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What repoliticisation means and requires: Creating the climate for disagreement 再政治化的含义和要求：为分歧创造氛围

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103222

Joe Blakey

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Strategic coupling of administrative rationality and cultural imaginaries in municipal amalgamations 市政合并中行政合理性与文化想象力的战略结合

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103227

Arie Stoffelen , Peter Groote

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‘I felt’: Intimate geographies of sentient diplomacy 我感觉到了有知觉外交的亲密地理学

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103221

Alun Jones

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103219

Jesse Fox, Talia Margalit

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Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance 特刊导言--财产的前沿：全球土地和资源治理中 "复苏的集体化 "的承诺、陷阱和矛盾心理

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103218

Connor Cavanagh, Adrian Nel

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103217

Olivia Mason, Jagjeet Lally, Tina Harris, Tim Oakes, Alessandro Rippa

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Checkpoints, competing ‘sovereignties’, and everyday life in Iraq 检查站、相互竞争的 "主权 "以及伊拉克的日常生活

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103220

Dylan O'Driscoll , Omran Omer Ali , Remonda Armia

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Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones 加密/空间：计算寄生、虚拟土地掠夺和 Web3 出口区的生产

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103210

Peter Howson , Antulio Rosales , Olivier Jutel , Inte Gloerich , Mariel García Llorens , Alex de Vries , Jillian Crandall , Paul Dolan

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COVID-19 pandemic and competitive authoritarian regimes: Human rights and democracy in the Philippines and Nicaragua COVID-19 大流行病和竞争性专制政权：菲律宾和尼加拉瓜的人权与民主

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103212

Salvador Santino Regilme , Kevin Parthenay

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Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions 将 NIMBY 解释为在难民营选址背景下要求参与性规划的运动：希腊两个地区的比较案例研究

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103216

Alexandra Makridou , Ioannis Frangopoulos , Nikos Kapitsinis

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