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Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Making modern water: The content, actors, and processes of embedding the Mahaweli Development Project in Sri Lanka (1963–2010)

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103279

Kavindra Paranage , Julian S. Yates , Harry M. Quealy

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Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103256

Diego Andreucci , Gustavo García López , Christos Zografos , Marta Conde

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How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103243

Claudia Strambo , Daria Ivleva , Sophia Bachmann , Elisa Arond

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The Vertical Refuge. A critical exploration of the vertical dimension in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103254

Hanadi Samhan , Camillo Boano

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