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132519873421.

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Statistics are central to the state’s capacities. However, with the advent of ‘big data’ some argue it is being undermined in favour of a new configuration of corporate power. We need to understand statistics both historically and geographically to understand how it is intertwined with the geography of power today. Three strands to the geography of statistics are proposed: the geography of statistical institutions and agencies; the geography of ‘datafication’; and the geographies produced by statistics. Tracing the geography of statistics demonstrates its role in the construction of a hierarchical world and explains the consequences of changes in statistical practice.

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Sarre, Phil. "Book Review: The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life." Urban Studies 27, no. 2 (April 1990): 293–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420989020080251.

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Mainzer, Klaus. "Causality in Natural, Technical, and Social Systems." European Review 18, no. 4 (October 2010): 433–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798710000244.

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Since the very beginning of science and philosophy, causality has been a basic category of research. In the theory of dynamical systems, different forms of causality can be distinguished depending on different equations of motion. The question arises how causal relationships can be inferred from observational data. Statistic data analysis often yields information on correlations only, but not on causation. Under special conditions probabilistic distributions of data are connected with causal networks. Causal modeling plays an eminent role in the natural sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry, biology). In engineering sciences, causal dependence must not only be recognized, but constructed and controlled, in order to guarantee reliable and desired functions of technical systems. Control is the inverse problem of causality for engineers. In social sciences, causal networks are used to analyze social and economic interactions in, for example, markets, organizations, and institutions. With respect to volatility shocks and financial crashes, it is a challenge to discover the causes of extreme events. From an epistemic and interdisciplinary point of view, complex nonlinear causal networks are distinguished by universal properties, which are true in natural, technical, and social networks (e.g. scale-invariance, power laws).

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WIKTOROWICZ, QUINTAIN. "MAHMUD A. FAKSH, The Future of Islam in the Middle East: Fundamentalism in Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997). Pp. 148. $49.95 cloth. MAHMOOD MONSHIPOURI, Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1998). Pp. 270. $55.00 cloth." International Journal of Middle East Studies 33, no. 1 (February 2001): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743801411068.

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Middle Eastern studies is frequently criticized in the social sciences for being atheoretical and descriptive. While it is effective in elucidating the complexities of societies, a lack of theory tends to isolate Middle Eastern studies from social-science disciplines, because it often lacks applicable frameworks or concepts that can be applied outside the region. A growing group of scholars is attempting to address this concern by integrating strong empirical area expertise and the rigor of social-science inquiry to enhance the explanatory power of research.

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Jones, Andrew. "Navigating Bulkeley’s challenge on climate politics and human geography." Dialogues in Human Geography 9, no. 1 (March 2019): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820619829921.

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While agreeing with the major tenets of Harriet Bulkeley’s timely and powerful argument for geographers (and social scientists more generally) to engage with climate change, this response raises three provocative challenges that arise from this intervention: the degree to which the epistemological and theoretical bases to these arguments are radical, the nature of the engagement problem in the discipline and, perhaps most importantly, how these arguments can be translated to a ‘progressive politics’. The response argues that there is much further to go in explaining the utility of socio-natural understanding of climate change if those beyond the social sciences and in the wider realm of policy and politics are to be convinced of the power of the approach being advocated. It also argues that geographers are well-positioned to develop the bolder and more interdisciplinary approach needed to achieve the kind of ambitious shift in thinking Bulkeley seeks.

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Lavie-Ajayi, Maya. "Learning to See at the Intersections of Body, Gender, Geography, and Nationality." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 6 (April 11, 2019): 567–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800419843570.

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In this performance autoethnography, the writer explores how a person, a young woman, opens her eyes to the occupation of the Palestinian territories, patriarchal values, her social privilege and her positioning as both oppressed and as an oppressor. The writer attempts to sequence her personal and sexual biographies, while resisting the dichotomies of personal/political, privilege/oppressive, and pleasure/pain; contextualizing one’s sexual, gendered, and ethnic body, at different positions of ignoring and resisting power relations.

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Ossome, Lyn. "Land in transition: from social reproduction of labour power to social reproduction of power." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 39, no. 4 (April 30, 2021): 550–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1895431.

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Mustafa, Daanish, and Sarah J. Halvorson. "Critical Water Geographies: From Histories to Affect." Water 12, no. 7 (July 15, 2020): 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12072001.

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Water resource geography has undergone a considerable transformation since its original moorings in engineering and the pure sciences. As this Special Issue demonstrates, many intellectual and practical gains are being made through a politicized practice of water scholarship. This work by geographers integrates a critical social scientific perspective on agency, power relations, method and most importantly the affective/emotional aspects of water with profound familiarity and expertise across sub-disciplines and regions. Here, the ‘critical’ aspects of water resource geography imply anti-positivist epistemologies pressed into the service of contributing to social justice and liberation from water-related political and material struggles. The five papers making up this Special Issue address these substantive and theoretical concerns across South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America.

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Hu, Lei, Jun Xu, Chao Bao, and Tao Pei. "Influential Factor Detection for Tourism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Based on Social Media Data." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10, no. 9 (August 27, 2021): 579. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10090579.

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Tourism is playing an important role in the economic development of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). To better develop tourism in this region, the spatial heterogeneity of influencing factors on tourism needs to be studied. Using the spatial distribution of tourism potential from social media data, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of tourism on the QTP from the perspective of spatial heterogeneity. We extract microblogs related to travel topics connected to the QTP in 2017 from Sina Weibo to capture tourism potential. Then, factors considered from six aspects (tourism resources, amenities, transportation, geography, population, and the economy) are selected, and a geographic detector (Geodetector) is employed to detect the explanatory power of these factors for tourism potential. The results indicate different influential tourism factors in Qinghai and Tibet. In Qinghai, the main factors are hotels, tourist attractions, and road network density, and the explanatory power of the factors mainly comes from eastern and western Qinghai. In Tibet, the main factors are road network density, regional GDP (Gross Domestic Product), and urban land. It is suggested that tourism in the central region of Qinghai can be improved by enhancing the publicity and utilization of tourism resources, and Tibet should enhance tourism resource utilization and improve tourism amenities and infrastructure.

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Holden, Chris, and Kelley Lee. "Corporate Power and Social Policy." Global Social Policy: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy and Social Development 9, no. 3 (November 17, 2009): 328–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468018109343638.

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Ince, Anthony. "Fragments of an anti‐fascist geography: Interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power." Geography Compass 13, no. 3 (January 21, 2019): e12420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12420.

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Kim, Mikyoung. "Social Construction of Power, Identity, and Geography: The Voices from Korea, India, and Tibet." International Studies Review 11, no. 4 (December 2009): 749–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2009.00894.x.

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Zanotti, Laura, Courtney Carothers, Charlene Aqpik Apok, Sarah Huang, Jesse Coleman, and Charlotte Ambrozek. "Political ecology and decolonial research: co-production with the Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik." Journal of Political Ecology 27, no. 1 (January 28, 2020): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23335.

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Environmental social science research designs have shifted over the past several decades to include an increased commitment to multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary team-based work that have had dual but complementary foci. These address power and equity in the substantive aspects of research, and also to adopt more engaged forms of practice, including decolonial approaches. The fields of political ecology, human geography, and environmental anthropology have been especially open to converge with indigenous scholarship, particularly decolonial and settler colonial theories and research designs, within dominant human-environmental social science paradigms. Scholars at the forefront of this dialogue highlight the ontological (ways of knowing), epistemological (how we know), and institutional (institutions of higher education) transformations that need to occur in order for this to take place. In this article we contribute to this literature in two ways. First, we highlight the synergies between political ecology and decolonial scholarship, particularly focusing on the power dynamics in research programs and historical legacies of human-environmental relationships, including those of researchers. Second, we explore how decolonial research pushes political ecologists and other environmental social scientists to not only consider adopting international and local standards of working with, by and for Indigenous Peoples within research programs but how this work ultimately extends to research and education within their home institutions and organizations. Through integrating decolonized research practices in the environmental social sciences, we argue that synthesizing multiple knowledge practices and transforming institutional structures will enhance team-based environmental social science work to improve collaboration with Indigenous scientists, subsistence practitioners, agency representatives, and sovereign members of Indigenous communities.Keywords: Alaska; collaboration; co-production; decolonial; Indigenous Knowledges; Iñupiaq Peoples

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Rusca, Maria, and Giuliano Di Baldassarre. "Interdisciplinary Critical Geographies of Water: Capturing the Mutual Shaping of Society and Hydrological Flows." Water 11, no. 10 (September 22, 2019): 1973. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11101973.

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In light of recent calls for an increased commitment to interdisciplinary endeavors, this paper reflects on the implications of a critical geography of water that crosses social and natural sciences. Questions on how to best research the relationship between water and society have been raised both in the field of critical geographies of water and sociohydrology. Yet, there has been little crossover between these disciplinary perspectives. This, we argue, may be partly explained by the fact that interdisciplinary research is both advocated and antagonized. On the one hand, interdisciplinarity is argued to deliver more in terms of effectively informing policy processes and developing theoretical perspectives that can reform and regenerate knowledge. On the other hand, natural and social sciences are often presented as ontologically, epistemologically, and methodologically incompatible. Drawing on our own research experience and expertise, this paper focuses on the multiple ways in which critical geographies of water and sociohydrology are convergent, compatible, and complementary. We reflect on the existing theoretical instruments to engage in interdisciplinary research and question some of the assumptions on the methodological and epistemological incompatibility between natural and social sciences. We then propose that an interdisciplinary resource geography can further understandings of how power and the non-human co-constitute the social world and hydrological flows and advance conceptualizations of water as socionatures.

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Cabral, John T., and Alexandrina Sobreira de Moura. "City Management, Local Power, and Social Practice." Latin American Perspectives 23, no. 4 (October 1996): 54–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x9602300405.

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Artz, B. Lee. "Social Power and the Inflation of Discourse." Latin American Perspectives 24, no. 1 (January 1997): 92–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x9702400106.

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Robison, Richard. "Indonesia: An autonomous domain of social power?" Pacific Review 5, no. 4 (January 1992): 338–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749208719002.

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Ealham, Chris. "An Imagined Geography: Ideology, Urban Space, and Protest in the Creation of Barcelona's “Chinatown”, c.1835–1936." International Review of Social History 50, no. 3 (November 18, 2005): 373–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859005002154.

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Henri Lefebvre famously seized upon the duality of the modern city: how for some it is a space of play and liberation, and for others a centre for power and repression. This article explores this duality through an analysis of the changing historical geography of Barcelona's Raval district, an inner-city working-class community and the birthplace of Catalan industrialization. From the 1920s onwards, elite groups and social commentators defined the Raval as Barcelona's “Chinatown”, an imagined geography that continues to influence historical representations of the area. Through a social history of the Raval, it is argued that the “Chinatown” myth served specific political ends, that it formed part of a cultural project to impose a slum myth on Barcelona's most important and most rebellious working class district. The article concludes with an analysis of how this “moral geography” culminated in far-reaching plans for the moral and physical reordering of the Raval for the benefit of urban elites.

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Houston, Donna, and Laura Pulido. "The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20, no. 4 (August 2002): 401–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d344.

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In this paper we offer an alternative reading of the role of performativity and everyday forms of resistance in current geographic literature. We make a case for thinking about performativity as a form of embodied dialectical praxis via a discussion of the ways in which performativity has been recently understood in geography. Turning to the tradition of Marxist revolutionary theater, we argue for the continued importance of thinking about the power of performativity as a socially transformative, imaginative, and collective political engagement that works simultaneously as a space of social critique and as a space for creating social change. We illustrate our point by examining two different performative strategies employed by food service workers at the University of Southern California in their struggle for a fair work contract and justice on the job.

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Tesser, Lynn M. "Identity, Contingency, and Interaction: Historical Research and Social Science Analysis of Nation-State Proliferation." Nationalities Papers 47, no. 3 (May 2019): 412–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.33.

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AbstractScholars of nation-building and secession tend to prioritize elite or broader nationalist activism when explaining the proliferation of nation-states. Yet, recent historical research reveals a major finding: the influence of great powers tended to eclipse nationalist mobilization for new states in Latin America, the Balkans, Anatolia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on recent trends in historical research largely unknown in other fields, this article examines context, timing, and event sequencing to provide a new approach to multi-case research on nation-state proliferation. Major power recognition of new states in the Balkans also emerges as transformational for the post-World War I replacement of dynastic empires with nation-states in Europe. These findings suggest a shift of focus to the interplay of nationalist activism and great power policy for explaining the spread of nation-states.

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Koch, Florian, and Lina María Sánchez Steiner. "Participation without Power." Latin American Perspectives 44, no. 2 (September 21, 2016): 168–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x16668312.

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Citizen participation has become an important political strategy. A case study of the Barranquilla land-use plan employing Fung and Wright’s theories on countervailing power reveals that the citizen participation promoted to comply with legal requirements was a failure because it was manipulated by the dominant public actor. In societies such as that of Barranquilla, which employs traditional modes of politics, there is little chance of fostering successful participatory processes because there is no countervailing power to offset the established one. The violent context that surrounds the political sphere, low confidence in state institutions, and the convergence of economic and political power prevent the creation of strong and independent countervailing powers. La participación ciudadana se ha convertido en una importante estrategia política. El estudio de caso del plan de usos de terrenos de Barranquilla a través del prisma de las teorías de Fung y Wright sobre el poder compensatorio revela que la participación ciudadana promovida para cumplir con los requisitos legales fue un fracaso porque fue manipulada por el actor público dominante. En sociedades como la de Barranquilla, con sus modos tradicionales de la política, hay pocas posibilidades de fomentar procesos de participación exitosos porque no hay un poder compensatorio que contrarreste el poder establecido. El contexto violento que envuelve la esfera política, la poca confianza en las instituciones estatales y la convergencia del poder económico con el poder social impiden la creación de poderes compensatorios fuertes e independientes.

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Marsden, T., M. Harrison, and A. Flynn. "Creating Competitive Space: Exploring the Social and Political Maintenance of Retail Power." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 30, no. 3 (March 1998): 481–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a300481.

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The authors explore the processes by which British corporate retailers are maintaining their predominance in food provision in the 1990s. Taking the ‘new retailing geography’ literature as a context, they first outline the key features (spatial, sectoral, and supply related) of retailers' dynamic competitive space. They then examine the regulatory mechanisms used to influence policy development. The authors begin to address the ways in which combinations of regulatory and consumer culture influence the uneven development and maintenance of corporate retailing and food provision in the United Kingdom, focusing specifically on retailers' definitions and strategies associated with the provision of food quality.

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Bennett, Fran. "Social Policy Digest." Journal of Social Policy 25, no. 1 (January 1996): 105–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400000088.

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A study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that whilst the income of the poorest tenth of society fell by 18 per cent in real terms between 1979 and 1992 (after housing costs), their expenditure rose by 14 per cent. In a separate report on changes in individuals' incomes over time, the IFS found significant movement in and out of the poorest sections of society between 1991 and 1992. The latest edition ofHouseholds Below Average Incomeshowed that real net income rose by an average of 38 per cent (after housing costs) between 1979 and 1992/93, but fell by 17 per cent for the bottom tenth of the population (24:3/95,1.1). The narrowing of the gap in the north–south divide has halted, but a report on the geography of poverty explores many other divisions between and within areas of the UK. The report of the Commission headed by Lord Dahrendorf called for a new investment strategy and benefits structure, as well as measurement of social and environmental conditions as part of an annual audit of ‘wealth’. Tony Blair, the Labour Party leader, promised a fundamental review of the social security system once in power.

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Bathelt, Harald, and Johannes Glückler. "Resources in Economic Geography: From Substantive Concepts towards a Relational Perspective." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 37, no. 9 (September 2005): 1545–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a37109.

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Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources—material resources, knowledge, power, and social capital—our argument is that resources are constituted in a relational way in two aspects. First, resources are relational in that their generation, interpretation, and use are contingent. This depends on the particular institutional structures and social relations, as well as on the knowledge contexts and mental models of the agents involved. Second, some types of resources, such as power and social capital, are also relational because they cannot be possessed or controlled by individual agents. They are built and mobilized through day-to-day social practices. Individuals or groups of agents may appropriate the returns, but not the resources themselves. We conclude that a relational concept reflects the contextual and interactive nature of the selection, use, and formation of resources. This offers new insights into the explanation of heterogeneity in firm strategies and trajectories, as well as regional differences in the development of localized industry configurations, such as clusters.

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Slater, David. "Power and Social Movements in the Other Occident." Latin American Perspectives 21, no. 2 (April 1994): 11–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x9402100203.

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Olsson, G. "The Social Space of Silence." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 5, no. 3 (September 1987): 249–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d050249.

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It is in the physical concreteness of the social space of silence that it cannot be abstracted. The reason is that every text is permeated by the notion of self-reference. The impossible challenge is nevertheless to think-and-act in such a way that there is no difference between the languages I am writing in and the phenomena I am writing about. Eventually this raises inescapable questions about the power of language and the language of power, about the truth of silence and the silence of truth, about mental prefixes and linguistic experiments, about you and me.

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Purgina, Ekaterina. "Imagined geography of Russia in Western travelogues: Conceptualizing space through history." Social Science Information 59, no. 2 (May 20, 2020): 264–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018420921991.

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In modern societies, imagined geographies are constituted, along with other means, by travel literature. Unlike standardized tourist guides, travelogues offer personalized accounts of ‘genuine’ experiences of exploration and encounter. These experiences, however, are largely informed by the accounts of the previous travelers and require a number of literary devices and rhetorical strategies to create a coherent, engaging and authoritative narrative. This article focuses on literary and conceptual means employed to produce the ‘imagined geography’ of Russia in two travelogues published at the same time (2010) – Rachel Polonsky’s Molotov’s Magic Lantern and Ian Frazier’s Travels in Siberia. Despite the differences in the narratorial personae and in the literary form (Polonsky’s travelogue is much more ‘experimental’ than Frazier’s), these travelogues have much in common in the ways they describe the spatial experience of Russia by connecting space to time and history. Moreover, spatial travel turns into time travel as the parallel spatial and temporal hierarchy emerges, built around several oppositions: modern, Western/European, urban, commercial places vs. unmodern, East/Asian, small town/village, de-industrialized and depressed space. Social ordering of space, therefore, becomes a reproduction of the power relations between the individual and the state, periphery and the center. These oppositions reflect how Russian historical experience of modernity is inscribed in its vast space, this experience being interpreted by the travelers through the emotional and vivid image of a ‘broken modernity’. Russian people in Frazier’s text resemble ‘survivalists’ at a ‘post-apocalyptic’ frontier while, for Polonsky, the post-Soviet Russians are disconnected from their past and incapable of imagining their future.

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Lewis, N., and W. Moran. "Restructuring, Democracy, and Geography in New Zealand." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 16, no. 2 (April 1998): 127–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c160127.

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The speed, transparency, and extent of the reregulation of New Zealand society over the last decade offer many insights into issues of social change and systems of regulation and governance. The forms of reregulation have been embedded by the set of new regulations and reorganised state practices referred to as the ‘reforms’. These have involved a major shift in the sites and exercise of power within and between economic, social, and political spheres. They have been promoted and articulated in a restructuring discourse which has dominated New Zealand's reaction to the expiry of its social democratic settlement. Reconstructions of space and democracy have been heavily implicated within the processes of change, both as explicit goals of the reform programme and as overt strategies for the achievement of other redistributions. They are also definitive outcomes of a decade of upheaval. The authors explore the spatialities of core-state reform. They develop the concept of an altered dominant representation of space to explore new configurations of space and democratic practice. They seek to inform contemporary debates over the stability of New Zealand's reconstructed social formation. The discussion is illustrated with references to the spatial reorganisation of the institutions of government and core-state activities; in particular the altered administration of education and public health, and changes in local government organisation.

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Layton, James J., Frank A. Santopolo, and Mohamed Naguib. "Social power, water control and irrigation systems." Irrigation and Drainage Systems 7, no. 4 (1994): 291–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00881556.

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McIntyre, Kevin. "Geography as Destiny: Cities, Villages and Khmer Rouge Orientalism." Comparative Studies in Society and History 38, no. 4 (October 1996): 730–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750002051x.

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“The red, red blood splatters the cities and plains,” cried the national anthem of Democratic Kampuchea. “The blood spills out into great indignation and a resolute urge to fight,” it “liberates us from slavery.” The image in the anthem was not simply symbolic. Upon taking power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and towns of Cambodia, initiating a three-year regime of terror that leveled the country economically, culturally, and physically. In this typhoon of tragedy, nearly two million people died, swept aside in a whirlwind of social upheaval.

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Mahony, Martin, and Mike Hulme. "Epistemic geographies of climate change." Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 3 (December 9, 2016): 395–424. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132516681485.

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Anthropogenic climate change has been presented as the archetypal global problem, identified by the slow work of assembling a global knowledge infrastructure, and demanding a concertedly global political response. But this ‘global’ knowledge has distinctive geographies, shaped by histories of exploration and colonialism, by diverse epistemic and material cultures of knowledge-making, and by the often messy processes of linking scientific knowledge to decision-making within different polities. We suggest that understanding of the knowledge politics of climate change may benefit from engagement with literature on the geographies of science. We review work from across the social sciences which resonates with geographers’ interests in the spatialities of scientific knowledge, to build a picture of what we call the epistemic geographies of climate change. Moving from the field site and the computer model to the conference room and international political negotiations, we examine the spatialities of the interactional co-production of knowledge and social order. In so doing, we aim to proffer a new approach to the intersections of space, knowledge and power which can enrich geography’s engagements with the politics of a changing climate.

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Simon-Rojo, Marian, Inés Morales Bernardos, and Jon Sanz Landaluze. "Food Movements Oscillating Between Autonomy and Co-Production of Public Policies in the City of Madrid." Nature and Culture 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 47–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2018.130103.

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In the aftermath of the economic crisis in the city of Madrid, food geography transformed. The urban unemployed began to engage in agriculture in periurban areas, creating new alliances between producers and consumers. Over a period of 15 years the alternative food movement organized on the fringe gave way to agroecological civic platforms that are highly assertive, and a dialogue with political institutions has opened. A key moment in the advance of this proactive attitude came about in the municipal elections of May 2015. Activists ascended to positions of political power and the backdrop of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, created an opportunity for the food movement to move from protest to program, and public policies permeated by agroecological principles.

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Wooff, Andrew, and Layla Skinns. "The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody." Punishment & Society 20, no. 5 (August 11, 2017): 562–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474517722176.

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Police custody is a complex environment, where police officers, detainees and other staff interact in a number of different emotional, spatial and transformative ways. Utilising ethnographic and interview data collected as part of a five-year study which aims to rigorously examine ‘good’ police custody, this paper analyses the ways that liminality and temporality impact on emotion in police custody. Architecture has previously been noted as an important consideration in relation to social control, with literature linking the built environment with people’s emotional ‘readings’ of space. No work, however, has examined the links between temporality, liminality and emotional performativity in a police custody context. In this environment, power dynamics are linked to past experiences of the police, with emotions being intrinsically embodied, relational, liminal and temporal. Emotion management is therefore an important way of conceptualising the dynamic relationships in custody. The paper concludes by arguing that emotional aftershocks symbolise the liminal experience of detainees’ understanding of the police custody process once released, noting that it is important to understand the microscale, lived experience of police custody in order to develop broader understanding of broader social and policing policy in a police custody context.

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Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin. "Migration, social policy, and power in historical perspective." Global Social Policy 19, no. 3 (March 7, 2019): 266–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468018119832403.

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Migration and social policy have become fiercely contested issues in Europe and North America. In this article, I highlight how mobility and migration, on one hand, and social policy, on the other hand, have historically been closely interwoven and shaped by power relations. It is argued that European states actively assisted their poor to leave ‘home’ and settle in far-away places. I will elaborate some of the tensions between freedom of movement and the role of social policy in the North German Confederation ( Norddeutscher Bund [NDB]) and the British Empire. Finally, it is argued that many of the current challenges and issues associated with migration and social policy in Europe are historically not unique.

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Mandell, Joyce. "Picnics, participation and power: linking community building to social change." Community Development 41, no. 2 (April 2010): 269–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15575330903548760.

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Vandergeest, Peter. "Hierarchy and Power in Pre-National Buddhist States." Modern Asian Studies 27, no. 4 (October 1993): 843–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00001311.

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Since the Second World War, an important school of social science scholarship in Southeast Asia has explained pre-national social hierarchy in terms of religious cosmology, or religious beliefs in the ordering principles of merit and karma (Heine-Geldern, 1956; Geertz, 1980; Errington, 1989). With respect to Siam/Thailand, Tambiah (1970, 1976, 1984) exemplifies this approach in its strong form—he has attempted to explain all religious practices of the ‘Thais’ as expressions of Buddhist orthodoxy. For these writers, religious and cosmological meaning is fundamental, and subsumes the economic dimension. Their emphasis on cultural coherence contrasts with a second school of thought exemplified by Scott (1977, 1985) which focuses on slippage or difference between the ‘great traditions’ represented in Thailand by Buddhism, and little traditions of peasantries, based on local experience, pre-existing little traditions or the appropriation of past ‘great traditions’.

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Avila, Sofia. "Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts." Sustainability Science 13, no. 3 (March 15, 2018): 599–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0547-4.

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Cheshier, David M., and Cori E. Dauber. "The place and power of civic space: Reading globalization and social geography through the lens of civilizational conflict." Security Studies 8, no. 2-3 (December 1998): 35–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636419808429374.

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Frith, Jordan. "Invisibility through the interface: the social consequences of spatial search." Media, Culture & Society 39, no. 4 (March 13, 2017): 536–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443717698871.

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Location-based services are mobile applications that use a device’s location to provide relevant results. Spatial search applications are a popular subset of location-based services that enable people to search through their surrounding space to find nearby locations. This article examines spatial search applications through a framework that combines critical geography research with research on the power search engines exert over information visibility. The main argument of the article is that popular spatial search applications, such as Yelp, may subtly reproduce existing forms of spatial segregation by rendering certain location invisible through the mobile mapping interface.

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Silva, Verónica. "Constructing a State in the Face of Regional Power." Latin American Perspectives 43, no. 1 (December 31, 2015): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x15618394.

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The city of Guayaquil is a territory in which economic actors play a central role in the configuration of subnational power. This has generated a kind of pseudo- or half-finished democracy in which, although elections are held, there is only one actor, the Madera de Guerrero Social Christian Party, representing the local economic elite that has held power since 1992. Following the theory of Edward Gibson, this situation can be viewed as sort of subnational authoritarianism: the parochialization of power, the nationalization of influence, and control of institutional and noninstitutional links have allowed this subnational power to achieve local control and influence in the national arena during various periods. La ciudad de Guayaquil representa un territorio donde los actores económicos juegan un papel central en la configuración del poder subnacional, haciendo de los espacios de representación política su mecanismo legitimador y su fuente de negociación local y nacional. Para algunos investigadores del caso, esto ha generado una suerte de seudodemocracia o democracia a medias en la que, si bien se celebran elecciones, a la vez encontramos un solo actor en escena, el Partido Social Cristiano Madera de Guerrero, representante de la élite económica local en el poder desde 1992. Siguiendo la teoría de Edward Gibson bien se podría hablar de una suerte de autoritarismo subnacional: la parroquialización del poder, la nacionalización de sus influencias y el control de los vínculos institucionales y no institucionales han hecho de este poder subnacional una fuerza que ha logrado un control local y una influencia en la arena nacional durante varios períodos.

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Svarstad, Hanne, Tor A. Benjaminsen, and Ragnhild Overå. "Power theories in political ecology." Journal of Political Ecology 25, no. 1 (September 16, 2018): 350. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v25i1.23044.

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Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle and conflict. Yet, there is a lack of theoretical elaboration showing how power may be understood in political ecology. In this article, we start to fill this gap by reviewing the different theoretical perspectives on power that have dominated this field. There are combinations of influences, two of them being actor-oriented and neo-Marxist approaches used from the 1980s. Typically, case studies are presented of environmental interventions by a broad range of actors at various scales from the local to the global. The focus has been on processes involving actors behind these interventions, as well as the outcomes for different social groups. Over the last two decades, in political ecology we have increasingly seen a move in power perspectives towards poststructuralist thinking about "discursive power", inspired by Foucault. Today, the three approaches (actor-oriented, neo-Marxist and Foucauldian) and their combinations form a synergy of power perspectives that provide a set of rich and nuanced insights into how power is manifested in environmental conflicts and governance. We argue that combining power perspectives is one of political ecology's strengths, which should be nurtured through a continuous examination of a broad spectrum of social science theories on power.

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Cochran, Thomas C. "The Culture of Technology: An Alternative View of the Industrial Revolution in the United States." Science in Context 8, no. 2 (1995): 325–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002040.

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The ArgumentThe purpose of this essay is revisionist on two counts: first, that the American colonies and early United States republic kept pace with Great Britain in reaching a relatively advanced stage of industrialization by the early nineteenth century and second, that the Middle Atlantic States shared equally with New England the innovative role in creating America's industrial revolution. In both cases the industrial leaders achieved their preeminence by different routes. By concentrating on the importance of the sources of machine power as the defining characteristic of industrialism, scholars have overlooked alternative paths to industrial change. In Britain steam power and the textile industry were the foundations of an industrial revolution. But in American colonies the use of water power and the growth of industries such as woodworking and building led to an equally revolutionary change in the production of machine-made products. Benign geography in colonial America provided abundant wood and water power and an excellent transportation system based on navigable rivers and a hospitable coastline. But the crucial factors were cultural: the compelling urge to do things with less human work, the open reception to new immigration, a younger and more venturesome population, a favorable legal and fiscal environment for enterpreneurs. In the American context the tendency of scholars to emphasize the leadership of New England was largely a result of the greater local availability of manufacturing records. But recent research has demonstrated that Philadelphia, the largest port of entry in the eighteenth century, was quite naturally a center of innovation in construction materials, woodworking machinery and shipbuilding to meet the needs of the expanding agricultural hinterland and the coastal trade. In sum, the values of an expanding, youthful, skilled population replenished by fresh and venturesome sources from abroad helped shape cultural values that were particularly favorable in the geographic environment of North America for alternative paths of rapid industrial growth.

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Carey, Mark, M. Jackson, Alessandro Antonello, and Jaclyn Rushing. "Glaciers, gender, and science." Progress in Human Geography 40, no. 6 (July 9, 2016): 770–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132515623368.

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Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.

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Poon, Jessie P. H., Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, and Trina Hamilton. "Social power, offshore financial intermediaries and a network regulatory imaginary." Political Geography 68 (January 2019): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.005.

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Argenbright, Robert. "The Soviet agitational vehicle: state power on the social frontier." Political Geography 17, no. 3 (March 1998): 253–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0962-6298(96)00069-8.

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Kelly, Dominic. "The social origins of Japanese nuclear power: a Gramscian analysis." International Politics 54, no. 2 (February 14, 2017): 182–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0024-1.

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Kapfhammer, Wolfgang, and Gordon M. Winder. "Slow Food, Shared Values, and Indigenous Empowerment in an Alternative Commodity Chain Linking Brazil and Europe." Sociologus: Volume 70, Issue 2 70, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 101–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/soc.70.2.101.

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This article explores governance and power relations within the guaraná (Paullinia cupana) global commodity chain (GCC) of the Sateré-Mawé, an Indigenous group of the Lower Amazon, Brazil. The paper draws on ethnographic work and joint field research in Pará, Brazil and pursues an interdisciplinary approach combining economic geography and anthropological interest in ontological diversity. It describes the guaraná value chain in commodity chain terms, and discusses issues of narrative, transformation, and power in the community of values associated with the chain. Guaraná is a ritual beverage of central importance to Indigenous cosmology and is now a commodity traded within the global Fair Trade network. We found that the commodity chain is the result of not only economically, but also politically motivated Indigenous and European actors. It has a simple organization and is based on inter-personal business relations, with neither retailers nor producers controlling the chain. In this context, diverse actors, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous agents, cooperate in a joint project despite their, at times, differing values. These values are discernable in the narratives and discourses braided around the chain. This paper identifies the values at work and the tensions and dissonances produced as they rub against each other. It argues that, far from making the chain unmanageable, the tensions are creative and help the chain’s participants to bridge between Brazil and Europe.

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