The problem of measuring distances in migration is a nontrivial, but important problem, e.g., for delimiting the concepts of population migration and residential mobility. With limited access to ...detailed spatial data, researchers address this problem in different ways. Only a few countries, e.g., Sweden, have the ability to calculate migration distances between point locations using Euclidean distance. This article examines the measure of correspondence of Euclidean distances (measured taking into account the curvature of the globe) to real distances along transport routes for the case of Russia. For this, 3407 pairs of distances were calculated for randomly selected 23 municipal districts in Russia directly and along transport routes—roads. Also, 411 pairs of distances were calculated for population centers with no road connections by using air service. These distances give an idea of migrations of different distances in Russia. As a result, for hypothetical relocations within the selected municipal districts, real distances on roads exceed Euclidean distances by 51%; for relocations between the centers of districts and urban
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s within a region, by 40%; for interregional relocations, 33%. The air service used “straightens” distances, but even taking this into account, real distances (mainly long-distance, interregional) exceed Euclidean distances by 28.5%. The calculations give an idea of the deviations of real transport distances from the relatively simple Euclidean distances, which can be used in analyzing migration distances in Russia.
► Fpe is going through a period of reflection and debate. ► In theorizing gender, the subfield must account for race more explicitly. ► To do so, we argue for a postcolonial intersectional analysis. ...► This approach is put to work analyzing race, gender and whiteness in Honduras.
Feminist political ecology (fpe) is at a crossroads. Over the last 2years, feminist political ecologists have begun to reflect on and debate the strengths of this subfield. In this article, we contribute by pointing to the limited theorization of race in this body of work. We argue that fpe must theorize a more complex and messier, notion of ‘gender’, one that accounts for race, racialization and racism more explicitly. Building on the work of feminist geography and critical race scholarship, we argue for a postcolonial intersectional analysis in fpe – putting this theory to work in an analysis of race, gender and whiteness in Honduras. With this intervention we demonstrate how theorizing race and gender as mutually constituted richly complicates our understanding of the politics of natural resource access and control in the Global South.
► We provide a geographical and comparative analysis of world university rankings. ► Such rankings always produce partial and specific geographies of global higher education. ► The Shanghai ranking ...favors established universities in Europe and the United States. ► Emerging universities fare better in the THE-QS ranking, particularly those in Asia Pacific. ► Both rankings prioritize resource-intensive technosciences and thus convey a limited sense of scholarship.
This paper contributes to emerging debates about uneven global geographies of higher education through a critical analysis of world university rankings. Drawing on recent work in geography, international higher education and bibliometrics, the paper examines two of the major international ranking schemes that have had significant public impact in the context of the on-going neoliberalization of higher education. We argue that the emergence of these global rankings reflects a scalar shift in the geopolitics and geoeconomics of higher education from the national to the global that prioritizes academic practices and discourses conducted in particular places and fields of research. Our analysis illustrates how the substantial variation in ranking criteria produces not only necessarily partial but also very specific global geographies of higher education. In comparison, these reveal a wider tension in the knowledge-based economy between established knowledge centers in Europe and the United States and emerging knowledge hubs in Asia Pacific. An analysis of individual ranking criteria, however, suggests that other measures and subject-specific perspectives would produce very different landscapes of higher education.
Dreaming the ordinary Staeheli, Lynn A.; Ehrkamp, Patricia; Leitner, Helga ...
Progress in human geography,
10/2012, Letnik:
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This paper introduces the concept of ‘ordinary’ to analyze citizenship’s complexities. Ordinary is often taken to mean standard or routine, but it also invokes order and authority. Conceptualizing ...citizenship as ordinary trains our attention on the ways in which the spatiality of laws and social norms are entwined with daily life. The idea of ordinariness fuses legal structures, normative orders and the experiences of individuals, social groups and communities, making citizenship both a general category and a contingent resource for political life. We explore this argument using immigrants as an example, but the conceptualization of citizenship extends more broadly.
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In order to analyze and understand spatial dynamics, which of these three factors is explanatory: the characteristics of the territory, the nature of the settlement or its populations and their ...changes? To provide answers to this question, it is first necessary to clarify the definitions of the three terms populations, settlement and territory, before showing their interactions by using different geo-graphical examples. Finally, it is important to show to what extent the determinants of geographical processes require consideration of these three terms.
Theorizing Sociospatial Relations Jessop, Bob; Brenner, Neil; Jones, Martin
Environment and planning. D, Society & space,
06/2008, Letnik:
26, Številka:
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This essay seeks to reframe recent debates on sociospatial theory through the introduction of an approach that can grasp the inherently polymorphic, multidimensional character of sociospatial ...relations. As previous advocates of a scalar turn, we now question the privileging, in any form, of a single dimension of sociospatial processes, scalar or otherwise. We consider several recent sophisticated ‘turns’ within critical social science; explore their methodological limitations; and highlight several important strands of sociospatial theory that seek to transcend the latter. On this basis, we argue for a more systematic recognition of polymorphy—the organization of sociospatial relations in multiple forms—within sociospatial theory. Specifically, we suggest that territories (T), places (P), scales (S), and networks (N) must be viewed as mutually constitutive and relationally intertwined dimensions of sociospatial relations. We present this proposition as an extension of recent contributions to the spatialization of the strategic-relational approach (SRA), and we explore some of its methodological implications. We conclude by briefly illustrating the applicability of the ‘TPSN framework’ to several realms of inquiry into sociospatial processes under contemporary capitalism.
This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, ...disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling of emotions, politics and place overlooks agency, resistance and action. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.
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This paper takes as its starting point the centrality of nonrepresentational registers of communication and comprehension to understanding how everyday experiences of travelling with others by public ...transport unfolds. Drawing on extensive primary research, it explores how different affective atmospheres erupt and decay in the space of the train carriage; the modes of affective transmission that might take place; and the character of the collectives that are mobilised and cohere through these atmospheres. Acknowledging that these atmospheres have powerful effects, this paper focuses on the trajectories of particular misanthropic affective relations; and how such negative relations emerge from a complex set of forces which prime passengers to act. Yet this call to action is often met with a reticent passivity that transposes these negative affective relations, often in ways that intensify their force. In expanding the realm of that which is often taken to constitute the ‘social’, the paper concludes by considering how the demands of collective responsibility fold through contemporary understandings of community.
The concept of story draws attention to the relationship between personal experience and expression, and the broader contexts within which such experiences are ordered, performed, interpreted, and ...disciplined. In the past, particularly through the ‘cultural turn’, geographers were predominantly concerned with the ways in which story and storytelling were implicated in the production of cultural, economic, political, and social power. Today, this approach to story is being re-examined and new approaches to story are being explored. Geographers have been re-imagining the concept of story as part of a relational and material turn within the discipline, as part of a renewed focus on the political possibilities afforded by storytelling, and as a mode of expressing non-representational, (post)phenomenological geographies. This paper contextualizes recent work within broader disciplinary trends and critically evaluates the intellectual and political stakes of these new geographies of story and storytelling. It questions whether a shift away from understanding stories and storytelling in terms of power, knowledge, and difference (as was emphasized through the cultural turn) has opened new understandings of political, social, and cultural life, or risks abandoning crucial insights into the role of stories in geographical formations.
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