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A preliminary engagement with the spatiality of power in cyberwar

the geopolitical spaces of cyberwar critically unexamined. To facilitate greater geographical engagement with cyberwar, this paper proposes a spatiality of power model to examine how political space and ... how political space and power might manifest in cyberwar. The model proposes four ways in which political space and power manifest offline and how the model can be applied towards cyberwar. The utility

Shall the sun ever rise on South Africa's new dawn? - A missiology of hope redefined

hereof, this article demonstrates that it is in the habit of leaders to launch their political dispensations with catchphrases that intend to inspire change, hope and prosperity. This is the basis of this ... hypothetically applied to the dwindling hope of South Africa's socio-political future. The article attempts to answer a persistent question of whether there is any hope under the current President Cyril

Cosmopolis: public spaces, cosmopolitanism, and democracy

therefore propose a bibliographic review that deals with the political nature of public spaces, the dimension of contestation within public sociability, the advent of virtual public spaces, and the geography ... same democratic political phenomenon (Parkinson, 2012) . In the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, notions of politics, democracy, and public space completely lose a sense of existence when

Is illegal mining socio-politically entrenched? An opinion piece of the interaction between formal politics and chief dominance in mineral governance, and its influence on fighting Galamsey in Ghana

galamsey, however, the modalities of the fight and socio-political power relations have jointly militated against the effectiveness of the fight. It is particularly argued that policymakers should rather ... the political landscape of Ghana, where politicians sometimes negotiate with chiefs/kings for political expediency during elections. This can be achieved by motivating chiefs/king's to become  principal

The political ecology of seed security in the Northern Ghanaian Savannahs

approaches still dominate despite earlier calls for seed security to be situated in the political and historical context within which the farmers operate (McGuire and Sperling 2013; Sperling 2008) . Moreover ... , Robbins (2012) showed that environmental issues become a product of social and political processes when local groups (e.g., defined by ethnicity) secure control over collective resources at the expense of

International environmental policy processes that dispossessed developing societies of public land resources: A case study of Nepal

international political objectives and processes that dispossessed developing societies of public land resources for the benefit of developed countries. It shows that representatives of the developed countries ... (Aryal et al., 2021; Dhakal et al., 2022a; Heinen & Kattel, 1992; Ives & Messerli, 1989) . This study attempted to address the knowledge gap in political ecology literature by answering the following

Reading Geography and Geographers and Political Geography today

challenges-to consider the increasing precarity of the academic job market and to better incorporate black geographies as foundational to the field. Higher education; Political geography Graduate school Black

Changing Africa - Reflections on family involvement in African Christian marriage

multiple indicator approach", Population and Development Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 61-78.         [ Links ] Metz, T. 2007, "Toward an African moral theory", The Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 15 ... meet the unique needs of the African Christian and reflective of the philosophy of African culture (cf. Louw 1997:392). The first step towards this is understanding the lived experiences of African

A view from the borderlands of Anglophone (political) geography

of Amsterdam , Roeterseiland Campus, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam , The Netherlands The seven editions of Geography and Geographers and of Political Geography form two intimidating ... -Anglophone borderlands of Anglo-American (political) geography. History of geography; Political geography; Anglophone geography; Ordering; Bordering; Textbook - of students in the Anglophone world and well

Power and conviction dynamics on land and linked natural resources: explorative insights from the greater south region of Cameroon

drive land resource access, gender-based and religious-based convictions are less recurrent. Secondly, while elitism-based actors exercise power through coercion, religious and political actors employ ... linked to greed-based mechanisms (Butsic et  al., 2015; Delgado-Matas et al., 2015; Hanai, 2021) . Understanding and dealing with conflicts in SSA requires an in-depth exploration of the political

Bauxite mining at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana: a political ecology of a conservation-exploitation conflict

Atewa Forest and propose that the area should be upgraded to a National Park. In this study, this conservation-exploitation conflict is analyzed from a political ecology perspective elaborating on who are ... perspective elaborating on who are the involved key actors, their relations and what strategies are used. Political ecology is about recognizing the power that actors have at the moment of deciding what, how

Informal sector counterpower in Harare, Zimbabwe

alternative practices could be built on alternative knowledge and take the form of alternative rules and new forms of political organization. Grassroots mobilization and social movements are examples. Gee ... .), Time, Communication and Global Capitalism . International Political Economy Series Palgrave Macmillan. Ibrahim , S. , & Alkire , S. ( 2007 ). Agency and empowerment: A proposal for internationally

‘Built from the internet up’: assessing citizen participation in smart city planning through the case study of Quayside, Toronto

that these claims are still framed within a neoliberal, post-political conception of citizenship, whereby citizens are afforded little agency. In evaluating such projects and in aid of developing a ... city planning. In light of this, a new heuristic which assesses the post-political spaces of citizen engagement has been developed. This heuristic can provide a productive foundation for further research

Understanding the shared working spaces: a Geography of Co-working supply in Delhi

The present paper investigates the location pattern of co-working spaces in Delhi which is absent in the existing body of knowledge. Delhi is a political, administrative, educational, scientific and

Lefebvrian analysis of livestock keeping in Fingo Village, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa

politics of space because space is political Henri Lefebvre and the production of space . Radical Philosophy Review , 10 ( 2 ), 101 - 116 . Gallaher , C. M. , & Njenga , M. ( 2019 ). Urban agriculture . In D ... no competing ideas and values. Other studies have applied the production of space theory in conservation space (Hansen, 2013) ; public spaces (Gordon, 2012; Nkooe, 2018) ; as well as political

Through troubled times: reflections on Ron Johnston’s Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945 (1979) and Peter Taylor’s Political Geography: World Economy, National-State and Locality (1985)

Department of Political Science, Utah State University , Logan, UT 84322-0700 , USA 2 M. van Meeteren Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University , Epinal Way ... : Geography and Geographers and Political Geography. After putting the emergence of both books in their historical context we discuss their meandering route through the development of geographical thought since

European environmental governance and the post-ecology perspective: a critical analysis of the Water Framework Directive

political ecology approach and the post-ecology analytical perspective, this research analyzes the nature of the WFD with its aims of reconfiguring national water politics in terms of policies, mechanisms and ... : The end of nature, climate change and the post-political condition . Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement , 69 , 253 - 274 . Valinia , S. , Hansen , H. P. , Futter , M. N. , Bishop , K

The evolution of rural areas influenced by large-scale farming: four case studies from Hungary

configuration in these areas shows a number of continuities despite the significant political-economic transitions throughout this period. The global dependency and semi-peripheral position of Hungary is apparent ... 2005) . This approach is relevant, because during the twentieth century significant political transitions happened in Hungary, which resulted in large differences regarding political philosophy and

Environmental justice: geostatistical analysis of environmental hazards and socioeconomic factors—the case of Italy

social, economic and political dimension of the problem often adopting a political ecology perspective. Several works have explored the role of Footnote 1 (continued) mental impacts (Centro Documentazione ... of illness, including her own, become a political act against environmental injustice; by transforming private issues into collective resistance is possible to create counter-hegemonic narratives that

The concept of quality of life and its application using the World Value Survey Wave 7: Slovak experience

objective dimension of the quality of life is spatially oriented. Unlike philosophy and psychology, which deal with  man "in general", geography deals with man in a specific physical space. The data for ... is one of the most prominent issues (Faka, 2020) , and interest in it is also expressed in public debates. This position is due to a combination of scientific and political interest and popularity in