“Keep withstanding”: Territory in the body, home and market in Xinjiang, China

Tynen, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102310

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“…Therefore, it is a socio-spatial concept [37]. In this view, territories reflect historical dynamics [38] and are not on a longterm scale. Thus, spatial expressions of the "domination of nature" of the capitalist mode of production coexist with specific social groups that maintain traditional social relations and precapitalist forms of economy that embody less aggressive ways of life [37].…”

Section: Territory and Socio-spatial Development In Liberation Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Environmental Education in Latin America from a Socio-Environmental Perspective: Identity, Territory, and Social Innovation

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The objective of this study was to contemplate the role of critical environmental education in Latin America from a socio-environmental perspective and explore how environmental problems associated with justice in territories and communities face the dynamics of the complexity of the effects of climate change. They modify the economic and social dynamics that little by little strip communities of their identity and deepen inequality. Selection and recovery of the articles in the bibliographic review, published between 2018 and 2022, used to determine the state of the question were carried out with the search chain integrated by the following keywords: critical environmental education, territory, and social innovation, which make up an analysis carried out using hermeneutic phenomenology from a socio-environmental perspective. The main finding is that critical environmental education in Latin America reveals historical distortions, forms of colonization, and modes of production associated with the exploitation of nature that deepen extreme poverty. On the other hand, the region’s contradictions contribute to understanding the territory and identifying processes of social innovation that favor community life, recognizing new ways of being and living together in Latin America, whose cultural dimension and belonging follow the logic governed by the principles of binomial biodiversity and economy.

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Section: Territory and Socio-spatial Development In Liberation Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Environmental Education in Latin America from a Socio-Environmental Perspective: Identity, Territory, and Social Innovation

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“…For instance, Lesutis (2021) shows how plans for a China‐funded railway in Kenya provoked public anxieties about neo‐colonialism, dredging up social memories of colonial infrastructural projects. In Xinjiang, Tynen (2021) reports how Uyghurs describe feelings of being sick, tired and depressed upon encounters with Chinese state authorities. We contribute to this literature by explicitly linking infrastructure and emotion, together with scholars across the social sciences who highlight infrastructure's affective and ontological characteristics (Appel et al, 2015; Carse, 2014; Cowen, 2014; Dalakoglou & Kallianos, 2018; Graham & Marvin, 2002; Harvey & Knox, 2015; Larkin, 2013; Murton, 2017; Reeves, 2017), including in the Myanmar context (Kiik, 2020; Sarma et al, 2022).…”

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Sovereign anxiety in Myanmar: An emotional geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative

Mostafanezhad

Farnan

Loong

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Geographers have increasingly attended to the role of emotion in geopolitical encounters and the geopolitics of cross‐border infrastructure projects. While scholars have theorised fear as an emotion produced by elite geopolitical discourses and encounters between bodies, we know much less about how infrastructure's materialities provoke fear and anxiety. Furthermore, key distinctions between anxiety – or a psychological state of insecurity and unease – and fear, which is attached to a specific target object, are still not fully understood. Focused on the uncertainties over China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we develop the concept of sovereign anxiety – a generalised condition of unease over the security of one's political community – to account for how the BRI generates not only the hard materials of infrastructure (e.g., roads, dams and pipelines), but also the social practices of affect and emotion. Sovereign anxiety, we argue, is heightened by the absence of transparency over China's infrastructure investments in Myanmar. In this paper, we trace how sovereign anxiety is variously experienced and grounded in residents' observations, personal biographies, social histories, and sense of community belonging. We also identify three themes by which fears of the BRI are articulated: relations, roads, and resources. This article contributes an emotional geopolitics perspective to grounded studies of the BRI, while also demonstrating the geopolitical significance of attending to the emotional lives of infrastructure in relation to the BRI and beyond.

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“…For example, Tynen (2021) analyzes acts of refusal by the Uyghur population in China, which underscores both the ideological and materials ways in which minority populations work within and outside of state mechanisms of control and management. In other cases state violence continues through various mechanisms of spatial and situational exclusions.…”

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Political geography II: Violence

Fluri

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This report focuses on the diverse and multiple manifestations of political, state, and counter-state violence. Many of the examinations of political violence in this report highlight the continued need for disparate methodological and analytic lenses towards robust understandings of political violence across scales. Displacements and mobilities associated with flight from conflict are discussed in relation to the institutionalization of harm, trauma and containment through various state and supranational mechanisms of control. These mobilities include border crossings and associated violence against vulnerable populations seeking refuge. This is buttressed by discursive binary logics, such as us/them categorizations, which remain endemic to both structural and physical violence and foundational to right wing populism, jingoism, and other forms of political extremism. This report concludes by arguing the peace is not the opposite of war but rather its temporal substitute and partner in an assemblage of political and economic co-dependence.

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“Keep withstanding”: Territory in the body, home and market in Xinjiang, China

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Critical Environmental Education in Latin America from a Socio-Environmental Perspective: Identity, Territory, and Social Innovation

Critical Environmental Education in Latin America from a Socio-Environmental Perspective: Identity, Territory, and Social Innovation

Sovereign anxiety in Myanmar: An emotional geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative

Political geography II: Violence

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