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This intervention focuses on recent disruptions and transformations in the (post)pandemic world economy that will likely ‘trouble’ economic geographers for some time to come. It aims to ...foster constructive dialogues and move conversations forward in the expanding field of economic geography whose presence and relevance in critical human geography is ironically at stake. I contend that economic geography in the early 2020s is characterised by a changing world and a changing generation of more diverse researchers who can be innovative enough to take on these troubling themes for future research. I suggest four such research directions that combine new themes of geopolitics and risks in remaking the global economy with older issues of work and environment that certainly merit renewed interest and greater analytical attention in the field. Taken together, these new horizons for economic geography research throughout the 2020s and beyond can be well capitalised upon to enhance the intellectual and public relevance of the field.
Short Abstract
This intervention focuses on recent disruptions and transformations in the (post)pandemic world economy and suggests four troubling themes for future research in economic geography: (geo)politics, economies, and space; remaking the global economy; worlds of work; and (un)sustainable global economic/environmental change.
What separates camps and prisons as distinct institutions of confinement? This question has important implications for geographic research, and particularly for current and potential intersections ...between “camp studies” and other contiguous fields in geography. Here, I conceptualize camps and prisons as historical formations, whose distinction varies at specific junctures. I compare confinement sites in reference to their temporal equilibriums and changes over time, so as to highlight possible convergences among them. To demonstrate my argument, I take legal developments concerning the Guantánamo Bay detention camp as an empirical reference point, and I examine the camp’s progressive normalization within the US carceral circuit.
The building line designated in local land development plan is one of the important instruments for shaping urban space and the creation of spatial order. The aim of the study is to analyze the ...potential and real influence of this instrument on the formation of the compositional values of space. The analysis covered land development plans of the 3 largest cities in Lesser Poland. The analysis included the methods of defining the building lines and determining their course, including in relation to the rules of property division established by the plan. The results of the study illustrate the immense liberalism in the use of the analyzed instrument and marginalization of its importance in shaping urban space. The study also indicates the need for remedial actions and attempts to indicate them.
The research topic discussed in the article concerns the issues of territorial differentiation in the context of the wealth-poverty development dualism. The authors looked for factors that could ...influence the anchoring of municipalities in poverty, thus attempting to develop the current scientific discourse on the causes of long-term territorial differences. The presented data analysis focuses on the years 1995–2018 and includes units that in 1995 and 2018 were among the poorest municipalities in Poland, as well as those that managed to “get out of poverty”. Comparing the groups of municipalities, an attempt was made to assess the impact of internal resources as well as external conditions on the level of wealth. The methods of statistical analysis were used in the work: non-parametric statistical tests and panel regression. Comparing the results obtained in different groups of municipalities, it should be stated that the population potential, the level of entrepreneurship and the potential of the labor market are factors that have a limited impact on the explanation of the low level of affluence. The diversified influence of external factors related to key events in Poland and in the world was also shown.
The aim of the article is to identify the concepts of development concerning the functioning of socio-ecological systems that share common elements with the concept of resilience. The second aim is ...to identify critical remarks relating to the concept of resilience, which are seldom raised by researchers and practitioners. The above goals were achieved on the basis of a query of mainly international literature relating to the concept of resilience of socio-ecological systems. The results of the research indicate that in the literature dealing with the issue of resilience, links with the concept of vulnerability and sustainable development are relatively often indicated. Critical comments relate to understanding resilience as an objective feature independent of the adopted axiology, understanding resilience in a purely positive context, and understanding resilience as the ability to withstand negative shocks rather than the ability to constantly adapt.
Research into outer space has burgeoned in recent years, through the work of scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities. Geographers have made a series of useful contributions to this ...emergent work, but scholarship remains fairly limited in comparison to other disciplinary fields. This forum explains the scholarly roots of these new geographies of outer space, considering why and how geographies of outer space could make further important contributions. The forum invites reflections from political, environmental, historical and cultural geographers to show how human geography can present future avenues to continued scholarship into outer space.
The gendered production of infrastructure Siemiatycki, Matti; Enright, Theresa; Valverde, Mariana
Progress in human geography,
04/2020, Letnik:
44, Številka:
2
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Over the years, many studies have documented how the negative impacts of infrastructure investments are disproportionately borne by women, the poor and racial minorities. In this paper, we focus on ...the ways that unequal gender dynamics are a key feature of the production of infrastructure, a topic that has received far less attention. In particular, we show how masculinity is deeply embedded in the organizational structures, employment practices, symbolic narratives and systems of power that create the vast arrays of infrastructure globally. We discuss the implications of a masculinist network of infrastructure development, and point to directions for future research.
This paper brings together carceral and labour geographies to highlight new research avenues and empirical gaps. Despite valuable engagements with unfree and precarious work by labour geographers and ...substantial developments within carceral geography around carceral circuitry and intimate economies of detention, punitive aspects of work remain largely under-theorised within labour geography, while the political economy of carceral labour is relatively side-lined within carceral geography. The paper calls for two interrelated research agendas – the first a punitive labour geographies agenda, and the second a more sustained political economy lens applied to carceral geography in the context of labour and work.
This paper traces the transformative travels of the metaphor of the ‘fix’ across the unbounded terrain of geographical political economy. It argues for taking the fix seriously as a root metaphor of ...the field, a signifier of its history and theory-cultures. Critically excavating the entwined genealogies of the metaphor and the field, it illuminates several historically successive and thematic moments of ‘fix thinking’, including: the spatial fix (1980s); institutional and spatio-temporal fixes of regulationist-theoretical approaches (1990s); and the scalar fix of state rescaling theory (2000s). It reviews these stages and their broader intellectual and political implications for critical geographical scholarship.
Geographies of migration I Ehrkamp, Patricia
Progress in human geography,
12/2017, Letnik:
41, Številka:
6
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This first report on Geographies of Migration primarily centers on refugees. I first summarize some of the debates about categories scholars use to describe people who move across space. The article ...then discusses three prominent themes in geographic research on refugees, turning first to the securitization of migration, its spatial and territorial practices of migration management, and the reworking of borders. Next, I highlight research on the warehousing of refugees in camps and cities, and the protracted uncertainty these practices create. The third major strand of scholarship I discuss challenges ‘the refugee condition’ that deems refugees passive victims in need of intervention and focuses instead on refugees’ everyday and embodied experiences of displacement, their subjectivities and agency.
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