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The German scramble for green hydrogen in Namibia: Colonial legacies revisited? 德国人在纳米比亚争夺绿色氢：重新审视殖民遗产？

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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

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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 “家园始终是我们自治的核心”：加拿大好望堡的住房、家园和土著自决

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

Aimee Pugsley , Julia Christensen , Arthur Tobac

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Navigating political opportunity structures: Street traders’ associations and collective action in politically volatile urban environments 驾驭政治机会结构：街头商人协会和政治动荡的城市环境中的集体行动

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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 一个草甘膦：哥伦比亚的有毒剥夺和农业军事政权

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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

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Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia 快速和缓慢的暴力与无国籍者的生存工作：柬埔寨越南人的案例

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103274

Charlie Rumsby

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Technopolitics ‘from the ground’: Tracing ‘power’ grids and the expertise in Mekong geopolitics 技术政治“来自地面”：追踪“电力”网络和湄公河地缘政治的专业知识

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103276

Hiromi Inagaki

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Uncovering the drivers of climate gentrification in the Global South: Case study of Tacloban City, Philippines 揭示全球南方气候高档化的驱动因素：以菲律宾塔克洛班市为例

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103275

Justin See , Ginbert Permejo Cuaton , Brooke Wilmsen , Pearly Joy Peja

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Settling disputed oceans: Law, enforcement, and the state effect in the Taiwan-Japan fisheries agreement 解决争议海域：台湾-日本渔业协议中的法律、执行和国家效应

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103277

Yu-Hsiu Lien , Elizabeth Havice , Po-Yi Hung

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Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism 饮食习惯、酷儿社会再生产以及LGBTQ+活动的地域

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103273

Jon Binnie , Christian Klesse

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Assembling land as a regional resource: A new pattern of state territorialisation in the Pearl River Delta, China 土地集聚作为区域资源：珠江三角洲国家属地化的新模式

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103272

Xuan Wang , Xin Li

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