Political Geography

a b s t r a c t The framing of issues of migration and clandestine travel in the European Union are tied up with a historically-specific ethos towards the outsider, which, after philosopher Jacques Rancière, I term a "count". The count shaping the interventions of contemporary advocacy and humanitarian groups derives from conceptions of ethics rooted in political modernity, and e for Rancière e are also responsible for foreclosing disruptive appearances of equality. In practice, postures of compassion towards the refugee convert expressions of vocal dissent into matters for moral sympathy. In this paper I explore the implications of this claim for a future politics of asylum, focussing on moments of interruption to an underlying count. I suggest that the staging of the situation of undocumented migrants in Calais through the figure of the migrant rather than the refugee demonstrates a recasting of activism as a form of political listening rather than political speech e in ...

Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of ‘authority’. It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the biopolitical, arguing that ‘experience of life’ has become equated with ‘objectivity’ in contemporary culture and has thus become a primary basis of authority. ‘Biopolitical’ or ‘experiential’ authority can be generated through reference to a variety of experiences, performances or intensities of life including creativity, radicalism, risk-taking, experimentation, inter-relation, suffering and proximity to death. The authority-producing capacities of community and aesthetics are key issues, pointing to vexed relationships between politics and policing, inventiveness and violence. The contributors develop their theoretical analyses through discussion of a range of specific sites including mental-health service user and survivor politics, biological knowledge, refugee activism, stories of suffering, urban art, anarchism, neo-liberal community politics and marketization. Authority, Experience & the Life of Power challenges thinking on what ‘the political’ is and isn’t, pushing against the all too easy equivocation of revolutionary break and empowerment.

Aux cotes de la toponymie etymologique qui contribue a l’histoire de l’occupation humaine des milieux, se developpe une toponymie politique ou critical toponymy. Celle-ci porte davantage sur les processus de nomination que sur les toponymes proprement dits. Elle identifie les enjeux geopolitiques de la territorialisation par la nomination et ses moyens ou techniques. Autant d’elements qui doivent etre contextualises dans le temps et dans l’espace, mais qui peuvent faire l’objet d’une certaine modelisation en ayant recours aux approches foucaldiennes et raffestiniennes portant respectivement sur les technologies de pouvoir et sur la territorialisation. Il sera ainsi presente une grille de lecture des processus politiques de nomination des lieux. Elle considere ceux-ci comme des nexus combinant : une situation geopolitique et historique propice a la nomination ou a la renomination ; des technologies mobilisees par des acteurs selon leurs motivations et la nature de leur pouvoir ; enfi...

O presente artigo visa discutir a municipalização da saúde noBrasil, tendo em vista as referências da Geografia Política eda Ciência Política, em geral. Para isso, é analisada a questãoda participação da comunidade e da forma em que estafoi institucionalizada, bem como suas matrizes doutrinárias.Como irá se demonstrar, a municipalização da política de saúdebrasileira envolveu múltiplos atores sociais, delimitando espaçosde poder dentro da gestão pública. Ao entendermosque o SUS representa uma gestão territorial, suas implicaçõesna qualidade dos serviços prestados refletem ou refletirão naprodução do espaço, assim como no ordenamento territorialda sociedade.