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Humanitarian capitalism: The labour regime of aid and the surrogate welfare state in times of global displacement 人道主义资本主义：全球流离失所时期的援助劳工制度和代理福利国家

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103167

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Corrigendum to “Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities” [Political Geography 99 (November 2022) 102762] 人口压力、政治体制和抗议活动：非洲城市抗议事件的多层次分析》[《政治地理学》99 (2022 年 11 月) 102762] 更正

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103183

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Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita 南极洲的边界景观南极洲不为人知的神奇地理想象

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103178

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Drifting further apart? Europe's trends of urban-rural political polarisation should not be overstated 渐行渐远？不应夸大欧洲城乡政治两极分化的趋势

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103181

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Rethinking the exercise of sovereignty in the Anthropocene: From extraction to environmental protection in Arctic Svalbard 反思人类世的主权行使：北极斯瓦尔巴群岛从开采到环境保护

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103185

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Violent dwelling: Settler colonialism and domicide 暴力居住：定居殖民主义与杀戮

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103179

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Gaza's underdogs: From zoometrics to domicide 加沙的弱者：从动物测量到屠杀

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103162

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Far-right translocalism: Towards a new research agenda 极右翼易位论：迈向新的研究议程

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103180