Search Results - "Political geography"

The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality by Sultana, Farhana

“…The extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change mean that differently-located people experience, respond to, and cope with the climate crisis…”
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Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited by Selby, Jan, Dahi, Omar S., Fröhlich, Christiane, Hulme, Mike

“…For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a ‘threat multiplier’ for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war has…”
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Lithium extractivism and water injustices in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: The colonial shadow of green electromobility by Jerez, Bárbara, Garcés, Ingrid, Torres, Robinson

“…This paper analyzes the linkages and feedback between green electromobility, lithium extractivism, and water injustices affecting the Atacameño's indigenous…”
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The coloniality of disaster: Race, empire, and the temporal logics of emergency in Puerto Rico, USA by Bonilla, Yarimar

“…This essay uses the case of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico to discuss “the coloniality of disaster”: how catastrophic events like hurricanes, earthquakes, but…”
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground by Oliveira, Gustavo de L.T., Murton, Galen, Rippa, Alessandro, Harlan, Tyler, Yang, Yang

“…The Chinese government promotes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a global strategy for regional integration and infrastructure investment. With a…”
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Secure the volume: Vertical geopolitics and the depth of power by Elden, Stuart

“…We all-too-often think of the spaces of geography as areas, not volumes. Territories are bordered, divided and demarcated, but not understood in terms of…”
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Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence by Truelove, Yaffa, Ruszczyk, Hanna A.

“…Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender and infrastructure in the…”
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The deep border by Amoore, Louise

“…Deep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they classify,…”
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Digital extraction: Blockchain traceability in mineral supply chains by Calvão, Filipe, Archer, Matthew

“…Digital data — including technologically-mediated data generated by blockchain-enabled traceability — is performing an increasingly integral role in extractive…”
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The evolving techniques of the social engineering of extraction: Introducing political (re)actions ‘from above’ in large-scale mining and energy projects by Verweijen, Judith, Dunlap, Alexander

“…Ecological catastrophe and global inequality are pressing, yet socio-ecologically destructive natural resource extraction continues unabated. This special…”
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The water-energy-food nexus: An integration agenda and implications for urban governance by Artioli, Francesca, Acuto, Michele, McArthur, Jenny

“…The water-energy-food nexus has achieved considerable prominence across academic research and policy sectors. The nexus sets an imperative for integrated…”
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The strange geographies of the ‘new’ state capitalism by Alami, Ilias, Dixon, Adam D.

“…The recent polymorphism of state intervention and attendant political geographies have been interpreted as a return of state capitalism. While commentators…”
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European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization by Dunlap, Alexander, Laratte, Louis

“…This article critically examines the GND (Green New Deal) platform by exploring the reality of energy development under the European Green Deal (EGD). Taking a…”
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Trans-Himalayan power corridors: Infrastructural politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal by Murton, Galen, Lord, Austin

“…This article examines the shifting dimensions of Chinese infrastructural aid in Nepal, focusing on the politics of anticipation and enunciation that shape…”
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Normalising corporate counterinsurgency: Engineering consent, managing resistance and greening destruction around the Hambach coal mine and beyond by Brock, Andrea, Dunlap, Alexander

“…The German Rhineland is home to the world's largest opencast lignite coal mine and human-made hole – the Hambach mine. Over the last seven years, RWE, the mine…”
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The temporal borders of asylum. Temporality of control in the EU border regime by Tazzioli, Martina

“…•When spatial restrictions are not sufficient for containing migration, temporal borders are enacted.•The implementation of the Hotspot System has contributed…”
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(Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure by Hommes, Lena, Hoogesteger, Jaime, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…Infrastructures and their roles and connections to and in territories and territorialization processes have increasingly become objects of study in political…”
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Interventions: Bringing the decolonial to political geography by Naylor, Lindsay, Daigle, Michelle, Zaragocin, Sofia, Ramírez, Margaret Marietta, Gilmartin, Mary

“…Within and outside geography there is a strong interest in the inequities between states and peoples. While work in political geography, particularly in…”
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Geographies of the camp by Minca, Claudio

“…Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments – including concentration, detention, transit, identification, refugee, military and training…”
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The anti-colonial politics of degrowth by Hickel, Jason

“…Hickel discusses the anti-colonial politics of degrowth. As degrowth ideas speed their way into social movements and academic research, they have encountered…”
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