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Creating the anti-sexist city: The potential of the local state in combatting sexual harassment

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103290

Kate Boyer , Lucy Such

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Psychoanalytic political ecology

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103297

Pieter de Vries , Ilan Kapoor

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Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103298

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel

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Multispecies imaginaries for river justice: Mobilising in defence of the Piatúa River, Ecuador

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103296

Carlota Houart , Jaime Hoogesteger , Rutgerd Boelens

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Speculative connections: Port authorities, littoral territories and the assembling of the green hydrogen frontier

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103271

William Monteith , Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar

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The making of H2-scapes in the Global South: Political geography perspectives on an emergent field of research

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103294

Eric Cezne , Kei Otsuki

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The German scramble for green hydrogen in Namibia: Colonial legacies revisited?

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103293

Johanna Tunn , Franziska Müller , Jesko Hennig , Jenny Simon , Tobias Kalt

{"title":"The German scramble for green hydrogen in Namibia: Colonial legacies revisited?","authors":"Johanna Tunn , Franziska Müller , Jesko Hennig , Jenny Simon , Tobias Kalt","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Namibia is positioning itself as a green hydrogen superpower to supply the German market with the much-needed energy carrier. While the hydrogen hype is marketed as a pathway facilitating the German and European green transition that is mutually beneficial for African interests, social movements and affected communities have been denouncing green colonialist tendencies of the hydrogen rush. This paper is centring these claims. Applying a heuristic of green colonialism along the lines of externalisation, enactment, expansion, exclusion and empowerment, we highlight colonial tendencies of the hydrogen rush in Namibia. While still in a nascent stadium, current developments indicate patterns to transform Southern economies according to European interest, which can then uphold their allegedly superior image as renewable energy pioneers. Our study indicates that the green hydrogen rush resembles a longue durée of (neo)colonial violence: while clinging to old colonial patterns, it takes advantage of the post-colonial state, and at the same time uses narratives of contemporary multiple crises to advance and legitimise a supposedly green, but intrinsically violent transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103293"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103278

Aimee Pugsley , Julia Christensen , Arthur Tobac

{"title":"“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada","authors":"Aimee Pugsley , Julia Christensen , Arthur Tobac","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103278","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103278","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The colonial geographies of northern and Indigenous housing have long been the focus of research attention, particularly the transformative and destructive role the assimilative power of social welfare has played in State interventions into Indigenous lives at the bodily, familial, community and national scales. Recent literature in the areas of northern and Indigenous housing has underscored the need for increased community self-determination over housing in order to uproot structures of colonial domination and attend to specific cultural and contextual realities, visions and needs—necessary for the sustainable alleviation of a longstanding “housing crisis” in northern Canada. This paper examines differing discourses of Indigenous self-determination through recent efforts by the K'ásho Goťįne Housing Society (KGHS) – an Indigenous community housing organization – and the territorial and federal governments to promote Indigenous self-governance of housing. Drawing on critical analyses of self-determination led by Indigenous scholars, and engaging a series of qualitative interviews with Indigenous and settler policymakers and housing administrators at the community, territorial and federal levels, we examine how differing Indigenous and settler conceptualizations of the self-determination of housing are evident in critical barriers presented by the governance of land and the “compartmentalization” of home. Ultimately, we argue that full self-determination of Indigenous home through housing is fundamentally impeded by current housing governance processes, though the multiscalar nature of Indigenous home simultaneously challenges the capitalist, settler-colonial structures holding up these processes, and also cultivates the everyday, placed-based resistance of the individual, family and community by creating space to imagine housing through Indigenous epistemologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103278"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Navigating political opportunity structures: Street traders’ associations and collective action in politically volatile urban environments

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103292

Elmond Bandauko , Godwin Arku

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One glyphosate: Toxic dispossession and the agri-military regime in Colombia

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103288

Claudia Rivera Amarillo , Lorena Arias-Solano , Diana Ojeda , Sonia Serna Botero

{"title":"One glyphosate: Toxic dispossession and the agri-military regime in Colombia","authors":"Claudia Rivera Amarillo , Lorena Arias-Solano , Diana Ojeda , Sonia Serna Botero","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Glyphosate is the most widely used non-selective herbicide globally in terms of volume and land area. In Colombia, its use for military purposes within the so-called War on Drugs has been a contentious issue in political debate and social mobilization since the late 1990s, culminating in the suspension of aerial spraying in 2015 and its ban in 2022. Despite decades of evidence and denunciations from communities, organizations, and scientists regarding glyphosate's harmful effects on human health and ecological systems, its widespread use in both small- and large-scale agriculture has been largely overlooked in public debates and government policies. In this article, we identify and analyze how the convergence between military and agricultural uses of glyphosate has resulted in the toxic dispossession of rural communities in Colombia as part of a violent anti-campesino policy. We argue that this convergence has shaped an agri-military regime requiring critical examination and public discussion. Drawing on interviews with social leaders and scholars, as well as an analysis of legal, public policy, and media documents, we demonstrate how glyphosate has articulated a strategy of dispossession and violence targeting campesino, Black, and Indigenous communities in Colombia's recent history.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103288"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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