Search Results for geography

...David Bell This personal reflection traces some of the interconnections between Stuart Hall's work and the “new” cultural geography. The author, in the context of his own intellectual biography and indebted to Hall and to those geographers whose work has been influenced by him, is interested...

...David Kellogg Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 David Kellogg Kinsella, Geography, History Thomas Kinsella s poems are grey, meticulous, and patiently documentary. They move in an urban field of entangled and confused buildings, a cityscape that has been razed and rebuilt many...

...Sarah Philipson Isaac This essay explores the entanglement of racial capitalism, carceral geographies, and counter‐politics of care within the sociopolitical landscape of Sweden. It analyzes the government's response to gang violence in 2023, which mobilized the figure of a “racial threat...

..., this article draws on the tools of black political thought, anarchist theory, as well as geography and carceral studies to argue that these practices offer a black anarchist critique of the governance of white carceral geographies, often hidden in Western cover stories of development and security formulated...

...Giulia Torino This article questions the meaning and scope of “settling” in the context of racial capitalism and its structural displacements, from a perspective situated in the mobile and transborder geographies of labor and inhabitation that are proliferating at the crossroads of old and new...

...Dušan I. Bjelić This essay focuses on Balkan discourse geography as a hidden contingency of the intellectual work of Slavoj Žižek and Julia Kristeva. It takes into account the extent to which their self-proclaimed cosmopolitanism and universalism reflect disidentification with their Balkan...

..., logistics, and finance harnessed to a fantasy of logistical biopower in service of capital. Rather, Asian circuits of capital in Africa call attention to new, uneven geographies of accumulation, accountability, and struggle. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Africa India China extraction capital...

...Brenda Chalfin Ocean spaces are a dynamic arena of political transformation and claims-making essential to the unfolding of late capitalism. Indicative of the expanding geography of oil prospecting in the South Atlantic Ocean, the deep waters of the western Gulf of Guinea map a political economic...

..., homogenous force, undifferentiated by history, geography, vulnerabilities, and relationships to the reproduction of sociomaterial environments. Most crucially, this essay problematizes the historical and ontological separation of natural and anthropogenic environmental conditions and human and nonhuman...

... of a differentiated labor force are keys to understanding how these networks are constructed. By focusing on the specific composition of the workforce inside the supply chain, we underline how the differences in each node of production are managed to hinder conflict in the workplace. We analyze how the new geography...

... a particular space and geography in Chuimeq'ena' (Totonicapán), and from there they deploy a series of strategies for controlling microfinance institutions. How then can we understand the role of credit for families who organize their lives on communal lands? © 2016 Duke University Press 2016...

... national and global political economies. By connecting distant locales, pipelines allow the geography of one terminal point to be framed as a viable source of resource extraction and the other as the site of consumption, regardless of existing conditions. The reliability of this spatial connection between...

... currency derives its value relationally, that is, in relation to other currencies, and how the financial manipulation of such value through computer trading techniques contributes to the variable geographies of contemporary capitalism. Overall, the article presents currency as a frame for rethinking...

..., sea, and air of the new geography of knowledge capitalism. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Andrew Ross Away from Home: The Case of University Employees Overseas These are not the best times for Americans to be offering advice...

... expressions, as enacting a dialogue with nationalism, and as a critical engagement with metropolitan modernism and cosmopolitanism. Their works also reconnect with the discursive tradition of Islam that cuts across temporality and geography, thereby propelling this body of work into the present...

... that are discordant with those initially imposed by capitalist processes. With regard to social movements, the article shows how the diversity of the geographies, practices, and claims animating them can be understood as unfolding “within and against” the post-2008 global scenario. It illustrates how contemporary...

...Penny Koutrolikou Crisis has been one of the most popular words in Europe since the turn of the millennium, exemplified by the “Eurozone crisis,” the so-called “refugee crisis,” and the latest Covid-19 crisis—among others. Drawing on critical analyses of crises and on imagined geographies...

..., and several coedited volumes. Deborah Cowen is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include contested spaces; geographies of citizenship and labor; militarism, violence, and security; cities and social justice; and sub...

... and successfully engaged in an exacting profession, he never lost interest in literary work. He had a large and well selected library, composed principally of works on medi­ cine, history, geography, geology and theology. In order to gratify his taste for research he found it necessary to econo­ mize the spare...

... in English on the geography of the one-sixth of the earth s surface, as Soviet citizens like to call their land. The author, a leading Soviet scientist, although primarily an ichthyologist, has worked in geography, geology, soil science, climatology, and other studies relating to geography since 1895...