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Imaginative Geographies (imaginative + geography)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior by Eric D. Olmanson

THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 4 2007
Ray B. Browne
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Gendered Violence of Development: Imaginative Geographies of Exclusion in the Imposition of Neo-liberal Capitalism

BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2007
Lara Coleman
In this article I consider how gendered hierarchies are constitutive of neo-liberal development and the violence attendant upon it. Building on Arturo Escobar's observation that violence is constitutive of development, I explore how the violent imposition of neo-liberal development is legitimised through the inscription of gendered imaginative geographies, which define ,savage' spaces of exclusion in need of ,civilising' development interventions. Drawing on the example of contemporary Colombia, I trace how the development discourse produces space in this way by normalising certain identities and political rationalities,those associated with competition and rational economic behaviour,while representing others as errant, as hyper-masculine subjects prone to violence or ,pre-rational' feminised subjects. [source]

Cities and the ,War on Terror'

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 2 2006
STEPHEN GRAHAM
Programmes of organized, political violence have always been legitimized and sustained through complex imaginative geographies. These tend to be characterized by stark binaries of place attachment. This article argues that the discursive construction of the Bush administration's ,war on terror' since September 11th 2001 has been deeply marked by attempts to rework imaginative geographies separating the urban places of the US ,homeland' and those Arab cities purported to be the sources of ,terrorist' threats against US national interests. On the one hand, imaginative geographies of US cities have been reworked to construct them as ,homeland' spaces which must be re-engineered to address supposed imperatives of ,national security'. On the other, Arab cities have been imaginatively constructed as little more than ,terrorist nest' targets to soak up US military firepower. Meanwhile, the article shows how both ,homeland' and ,target' cities are increasingly being treated together as a single, integrated ,battlespace' within post 9/11 US military doctrine and techno-science. The article concludes with a discussion of the central roles of urban imaginative geographies, overlaid by transnational architectures of US military technology, in sustaining the colonial territorial configurations of a hyper-militarized US Empire. [source]

The Gendered Violence of Development: Imaginative Geographies of Exclusion in the Imposition of Neo-liberal Capitalism

BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2007
Lara Coleman
In this article I consider how gendered hierarchies are constitutive of neo-liberal development and the violence attendant upon it. Building on Arturo Escobar's observation that violence is constitutive of development, I explore how the violent imposition of neo-liberal development is legitimised through the inscription of gendered imaginative geographies, which define ,savage' spaces of exclusion in need of ,civilising' development interventions. Drawing on the example of contemporary Colombia, I trace how the development discourse produces space in this way by normalising certain identities and political rationalities,those associated with competition and rational economic behaviour,while representing others as errant, as hyper-masculine subjects prone to violence or ,pre-rational' feminised subjects. [source]

The spatial politics of the past unbound: transnational networks and the making of political identities

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 4 2007
DAVID FEATHERSTONE
Abstract In this article I consider the relations between historical and contemporary forms of transnational political networks. I contest accounts that counterpose a networked present against a more settled and bounded past, arguing that this contrast rests on a problematic temporalization of difference in the construction of political identities. I consider how this temporalization produces particular accounts of relations between space, politics and identity. Drawing on the insurgent imaginative geography of resistance in C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins, I argue for a focus on the dynamic geographies of connection formed through transnational networks. I develop this position through a discussion of the relations of the London Corresponding Society, formed in London in 1792, to transnational routes of political activists, organizational forms and ideas. This account highlights the multiple political identities crafted through transnational political networks. I conclude by outlining elements of a ,usable past' for contemporary counter-global struggles. [source]