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Political Geography
2017
Replication dataset for J. Evans, K. Arzheimer, R. Campbell, P. Cowley (2017) 'Candidate localness and voter choice in the 2015 General Election in England', Political Geography.
Regional inequalities as drivers of affective polarization
2022
This paper investigates divergences in levels of affective polarization across Belgian regions around the 2019 elections. Elaborating on the relative deprivation theory, we analyse the role of current and long-term socio-economic regional inequalities and of geographical distance separating regions. Empirically, we aggregate individual-level measures of affective polarization at the Belgian NUTS-3 level and use a gravity approach to explore the determinants of regional divergences. Our results show that regional variations in affective polarization are best explained by a current rural–urban divide and by how regions have performed economically in the last years. We also show that geographi…
Sequencing toponymic change: A quantitative longitudinal analysis of street renaming in Sibiu, Romania.
2021
Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective identity that are embroiled with power relations. Urban nomenclatures consist of more than mere linguistic signposts deployed onto space to facilitate navigation. Street names are also powerful signposts that indicate the political regime and its socio-cultural values. Drawing on these theoretical insights, this paper is focused on Sibiu (Romania) and explore the city’s shifting namescape in a longitudinal perspective spanning one century and a half of modern history (1875–2020). The analysis is based on a compl…
The Discursive Constitution of a World-Spanning Region and the Role of Empty Signifiers: The Case of Francophonia
2007
The cultural turn in political science, history, and political geography has opened new perspectives on the division of the world into geographic entities. Nation-states, regions, districts, etc., are no longer qualified as quasi-natural objects based upon intrinsic qualities but, rather, as contingent results of social or accordingly discursive processes. The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) defines Francophonia as an “geocultural space” (espace geoculturel) and an international community of more than 50 states. In this contribution, the concept of political communities as “imagined communities” and the advancements of discourse theory by Laclau and Mouffe are used in o…
Reformulación y necesidad de una nueva geografía regional flexible
2001
Joaquin.Farinos@uv.es FARINÓS DASÍ, Joaquin. La recuperación del territorio en el seno de las ciencias sociales ha provocado la reemergencia de la Geografía Regional. Si inicialmente su orientación fue primordialmente económica hoy es política, tanto desde el punto de vista de las policies como de la polity, aglutinadas hoy en torno a la planificación del desarrollo territorial. Ésta representa una oportunidad estratégica para la revalorización social de la Geografía y para el desarrollo de nuevas metodologías. Retrieval of territory by social sciences has promoted reemergence of Regional Geography. Even though initially his course was basically economic now is political, both from policy a…
Il diritto ad aspirare nelle geografie dei bambini. Una ricerca-azione partecipativa nel quartiere CEP di Palermo
2021
Questo lavoro si propone di indagare criticamente il ruolo che le aspirazioni urbane, vale a dire la capacità collettiva di immaginare spazi alternativi per le proprie città, hanno nella costruzione delle geografie quotidiane delle bambine e dei bambini. In linea con i presupposti della Political Geography of Children, bambine e bambini vengono qui consi-derati come attori socio-spaziali capaci di rinegoziare pratiche e rappresentazioni imposte dagli adulti. Muovendo da queste considerazioni teoriche e dai principi metodologici della ricerca-azione partecipativa, analizzeremo il percorso laboratoriale organizzato con le ragazze e i ragazzi dell’Associazione San Giovanni Apostolo del CEP di …
Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part I: Functionalism and Conflict Theory
2020
Abstract Street names are mundane spatial markers that besides providing a sense of orientation inscribe onto the landscape the ideological ethos and political symbols of hegemonic discourses. This review article takes stock of the existing scholarship done on the politics of street naming practices in human (political, cultural, and social) geography and rethinks these insights from sociological perspectives. Drawing on Randall Collins’ taxonomy of sociological theory, the paper interprets urban street nomenclatures along functionalist, conflictualist, constructionist, and utilitarian lines. The analysis is delivered in two installments: Part I addresses urban nomenclatures from functional…
Native Waterscapes in the Northern Borderlands: Restoring Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms
2018
ABSTRACT: In her novel Solar Storms (1995) Chickasaw novelist and poet Linda Hogan foresees what political geographers today refer to as waterscapes, that is, water-based environments where a multiplicity of human and other-than-human forces interact with each other producing diverse forms of signification. This essay examines Indigenous experiences of water, geography, and social activism as they intersect in Hogan‘s waterscape narrative. I ground my analysis of this visionary novel in recent geographical studies that look at waterscapes from the perspective of cultural politics and which criticize rationalist conceptions of water that reduce it to the sole function of human commodity. Ch…