{"title":"Ethnic conflict and reconciliation in Sri Lanka","authors":"Shantha K. Hennayake","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90020-B","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90020-B","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 203-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90020-B","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97112113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Those people across the water just don't know our problems’: an analysis of friends and neighbours voting in a geographically-split legislative district","authors":"Daniel C. Kramer","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90018-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90018-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Because of the US Supreme Court's one-person, one-vote decision, recent years have seen in that country an increase in the number of ‘geographically-split’ legislative districts; i.e., legislative districts divided into distinct sections by a natural feature such as a river, harbour, desert or mountain chain. This article analyses elections in one such district, the New York State 62nd Assembly District in New York City, whose Staten Island half was separated from its Manhattan half by New York Harbour. In almost all the elections, a ‘friends-and-neighbours’ factor played a role, with candidates from a particular part of the district faring better there than on the other side of the harbour. (However, partisan allegiance had some impact in these races as well.) Further research is needed to determine whether the ‘friends-and-neighbours’ factor prevails in other geographically-split legislative districts and, if so, the extent to which legislators from one portion of a district adequately represent the interests of the residents of the other.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 189-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90018-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85787952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World-state formation: historical processes and emergent necessity","authors":"Christopher Chase-Dunn","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90014-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90014-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent studies of processes operating in the modern world system imply that the continued existence of the interstate system—the system of multiple, competing, and unequally powerful states—may be a luxury which humanity cannot afford. Because of the destructiveness of modern weaponry the continuation of the legitimacy of warfare as a method for resolving disputes is incompatible with the survival of our world civilization and perhaps also with the survival of life on Earth. This paper examines theories which purport to explain the longevity and structural basis of the contemporary interstate system. These have implications for the possibility of global state formation.</p><p>Comparative research shows that the modern interstate system is unusually long-lived. I argue that the emergence of capitalist commodity production accounts for the structural resistance of the contemporary interstate system to transformation into a ‘universal empire’. The processes of hegemonic rise and fall of states which operate within the modern system differ significantly from earlier world systems in which capitalist commodity production was less fully institutionalized. Modern hegemonic core states support the multicentric political structure of the interstate system, while dominant states in earlier systems tried to create system-wide imperium. This analysis of the relationship between the logic of accumulation and processes of political centralization has implications for the possibilities of developing a world polity which can prevent the usage of weapons of mass destruction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 108-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90014-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77845689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in cities: Gender and the urban environment","authors":"M.Dolores Garcia-Ramon","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90021-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90021-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 204-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90021-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99754227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rise and fall of Finnish geopolitics","authors":"Anssi Paasi","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90006-V","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90006-V","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper examines the development and content of Finnish political geography and in particular the development of geopolitical thinking and its social and historical contexts in Finland and internationally. Political geography has not been popular in Finland, even though the country is often regarded as an epitome of living geopolitics, as described by the expression ‘Finlandization’. Geopolitics was more popular in Finland among academic circles and within various nationalist movements before World War II, and one specifically geopolitical number of <em>Terra,</em> the journal of the Geographical Society of Finland, is analysed to identify the tendencies that have been central to Finnish geopolitical thinking. The roots of geopolitics in Finland can be traced to relations between Finland, the Soviet Union and Germany.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 53-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90006-V","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73679678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth cohorts and political unrest in South Korea","authors":"Gary Fuller, Forrest R. Pitts","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90003-S","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90003-S","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>South Korea's population is currently passing through an age-structure transition featuring the emergence of a high proportion of young adults, those in the 15–24 age range. This paper describes the effect of this transition on political stability in South Korea, and uses population projections to show the potential effect of age-structure change, and discusses the efforts of the government to counteract negative features of this impact.</p><p>A growing awareness among population scholars of the relation of age-structure to political instability has led them to note that in many countries unrest arises when the proportion of young adults is larger than 20 percent. Given that proportion as a possible danger level, it is projected that for South Korea as a whole, and for most provinces, the danger is almost over. However, proportions above 20 percent will likely remain in Seoul and Pusan for three or four years more.</p><p>Unrest among students and young workers over the past seven years may be seen as a not surprising result of the youth bulge, and decline in levels of unrest may be expected in the relatively near future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 9-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90003-S","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86330122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour in the sunbelt: the politics of local economic development strategy in an ‘M4-corridor’ town","authors":"Keith Bassett","doi":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90007-W","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0260-9827(90)90007-W","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Swindon has experienced a remarkable transformation in the post-war period from a working-class railway town to an economically and socially diverse centre for high technology industry, distribution, research and development, and financial services. This paper explores this transformation in the wider context of changes in the space economy of post-war British capitalism. A central theme is the rise of a local ‘growth coalition’ and the effectiveness of the policies pursued by the Labour-controlled local authority in assisting this transformation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the political challenges and policy dilemmas that Labour now faces in this ‘M4-corridor’ town as a consequence of economic restructuring and social change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101034,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 67-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0260-9827(90)90007-W","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91418258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}