Journal articles: 'Spatial imaginaries'

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Keyder, Caglar, and Ravi Arvind Palat. "GEOPOLITICS AND NEW SPATIAL IMAGINARIES." Critical Asian Studies 45, no. 3 (September 2013): 393–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2013.829311.

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Alencar, Amanda, and Julia Camargo. "Spatial Imaginaries of Digital Refugee Livelihoods." Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 4, no. 3 (March 2, 2023): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jha.093.

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Discourses around the so-called digital economy are increasingly more present in contexts of forced displacement, with digital inclusion of refugees being framed by humanitarian agencies as a fundamental human right and an essential tool to promote access to income and skills development. While digital work can certainly bring about positive changes in forced migration settings, imaginaries around the role of the digital in refugees’ economic lives reflect a broader neoliberal project that envisions a retreat of the welfare state and that places on refugees the responsibility to integrate. This article draws on spatial imaginaries frameworks to advance the theoretical understanding of power differentials that are embodied in the use of technologies to promote refugee livelihoods. A combination of interviews, participant and non-participant observations was used to examine the perspectives of Venezuelan refugee women and humanitarian actors in the context of a digital work initiative in the city of Boa Vista, Brazil. The analysis reveals a mismatch between the imaginaries underpinning digital work opportunities and the expectations and plans of the refugee women themselves about the use of ICTs and engagement in digital forms of employability. Such disconnect can reinforce inequalities for refugee’s agency in the digital economy.

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Matus, Claudia, and Susan Talburt. "Spatial imaginaries: universities, internationalization, and feminist geographies." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 30, no. 4 (December 2009): 515–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596300903237271.

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Lingua, Valeria. "Enhancing Spatial Imaginaries of Metropolitan Renaissance: A Regional Design Approach." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (June 22, 2022): 7628. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14137628.

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This paper explores the contribution of Regional Design (RD), as an imaginative and creative practice aimed at the co-production of actual and future visions, to the construction and diffusion of spatial imaginaries (SI) concerning the present and future of our metropolitan cities. Despite recent studies on the performance of RD, an in-depth understanding of the interrelations between RD and SI has not yet been achieved. In order to fill this gap, the performance of RD in enhancing spatial imaginaries is approached by analysing its capacity to make the region visible, providing moments of insight and institutionalising certain imageries through processes of SI resonance. The application of these notions to the case of the Metropolitan City of Florence, by tracing the evolution of multiple spatial imaginaries and the challenges brought by the pandemic, reveals the opportunities and weaknesses of RD for grasping and even changing spatial imaginaries within processes of defining shared visions for the future of cities and regions.

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McCormack, Donna. "Canceral Imaginaries." lambda nordica 27, no. 2-3 (November 4, 2021): 129–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.34041/ln.v27.744.

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This article examines the carceral imaginaries that emerge from the late capitalist structure of organ donation as an issue of short supply. This piece explores this issue through the lens of spatial segregation, arguing that carceral imaginaries are spaces of luxury where donors are segregated from recipients and are thereby legally murdered. The focus is Ninni Holmqvist’s novel The Unit (2008) where the future is structured through gender equality but reproductive normativity. Donors are segregated away in the luxurious unit because they have not repro- duced. Having not produced future generations of labourers, these donors must contribute to the nation by donating their body parts to the reproductive – and therefore productive – members of the nation. Focusing on Sweden’s history of eugenics and on gender equality, this article argues that the very space of care, namely the clinic, which facilitates life-saving treatments also subjects whole populations to violence and death through reproductive norms. Finally, it sug- gests that space is both that through which bodies move, but also the body itself. That is, the segregation of the body’s parts and the idea that space may be divided by borders are mutually constitutive and found both the restrictions of bodily movement through space and murder as the gift of life.

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Soudias, Dimitris. "Spatializing Radical Political Imaginaries." Contention 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 4–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cont.2020.080103.

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This article seeks to make sense of why participants in square occupations point to the transformative character of their experience. Drawing from narrative research on the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens, I argue that the transformative quality of the occupation lies in the spatialized emergence and practice of radical political imaginaries in these encampments, which signify a demarcation from and an alternative to the neoliberalizing of everyday life in Greece. By scrutinizing the spatial demarcation between the “upper” and “lower” parts of the Syntagma Square occupation, one can think more carefully about the conditions of possibility for the emergence of the radical imagination.

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Georgi, F. Richard. "Spatial Imaginaries and (Transitional) Justice in Colombia’s Borderlands." Peace Review 33, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 470–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2021.2043006.

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Beaugrand, Claire. "Borders and Spatial Imaginaries in the Kuwaiti Identity." Geopolitics 23, no. 3 (June 30, 2017): 544–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1341407.

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Waters, Elissa, and Jon Barnett. "Spatial imaginaries of adaptation governance: A public perspective." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36, no. 4 (July 21, 2017): 708–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654417719557.

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While there is a growing literature on the institutional and scalar aspects of governance for adaptation, there remain very few studies that seek to explain how the public imagines the governance of adaptation across scales. Knowing public imaginaries of adaptation governance is important for the legitimacy and efficacy of adaptation processes. In this paper, we explain how the public imagines the governance of adaptation across scales, based on 80 in-depth interviews with coastal residents in south-eastern Australia. We find an overwhelming preference for government leadership on adaptation, little appetite for exclusively non-government responsibility regimes, and limited desire for shared public/private responsibility regimes. Participant responses indicate a broad preference for a multilevel government governance model, with responsibility weighted at local and national scales. This preference for a strong but distributed government function is at odds with the emerging tendency of governments to shift the weight of responsibility for adaptation down to local governments and to private actors.

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Haughton, Graham, and Philip Allmendinger. "Fluid Spatial Imaginaries: Evolving Estuarial City-regional Spaces." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39, no. 5 (September 2015): 857–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12211.

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Davoudi, Simin, Jenny Crawford, Ruth Raynor, Bryonie Reid, Olivier Sykes, and Dave Shaw. "Policy and Practice Spatial imaginaries: tyrannies or transformations?" Town Planning Review 89, no. 2 (March 2018): 97–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2018.7.

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Ferreri, Mara, and Gloria Dawson. "Self-precarization and the spatial imaginaries of property guardianship." cultural geographies 25, no. 3 (August 22, 2017): 425–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474017724479.

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Property guardianship, a form of short-term building security through temporary dwelling, has emerged in several European countries over the past 20 years. Despite being characterized by tenure insecurity and frequently substandard conditions, ‘living as a guardian’ has become a composite and polyvalent mode of inhabiting cities, rooted in the production and dissemination of distinctive spatial imaginaries of ‘nomadic’ urban dwelling. In the United Kingdom, where guardianship is relatively novel and marginal, the establishment of several intermediary companies has contributed to the rapid diffusion of the scheme as precarious ‘adventurous’ housing, particularly in metropolitan areas where guardianship schemes largely attract mobile and university-educated individuals. Drawing on debates about the complexities of ‘self-precarization’, this article examines imaginaries of property guardianship and their ambivalent significance in relation to lived processes of precarization. Through the analysis of media representations and in-depth interviews with current and former guardians in London, it explores how guardians mobilize narratives of adaptability, flexibility and nomadism between their resignation to existing housing conditions and a sense of critical and autonomous agency. This article proposes and develops a nuanced qualitative approach to analyse how precarious dwelling through guardianship is reshaping spatial imaginaries of acceptable and desirable urban housing, contributing to significant processes of individual and collective subjectification. At a moment of extensive governmentality through insecurity, it concludes that examining imaginaries and practices of self-precarization offers a critical entry point for understanding and rethinking, theoretically and politically, housing precarity and its geographies.

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Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Is India Part of Asia?" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20, no. 6 (December 2002): 669–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d260t.

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In casting Asia as Europe's ‘Other’, it is often assumed that European spatial imaginaries are unproblematically assimilated by the peoples of Asia themselves. In this paper I challenge this assumption by charting the changing characterization of India, from being virtually synonymous with Asia for centuries to being virtually excluded from the reigning conceptions of Asia. I provide a thumbnail sketch of the spatial imaginaries of some of the peoples inhabiting the cartographic quadrant labeled ‘Asia‘. Against this background, I examine how these imaginaries were subverted by the incorporation of Asia within the capitalist world system. I then chart the impact of modernization theories on the newly independent states of the region. I argue that as several major centers of capital accumulation emerged in Asia, and capitalism ceased to be a Euro-American narrative, a new conception of Asia emerged in the 1980s. If India's lack of industrial development marginalized it from these imaginaries, it is suggested that the meltdown of the Asian ‘miracles' has once again destabilized hitherto-dominant conceptions of Asia.

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Stokowski, Patricia A., Walter F. Kuentzel, Monika M. Derrien, and Yumiko L. Jakobcic. "Social, cultural and spatial imaginaries in rural tourism transitions." Journal of Rural Studies 87 (October 2021): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.09.011.

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Chateau, Zoé, Patrick Devine-Wright, and Jane Wills. "Integrating sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in researching energy futures." Energy Research & Social Science 80 (October 2021): 102207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102207.

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Baker, Tom, and Kristian Ruming. "Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39, no. 1 (January 2015): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12183.

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Pham, Kane. "Beyond borders: steering metropolitan growth priorities through spatial imaginaries." Australian Planner 56, no. 2 (March 14, 2020): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739094.

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Shim, David. "Remote sensing place: Satellite images as visual spatial imaginaries." Geoforum 51 (January 2014): 152–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.11.002.

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Boudreau, Julie-Anne. "Making New Political Spaces: Mobilizing Spatial Imaginaries, Instrumentalizing Spatial Practices, and Strategically Using Spatial Tools." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 39, no. 11 (November 2007): 2593–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a39228.

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Parazelli, Michel, and Marie-Ève Carpentier. "Imaginaires collectifs du partage de l’espace public avec les personnes en situation de marginalité à Montréal et à Québec (1993-2012)." TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association 21 (May 1, 2016): 51–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2016.21.7377.

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This article presents a qualitative study of the collective imaginaries constructing the socio-spatial representations of the parties aff ected by the presence of marginalized people in public spaces in downtown Montreal and Quebec City. Through an analysis of the discourses in French-language print media between 1993 and 2012, we identifi ed three collective imaginaries, which we labeled as ecosanitary, democratic, and salutary, each one feeding a complex of specific socio-spatial representations. The purpose of this study is to provide an overall perspective of the ideological positions available to the parties involved.

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Nowicka, Magdalena. "Cosmopolitans, Spatial Mobility and the Alternative Geographies." International Review of Social Research 2, no. 3 (October 1, 2012): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2012-0024.

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Abstract: This paper seeks to reframe the debates on cosmopolitanism and mobile cosmopolitan subjects by focusing its analysis on a multidimensional character of sociospatial relations. In particular, it critically engages with these works which too often see subjects as social categories and distinguish cosmopolitans from others, and which are silent about how people relate to space. The paper makes use of the study of mobile professionals working an international organization belonging to the United Nation family of organizations and argues that mobility in space creates a condition for emerging of sites of diversity and of new spatial imaginaries. It asks how these two aspects are related to each other. While the first aspect is addressed in the empirical studies, the paper makes a claim that cosmopolitanism is about challenging the latent spatial imaginaries and creating alternative geographies. Grounding this claim in empirical research, the paper complements the theoretical works on normative cosmopolitanism.

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Watkins, Josh. "Spatial Imaginaries Research in Geography: Synergies, Tensions, and New Directions." Geography Compass 9, no. 9 (September 2015): 508–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12228.

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Thomas, Kedron. "Structural Adjustment, Spatial Imaginaries, and “Piracy” in Guatemala's Apparel Industry." Anthropology of Work Review 30, no. 1 (May 2009): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1417.2009.01008.x.

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Huber, Laila. "Topographies of the Possible." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 24, no. 2 (September 1, 2015): 34–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2015.240204.

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This article explores the creation of new structures of participation and counter imaginaries within the city between the poles of arts and politics. On the basis of two case studies, one situated in the non-institutionalised artistic field and one in the non-institutionalised political field, I will explore narratives of a 'topography of the possible' in the city of Salzburg. Aiming to outline collage pieces of a topography of the possible and of counter-narrative in and of the city – the city is looked at in terms of collage, understood as overlapping layers of the three spatial dimensions materiality (physical space), sociability (social space) and the imaginary (symbolic space). These are understood as differing but interrelated spatial dimensions, each one unfolding forms of collective appropriation of a city. The focus lies on the creation of social relations and collective imaginaries on the micro-level of cultural and political self-organised initiatives, looked at under terms of narration and storytelling. My ethnographic project asks for the creative potentiality of a city and for the creative power of social relations and collective imaginaries.

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Dougherty, Deirdre M. "Urban Redevelopment, School Closure, and the Abstract Space of Black Schooling in Prince George’s County, Maryland, 1968-1972." Journal of Urban History 46, no. 5 (March 25, 2019): 1117–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144219836937.

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Situated within the literature on school desegregation and black suburbanization, this article uses a framework of spatial production and racial formation to understand how one all-black high school, Fairmont Heights, was produced as an educational space through policy discourses during the height of school desegregation in suburban Maryland. The article draws on faculty statements opposing school closure, federal grant applications for urban renewal funds, annual board of education reports, superintendent addresses, and school board minutes to address three questions: How did Fairmont Heights get “produced” as an unequal educational space in relation to the surrounding metropolitan area, both physically and symbolically? How did different spatial imaginaries relate to race? How did people draw on language to mobilize these imaginaries and what sort of changes were effected as a result?

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Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional Order." Asian Perspective 23, no. 2 (1999): 5–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apr.1999.0023.

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Sørensen, Estrid. "STS goes to school: Spatial imaginaries of technology, knowledge and presence." Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 9, no. 2 (September 1, 2007): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v9i2.2078.

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The following text presents a revised and extended version of the public defence of my Ph.D. thesis, which I presented at the Faculty of Social Sciences on 18th November 2005, Copenhagen University. The thesis applies and develops theoretical perspectives from Science and Technology Studies – especially Actor-Network Theory – on the empirical field of primary education. This field has not prior been approached by these theories. Based on ethnographic field studies the thesis presents and compares what I call spatial imaginaries of interactions of humans and learning materials in a traditional classroom and in a computer lab. The study describes and discusses the forms of knowledge and the forms of presence performed through these socio-material interactions. The study thus contributes a definition of materialities that takes the understanding of technology in education beyond the dominant humanist approach to schooling.

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Graham, Mark. "Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Technomediated Positionalities in Kenya's Outsourcing Sector." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 47, no. 4 (January 2015): 867–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a140275p.

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Kothari, Uma. "Spatial practices and imaginaries: Experiences of colonial officers and development professionals." Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27, no. 3 (November 2006): 235–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00260.x.

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Nathan, Max, Emma Vandore, and Georgina Voss. "Spatial Imaginaries and Tech Cities: Place-branding East London’s digital economy." Journal of Economic Geography 19, no. 2 (May 8, 2018): 409–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby018.

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Jansen, Maurice, Amanda Brandellero, and Rosanne Van Houwelingen. "Port-City Transition: Past and Emerging Socio-Spatial Imaginaries and Uses in Rotterdam’s Makers District." Urban Planning 6, no. 3 (July 27, 2021): 166–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i3.4253.

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This article explores old and emerging socio-spatial imaginaries and uses of Rotterdam’s Makers District. The district comprises two urban harbors—Merwe Vierhavens and Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij—historically in use as bustling trade, storage, and ship yarding nodes of the city’s port activities. At the turn of the millennium, technological advancements made it possible to move many port-related activities out of the area and farther out of the city, gradually hollowing out these harbors’ port-related economic foundations and opening opportunities for new uses and imaginaries. This article traces the transition by detailing how the boundary between the city and the port has become more porous in this district. It does so by offering original empirical evidence on the flows of users in and out of the area in recent years, based on location quotients, while also applying a content analysis of the profiles of companies and institutions currently inhabiting and working in these transformed port-city spaces. On the one hand, the results show how the ongoing port-city transition in Rotterdam’s Makers District combines carefully curated interventions and infrastructure plans seeking to progressively adapt the area to new purposes, while maintaining some of its former functions. On the other hand, they highlight the pioneering role of more bottom-up initiatives and innovative urban concepts, springing from the creative industries and maker movement. The article offers insights into the emerging uses and imaginaries attached to the district, while also showing the resilience and adaptation of port legacies.

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Van de Ven, Ruben, and Ildikó Zonga Plájás. "Inconsistent Projections." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 11, no. 1 (October 18, 2022): 50–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v11i1.134306.

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In this paper we propose a time-based digital tool, a diagram-in-the-making, as to learn about computer vision in the field of security. With this method we want to map the heterogeneous and multiple nature of security vision tech- nologies and their imaginaries. Concretely, we conducted qualitative interviews with professionals who develop, use or militate against these technologies and asked them to draw a diagram as to support their narrative. In spatialising the conversation, the diagrams allow for a wide variety of actants and relations to emerge. The time-based unfolding of the lines enacts imaginaries of computer vision practices which are intrinsically intertwined with the narratives of which they are part. It creates space for hesitation, uncertainties, incongruities and complexities that would have been rendered invisible in a geographic map. Through the spatial, material and temporal unfoldings of the diagrams we learn that security vision imaginaries are partial and contradictory.

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Rönnberg, Linda, Nafsika Alexiadou, Malin Benerdal, Sara Carlbaum, Ann-Sofie Holm, and Lisbeth Lundahl. "Swedish free school companies going global: Spatial imaginaries and movable pedagogical ideas." Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy 8, no. 1 (December 29, 2021): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2021.2008115.

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WETZSTEIN, STEFFEN. "Globalising Economic Governance, Political Projects, and Spatial Imaginaries: Insights from Four Australasian1Cities." Geographical Research 51, no. 1 (July 19, 2012): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00768.x.

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Watkins, Josh. "Australia’s irregular migration information campaigns: border externalization, spatial imaginaries, and extraterritorial subjugation." Territory, Politics, Governance 5, no. 3 (February 14, 2017): 282–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2017.1284692.

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Ravindran, Tathagatan. "Geographies of Indigenous Identity: Spatial Imaginaries and Racialised Power Struggles in Bolivia." Antipode 51, no. 3 (February 12, 2019): 949–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12517.

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Rajca, Andrew C. "Urban Imaginaries, Spatial Practices, and Cinematic Aesthetics in Sérgio Bianchi's Os inquilinos." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 22, no. 1 (2018): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2018.0012.

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Jokela-Pansini, Maaret. "Spatial imaginaries and collective identity in women’s human rights struggles in Honduras." Gender, Place & Culture 23, no. 10 (July 7, 2016): 1465–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2016.1204998.

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Jenkins, DeMarcus A. "Unspoken Grammar of Place: Anti-Blackness as a Spatial Imaginary in Education." Journal of School Leadership 31, no. 1-2 (January 2021): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1052684621992768.

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This article builds from scholarship on anti-Blackness in education and spatial imaginaries in geography to theorize an anti-Black spatial imaginary as the prevailing spatial logic that has shaped the configuration and character of American social intuitions, including K-12 schools. As a spatial imaginary, anti-Blackness is circulated through discourses, images, and texts that tell a story of Blackness as a problem, non-human, and placeless. Anchored by the assumption that Black populations are spatially illegitimate, the anti-Black spatial imaginary marks Black bodies as undesirable and therefore extractable from spaces and places that have been envisioned for their exclusion. I consider schools as sites spatialized terror where the exhibitions of terror consist of forcing students to observe other Black bodies being forcibly removed from the classroom and school community; constant rejection of Black language, traditions, music preferences, and other cultural forms of expression; the obliteration of Black names and identities. I offer ways that school leaders can unsettle the anti-Black spatial imaginary to transform schools as sites of holistic healing and possibilities.

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Esser, Helena. "Re-Calibrating Steampunk London: Heterotopia and Spatial Imaginaries in Assassins Creed: Syndicate and The Order 1886." Humanities 10, no. 1 (March 20, 2021): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10010056.

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Video games have become important but understudied narrative media, which link into as well as perpetuate popular forms of cultural memory. They evoke and mediate space (or the illusion thereof) in unique ways, literally putting into play Doreen Massey’s theory of space as being produced through a multiplicity of trajectories. I examine how Assassins Creed: Syndicate and The Order 1886 (both 2015) configure a neo-Victorian London as a simulated, spatio-temporal imaginary in which urban texture becomes a readable storytelling device in and of itself, and interrogate how their neo-Victorian heterotopias are mediated through a spatial experience. Both games conjure up imaginaries of steampunk London as a counter-site sourced from and commenting on the Victorian city of memory. Through retro-speculation, they re-calibrate neo-Victorian London as a playground offering alternative forms of agency and adventure or as cyberpunk-infused hyper-city. In so doing, they invite the player to re-evaluate, through their spatial experience in such a heterotopic steampunk London, shared imaginaries of ‘the city’ and ‘the Victorian’.

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Stratis, Socrates. "Why Alice is not in Wonderland? Countering the Militarized status quo of Cyprus." Journal of Public Space, Vol. 5 n. 4 (December 1, 2020): 193–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v5i4.1405.

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Why Alice is not in Wonderland? Countering the militarized status quo of Cyprus is a narrative, part of the author’s diary. It is a reflection on a critical spatial practice, a performative event, titled “Alice in Meridianland… or the counter-militarization action”, part of the Buffer Fringe Performance Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019. The critical spatial practice comments on Cyprus’ actual militarization status by offering alternative urban imaginaries for the urban commons of an island without armies. It has taken place along a loop of streets and public spaces both in the north and the south parts of divided Nicosia. “Alice in Meridianland” is a camouflage tactic to conceal its anti-militaristic nature while crossing the guarded checkpoints into the city’s north part. Two tricycles, pulling 3-meter long banners, have followed the loop in opposite directions, three times. They met at designated areas and formed instant spaces of playful interaction. The narrative unpacks the entanglements between the performative event and the city’s users of the streets and public spaces. It unfolds how the event has generated new associations between the public spaces and the feelings of the participants and of the author. How it readjusted their mental maps and urban imaginaries. The narrative is a reflective tool for critical spatial practices in producing situated knowledge.

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VODA, Mihai, Steven GRAVES, and Cristina Elena BERARIU. "GEOMEDIA`S ROLE IN THE GEOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT: DRACULA`S SPATIAL IMAGINARIES IN ROMANIA." Geographia Technica 14, no. 2 (October 25, 2019): 143–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.21163/gt_2019.142.13.

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Itaoui, Rhonda. "The Geography of Islamophobia in Sydney: mapping the spatial imaginaries of young Muslims." Australian Geographer 47, no. 3 (June 30, 2016): 261–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2016.1191133.

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Feng, Linda Rui. "Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography and Literature., by Ao Wang.Amherst." Imago Mundi 71, no. 2 (June 3, 2019): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2019.1607089.

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Hoole, Charlotte, and Stephen Hincks. "Performing the city-region: Imagineering, devolution and the search for legitimacy." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 8 (April 28, 2020): 1583–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x20921207.

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This paper provides new conceptual and empirical insights into the role city-regions play as part of a geopolitical strategy deployed by the nation state to enact its own interests, in conversation with local considerations. Emphasis falls on the performative roles of economic models and spatial-economic imaginaries in consolidating and legitimising region-building efforts and the strategies and tactics employed by advocates to gain credibility and traction for their chosen imaginaries. We focus on the Sheffield City Region and Doncaster within it (South Yorkshire, England) drawing on 56 in-depth interviews with local policymakers, civic institutions and private sector stakeholders conducted between 2015 and 2018. In doing so, we identify three overlapping phases in the building of the Sheffield City Region: a period of initial case-making to build momentum behind the Sheffield City Region imaginary; a second of concerted challenge from alternative imaginaries; and a third where the Sheffield City Region was co-constituted alongside the dominant alternative One Yorkshire imaginary. Our work suggests that the city-region imaginary has gained traction and sustained momentum as national interests have closed down local resistance to the Sheffield City Region. This has momentarily locked local authorities into a preferred model of city-regional devolution but, in playing its hand, central government has exposed city-region building as a precarious fix where alternative imaginaries simply constitute a ‘deferred problem’ for central government going forward.

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Yang, Connie. "Staging Israel/Palestine: The geopolitical imaginaries of international tourism." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38, no. 6 (March 29, 2020): 1075–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654420915573.

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This article argues that the curation of particular geopolitical imaginaries of Israel/Palestine for international tourists can legitimize and naturalize the violence of the Israeli state project. Juxtaposing the cases of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the West Bank, I analyze the discourses and embodied practices that produce imaginative geographies through processes of spatial distancing and temporal fixing. The dominant imaginary in Tel Aviv-Jaffa incorporates Israel into a westernized geography of Europe, while the dominant imaginary of the West Bank emphasizes its location in an Orientalized Middle East. The cultivation of these tourist landscapes as entirely disparate places works to obscure how both are constitutive of a single Israeli regime, contributing to the public secret that separates the occupation of the West Bank from Israel as a democratic state. By examining how seemingly apolitical tourist practices are entangled with geopolitical violence, this article reveals the complicity of international tourism in sustaining Israeli settler colonial dispossession and military occupation.

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Scott, James Wesley, Filippo Celata, and Raffaella Coletti. "Bordering imaginaries and the everyday construction of the Mediterranean neighbourhood: Introduction to the special issue." European Urban and Regional Studies 26, no. 1 (September 7, 2018): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776418795208.

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This special issue of European Urban and Regional Studies maps out a move from a strictly geopolitical to more socio-political and socio-cultural interpretations of the European Union’s (EU’s) ‘Mediterranean neighbourhood’. In doing this, the authors propose a dialogic understanding of neighbourhood as a set of ideas and imaginaries that reflect not only top-down geopolitical imaginaries but also everyday images, representations and imaginations. The introduction briefly summarizes conceptualizations of ‘neighbourhood’ provided by the individual contributions that connect the realm of high politics with that of communities and individuals who are affected by and negotiate the EU’s Mediterranean borders. Specifically, three cases of socio-spatial imaginaries that exemplify patterns of differential inclusion of the ‘non-EU’ will be explored. The cases involve Italy–Tunisia cross-border relations, the EU’s post-‘Arab Spring’ engagement with civil society actors and the case of Northern Cyprus. The authors suggest that ‘neighbourhood’ can be conceptualized as a borderscape of interaction and agency that is politically framed in very general terms but that in detail is composed of many interlinked relational spaces. The European neighbourhood emerges as a patchwork of relations, socio-cultural encounters, confrontation and contestation, rather than merely as a cooperation policy or border regime.

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Larner, Wendy. "Hitching a Ride on the Tiger's Back: Globalisation and Spatial Imaginaries in New Zealand." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16, no. 5 (October 1998): 599–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d160599.

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In this paper I develop a genealogy of globalisation in New Zealand informed by the neo-Foucauldian literature on governmentality. My claim is that globalisation involves a shift-in the object of economic governance away from the national economy and towards the circuits of global capital. This shift is associated with a change in spatial imaginaries. Through an analysis of three key arenas—social policy, foreign direct investment, and immigration—I show that policies and programmes, designed to fulfil these new political ambitions, aim to articulate individuals, sectors, and regions into the economic flows and networks of the Pacific Rim. In this regard, globalisation can be usefully understood as a political strategy that promotes a new understanding of the means and ends of economic governance.

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Scott, James W., Chiara Brambilla, Filippo Celata, Raffaella Coletti, Hans-Joachim Bürkner, Xavier Ferrer-Gallardo, and Lorenzo Gabrielli. "Between crises and borders: Interventions on Mediterranean Neighbourhood and the salience of spatial imaginaries." Political Geography 63 (March 2018): 174–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.07.008.

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Hincks, Stephen, Iain Deas, and Graham Haughton. "Real Geographies, Real Economies and Soft Spatial Imaginaries: Creating a ‘More than Manchester’ Region." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41, no. 4 (July 2017): 642–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12514.

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