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Fragmenting forest governance: Land tenure and the REDD+ paradox in Kigoma pilot project, Tanzania 支离破碎的森林治理：坦桑尼亚基戈马试点项目中的土地保有权和 REDD+ 悖论

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103234

Emma Jane Lord

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Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia" 在圣保罗的 "Cracolândia "组建治理机构

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103225

Matthew A. Richmond , Giordano Magri

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Negotiating (under)development? Expanding bargaining power within globalised production networks 协商（欠）发展？在全球化生产网络中扩大议价能力

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103233

Martín Arias-Loyola

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“There, seated upon the toilet, apparently in the midst of defecation, was the president of the United States”: Toilets and elite politics in the USA and UK "美国总统坐在马桶上，显然正在排便"：美国和英国的厕所与精英政治

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103228

Marijn Nieuwenhuis, Colin Mcfarlane

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Beyond anti-urban sentiment: Rural consciousness and affect toward undocumented immigrants 超越反城市情绪：农村对无证移民的意识和情感

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103231

Kristin Lunz Trujillo

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Making sense of clandestine graves: Material epistemology and the political geography of uncertain knowledge 地下坟墓的意义：物质认识论与不确定知识的政治地理学

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103223

Graham Denyer Willis , Angélica Durán-Martínez

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Semiotic ideology and mutable sense of place: Chinese ecological urban renewal through the lens of advertising codes 符号学意识形态和可变的地方感：从广告代码透视中国生态城市更新

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103232

Michela Bonato

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The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives 边界创造世界的力量：亚太视角

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103229

Ari Jerrems, Umut Ozguc, Christine Agius, Samid Suliman

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Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance 阿克萨洪水淹没了巴勒斯坦漫长的抵抗史

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103215

Rhys Machold, Nicole Printy Currie

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Agua-cuerpo-territorio/Water-body-territory 水体领地/水体领地

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103230

Sofia Zaragocin

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