Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.5407
E. Boulineau
{"title":"Towards a Political Geography of Territorial Cooperation: Transnational Regions and City Networks in Perspective","authors":"E. Boulineau","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.5407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.5407","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes to explore territorial cooperation using a political geographical approach as part of the broader field of “geography of peace.” In line with ongoing paradigm shifts in the branch of political geography concerned with territorial reconfigurations, it examines the scope of territorial cooperation via two emblematic figures: transnational regions, in the form of European macro-regions, and city networks, as exemplified by town twinning. Lastly, it opens new avenues of research on the articulation between the weak and discreet ties of territorial cooperation and the strong ties characteristic of the territorial divisions and administrative structures inherited from political modernity.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44763794","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4327
S. Rosiére
{"title":"Dix ans de L’Espace politique. Géographie politique et géopolitique en question","authors":"S. Rosiére","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4327","url":null,"abstract":"Cet editorial du numero anniversaire des dix ans de L’Espace politique revient d’abord vers la revue : les circonstances de sa creation, ses objectifs et sa diffusion actuelle. L’auteur esquisse ensuite un bilan epistemologique de la decennie passee en geographie politique et geopolitique, soulignant la domination de l’ecole « critique ». Enfin, il tente de mettre en exergue quelques lignes de force dans l’evolution du monde depuis dix ans et notamment la rehabilitation de l’usage de la force dans les relations internationales, la fissuration des accords regionaux, la recomposition des systemes politiques dans le cadre democratique (ou pseudo democratique). Il conclut en soulignant la domination de l’echelle anthropologique (grande echelle) et des themes lies aux individus plutot qu’a l’analyse de l’etat du monde. Cette posture, si elle est trop systematique, peut poser probleme.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47044943","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4349
K. Cox
{"title":"‘Failed States’ in Question and the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"K. Cox","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4349","url":null,"abstract":"While the idea of the failed state can be easily contested as a Western conceit, understanding the symptoms typically claimed as indicating the condition is an important part of addressing it. A common argument has been that failure is a result of conditions internal to the country in question. This, though, is to ignore the way in which, in various ways, colonialism, and latterly a particular position in the international division of labor, have paved the way. In sub-Saharan African colonialism has been the more fundamental of the two. This is because of its failure to change production relations in a way that would encourage capitalist forms of development. A result has been the neo-patrimonial state which, in the context of dominantly pre-capitalist production relations, will necessarily struggle to achieve the standards held in the West to be successful.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49340485","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4363
V. Mamadouh
{"title":"National and supranational stereotypes in geopolitical representations of the European Union","authors":"V. Mamadouh","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4363","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the humoristic use of stereotypes in geopolitical representations of the European Union. Building upon the literature about stereotypes and geopolitical representations and that about humour and popular geopolitics, the paper aims at shedding light on the specificities of the case of the geopolitical imagination of the European Union. The paper examines the production and reproduction of national stereotypes and the creation of supranational ones in three cultural artefacts commissioned by EU institutions. The first is Entropa, an art installation commissioned by the Czech presidency of the Council at the occasion of the first Czech presidency in 2009, and the other two are videos commissioned by the European Commission for EUtube, its channel on YouTube. They all attempted to use stereotypes tongue-in-cheek to promote European identification, but with variegated effects. Through the analysis of the deployment of stereotypes of Member States, Candidate Member States, the EU and external partners such as China, I hope to contribute to a better understanding of the ambiguous and dynamic character of stereotypes in geopolitical representations regarding both self-identification and others’ identities. The humorous use of stereotypes proves to be a difficult art – especially for authorities – and generates uncertain returns. Only unambiguously positive stereotypes can be used for this type of communication without generating strong opposition. Ambiguous or negative ones tend to re-actualize uneven power relations and to feed antagonisms instead.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42770368","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4357
Emmanuelle Boulineau
{"title":"Pour une géographie politique de la coopération territoriale. Régions transnationales et réseaux de villes en perspective","authors":"Emmanuelle Boulineau","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4357","url":null,"abstract":"L’article s’inscrit dans le champ d’une geographie de la paix et propose d’explorer la cooperation territoriale dans une approche de geographie politique. Partant des changements de paradigme en cours dans la geographie politique des recompositions des formes et des fonctionnements territoriaux, il explore a travers deux figures emblematiques – les regions transnationales sous la forme des macroregions europeennes et les reseaux de villes avec l’exemple des jumelages urbains-, la portee de la cooperation territoriale pour comprendre et expliquer ces recompositions. Enfin, il ouvre des perspectives de recherche sur l’articulation des liens faibles et discrets de la cooperation territoriale avec les liens forts des decoupages territoriaux issus de la modernite politique et leurs modeles de gestion.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44327938","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4330
P. Taylor
{"title":"The new political geography of corporate globalization","authors":"P. Taylor","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4330","url":null,"abstract":"Rokkan’s electoral mobilization and cleavage model of class-based politics within countries is being undermined by contemporary globalization. A new geography of planetary urbanization has developed in which the key spatial dimension is degrees of metropolitanization between cities. This is illustrated using the results of the UK referendum on EU membership. It is shown that across the UK, irrespective of the level of support to stay, the larger and more central cities within the regions and nations of the country have higher support vote percentages than their lesser city neighbours. The conclusion is that in the aftermath of the failure of ‘trickle-down economics’, there is now a similar breakdown of ‘trickle down politics’.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45587190","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-09-21DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4336
M. Watts
{"title":"Frontiers: Authority, Precarity and Insurgency at the Edge of the State","authors":"M. Watts","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4336","url":null,"abstract":"Two home-grown insurgencies arose in Nigeria after the return to civilian rule in 1999: Boko Haram in the Muslim northeast, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the oil producing and Christian southeast. The two insurgencies arose, I argue, from frontier spaces in which the limits of state authority and legitimacy intersected with a profound crisis of authority and rule on the one hand, and the political economy of radical precarity on the other. Boko Haram and MEND share family resemblances—they are products of the same orderings of power—despite the obvious fact that one is draped in the language of religion and restoration (but as we shall see modernity) and the insistence that Nigeria should become transformed into a true Islamic state, while the other is secular and civic (and also modern) wishing to expand the boundaries of citizenship through a new sort of federalism. There are striking commonalities in the social composition of the armed groups and their internal dynamics; each is deposited at the nexus of the failure of local government, customary institutions, and the security forces (the police and the military task forces in particular). Each, nevertheless, is site specific; a cultural articulation of dispossession politics rooted in regional traditions of warfare, in particular systems of religiosity, and very different sorts of social structure and identity, and very different ecologies (the semi arid savannas of the north, and the creeks and forest of the Niger delta). In both cases state coercion and despotism and the ethico-moral decrepitude of the state figures centrally as does the politics of resentment that each condition generates among a large, alienated but geographically rooted group of precarious classes.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46874659","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-04-18DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4181
Adriana Dorfman, Arthur Borba Colen França
{"title":"Agenda décolonial pour les études frontalières au Brésil","authors":"Adriana Dorfman, Arthur Borba Colen França","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4181","url":null,"abstract":"Pour soutenir l’etude des multiples territorialites presentes aux frontieres sud du Bresil, ce travail propose d’envisager les etudes frontalieres a la lumiere de la pensee decoloniale. Le territoire etatique a joue un role unificateur, representant une autre maniere de domination et construisant la souverainete de l’Etat. Le projet d’occupation capitaliste de l’espace par l’Etat moderne, legitime par l’identite nationale et materialise sur le territoire, structure les frontieres lineaires. En utilisant la bibliographie sur l’africanisme, l’orientalisme, l’occidentalisme et, particulierement, sur la pensee decoloniale, nous explorons la connaissance des regions frontalieres du sud du Bresil, a partir du travail de terrain, pour examiner les relations d’echelle et decrire les strategies politiques et les territorialites qui s’y manifestent. Ainsi, nous esperons contribuer a la construction d’un agenda de recherche pour les geographes dans lequel la « colonialite du pouvoir » et la « pensee de frontiere », expressions cheres aux etudes postcoloniales, ne sont pas uniquement des metaphores culturelles. En soulignant les differentes cultures et leurs geographies et pour explorer les significations et les usages locaux de la frontiere australe bresilienne, nous proposons une grille d’usages decoloniaux de zones de frontieres, qui inclut des strategies pour les services publics aux frontieres marginales : instrumentalisation d’imaginaires nationalistes, usages tactiques de limites et, finalement, la gestion citoyenne de la frontiere. L’arc dessine depuis les propositions universelles de la theorie de frontiere jusqu’a l’ascension des etudes locales doit aller un peu plus loin : comprendre les pratiques et les dynamiques de frontiere comme etant suffisamment legitimes, fonctionnelles dans leur contexte et non illegales ni detournees. En resume, comme des pratiques decoloniales de la frontiere.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42586688","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-04-18DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4144
Licio Caetano do Rego Monteiro
{"title":"Géopolitique de la sécurité en Amérique du Sud : le rôle du Brésil et les dilemmes d’une région en transition","authors":"Licio Caetano do Rego Monteiro","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4144","url":null,"abstract":"Dans les annees 2000, le projet d'integration politique sud-americaine a gagne la proeminence sur la base de l'initiative des pays de la region, en particulier au Bresil. La securite internationale est un theme central dans la recherche d'une autonomie politique sud-americaine. D'une part, il y avait des progres institutionnels et le renouvellement des structures de defense et de securite de la region. En outre, les limitations imposees par la condition \"hemispherique\" (pour etre dans les environs strategiques immediats des Etats-Unis) entravent la consolidation d'une sphere Amerique du Sud plus coherente. Cet article explore ces contradictions du projet sud-americaine a partir de l'analyse des documents politiques et strategiques des pays d'Amerique du Sud de l'UNASUR et les donnees sur les depenses de defense et les transferts d'armes.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45464125","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}
Espace PolitiquePub Date : 2017-04-18DOI: 10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4234
A. Silva, Marcelo Motta de Freitas, R. Rodrigues
{"title":"Estratégia metodológica de Zoneamento Ecológico Econômico (ZEE) na escala municipal: um exercício acadêmico de geografia política para a gestão do território","authors":"A. Silva, Marcelo Motta de Freitas, R. Rodrigues","doi":"10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ESPACEPOLITIQUE.4234","url":null,"abstract":"Modelos metodologicos de zoneamento ecologico economico (ZEE) emergem nos ultimos 20 anos no Brasil como possibilidades de reforcar o entendimento dos estudiosos para a potencializacao das decisoes das esferas politicas locais no modelo federativo brasileiro. Participes centrais da condicao institucional de aplicabilidade de zoneamentos na escala local, os municipios tem a possibilidade de se articularem regionalmente frente aos desafios de gestao que surgem em relacao aos recursos ambientais, sociais e economicos, assim como os torna mais produtivos e eficientes na gestao publica dos seus territorios. Neste contexto, este artigo mostra o caminho metodologico trilhado por um grupo de pesquisadores no desenvolvimento de dois zoneamentos em duas unidades municipais de diferentes regioes do Brasil. Nelas, empresas de capitais diversos e acoes politicas de gestao vem buscando modernizar (infraestruturalmente, tecnologicamente...) as praticas culturais, o perfil ambiental e as atividades economicas tradicionais. Nos espacos regionais em que se inserem, entrecruzam-se interesses distintos, que podem transformar a qualidade de vida local. O uso politico do ZEE pode ser uma grande possibilidade para a promocao do bem estar nas escalas locais e regionais de gestao, e entender a natureza desse tipo de zoneamento e suas possibilidades como ferramenta de acao politica municipal se torna essencial para o pesquisador espacial e os estudiosos da Geografia politica contemporânea.","PeriodicalId":41025,"journal":{"name":"Espace Politique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47784660","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}