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Policy mobilities and the policy cycle: An analysis using two smart grid case studies 政策流动性和政策周期:使用两个智能电网案例研究的分析

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103818

Heather Lovell , Cynthia Nixon , Alana Betzold

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Philantrocapitalism and the re-making of global water charity 慈善资本主义和全球水慈善事业的重建

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103788

Filippo Menga , Maria Rusca , Rossella Alba

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University as real estate developer: Comparative perspectives from the Global East 作为房地产开发商的大学:来自全球东方的比较视角

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103764

Do Young Oh , Hyun Bang Shin

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Affects and assemblages of (un)safety among female bus commuters in Dhaka 达卡女性公交通勤者(不)安全的影响和集合

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103802

Seama Mowri , Ajay Bailey

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A rhythmanalysis of the (de)/(re)territorialisation of self in international migration 国际移民中自我(去)/(再)领土化的节奏分析

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103790

Adriana Mihaela Soaita

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Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles & apparel sector 通过全球、区域或国家价值链升级？来自东非纺织和服装行业的公司级证据

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103809

Julian Boys , Antonio Andreoni

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The Chinese new middle class and their production of an ‘authentic’ rural landscape in China’s gentrified villages 中国新中产阶级及其在中国士绅化乡村中创造的“真实”乡村景观

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103793

Peipei Chen , Min Zhang , Ying Wang

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Digital commoning and post-capitalist crypto-economies: The case of FairCoop 数字通用和后资本主义加密经济:FairCoop的案例

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103811

Xavier Balaguer Rasillo

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Climate governance by numerical data: The kaleidoscopic political space of a decarbonization dashboard 数字数据的气候治理:脱碳仪表板的万花筒政治空间

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103801

Francesco Colona

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Slow violence against animals: Unseen spectacles in racing and at zoos 针对动物的缓慢暴力：比赛和动物园里看不见的场面

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103820

Paula Arcari

{"title":"Slow violence against animals: Unseen spectacles in racing and at zoos","authors":"Paula Arcari","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103820","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103820","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is little consensus on what constitutes violence towards nonhuman animals <em>and</em> a perceptual lacuna between understandings of violence and violent effects. This paper aims to address both issues, first by using Nixon’s concept of slow violence to extend conceptions of violence towards nonhumans beyond a focus on physical violence, and second, by foregrounding the subjectivities affected by violence. Focusing on zoos and racing events (horses and greyhounds) – spaces where violence towards animals is largely silent or ‘smoothed’ - practices that support and shape the visual consumption of spectacularised animals are examined through interviews with 59 visitors to these sites. Analysis reveals how the subjectivities of the animals in question are respectively aggregated and negated, instrumentalised, anthropocentrically narrated, and re-captured at potential points of escape from these ‘hypertopic’ regimes. As a discursive corrective to this desubjectification, and offering a means of imaginative resistance, the final part of the paper offers three ficto-critical biographical constructions of the lives of a greyhound, a thoroughbred horse used in racing, and a mandrill. These constructions centre the subjective, lifetime experience of these animals, encompassing not only moments of human interaction but also their effects. In conclusion, the paper argues that unsettling speciesism and anthropocentrism requires more than critiques of fast violence. Expanding and clarifying understandings of violence against other animals is proposed as one means of launching a more serious challenge to the oppression of all animals, including those used in ways conceived as largely benign or even benevolent.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103820"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44067824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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