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Environmental displacement: the common ground of climate change, extraction and conservation 环境置换:气候变化、开采和保护的共同点

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12193

E. Lunstrum, P. Bose, A. Zalik

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引用次数: 32

Vulnerabilities and displacements: adaptation and mitigation to climate change as a new development mantra 脆弱性和流离失所:适应和减缓气候变化作为新的发展口头禅

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12178

P. Bose

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引用次数: 30

Environmentally induced displacements in the ecotourism–extraction nexus 生态旅游-开采关系中环境引起的流离失所

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12153

B. Büscher, Veronica Davidov

引用次数: 21

Changes in rural–urban sex ratio differences in the young professional age group as an indicator of social sustainability in rural areas: a case study of continental Spain, 2000–2010 作为农村地区社会可持续性指标的年轻职业年龄组城乡性别比差异变化:2000-2010年西班牙大陆的案例研究

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12024

M. Gurrutxaga

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引用次数: 9

Reflections on a participatory documentary process: constructing territorial histories of dispossession among Afro-descendant youth in Colombia 参与性纪录片过程的反思:建构哥伦比亚非裔青年被剥夺的领土历史

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12032

Irene Vélez‐Torres

引用次数: 17

Coded police territories: ‘detective software’ investigates 编码警察领地:“侦探软件”调查

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12033

Till F. Paasche

{"title":"Coded police territories: ‘detective software’ investigates","authors":"Till F. Paasche","doi":"10.1111/AREA.12033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/AREA.12033","url":null,"abstract":"Policing literature has shown how the police deal with protests on the street. This paper aims to add another dimension to this work by focusing on the use of radio-cell analysis and codes in police tactics to identify and single out protesters. Combining the literature on policing with work on codes and software sorting, the paper shows how an algorithm structures and narrows down large datasets on thousands of protesters into a manageable number of suspects whom officers can investigate using the means they have. The case study involves large-scale anti-fascist direct actions and blockades in Dresden, Germany, in 2011 that disabled one of Europe's largest fascist demonstrations. Using this example the paper makes two points. First, the police used the radio-cell grid to create digital kettles to isolate groups of protesters. Radio cells that overlay spaces in which riots or blockades occur become the boundaries of these digital kettles. Every mobile phone user within one of these spaces is automatically subject to further investigation by the algorithm. Second, the algorithm analyses all phone users within a digital kettle according to movement and call patterns. This way, the code identifies a manageable number of individuals out of hundreds of thousands of connectivity data. As opposed to using officers in riot gear, a radio-cell analysis and the use of codes enable the ‘kettling’ of far larger numbers of protesters, making this tactic an efficient way of dealing with protests and civil disobedience. Empirically, the paper is based on an analysis of minor interpellations dealing with radio-cell analysis and semi-structured interviews with key informants.","PeriodicalId":72297,"journal":{"name":"Area (Oxford, England)","volume":"7 6 1","pages":"314-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83482466","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}

引用次数: 9

Homeless people and the city of abstract machines: Assemblage thinking and the performative approach to homelessness 无家可归者和抽象机器的城市:对无家可归者的组合思维和表演方法

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12045

Michele Lancione

{"title":"Homeless people and the city of abstract machines: Assemblage thinking and the performative approach to homelessness","authors":"Michele Lancione","doi":"10.1111/AREA.12045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/AREA.12045","url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on one central point of the ‘performative’ approach to homelessness that is still inadequately explored by the current literature: the conceptualisation of the relational entanglements between homeless people and the city. The argument is that only through a critical attention to these fluid and more-than-human details will we be able to re-imagine a different politics of homelessness. The paper, engaging with the work of Deleuze and Guattari as well as with critical assemblages thinking, proposes two concepts that are considered to be fundamental in this sense. First, assemblage, as a concept able to render the hybrid constituency of the individual within the city; and second, abstract machines, as a way to take into account the fluidity of power in affecting one's own experience of homelessness. The approach proposed in the paper is illustrated through the presentations of original ethnographic material derived from ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turin, Italy. The paper concludes by suggesting that the abstract machine of homelessness can be tackled in at least two ways. First, re-working the institutional assemblages of care that produce stigmatising discourses and deep emotional effects. Second, liberating homeless people's capacities and resources, which are currently poorly accounted by canonical literature and policies.","PeriodicalId":72297,"journal":{"name":"Area (Oxford, England)","volume":"100 1","pages":"358-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85785465","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}

引用次数: 48

Desiring more: complicating understandings of sexuality in research processes 渴望更多:研究过程中对性的复杂理解

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12031

G. Diprose, Amanda C. Thomas, Renee Rushton

引用次数: 30

Reconstructing past atmospheric pollution levels using gravestone erosion rates 利用墓碑侵蚀率重建过去的大气污染水平

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12035

R. Inkpen

{"title":"Reconstructing past atmospheric pollution levels using gravestone erosion rates","authors":"R. Inkpen","doi":"10.1111/AREA.12035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/AREA.12035","url":null,"abstract":"Converting the erosion rates derived from gravestones into erosion rates for specific time periods is possible by averaging loss data for gravestones for that time period. This information can be used with Lipfert's damage function to postdict levels of atmospheric pollution for specific locations for specific time periods. A correction factor for stone type, derived from the literature, needs to be applied to the damage function. The derived sulphur dioxide (SO2) levels are likely to represent atmospheric pollution conditions 20 years after the time period to which the erosion rates refer, because there is a lag in the response of the gravestone erosion to environmental conditions. With these correction factors applied, distinct temporal trends can be identified in both Oxford and Swansea, specifically a rapid increase in atmospheric SO2 in the early 20th century, a distinct dip in levels during the 1940s and a dramatic rise in the 1950s. In addition, there is a clear urban/rural difference in derived SO2 levels, with levels in urban Oxford being significantly higher than those in rural Oxford throughout the period of data availability. The significance of industrial activity is clearly illustrated by the very high levels of derived SO2 in Swansea throughout the early to mid 20th century.","PeriodicalId":72297,"journal":{"name":"Area (Oxford, England)","volume":"26 1","pages":"321-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89667138","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}

引用次数: 8

Checking in with reality: a response to Herod et al. 与现实核对:对希律等人的回应。

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12041

Josh Lepawsky, C. Mather

引用次数: 6