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Politics of “waiting for transformation” in protracted urban renewal projects in Turkey 土耳其旷日持久的城市改造项目中的 "等待改造 "政治

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231222138

Deniz Ay, Mehmet Penpecioğlu

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The whereabouts of politics and policy in troubling times 政治和政策在动荡时期的去向

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231217849

Colin Lorne, Natalie Papanastasiou, Steven Griggs

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Architectures of discretion: Autohoteles and the fortified enclaves of Guatemala city 谨慎的建筑：危地马拉城的汽车旅馆和坚固飞地

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231221049

Kevin Lewis O’Neill

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Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon 集合、世界政治和争议：捕捉黎巴嫩基础设施政治的地域和知识维度

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-17 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231222130

Jihad Farah

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Settlement types, territorial discourse and the symbolic production of the ‘post-industrial town’ 居住区类型、地域话语和 "后工业化城镇 "的象征性生产

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231221051

Jay Emery

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Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present 生殖地缘政治：墨西哥过去和现在的生育/生殖机构管理

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231182546

Laura Perler, Carolin Schurr, Nora Komposch, Mirko Winkel, Pedro Alejandro Cervantez Rodríguez

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Bordering in the archives: An investigation into a digital archive of the Irish asylum and refugee determination 档案中的边界：爱尔兰庇护和难民认定数字档案调查

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231216891

Sasha Brown

{"title":"Bordering in the archives: An investigation into a digital archive of the Irish asylum and refugee determination","authors":"Sasha Brown","doi":"10.1177/23996544231216891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231216891","url":null,"abstract":"Creating borders and borderlands is a key role of the contemporary state. Drawing on an investigation of the Irish state bordering complex determining asylum and refugee claims in Ireland, this article illustrates the importance of the actions of individual state agents and the cultures of practice in state agencies in bordering and statecraft. Building on scholarship studying the state, I conceive of statecraft as cultures of practices, understood within a feminist geopolitical framework. Studying these cultures of practice reveals the ways state agencies and state agents produce knowledge and how they work within complex power-geometries of social and political geographies. I investigate the Irish asylum determination process using an archival ethnography methodology to encounter an online archive of refugee appeals decisions in Ireland. This article shows one result of this encounter: a published database of asylum decision patterns and practices of the refugee appeals tribunals and of individual Tribunal members issuing decisions to people seeking asylum in Ireland. I argue this approach: (1) addresses real needs for systematic evidence of practice of Tribunal members, as requested by asylum seekers and legal representatives; (2) investigates cultures of practice in decision-making bodies in the asylum complex of the Irish state; (3) and shows the importance of archives of asylum decision-making in the state practice of bordering and statecraft. Analysis shows an asylum determination culture heavily dependent on who is doing the deciding, the decision-maker assigned is a major element in outcomes of asylum claims. I also propose a framework for identifying statecraft and bordering as the collective project of groups and individuals embedded within the state; this framework provides productive and systematic evidence of bordering and the ways individuals and groups go about doing statecraft in the asylum determination process.","PeriodicalId":507957,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139210296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy 出境旅游的地缘政治：将出境旅游理论化为国家战略

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231216303

Gregory Fayard

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Masters of mankind: Negotiations, local powers and assessments for land acquisition for industrialisation in West Bengal 人类的主人：西孟加拉邦工业化征用土地的谈判、地方权力和评估

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231217850

Sattwick Dey Biswas

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“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil "工人党出卖了街头小贩"：巴西贝洛奥里藏特的民粹主义和劳工危机

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.1177/23996544231216890

Mara Nogueira

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