Powerful assemblages? Allen, John
Area (London 1969),
06/2011, Letnik:
43, Številka:
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In thinking through how different registers of power, that are neither centred nor radically dispersed in pattern, come into play with different outcomes in different times and places, the notion of ...assemblage has its appeal. Two qualities come to mind. First off, it allows for non-coherence as a way of thinking about how institutional arrangements of power more or less hold together, despite being made up of a co-existence of often diverse logics and practices. Second, spatio-temporal assemblages offer a way of understanding the various power plays that shape, say, the politics of regions and nation states, by invoking a topological sensibility around proximity and distance that appears more productive than the familiar topographies of scale and networks. Weighed against such attractions, however, the notion of assemblage lends itself to a number of pitfalls: endless description is one, weak conceptualisation another.
Pacific island countries have paid increasing attention to the situation in Indonesia's easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua (commonly referred to collectively as West Papua) in recent ...years, prompted mainly by continuing human rights abuses as well as the more general political and economic marginalization of indigenous West Papuan people since integration with Indonesia in 1969. This article addresses some key questions concerning Indonesia's failure to deal effectively with the issue. Against a background of reactionary hypernationalism on the one hand, and a rhetorical anti-colonial internationalism on the other, domestic policy with respect to the treatment of indigenous West Papuans has, for the most part, seen a continuation of repressive authoritarian measures. And in responding to international criticisms, foreign policy has been poorly handled. There has been a lack of serious engagement with human rights issues as reflected in ongoing denial of abuses in the provinces and a generally reactive and defensive foreign policy approach. At a bureaucratic level, there is little coordination between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other ministries with responsibilities for West Papua, and therefore no effective basis on which to build a coherent policy response. Another problem consists in Indonesia's often clumsy public diplomacy in the Pacific islands region. As a consequence, the West Papua issue continues to grow in prominence in Pacific regional politics and beyond.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, ODKLJ, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Researchers, policymakers, and the public often claim that “extreme” political views have become increasingly commonplace and that polarization on issues of race and immigration has become a central ...dilemma for contemporary politics. The popular narrative of political polarization captures tensions that many are noticing and experiencing. However, there is also significant confusion around the concept, as well as gaps between popular perceptions and empirical findings on the different forms of polarization and their prevalence across regions. It is unclear to what extent polarization describes a global phenomenon, as its national and subnational manifestations vary considerably, produced from distinct local histories as well as diffuse transnational forces. While the United States is often treated as ground zero for political polarization, nearby Canada does not appear to be experiencing polarization to nearly the same degree. Using data from a 2019 survey on Atlantic Canadians’ political views and perceptions of change, this paper examines whether underlying forms of political polarization are manifesting in the region. We assess whether mass ideological polarization and partisan sorting can be found in Atlantic Canada, looking at socio-cultural and economic dimensions of political values. We also examine perceptions of polarization in the region, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis to observe underlying associations between perceptions, extreme or polarized views, and partisanship. This mapping approach provides insight into latent patterns often missed by more traditional methods.
Urban Wild Things: A Cosmopolitical Experiment Hinchliffe, Steve; Kearnes, Matthew B; Degen, Monica ...
Environment and planning. D, Society & space,
10/2005, Letnik:
23, Številka:
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Cities are inhabited by all manner of things and made up of all manner of practices, many of which are unnoticed by urban politics and disregarded by science. In this paper we do two things. First, ...we add to the sense that urban living spaces involve much more than human worlds and are often prime sites for human and nonhuman ecologies. Second, we experiment with what is involved in taking these nonhuman worlds and ecologies seriously and in producing a politics for urban wilds. In order to do this we learn how to sense urban wildlife. In learning new engagements we also learn new things and in particular come to see urban wilds as matters of controversy. For this reason we have borrowed and adapted Latour's language to talk of wild things. Wild things become more rather than less real as people learn to engage with them. At the same time, wild things are too disputed, sociable, and uncertain to become constant objects upon which a stable urban politics can be constructed. So a parliament of wild things might be rather different from the house of representatives that we commonly imagine. It may be closer to what Stengers (1997, Power and Invention University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN) has characterised as cosmopolitics, a politics that is worked out without recourse to old binaries of nature and society. Using empirical work with urban wildlife-trust members we muddy the clean lines of representational politics, and start to grapple with issues that a reconvened wild politics might involve.
Although the concept of regional power is frequently used in International Relations (IR) literature, there is no consensus regarding the defining characteristics of a regional power. The article ...discusses different theoretical approaches that address the topic of power hierarchies in international politics and make reference to the concept of regional power. Marking differences as well as common ground with the more traditional concept of ‘middle powers’, the article outlines an analytical concept of regional powers adequate for contemporary IR research. The analytical dimensions of the framework may be employed to differentiate regional powers from other states and to compare regional powers with regard to their power status or relative power. Furthermore, the article investigates the possible repercussions of the rise of regional powers for international politics and discusses the probable importance and functions of regional governance structures for regional powers.
Regional autocratic linkage and regime survival SCHMOTZ, ALEXANDER; TANSEY, OISÍN
European journal of political research,
August 2018, 2018-08-00, 20180801, Letnik:
57, Številka:
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In this article, the effects of regional autocratic linkage on the survival of autocratic regimes are analysed. Scholars have suggested that regional factors shape regime survival through processes ...of diffusion. However, in most accounts, diffusion is simply derived from characteristics of the region, such as the number or proportion of regional autocracies. In contrast, it is argued here that it is the actual linkages between countries that must be examined. Regional political, economic and social ties between autocratic regimes create domestic and external stakes in the regime, counterweigh democratisation pressure and facilitate autocratic learning. The study employs the average volume of trade, migration and diplomatic exchanges between autocratic regimes within a region as proxies for regional autocratic linkage, and asserts that regional autocratic linkage is on the rise. Applying Cox survival models on a dataset of regional autocratic linkage and regime survival between 1946 and 2009, it is found that regional autocratic linkage significantly reduces the likelihood of autocratic regime breakdown. These effects hold when the proportion of autocratic regimes within a region is controlled for, suggesting that one must look beyond the characteristics of the countries within a region and focus on the ties and linkages between them.
BRICS is an important politico–economic body formed by five large developing countries, i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The BRICS countries are formed mainly due to the outcome ...of the Geo-politics of global governance. Geopolitics is the art and practice of using political power over a given region or territory. The present study is concerned with the evaluation of the geopolitical role of BRICS as an international, regional, and political organization. The main objective of this paper is to revisit the debate on political and economic power among the BRICS countries as regional politics and policies. This paper has been done mainly depending on some secondary data, research articles, books, and websites. Descriptive statistics, Composite Index (CI) methods have been used to obtain the empirical outcome. The BRICS countries have an emerging economy that is expected to become stronger in the future. This global governance will have a significant impact on many branches of the economy, health care services, and other regional aspects. The BRICS summit declarations are mainly based on economic, political, regional, financial, and commercial approaches. BRICS countries have an interdependent political strategy and interstate relations based on interdisciplinary cooperation and experience sharing. The improvement of educational and technical activities, more cooperation, and economic development should be needed for further progress of this alliance.
Objetivo: analizar las declaraciones y actividades de algunos intelectuales santandereanos ante la crisis sociopolítica regional ocasionada por los conflictos violentos en la provincia de García ...Rovira, tras el cambio de gobierno nacional conservador a liberal. Metodología: a partir del estudio de los actos ilocutivos, propuesto por el historiador Quentin Skinner, este texto examina principalmente los motivos y las intenciones del intelectual bumangués Gustavo Otero Muñoz (1894-1957), en sus pronunciamientos en prensa, actos públicos y correspondencia, inherentemente vinculados con un contexto comunicativo beligerante. Así, revela qué fue lo que hizo Otero al decir lo que dijo e interconecta y analiza las controversias y las interpretaciones de otros actores relacionados en ese campo comunicativo regional-nacional en disputa. Originalidad: al analizar las interrelaciones entre prensa y correspondencia, se revela que lo político, lo intelectual y lo cultural no son realidades vivenciadas y estudiadas separadamente, sino experiencias humanas entretejidas por redes de significaciones, prácticas y representaciones que buscan la participación y la acción sociopolítica mediante diversos usos del lenguaje. Conclusiones: al tiempo con sus labores oficiales como secretarios de gobierno o diputados de la Asamblea departamental, ciertos intelectuales santandereanos acudieron a estrategias culturales, discursivas y simbólicas para asumir posturas ante la cotidianidad atroz de una guerra provincial y ante los comentarios de la prensa nacional. Decretos, libros y conmemoraciones en Santander fueron fundamentales en ese sentido.
What role does China play in the recent rush for land acquisition in Africa? Conventional wisdom suggests a large role for the Chinese government and its firms. Ou r research suggests the opposite. ...Land acquisitions by Chinese companies have so far been quite limited, and focused on production for African consumption. We trace the evolution of strategy and incentives for Chinese agricultural engagement in Africa, and examine more closely several of the more well known cases, sorting out the myths and the realities.
This study investigates the presence of political risk premia among 298 listed companies from 59 Russian regions over a five-year period (10/2012–09/2017). Using a regional political stability score ...not available in the literature, this paper applies panel data approach to evidence the pricing of regional political risk in forms of long-term political instability premium (up to 2.20% monthly) and short-term impact-shock premium. The findings indicate that regional political risk is more impactful than countrywide or international risk and that regional political processes are crucial for the understanding of the synchronisation of stock returns with broader markets.
•Returns of Russian stocks are inversely related to regional political stability.•Political risk premium is substantially high and varies across Russian regions.•Political factor is impactful both as long-term risk premia and short-term shocks.•Political processes crucially contribute to the synchronisation of stock returns.
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