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There is a rich literature on environmental governance that provides critiques and conceptual tools on how various environmental ‘arenas’ or overlapping global systems should be governed e.g. climate, energy, oceans (Cherp et al., 2011; Berkes, 2006; Underdal, 2010). In this paper we argue that the geological subsurface should be considered as a new arena for governance in its own right. The arguments...
Restaurants are an important part of the cultural economy of, cities. Ramen noodle shops are Japan's most popular type of restaurant. This paper provides a geographical analysis of ramen restaurant noodle supply in the Kansai region centred on Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. Theconceptual point of departure is the age old question in transaction cost theory: to make or buy? By drawing on theory in economic...
Political commentators on the right of the political spectrum and the mainstream left assert that Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 United States presidential election was due to poor white male voters left behind by globalization because his opponent abandoned them by prioritizing identity, meaning race and gender, politics. I argue instead that White masculinist identity politics constructed legal...
The study identifies the role of ideas and the importance of bureaucracy, an institution leading the state administrative machinery of the Brazilian state, in the building and development of public policies. Further, it highlights the weaknesses of the Brazilian bureaucratic system, especially with regard to public policies, because there is a flaw in the interpretation of the Weberian model and constitutional...
There are increasing efforts within Anglophone geography to take seriously and learn from knowledges produced in the global south. Although this move is usually based on ethical and political motivations of Anglophone geographers, there are competing sets of pragmatic and parochial motivations that pose tensions. The value of learning from the south is often only implicitly made and few attempts have...
This review uses the concepts of place and space to provide insights into recent critical geographic approaches to food and agriculture. For alternative foods, the use of the term “alternative” has changed markedly from indicating a contrast with conventional food to signifying a broader commitment to progressive politics. In contrast, everyday meals highlight how people navigate conflicting claims...
After the financial crisis, concerns about consumer financial protection and financial security in the United States (US) resulted in a renewed interest in promoting financial education. Targeting primarily low and moderate-income (LMI) participants, financial literacy and capability programs have been supported by national nonprofit organizations, as well as by city, state and federal agencies. While...
Institutional investment management requires expertise. In the “war-for-talent”, co-located private sector financial institutions drive wages up, thereby side-lining resource-constrained public pension funds and forcing them to outsource their investment functions. This article develops a frontier talent proposition based on a case-study of an atypical and exemplary U.S. public pension plan that produces...
This review brings together a set of trends to rethink neoliberalism. Decades of neoliberalization have transformed Western political economies, and although the financial crisis debunked the ideology for a fraud, the practices have simply refused to die since. Instead, neoliberalism assumed an authoritarian character, feeding popular resistance. Although leftist challenges failed to break its spell,...
Much of the literature on gender dimensions of community-based water governance focuses on irrigation systems in rural areas. Largely overlooked is how gender dynamics influence participation in community-based urban water governance systems. To address this gap, we use insights from Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) to examine whether and how community-based governance of drinking water in an urban...
Small hydropower (SHP) is a renewable energy that provides electricity for many rural areas in the Global South that lack national grid access. In China, however, SHP has transformed from a community-focused rural utility into to a privatized low-carbon industry that earns revenues from the sale of electricity to the grid. This paper analyzes the policies that enabled this transformation of SHP in...
This paper uses a global commodity chain (GCC) framework to explore the nexus of illicit economic activities and rural change. We unpack the micro-level economic processes by which a de facto land grab in eastern Honduras' Moskitia region was catalyzed and accelerated by the region's ascendance as a global hub of cocaine transit (ca. 2008–2012). We show how 'narco-brokers' mobilized a long-standing...
In 2015 the G7 countries announced the InsuResilience project to quadruple, by 2020, the number of people in the Global South who have financial risk management tools against climate change. A principal way this will occur is through weather index insurance (WII), a type of insurance that pays out according to estimated losses rather than actual ones. In this paper, I examine one WII product that...
Alternative food networks in post-socialist settings are often studied using concepts and analytical tools developed in the Anglo-American context. As a result, the findings tend to replicate and confirm rather than challenge and extend the extant knowledge and theorisations. Based on a recent study of farmers’ markets in the Czech capital Prague, the paper claims that viewing these ‘from the periphery’...
This study examines how transformations of a regional rural economy have produced new geographies of encounter between agricultural communities, their livestock, and carnivores surrounding Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, India. We analyze state discourses of human-wildlife conflict alongside the perspectives of rural agricultural communities about changes in human-wildlife interactions. Our study...
Multiple use forests in the United States take on different meanings for people who live, work, and recreate on the land. Forests are imbued with often contested visions of what the landscape is and ought to be, and this is related to the various knowledges, values, and experiences of users who project social, political, and economic power. The resources and amenities of multiple use public lands...
Everyday living is supported by an array of services provided by a complex local infrastructure nexus that is financed and funded by the public, private and third sectors. The on-going debate on the financialization of infrastructure has neglected to explore the provision of local infrastructure in places experiencing infrastructural exclusion. This paper seeks to contribute toward filling this gap...
Water conflicts are increasingly spilling into the streets in Chile, as communities struggle to make their voices heard in formal decision-making forums. However, these growing social movements are doing much more than just marching. Combining insights from political ecology and legal geography, this article approaches water governance as a complex field of struggle in which social movement resistance...
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