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The making of a hydrofrontier: geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands 水力边界的形成：印度东部边境的地缘政治、证券化和“绿色”能源想象

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103378

Michelle Irengbam , Christopher Sneddon

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The rural consolidation state. A critical examination of municipal consolidation strategies in Bavaria (Germany) 农村整合状态。对巴伐利亚州（德国）市政整合战略的批判性考察

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103379

Andreas Kallert, Simon Dudek

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Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia 创造一种新的气候转型政治？对澳大利亚真正交易的反思

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103347

Amanda Tattersall , Katie Moore , Juliet Bennett , Christine Evans , Louise C. Johnson , Naomi Joy Godden , Dibya Shree Chhetry , Elise Ganley , Sally Fisher , Jaclyn McCosker , Jade Wright , Liz Bonner , Helen Long , Noreen Nicholson

{"title":"Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia","authors":"Amanda Tattersall , Katie Moore , Juliet Bennett , Christine Evans , Louise C. Johnson , Naomi Joy Godden , Dibya Shree Chhetry , Elise Ganley , Sally Fisher , Jaclyn McCosker , Jade Wright , Liz Bonner , Helen Long , Noreen Nicholson","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Economic responses to climate change, such as just transitions and the Green New Deal (GND), have helped shift climate policy debate to focus on the economic dimensions of climate change. Yet these approaches have also been limited; they have not always delivered, they have left some groups behind and at times have polarised affected constituencies. This article argues that a key reason for this is that these agendas have primarily involved imposing solutions on communities without activating people's participation in the perpetual cocreation of new social, political and economic solutions. Here, community and academic researchers reflect on the first five years of the <em>Real Deal for Australia</em> project and its effort to realise a community-led climate transition politics through its application of the ‘relational method’. This paper locates the Real Deal within the traditions of just transitions and the GND, and details the theories, methods and practices that it has built upon and involved, including in two place-based projects. It reflects on the intentions of the project and the learning that has occurred in the process, in particular from seeking to privilege the voices of Indigenous Peoples, form diverse community coalitions made up of strong interpersonal relationships between existing trade union, environmental, neighbourhood and faith-based groups, produce robust place-based agendas and buid effective actions for alternative futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103347"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144306305","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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Durable instabilities of home: Rain, terrain, and governance assemblages in Medellín, Colombia 家园的持久不稳定：雨、地形和治理组合在Medellín，哥伦比亚

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103368

Frank I. Müller

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On the therapist's couch and in the streets: Politicized approaches to healing trauma and embodying liberation in the US and Canada 在治疗师的沙发上和街道上：美国和加拿大治疗创伤和体现解放的政治化方法

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103367

Rebecca Patterson-Markowitz

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Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India 边境会说话吗？印度东北部丘陵地带的领土纠纷

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103358

Debasish Hazarika, Ngamjahao Kipgen

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Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 2025 绿色氢真的是殖民地吗？对Tunn等人的评论。2025

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103318

Benedikt Walker , Linus Kalvelage

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Why coloniality matters in the hydrogen hype - A reply to Walker and Kalvelage 2025 为什么殖民主义在氢炒作中很重要——对沃克和卡尔维拉奇2025的回答

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103352

Johanna Tunn , Franziska Müller , Tobias Kalt , Jenny Simon

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Pastoralism is facing existential threat in West Africa 西非的畜牧业正面临生存威胁

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103363

Olivier J. Walther , Lacey Harris-Coble , Leif Brottem , Mirjam de Bruijn , Han van Dijk , Cletus F. Nwankwo , Adegbola T. Adesogan

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Where do regimes rally their supporters? The geographical distribution of pro-war mobilization in Russia 2022 政权在哪里集结他们的支持者？俄罗斯亲战动员的地理分布

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103336

Katrin Paula , Nele Scholz

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