Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2270698
Joanne McEvoy, Jennifer Todd
A gulf between constitutional and everyday perspectives is prevalent, and often overlain by gender divisions. To explore how this gulf can be bridged to allow for the inclusion of everyday concerns in constitutional discussion, we engaged with women in the Irish border area, a region where constitutional difference has striking effects in daily life. We held a series of small-scale deliberative cafés on cross-border health provision, which is linked to dysfunctions of regional governance and contentious constitutional issues. We asked if such open-ended deliberation allows everyday concerns to ‘scale out’ to wider territorial units and ‘scale up’ to the constitutional question. We found that the deliberative café, a radically inclusive method, facilitated a limited scaling up and out from everyday experience: participants collectively and credibly defined systemic dysfunctions on the regional level with policy implications for constitutional discussion. Although participants raised important political issues, they did not easily move from regional to constitutional discussion. We argue that this discursive disjuncture between regionalist policy and constitutional politics derives from a tension between wider regionalist state discourses (which determinedly avoid constitutional contention) and constitutional discourses (which lack a spatial dimension and assume one ‘ideal’ public rather than engage with many existing publics).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2268651
Edoardo Baldaro, Silvia D’Amato
This article explores how the threat of terrorism has been addressed at the policy level by offering a fine-grained analysis of a specific preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) project implemented in Mali between 2018 and 2021 by a composite mix of international and national practitioners. Despite the current and almost complete detachment from the international and European security community, Mali has been, for a long time, a critical actor in the construction of what we identify as a transnational counterterrorism assemblage. This paper specifically focuses on three parts of the process leading to the assemblage: (1) the context and the political opportunities behind its creation, (2) how a specific north/south epistemic community of experts and practitioners has emerged in Mali and shaped the cognitive, normative and practical dimensions of the policy field and finally (3) the mechanisms at work in the practice of counterterrorism, from design to implementation on the ground. In doing so, the article contributes to the existing academic debate by problematising received interpretations of P/CVE as a north to south transfer of policy priorities and schemes of action. We show how current P/CVE activities are, rather, defining new social standards and practices of security elaborated at the intersection of the north/south divide. We finally offer some reflections on the unexpected consequences of such a construction in relation to the following national and international political crisis of the country.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2264868
Sandrina Antunes, Noé Cornago, André Lecours
ABSTRACTThis article compares Basque and Catalan mobilisation towards the EU over the period from 1992 to 2022. The contrasting trajectories of these regions are approached through the conceptual framework of ‘paradiplomacy’ and ‘protodiplomacy’. Building on a combination of primary and secondary sources, six explanatory variables are selected and the observed patterns compared across time. Both cases alternate between cooperation and benign neglect, becoming politically controversial only when the regions overtly express claims for self-determination; however, only the Catalan case involves a severe and lasting political conflict. Although the strategies are framed by the broader structures of opportunity imposed by the EU, our research shows that the most salient features of these contrasting trajectories are deeply rooted in the idiosyncrasies of the Spanish political system and individual leadership styles. These findings help us to understand the scope and limits of paradiplomacy in other settings in which the continuum between intergovernmental cooperation, conflict and benign neglect has repercussions beyond state borders in the EU.KEYWORDS: CataloniaBasque countryparadiplomacyprotodiplomacyintergovernmental relationsEuropean Union DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).ETHICS STATEMENTWritten informed consent was obtained from the study participants, who were given a detailed project information sheet to read in advance of our interviews. All persons interviewed were informed about the purpose of the research and they all have given their formal consent to use the information provided. All interviews were conducted in compliance with the ethical standards of the journal. Interviewees 2022b, 2022c, 2022d and 2022e have given their formal consent to be mentioned by name; the others have been anonymised.Notes1 See: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_17_3626 accessed June 2023.2 See: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-144917 accessed June 2023.3 See: https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/junts-members-vote-to-leave-the-catalan-government accessed June 2023.4 See: https://consellrepublica.cat accessed June 2023.5 See: https://www.lasprovincias.es/politica/govern-abrira-seis-20220307115305-ntrc.html accessed June 2023.6 The full statement of Serret can be found here: https://exteriors.gencat.cat/en/ambits-dactuacio/afers_exteriors/delegacions_govern/ accessed February 2023.7 Independentist political party-coalition, Herri Batasuna, was banned in 2003 by the Spanish Supreme Court, in a decision later validated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2009, which declared proven allegations of being financed by ETA and thus organically in abeyance to it.8 See Sandro Pozzi’s chronicle ‘Bruselas rechaza de plano la propuesta de Ibarretxe porque no tiene encaje en la Unión Europea’, El País https://elpais.com/diario/.html accessed June 2023.9 See on RLEG: h
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2262508
Andrew P. Kythreotis
This article argues how the politics of scale is paradoxically used by the Bruneian state in environmental policymaking to legitimate its internal authoritarian regime. The literatures on post-politics, green authoritarianism and green as ‘spectacle’ are used in conjunction with personal observation findings on forestry protection and climate change policymaking processes, and triangulation with global environmental performance indices, to explore this paradox. The Bruneian state must justify a strong environmental policy implementation rhetoric, whilst simultaneously having to maintain its domestic authoritarian functioning that relies on fossil fuel extraction and exportation. It does this by engaging in a ‘consensual’ neoliberal post-politics that uses supra-national and international environmental policy frameworks and settings that are liberal democratic and polycentric in nature, through a ‘post-politics of scale’. This article contributes to the wider territory, politics and governance literature by illustrating how internal enviro-political tensions are remedied, inculcated across, and discursively influenced by, wider geographical spaces and politics beyond individual states, regardless of their political regime type.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2256119
Klaus Dodds, Zack Taylor, Azadeh Akbari, Vanesa Castán Broto, Klaus Detterbeck, Carlo Inverardi-Ferri, Kwan Ok Lee, Virginie Mamadouh, Maano Ramutsindela, Chih Yuan Woon
The full-scale invasion and partial occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces in February 2022 onwards is a tragedy first and foremost for the people of Ukraine. The invasion illustrates the importance of intersecting and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives on territory, politics and governance within and beyond Ukraine and Russia. Our editorial initially addresses some of the more localised and nationalised consequences of the invasion. Thereafter, the focus shifts towards the realignment of extra-territorial flows of people, money and objects, including grain and oil. The territorialised of agency of states and non-state actors alike continues to vary revealing in turn opportunities for competitive or geopolitical advantage. Longer term, the mixed reactions to the Ukrainian crisis reveal both the potential for solidarity but also the difficulties in store for those seeking forms of climate and food justice.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2246510
Christopher Brucker
{"title":"The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70","authors":"Christopher Brucker","doi":"10.1080/21622671.2023.2246510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2246510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54196,"journal":{"name":"Territory Politics Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46304661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2231972
Antje Matern, M. Špaček, Jessica Theuner, Robert Knippschild, J. Janáček
{"title":"Strategies for energy transition and regional development in European post-coal mining regions: Ústí Region, Czechia, and Lusatia, Germany","authors":"Antje Matern, M. Špaček, Jessica Theuner, Robert Knippschild, J. Janáček","doi":"10.1080/21622671.2023.2231972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2231972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54196,"journal":{"name":"Territory Politics Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47012507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2243996
Sally Sharif, M. Joshi
{"title":"Territorial consolidation after rebel victory: when does civil war recur?","authors":"Sally Sharif, M. Joshi","doi":"10.1080/21622671.2023.2243996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2243996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54196,"journal":{"name":"Territory Politics Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45563708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2244983
Dušan Ristić, D. Marinković
{"title":"Data-driven public health in times of pandemic: towards deep spatialisation","authors":"Dušan Ristić, D. Marinković","doi":"10.1080/21622671.2023.2244983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2244983","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54196,"journal":{"name":"Territory Politics Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42371190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394
M. Bennett, K. Dodds
{"title":"Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehension","authors":"M. Bennett, K. Dodds","doi":"10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54196,"journal":{"name":"Territory Politics Governance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46438366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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