scholarly journals Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110520
Author(s):  
Rachel Pain ◽  
Caitlin Cahill
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Political Geographies ◽  
Critical Feminist

Engaging Rob Nixon’s conceptualization of slow violence, this special issue provides a critical framework for how we understand violence relevant to political geography. In this introduction, we highlight three key contributions of the collection that build upon and extend Nixon’s framing of slow violence. First, we attend to the spatialities of slow violence, revealing how the politics of disposability and racialized dispossession target particular people and places. Next, we foreground critical feminist and anti-racist perspectives that are largely absent in Nixon’s original account. And third, through engaging these approaches, the papers together employ an epistemological shift, uncovering hidden and multi-sited violences that prioritise the accounts of those who experience and are most affected by slow violence.

Feminist political geographies: Critical reflections, new directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1149-1159
Author(s):  
Caroline Faria ◽  
Vanessa A Massaro ◽  
Jill M Williams
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Political Geographies ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Critical Reflections

Feminist political geography (FPG) is a vibrant, diverse, provocative and contested field of inquiry. This special issue highlights those scholars connecting FPG approaches, methodologies and arguments to critical work in other sub-fields of our discipline, and beyond it. In doing so we open up a productive conversation about both the current limitations and the new insights FPG offers for understanding power and the political. The papers included in this special issue offer a lively, constructive and productive set of debates around FPG that reflect the energy and dynamism of our sub-field and that bring new ideas, arguments and engagements into conversation.

scholarly journals Disasters are Everyday Like the Weather

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 416-423
Author(s):  
Chaya Ocampo Go
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Everyday Realities

This essay offers an urgent intervention from the global South in contribution to this special issue on the Anthropocene. Drawing from Rob Nixon's work on slow violence, the author offers sobering reflections on the everyday realities of what she writes as the “Philippine Anthropocene”: not only is this defined by spectacular freak weather conditions, but also shaped by normalized and state-sanctioned forms of abandonment and terror. Written in the present political context of intensifying state attacks on civil society in the country, the author recasts the light on anthropogenic forces of violence which endanger lives at the front lines of daily disasters, more lethal than the strongest storm in recorded history.

scholarly journals Political geography 1: Extractions

2020 ◽  
pp. 030913252097025
Author(s):  
Jennifer L Fluri
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Political Geographies

This progress report incorporates the concept of extraction as an umbrella term for political and geopolitical analyses of the spaces, sites, settings, and scales of power, authority, influence, and resistance. The political geographies of extraction discussed in this report include an assemblage of human-and-nonhuman actors across divergent epistemologies and ontologies, as well as forms of recognition, representation, and repression within and across states, borders, and spatial scales. The research surveyed here covers both state and non-state actors to address national and corporate methods commensurate with ongoing and new conflicts over resources, how they are extracted, conserved, distributed, shared, and hoarded.

scholarly journals Memory of Water: Boundaries of Political Geography and World Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-434
Author(s):  
Katarina Leppänen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Dystopian Literature ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
The One

The fact that dystopian literature has a great potential for envisioning alternative futures is elaborated in this article in relation to the Finnish/British author Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water (2013). Itäranta’s gloomy low-fi novel is read alongside contemporary ecocritical theory with a focus on issues of vernacular cultures and knowledges versus ideas of cosmopolitan planetary citizenship. Reflections are made about the profound nature of the concept of borders: cultural, temporal, informational, geographical, political, in the event of massive catastrophes. The article investigates how Rob Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ and Ursula Heise’s ‘eco-cosmopolitanism’ are played out in a novel, and how the novel in turn poses important questions for ecocritical theory. Thus, the interplay between ecocritical literary theory, on the one hand, and literature, on the other, is highlighted. What can dystopia make visible in contemporary theory?

Why we need to study (US) militarism: A critical feminist lens

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 136-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick TR Wibben
Keyword(s):  
Security Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shared Norms

Responding to the special issue call to examine security and militarism alongside one another, this article adopts a critical feminist lens to explore what is at stake when critical scholars study security rather than militarism – and why, for critical feminists in particular, studying one without attention to the other is not helpful. Anchoring the discussion of (US) militarism in ongoing debates about women in combat, the article proposes that studying security without attention to militarism leads scholars to miss the deeply militarist orientation of security studies. It further suggests that feminist scholarship, because it treats militarism and militarization as an integral part of feminist security studies and considers the everyday a crucial site for inquiry, is well suited to studying militarism and security alongside one another. The article then lays out what a critical feminist approach to studying militarism entails and presents some feminist insights on militarization, focusing in particular on what attention to gender can reveal about shared norms of manliness and war. Overall, the article shows why feminist perspectives offer such strikingly different insights into the relationship between militarism and security and what we miss when feminist scholarship is ignored or marginalized in scholarship on these issues.

scholarly journals A topolographical approach to infrastructure: Political topography, topology and the port of Dar es Salaam

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1076-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Hönke ◽  
Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
The Political ◽  
And Topology ◽  
Economic Infrastructure ◽  
Topographical Analysis ◽  
Political Geographies ◽  
Power And Authority

Economic infrastructure hubs, such as ports, are crucial sites for exploring new political geographies. In such environments, mobilities are enabled and rigidly channelled premised on the stasis of the port-as-checkpoint. Such nodes are part of an ever-growing political geography of zones that requires more attention. This article proposes a ‘topolographical’ approach – a combined heuristic drawing from political topography and topology – to comprehend more fully the transformations in the political geographies of large-scale infrastructures. The cardinal nature of the port of Dar es Salaam makes it a crucial site through which to illustrate the purchase of this framework. The topographical analysis puts forward the port of Dar as archipelago of global territories, within which heterogeneous actors claim graduated authority. Drawing on topology, the article shows what is folded into the port, constantly shaping not only who governs but, more importantly, how power and authority are exercised. It will be shown how imaginaries of the port – as gateway, seamless space, and modernity ‘from scratch’ – as much as new technological devices work to produce historically and geographically distinct political geographies, and indeed bring new ones into being.

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