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Digital geographies of diplomacy: The uneven digital mediation of spaces and encounters at the UN Human Rights Council 外交的数字地理：联合国人权理事会对空间和遭遇的不均衡数字调解

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103147

Alex Manby, Fiona McConnell

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Dissent is the word: New evidence on municipal turnout after amalgamation 异议即话语：合并后市政投票率的新证据

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103157

Silvia Bolgherini , Vincenzo Mollisi

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Streets of memory: Urban practices of civil antimafia resistance 记忆之街：民间反黑手党抵抗的城市实践

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103156

Giuseppe Muti , Gianluigi Salvucci

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Blooming activism in a drying land water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq 在伊拉克底格里斯河沿岸干涸的土地上，水正义运动蓬勃发展

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103159

Andrea Rizzi , Peter P. Mollinga

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An urban political ecology of populism 民粹主义的城市政治生态

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103153

Joris Gort, Alex Loftus

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The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality' 选举驱动的非正规性合法化 "的公然现象

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103155

Elvina Merkaj , Drini Imami , Dorina Pojani , Endrit Lami

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On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations 移动中：专制领导人、安全和迁都

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103154

Carl Henrik Knutsen , Lee Morgenbesser , Tore Wig

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On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa 关于管道、准备和注释性劳动：非洲人工智能和数据基础设施的政治地理学

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103150

Kerry Holden , Matthew Harsh

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The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa 种族空间保护问题：南非公有保护区内归还与圈地之间相互矛盾的紧张关系

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103151

Oscar Mthimkhulu, Adrian Nel

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De-risking, re-balancing and recentralising: Intra-state relations in Chinese-backed transport infrastructure projects in Europe 降低风险、重新平衡和权力下放：中国支持的欧洲交通基础设施项目中的国家内部关系

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103152

Giles Mohan , Filippo Boni , Samuel Rogers , Florian Schaefer , Yue Wang

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