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Legal geographies of deportability – Entanglements of power between nomospheric guardians, technicians, and figures

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103333

Eveliina Lyytinen

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Political practices between internal colonialism and global inequality: Energy infrastructures in Tunisia and Costa Rica

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103321

Alke Jenss, Alessandra Bonci

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Toponyms and political control in divided cities: The case of Jerusalem's neighborhood names

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103319

Ofir Hadad, Oren Barak

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Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103322

Federico Ferretti

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Gaza: The first full-scale AI war? 加沙：第一次大规模人工智能战争？

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103289

Carl Grundy-Warr, James D. Sidaway

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Reimagining self-determination: Relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives 重新认识自决：关系、非殖民和交叉视角

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103112

Costas M. Constantinou , Fiona McConnell , Dilar Dirik , Asebe Regassa , Shona Loong , Rauna Kuokkanen

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Beyond apartheid and genocide: A broader framework for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103306

Yaniv Reingewertz

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Three takes on Gulf cities and urban politics

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103246

Michael Ewers

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Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103269

George Holmes

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Spatialities of slow resistance in Congo-Brazzaville

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103320

Charden Pouo Moutsouka

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