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Space and Polity

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a peer-reviewed international journal featuring critical work on politics and space: www.tandfonline.com/journals/cspp20

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Maxim van Asseldonk 🟥 @maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What role does space play for politics? And what does a 'democratic space' look like? In this paper, out now in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social , I look at how the work of Jean-Luc Nancy might help us understand those questions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Spaced out: thinking political space with Jean-Luc Nancy
Acknowledging the attention already devoted to the politics of space, in this paper I formulate a different angle towards political space by drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s relational ontology. Thinkin...
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hot off the presses: Port politics and the city: Valparaíso’s trajectories from contestation to consensus over Terminal 2 doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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Port politics and the city: Valparaíso’s trajectories from contestation to consensus over Terminal 2
Valparaíso's port-city relationship has been reshaped by tensions between port expansion for economic growth and heritage-led urban tourism following UNESCO's 2003 designation. This article examine...
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Space and Political Agency Research Group @sparg-tuni.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New piece by Jouni Häkli and Noora Peltonen out in @spaceandpolity.bsky.social that examines how the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum produces migrant vulnerability and raises questions about how humanitarianism legitimizes restrictive border policies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The European Union as a humanitarian border: the production of vulnerability in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
This article critically examines the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum through the conceptual lens of the ‘humanitarian border’, which captures the entanglement of care and control in migration...
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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance. Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What does academic writing about resistance do, now?
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Writing in response to the UK Government's White Paper on Immigration, @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social and @sarah-mills.bsky.social raise important questions about points-based citizenship policies and the politics of 'good behaviour' and volunteering: doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2025.2539744
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Immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as ‘good behaviour’
Following the release of the UK Government’s recent White Paper on Immigration (2025), this provocation critically reflects on the role of points-based contributions, voluntary service and ‘good ch...
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Up online now: 'Conceptualizing the state: tactical decisions and violence at the ZAD Lützerath: doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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Conceptualizing the state: tactical decisions and violence at the ZAD Lützerath
This paper examines how activists' conceptions of the state shape – and are shaped by – their tactical decisions during violent confrontations, focusing on a partial eviction at the ZAD Lützerath, ...
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Introducing our editors, pt. 1: As of last month, Space and Polity's new editor-in-chief is @derek-ruez.bsky.social. Derek is based in Finland at Tampere University in @sparg-tuni.bsky.social and works at the intersections of political, urban, cultural, and queer geographies.
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
An important piece on an under-examined moment in the political and historical geographies of Palestine: 'Materializing an 'Arab Jerusalem': narrating the Jerusalem Airport 1948-1967' by Mansour Nasasra doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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Materializing an ‘Arab Jerusalem’: narrating the Jerusalem Airport 1948–1967
The dominant narrative of 1948–1967 Arab Jerusalem, if there is one at all, is of a marginalized city with passive citizens, decimated by the extraction of its vibrant heart in West Jerusalem, cons...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Big thanks to Louise Rondel & Liam Healy for engaging so thoughtfully with our (Pat Brodie and me) soon to be published book. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Last year, we published this interesting intervention into discussions about 'left behind' places by Suzanne Wilson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A ‘left behind’ habitus? understanding local political disengagement using Bourdieu
Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction is applied to interpret the structural conditions and experiences of citizens in ‘left behind’ places (LBP) along the Cumbrian coastline (UK). The findings ...
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Online first at Space and Polity: 'From patriotic nationals to critical citizens? The A4 Movement and the change in long-distance nationalism among overseas PRC-Chinese' by Yao-Tai Li :https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562576.2025.2511951
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From patriotic nationals to critical citizens? The A4 Movement and the change in long-distance nationalism among overseas PRC-Chinese
This article focuses on discourses about China’s zero-COVID policy as well as perceptions of the A4 Movement among overseas PRC-Chinese. In particular, I examine whether, how and why the idea and p...
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Online first at Space and Polity: "The more-than-human commons in a crisis-ridden context: the case of the women’s collective and the chamomile-bee commons in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece" by @ioannisrz.bsky.social & @nikoskapitsinis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We're refreshing the journal and joining the conversation here on blue sky. We'll gradually be introducing our editorial team, highlighting recent publications, and figuring out how to best use the platform.
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