Ekene ThankGod Emeka, Simplice A. Asongu, Davidmac O. Ekeocha, Vanessa S. Tchamyou
{"title":"Towards Economic Resilience in Africa: The Complementary Roles of Economic Complexity and Foreign Direct Investment","authors":"Ekene ThankGod Emeka, Simplice A. Asongu, Davidmac O. Ekeocha, Vanessa S. Tchamyou","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70074","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study focuses on two key objectives: first, to evaluate the unconditional effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic resilience in Africa and, second, to investigate the relevance of economic complexity in shaping the FDI–economic resilience nexus. The analysis is based on a panel of 34 African countries covering the years 2011–2023, employing the dynamic system generalised method of moments (GMM) and the bias-corrected method of moments (BCMM) as the two dynamic estimation techniques for the study. While the dynamic system GMM served as the baseline estimator, the BCMM was employed as a robustness check in response to recent concerns regarding the reliability of system GMM. The BCMM approach robustly addresses and corrects for endogeneity, cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity. In this study, economic resilience is defined by macroeconomic stability, market efficiency and governance. The findings reveal a positive synergy between FDI and economic resilience, with economic complexity further amplifying the positive impact of FDI on economic resilience. In light of these findings, the study advances policy recommendations that align with both the African Union's Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Petra de Braal, Stijn Oosterlynck, Michael Leyshon, Catherine Leyshon, Shukru Esmene
{"title":"‘I Really Don't Have Time to Talk and Listen to All Those People’: Care Responsibilities and Privileged Irresponsibility in the Devolution of Social Services in the Netherlands","authors":"Petra de Braal, Stijn Oosterlynck, Michael Leyshon, Catherine Leyshon, Shukru Esmene","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70076","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper analyses the micro-scale geographies of care within newly devolved social services in The Netherlands. Across Europe, welfare reforms have reconfigured the spatial organisation of care, shifting responsibilities to municipalities and expecting closer collaboration between citizens, civil-society organisations and local governments. We analyse how these spatial and institutional transformations shape the everyday negotiation of care responsibilities within Buren Helpen Elkaar, a locally organised initiative that mobilises volunteers to support residents (primarily elderly people) to continue living independently at home. Drawing on Tronto's political ethics of care, we investigate how care is interpreted, allocated and enacted across local actors. The analysis is based on qualitative data from thirty-six interviews, participatory observations and policy and organisational documents. Our findings show that, despite its promise of fostering more cooperative citizen-state relations, the initiative is marked by dynamics of ‘privileged irresponsibility’. Professionals and volunteers withdraw from particular tasks by claiming to be ‘too busy’, by narrowing definitions of legitimate need or by shifting responsibility to other actors. By tracing how responsibility is negotiated and redistributed in place, the paper offers a micro-scale account of devolved welfare that foregrounds the relational dynamics shaping local care provision. It also shows how everyday practices can undermine the intentions of welfare reforms and contribute to uneven outcomes across communities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandru-Sabin Nicula, Remus Crețan, Alexandru Dragan, Bogdan Oancea
{"title":"Computational Analysis of Contested Monuments and Collective Memory in a Multiethnic City","authors":"Alexandru-Sabin Nicula, Remus Crețan, Alexandru Dragan, Bogdan Oancea","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70073","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyses how four public monuments in the centre of Cluj-Napoca (the Matthias Corvinus Statuary Ensemble, Avram Iancu, Baba Novac and the Transylvanian School Statuary Ensemble) reflect Romanian-Hungarian relations, urban governance practices and how collective memory is negotiated in post-socialist public space. The research combines a qualitative survey of local and regional newspapers (1990–2025), field observation and GIS analysis, with a multi-stage computational pipeline for event classification and sentiment analysis. The media corpus was coded in the CAMEO ontology and assessed by a multilingual natural language inference model (Zero-Shot), complemented by an event intensity score (Goldstein) and two sentiment analysis branches: a Hugging Face (HF) and Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner (VADER) transformative model, contextually adapted and lexically extended for the language of heritage-related news. The results show that the Zero-Shot scores remain low and relatively uniform, indicating a predominantly descriptive media discourse. The Goldstein scores highlight tense episodes for the statues of Avram Iancu and Baba Novac and high volatility for Matthias Corvinus, while the HF and, to a lesser extent, VADER, indicate a clear intensification of the emotional tone after 2022, especially for the Transylvanian School and Matthias Corvinus. The differences between the monuments are less pronounced than the differences between the analytical tools, but all series converge towards a recent increase in discursive intensity. The qualitative analysis outlines three main registers of contestation: (i) the spatial performance of monuments in central squares as spaces of urban power; (ii) disputes over inscriptions and textual formulations and; (iii) public trust in the administrative management of heritage. The conclusions suggest a shift from a strictly custodial conservation logic to a communicative governance of urban memory, based on procedural transparency, public digital registers, multilingual inscriptions and the systematic use of computational tools in planning and evaluating heritage policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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