ABSTRACT This article points to the paradox in feminist citation practices. It provides a brief overview of the key issues at stake in feminist citational practices. By highlighting the ways in which the logic of territoriality, authority and property continues to inform the mood and mode of moralistic repair, it cautions again the reification of certain racialised and gendered bodies as the remedy, ground and supplement for feminist research ethics. Thinking through the figure of the (bio)degradable, this article asks whether it is possible to consider feminist citation as use/less.

UNDERSTANDING SCALAR POLITICS THROUGH THE FRAMEWORK OF RELATIONAL ARCHIPELAGOS: The Case of Shenzhen Fair, China

Abstract In this article I aim to tackle two binary readings of scale: the networked/hierarchical and the political/economic. By revisiting and reframing the concept of the archipelago, I develop a framework of relational hierarchical networks that foregrounds the mutual constitution of networks and hierarchies through a processual examination of scale production, taking the Shenzhen Fair as a case study. The fair is a valuable site for interrogating the issue of scale politics—that is, how to catapult a city into China's trading circuit, while simultaneously allowing a new epistemological construction of nationhood. I present two arguments in this study: first, territorial logic and capitalist logic are entangled in constructing networks for flows of discursive and material things, and these networks form new hierarchies of place. Second, various political and economic interests might gravitate towards different geographies through the same process of networking. I also assess how the newly produced state space is a relational archipelago that unifies formerly disparate places and sectors and enables the mobility of discursive and material things, and how the redistribution of these discourses and materials reconfigures the state space.

Abstract Since 2011 renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has triggered the internal displacement of more than 100,000 people in Kachin state. This article examines how care practices and care ethics influence border governance in the context of humanitarian concerns in Kachin state in northern Myanmar, which shares a border with China. The situation in Kachin state at the China-Myanmar border reveals the contrasting territorial logics at stake, the contingency of governance at a time of political transition, and distinct ‘regimes of care’, as manifested through humanitarian relief, which all contribute towards border governance. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews, the article highlights how care deficits are met by a separatist government, community organizations (both faith-based and secular), and diaspora populations which mobilize a range of networks and resources—forming webs of connections and interfacing with one another—to provide humanitarian relief. However, their actions and the ensuing flows of care could produce or deepen political subjectivities that are geared towards territorial contestation and separatism, thus changing expressions of border governance. The article further observes that the Kachin situation has wider implications for the peace negotiations taking place at the national level in Myanmar.

Even when seen in its simplest forms, the basics of the territorial affairs of the European Union are complicated. For that reason, the purpose of this research is to make them easier to understand this by using the guardian and commercial systems of survival as heuristic tool. Through conceptual reflection five related developments then come to the fore: 1) the commercial syndrome emerges in the essentially guardian territorial affairs, 2) commercial rule challenges guardian encircling rule via networking, 3) the market of territories formed with commercial territoriality makes the territorial affairs in the European Union chaotic and ambivalent, 4) parasitic traders engender corruption in guardian corpora and generate systemic corruption in those territorial affairs, and 5) technical elites puzzle two contradictory territorial logics together by complexifying and loosening cognitive dissonance away. In short, what helps to more thoroughly understand the puzzling territorial affairs in the European Union is to recognise their fundaments in two interrelated puzzles, the guardian and commercial ones, instead of just seeing a single one. The reconsideration of the guardian and commercial syndromes this involves then indicates essential reconfigurations of territorial affairs and that, paradoxically, this symbiosis between the two systems of survival stays on course as long as the territorial puzzles are not solved. And to easier understand territorial affairs thus, also opens up a wide field of inquiry uncovering the interlinked underlying manners of territorialisation, which are exemplarily shown in the European Union by territorial cohesion policy.

The use of geographic information systems provides an effective solution to the goal of mapping the results of the population distribution and redistribution of the population in the region of primary development, as well as to study the dynamics of settlement by key time slices. For effective spatial analysis of the results of the distribution and redistribution of the population, it is advisable to adapt the functionality of the information retrieval system using a map server, as well as a web application that provides data processing and interaction with a database that includes geodata and attributive information. The article presents the experience of developing an information retrieval system in the form of a cartographic web application and its application to establish the territorial logic of the regional settlement system for five historical and geographical periods (from the middle of the 18th century to date). The information retrieval system provides an option of graphic selection and display of settlements on the map, taking into account the formation of the settlement system according to the historical and geographical stages, as well as an option of searching by both modern and historical names of settlements. The performance efficiency of the information retrieval system was demonstrated using the case study of one of the Northern Black Sea regions, where the interests of Poland, Turkey and Russia clashed from the middle of the 18th century; and the spatial and temporal dynamics of the settlement system reflected the change in state borders. A series of electronic maps on five historical and geographical stages of the formation of a network of settlements was obtained thanks to its import into the geodatabase of an information retrieval system and the automatic distribution of settlements by chronological intervals (up to 1794, 1795–1860, 1861–1905, 1906–1918, 1919–2020). The final stage of stabilizing the growth of the number of settlements, which determined the settlement network density of 3.7 units per 100 km2, falls during the period of 1906–1941.

Aim: To perform a territorial comparison of the incidence rates of certain cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the pediatric population of the city ofVoronezh.Material and Methods. The morbidity rates in the pediatric population over certain inner-city zones were assessed using a differentiated approach. This tactic was chosen taking into account historical background as a high percentage of the population (75.8% of the total population in the city district of Voronezh) was registered at particular clinics based on a territorial logic. Of these, 11 pediatric clinics in Voronezh provided care for over 160,000 children under the age of 14 years (about 79% of children residing in the city district of Voronezh) on a territorial basis. The ranking of indicators was performed using a specially designed software developed at the Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N. Burdenko. The territories at risk were identified based on the results of this analysis by the level and dynamics of morbidity in the pediatric population. Results. Cardiovascular diseases were below the top five leading disease classes and were ranked 8–9 in children in the context of overall morbidity structure in the city ofVoronezh. The study showed that the incidence of cardiovascular diseases increased in the adult population of Voronezh relative to the value for the same period analyzed last year: the growth rate in the number of medical care encounters was 14.65% with 14.05% of diagnoses established for the first time in life. The average long-term level of cardiovascular mortality in theVoronezh city district was 24.79 ± 1.40 cases per 1,000 children under 14 years of age.Conclusion. The differences, found in the morbidity rates from the individual intra-city territories provided with pediatric polyclinics, can be explained by the various factors such as the age structure of the population residing in a particular region and human resources of a medical organization including the availability of a pediatric cardiologist. Knowledge of information regarding pediatric disease incidence in certain inner-city territories allowed us to rationally optimize the resources of the urban health system to improve the availability and quality of medical care to the population, particularly the young segments, suffering from cardiovascular diseases at the pre-hospital stage.

Argentina é um país com profundas desigualdades territoriais como resultado da dinâmica de acumulação capitalista. A localização das atividades, da população, das infraestruturas e dos serviços, denota uma heterogeneidade que tem raízes históricas, em conformidade à lógica de ocupação territorial consolidada ao longo dos diferentes modelos de desenvolvimento. No presente trabalho se revisam os conceitos de concentração, primazia e macrocefalia urbana, para logo transportá-los ao processo de produção do território, de concentração territorial em torno à área central do país, de primazia urbana e macrocefalia na Grande Buenos Aires, que junto à Grande Rosário e à Grande Córdoba, concentram mais do 40% da população na Argentina. São revisados os planos e os projetos de políticas públicas que pretenderam e pretendem incidir na heterogeneidade e na desigualdade territorial, sob a premissa de que os mesmos encontrem limites dentro do sistema e do projeto político vigente. Se bem nos últimos anos aconteceram importantes transformações, que incluíram a institucionalidade da planificação urbana e do ordenamento territorial, os resultados tem sido reduzidos e não alcançaram modificar substancialmente a situação.

The recent renaissance of uneven and combined development (UCD) has generally followed Justin Rosenberg’s formulation of the ‘international’, conceived as the inter-societal dimension of sociohistorical development. But Rosenberg’s ‘international’ rests on the conflation of distinct concepts, thus occluding other consequential registers of multiplicity. This paper (1) disentangles the concepts ‘social’, ‘societal’ and ‘political’; (2) demonstrates, using recent archaeological research, that complex social definedness preceded the sedentarisation of human groups; and (3) argues that social multiplicity constitutes a distinct dimension of causality that is interrelated with but irreducible to the territorial logics of societal and political multiplicity. In order to do this, it examines the role of the social (as non-territorial group identification) in the rise of Hellenic nationalism in colonial Cyprus. The paper concludes by suggesting a new path for UCD research in order to explore the full significance of multiplicity for IR theory, thus moving further out of the ‘prison of Political Science’.

Professional and Territorial Health Communities aim at organizing the coordination of health professionals of primary and specialty care, in order to better structure care pathways and improve healthcare access. The flow of patients to specialty care outlines territories whose scale and organization can serve as a basis to identify these communities' territories. The analysis of patient flows to specialty care professionals in Centre-Val de Loire region in 2015 (SNIIRAM data) made it possible to classify medical specialties according to their scale of attractiveness (i.e. regional, departmental and sub-departmental specialties). Among sub-departmental specialties, 5 have been merged to identify common poles of attraction. These empirical poles have been compared to health professionals' perception of territories where they practice in order to refine the territorial subdivision of the region. Patient flows to the General Hospitals (PMSI date) were then defined to compare them with the private practice patient poles. In the region, twenty or so attraction poles can be identified in the six departments of the region. Local areas have been divided into 5 classes, according to their degree of attraction to a pole. Attraction poles seem to be consistent with health professionals' habits. The concordance with hospital patient poles reinforced the relevance of this division. Patients flows respond to a real territorial logic which, confronted to health professionals' real-life practices, draws territories relevant for a first approach of the Professional and Territorial Health Communities.

This paper deals with mutability of memory as a diasporic tool in Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem. Anita Rau Badami is an Indo-Canadian Diaspora writer. Her critically acclaimed first novel Tamarind Mem (1996) explores the sweet-sour nostalgic confrontation of mother-daughter relationship through mutability of memory while focusing on Indian domestic life and life in Canada. The relation of diaspora and memory contains important critical and may be even subversive potentials. Memory can transcend the territorial logic of dispersion and return and emerge as competing source of diasporic identity. In diaspora literature memory is a performative, figurative process.

Abstract Drawing upon the scholarship in historical-comparative sociology, this article presents some guidelines for theoretically structured urban comparison by spotlighting four methodological issues: case selection, causality, historical analyses and wider implications. This is demonstrated with a comparative analysis of air pollution control in Beijing and Delhi. The analysis finds that Beijing’s clean air campaign features a territorial logic, centring on territorial institutions and authorities, while Delhi’s clean air campaign features an associational logic, led by environmental NGOs in conjunction with the judiciary.

Este estudio se ubica en la Ciudad de México. El problema de investigación de este trabajo parte de que, en la periferia urbana de esta ciudad, las políticas de conservación tienen una expresión territorial interpretada de diversas maneras por algunos actores que están involucrados en su manejo. Se llevaron a cabo una serie de entrevistas en dos grupos focales: propietarios de la tierra y funcionarios públicos. Entre los resultados relevantes de este estudio se detectó que para el grupo de ejidatarios y comuneros, el principal problema es la falta de consulta a los dueños de la tierra en el territorio denominado suelo de conservación; mientras que para los funcionarios el principal problema es la falta de políticas que compitan con la especulación inmobiliaria y la venta de terrenos. Mientras los comuneros están observando las problemáticas en términos de su relación con las autoridades y desde una lógica territorial enfocada al entorno local, para la mayoría de los funcionarios éstas son de carácter institucional (falta de políticas; instrumentos de política rebasados; falta de coordinación) y se expresan a una escala territorial que tiende a omitir a los habitantes de los pueblos originarios.

Argentina since its establishment as Nation-state (1816) claimed the Falkland Islands as part of its national territory, approaching the situation in different ways depending on different governments. The main objective of this article is to describe the political positioning of the Kirchner (2002-2015) and Macri (2015-2019) governments, together with a comparison of the evolution of the geopolitical approach of the dispute of the Malvinas. Based on the indirect strategy and the behaviour of the Argentine government, a possible cooperation on the use of wealth is built, despite the Modus vivendi of direct sovereignty. The Kirchner governments adopted a multilateral stance, calling on the South American community. Mauricio Macri, as the new president of Argentina, presents another stance, which we can identify as a bilateral approach. In this way, we can identify, by means of the characteristics of these two positions a similarity with the concept of capital and territorial logic of Arrighi.

Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The objective of the paper is to show how Integrated Supply Chain Projects (Progetti Integrati di Filiera (PIF)), Italian rural policy tools funded in the framework of EU’s Rural Development Policy, can integrate supply chain innovation and territorial integrated strategies, fostering a multifunctional development of marginal rural areas towards a newly discovered identity. The case study is the PIF “Flora Aromatica Santa Luce” funded by the Tuscany Regional Administration RDP in 2016. The project aims at creating a new supply chain of organic aromatic plants in the Santa Luce Valley (PI). The integration is based, on the one side, on the creation and valorization of the new supply chain product, represented by an organic cosmetic line made with lavender essential oil, and, on the other side, on the territorial development of the Valley, in an economic, social, environmental and touristic perspective. From a theoretical point of view, the approach used was based on the new rural development paradigm, assuming that the processes of broadening, deepening and regrounding, together compose the main axis of rural development. The canvas model was used in order to identify a business model for the new supply chain and the territorial development of the area, while, at the methodological level, a participatory action research (PAR) approach was adopted. Results show how a supply chain project (like a PIF) can enhance innovation and stable commercial relationships within the supply chain and support processes of vertical and horizontal coordination, but also stimulate extended territorial strategies supporting the integration processes between agriculture, processing and other economic activities following a territorial multifunctional development logic. At the same time, key benefits for the policymaker and local administrations can also be identified in particular for marginal rural areas where farmers and other local actors are weaker and collective action is more difficult. Thanks to the PAR approach, a PIF can stimulate participation of farmers to relevant RDP measures but also allow convergence of individual actions towards wider regional and local strategic objectives.

El texto aborda la planeación y gestión espontánea en escenarios urbanos desde una relectura territorial de los asentamientos humanos como sistemas sociales. Este planteamiento crítico sugiere un cambio de paradigma sobre el desarrollo autogestionado, a medida que reflexiona sobre cómo entender la complejidad territorial desde el reconocimiento de la autonomía de sus habitantes. Para ello, el pensamiento sistémico es utilizado en la estructuración de una lectura que propone entender las dinámicas territoriales de San Germán (Usme), en el borde sur de Bogotá. Los resultados incluyen, primero, un análisis sistémico aplicado a una línea de tiempo que expone los efectos de una respuesta institucional mecánica y lineal. Segundo, la lectura simultánea de las lógicas formales y espontáneas, haciendo explícitos los puntos de encuentro que suponen confrontaciones. El artículo concluye, por un lado, que el desconocimiento de las implicaciones globales de la acción institucional ha estado vinculado al establecimiento de medidas que homogenizan el territorio bajo una lógica única de construcción territorial. Por el otro, que el no reconocimiento de las lógicas espontáneas continuará restringiendo las acciones autogestionadas a contextos ajenos a los diálogos en escenarios de planeación y, con ello, al desarrollo espontáneo no asistido, aislado e inaccesible.

The paper argues for the necessity of a new paradigm of ecological restoration in the face of mining extraction in the Latin American Andes. It begins with a critical reading of the extra-territorial connections between mining sites and settlements and unfolds their ambivalent relations through chronic cycles of ecological destruction. The analysis focuses on the territorial logics embedded in four mining-settlements of the Peruvian Andes and their development from the eighteenth to the twentyfirst century. Potosí, Huancavelica, Hualgayoc, and Cajamarca form part of an extended network of landscape infrastructures and headwater resources, all of which have been (and continue to be) significantly disturbed through mining operations. The sites have inherited a relentless production of Acid Mine Drainage in addition to other hazardous post-mining ecologies. Tangible evidence of ecological misbalance demonstrates the enduring impact of past-mining activities even centuries after mineral extraction has ceased. The paper reflects on present-day practices of post-mining landscape restoration in accordance with current Peruvian legislation. It concludes with a plea for a new form of territorial planning as well as both the conception and perception of post-mining landscapes through inclusion of design strategies for Cajamarca. Such planning needs to reconcile the contradictory elements of mineral extraction, environmental engineering, and self-sustainable ecological development. Intelligent design research is a major support for such an endeavor.

ABSTRACTThis paper adds new insights to the relationship between city-regionalism, the territorial logics of the competition state and how climate adaptation is located in state spaces. Whilst climate adaptation governance is positioned within national economic sectors, it highlights an emerging city-regional policy dimension to such governance. The spatial reconfiguration of climate change adaptation governance reflects a tension between three quite distinct processes: (1) the sector-driven territorial logic of the national competition state; (2) the emergence of city-regionalism as an adaptation governance response to increased competition; and (3) the assertion of ‘national’ political priorities in the implementation of climate adaptation across subnational territories. Future climate adaptation governance research needs to address the uneasy relationship between the rise of city-regionalism and the sector-led priorities of the competition state.

Abstract Much political economy research examines how higher-level political representation of the constituent jurisdictions affects resource redistribution among the lower-level units in democracies, but little work has probed the redistributive consequences of regional political representation under dictatorship. This study investigates the effect of membership for provincial officials in the Politburo of the single-ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on fiscal resource flows between the central government and provincial governments in reform-era China. I find robust evidence that the provinces overseen by CCP Politburo members tended to remit more budgetary revenues to the center but did not receive larger central budgetary subsidies. This is consistent with a territorial logic of authoritarian power-sharing in single-party states, which suggests that the regionally selective presence at a collective ruling-party decision-making forum for subnational officials aims at tighter political control to help induce greater policy compliance from below.

Los flujos de movilidad de estudiantes universitarios entre Comunidades Autónomas españolas han sido escasamente tratados en la investigación geográfica. Este artículo intenta llenar este vacío, sumándose a la que aborda otro tipo de variaciones residenciales vinculadas al mercado de trabajo, la familia o el ocio. De esta forma, incorpora el estudio de otras movilidades geográficas que revelan la capacidad de atracción o repulsión de ciertos territorios gracias a los datos sobre estudiantes universitarios del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y sobre población joven del Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Los hallazgos más significativos del estudio demuestran una tendencia al incremento ligero de la movilidad estudiantil en los últimos años y una lógica territorial no coincidente con la de las migraciones residenciales. Por tanto, desvela una fuerza desigual de atracción y de emisión de flujos de estudiantes en los últimos años, e inalterada a pesar de la creación de nuevas universidades.