Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue     

James R. Faulconbridge  Sarah Hall 《Geoforum》2009,40(5):785-789

This paper introduces the special issue ‘organisational geographies of power’ by examining the theoretical and empirical context for debates. It does this, firstly, with reference to existing theoretical work on what power is and does as well as work on the construction of power relations. Building on this, the paper then, secondly, examines the way relational and production network approaches have incorporated power into work on transnational corporations before, thirdly, considering how work on neoliberalism has studied the construction of spatial power relations. In doing this the paper highlights four important questions for future research relating to the practices and spatiality of power, the exercising of power and the situated effects of power relations.  相似文献   

Dialogue, metaphors of dialogue and understandings of geography   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

David Demeritt  & Sarah Dyer 《Area》2002,34(3):229-241

Increasingly, human and physical geographers alike describe their research practices as involving dialogue of some kind. However, the widespread popularity of the term belies some very different understandings of its meaning and methodological implications. In this paper we reflect on these different conceptions of 'dialogical' geography as a way, first, of illustrating the broad range of understandings of research methodology now current in the discipline and, second, of identifying their implications for three long–standing controversies in the discipline: relativism and the truth of geographical knowledge, the associated dualisms between subject/object, nature/society, and realism/constructionism, and the potential for unity between human and physical geography. We argue that, while dialogue is a potentially fruitful way of understanding and practising geography, that the defence of it, like the attacks on it, is often misconceived.  相似文献   

Applied and theoretical considerations for constructing spatially explicit individual-based models of marine larval fish that include multiple trophic levels   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3  

Hermann  Albert J.; Hinckley  Sarah; Megrey  Bernard A.; Napp  Jeffrey M. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2001,58(5):1030-1041

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Subsistence in coastal fisheries policy: What's in a word?   总被引：1，自引：2，他引：1  

Sarah Schumann  Seth Macinko   《Marine Policy》2007,31(6):706-718

Consideration of subsistence fishing activities seems particularly relevant to coastal fisheries policy, yet formal recognition of subsistence fishing is often absent from associated policy frameworks. A critical problem is the very meaning of the term “subsistence.” A review of the literature on subsistence, dominated until recently by North American research, reveals a schism between interpretations emphasizing material aspects of subsistence and interpretations highlighting cultural aspects. The North American literature on the subject is heavily influenced by a focus on Arctic indigenous populations emphasizing cultural survival. Ultimately, subsistence can be a matter of survival in the belly, the soul, or both. International case studies suggest that different interpretations of subsistence are appropriate in different circumstances, and that appropriate policy can be fashioned only after the local context of subsistence is understood.  相似文献   

Phanerozoic evolution of the basins of Northern Egypt and adjacent areas     

M. L. Keeley 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1994,83(4):728-742

The results of integrating geological well data and geophysical information from the subsurface of northern Egypt are presented in terms of basin dynamics. Recent biostratigraphic data from wells and scarce outcrops are shown to be critical to an understanding of syndepositional tectonics. Six tectonostratigraphic phases of basin evolution are recognized to span the Phanerozoic. These phases initially record the development of intracratonic subsidence, controlled by deep crustal strike-slip tectonics, as Nubian continental and Tethyan marine influences competed across the northern margin of Gondwanaland. Evidence is also presented for the formation of the present day continental margin to northern Egypt. After a phase of crustal stretching, oceanic rifting focused on the western margin of the Arabian Platform, propagating progressively westwards during the Early-Mid-Jurassic. Thereafter, the effects of passive subsidence on the continental margin were disturbed by discrete phases of intracratonic strike-slip, associated Syrian Arc folding, and the formation of deep basins in the opening Red Sea and Gulf of Suez. Three structural fabrics persisted throughout Phanerozoic basin evolution, the result of repeated extensional reactivation and inheritance from Pan-African basement.  相似文献   

Ecological impacts of air pollution from road transport on local vegetation     

Keeley L. Bignal  Mike R. Ashmore  Alistair D. Headley  Kirstin Stewart  Katherina Weigert 《Applied Geochemistry》2007

Motor vehicles emit a cocktail of pollutants and are a major contributor to ground-level air pollution, but little is known regarding the ecological impacts of air pollution from roads on the surrounding vegetation. Data are presented on vegetation at three sites adjacent to two major motorways in the UK, comprising two woodland sites and one blanket bog site. Surveys of oak and beech tree health (at the woodland sites) and species composition (at the blanket bog site) were undertaken along transects away from the motorway.  相似文献   

Plio-Pleistocene microtephra in DSDP site 231, Gulf of Aden   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sarah J. Feakins  Francis H. Brown  Peter B. deMenocal 《Journal of African Earth Sciences》2007,48(5):341-352

We reconstruct a Plio-Pleistocene microscopic tephrostratigraphy for DSDP Site 231 in the Gulf of Aden. Systematic microtephrostratigraphy increases the potential for identifying tephra horizons for regional stratigraphic correlation and age control, as well as providing information about eruptive histories. Microtephra reveal three main pulses of volcanism c. 4.0–3.2 Ma, 2.4 Ma and 1.7–1.3 Ma, corresponding to peaks in volcanic activity recorded in the East African Rift System. Previous studies of DSDP Site 231 have reported six visible tephra horizons (up to 25 cm thick) with geochemical compositions matching East African tuffs. We find 68 additional microtephra horizons through microscopic examination of 1050 samples (each integrating c. 3 ka) in over 200 m of marine sediments. We report the major and minor element geochemical compositions of individual glass shards in six of these microtephra horizons and establish a robust correlation at 168.73 m to the Lokochot Tuff (3.58 Ma), which together with previously identified tephra, provides a tightly constrained chronostratigraphy for the mid Pliocene.  相似文献   

Remote sensing for groundwater modelling in large semiarid areas: Lake Chad Basin,Africa     

Marc Leblanc  Guillaume Favreau  Sarah Tweed  Christian Leduc  Moumtaz Razack  Linus Mofor 《Hydrogeology Journal》2007,15(1):97-100

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Sulfur and carbon isotope geochemistry of coal and derived coal-combustion by-products: An example from an Eastern Kentucky mine and power plant     

Erika R. Elswick  James C. Hower  Ana M. Carmo  Tao Sun  Sarah M. Mardon 《Applied Geochemistry》2007

The isotopic compositions of S (δ³⁴S) and C (δ¹³C) were determined for the coal utilized by a power plant and for the fly ash produced as a by-product of the coal combustion in a 220-MW utility boiler. The coal samples analyzed represent different lithologies within a single mine, the coal supplied to the power plant, the pulverized feed coal, and the coal rejected by the pulverizer. The ash was collected at various stages of the ash-collection system in the plant. There is a notable enrichment in ³⁴S from the base to the top of the coal seam in the mine, with much of the variation due to an upwards enrichment in the δ³⁴S values of the pyrite. Variations in δ³⁴S and in the amount of pyritic S in the coal delivered to the plant show that there was a change of source of coal supplied to the plant, between week one and week two of monitoring, supporting a previous study based on metal and sulfide geochemistry for the same plant. The fly ash has a more enriched δ³⁴S than the pulverized coal and, in general, the δ³⁴S is more enriched in fly ashes collected at cooler points in the ash-collection system. This pattern of δ³⁴S suggests an increased isotopic fractionation due to temperature, with the fly ash becoming progressively depleted in ³⁴S and the flue gas S-containing components becoming progressively enriched in ³⁴S with increasing temperatures. Substantially less variation is seen in the C isotopes compared to S isotopes. There is little vertical variation in δ¹³C in the coal bed, with δ¹³C becoming slightly heavier towards the top of the coal seam. An 83–93% loss of solid phase C occurs during coal combustion in the transition from coal to ash owing to loss of CO₂. Despite the significant difference in total C content only a small enrichment of 0.44–0.67‰ in ¹³C in the ash relative to the coal is observed, demonstrating that redistribution of C isotopes in the boiler and convective passes prior to the arrival of the fly ash in the ash-collections system is minor.  相似文献   

‘You can get away with loads because there’s no one here’: Discourses of regulation and non-regulation in English rural spaces     

Sarah Neal  Sue Walters 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):252-263

Using qualitative data from a research project investigating contemporary rural identities in England this paper examines the apparently contradictory discursive claims that are made on rural spaces. It looks in particular at the ways in which these are narrated - through the notions of rural space as a site of safety, orderliness and community on the one hand and as a site of freedom, anti-order and non-regulation on the other. While the former is a familiar, entrenched and critiqued representation of rurality, the latter narrative has a more marginal and ambivalent place in the dominant rural imaginary. Drawing on Foucault’s concepts of panopticism and heterotopia the paper demonstrates the ways in which the rural is a highly labile concept and emphasises its continual ‘unfinishedness’. However, alongside this, the paper suggests that the tensions and contradictions of the orderly and anti-orderly discourses are underpinned by a particular coherency that is driven by senses of community, belonging and self-regulation. While these do not resolve the contradictions of the discursive claims the potency of such drivers are sufficient to produce a particular inclusive spatiality which is able to accommodate and incorporate the different discursive positions and the practices that are associated with each.  相似文献