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Topographies of the undesired: Tracing the camp from colonial confinement to digital control in the EU asylum regime 不受欢迎的地形：追踪营地从殖民禁闭到欧盟庇护制度的数字控制

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103421

Giuseppe Platania

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Governing through extra-territoriality: Jordan's clothing production zones as tools of imperial power and authoritarian rule 治外法权：约旦的服装生产区是帝国权力和独裁统治的工具

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103430

Katharina Grüneisl

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Durable governance assemblages at the margins: Introduction to the special issue 边缘的持久治理组合：对特殊问题的介绍

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103428

Matthew A. Richmond , Frank I. Müller

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Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power 思考的空间？中国智库和党国权力的不平衡发展

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103408

Jamie Peck

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Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash 莲蓬头，咖啡机和日常的政治地理的绿色反弹

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103429

Ed Atkins

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Go-along research in the UK Parliament 英国议会的随波逐流研究

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103424

Alex Prior , Samuel Johnson-Schlee , Ryan Swift

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Hijacking legality: Corruption and property creation in Brazil's frontiers 劫持合法性：巴西边境的腐败和财产创造

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103407

Joachim S. Stassart , Flávia Mendes de Almeida Collaço , Dário Cardoso Jr. , Renato Morgado

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Migrant struggles in the Darién Gap-Tapón: Rethinking a more-than-human border 达里萨海的移民斗争Gap-Tapón：重新思考超越人类的边界

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103426

Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez

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Two crises. Constructing the meaning of the “climate crisis” by the residents of Gdańsk 两个危机。Gdańsk居民建构“气候危机”的意义

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103422

Danuta Uryga , Hanne Cecilie Geirbo , Małgorzata Romanowska , Ewa Duda

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When “conflict free” minerals go to war 当“无冲突”矿物参战时

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103425

Kali Rubaii , Mohamed El-Shewy , Mark Griffiths

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