Static imaginations and the possibilities of radical change: reflecting on the Arab Spring

Caprotti, Federico; Gao, Eleanor

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01110.x

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“… ; Boedeltje and van Houtum ; Jones ; Reid‐Henry ; van Houtum and Pijpers ; van Houtum and Mamadouh ) and on geo‐political imaginations of the region (Bialasiewicz et al . ; Caprotti and Gao ; Giaccaria and Minca ). Here the focus is on the externalisation of economic governance as a process of re‐bordering, which creates a proliferation of external borders establishing differential inclusion into and exclusion from EU economic space (see also Bialasiewicz ).…”

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Macro‐regional integration, the frontiers of capital and the externalisation of economic governance

Smith

2015

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This paper examines the role of macro-regional integration in the European Union's interactions with its 'southern neighbours' within the context of the aftermath of the ' Arab Spring'. It focuses on attempts to deepen trade liberalisation and create a new institutional architecture as a state-mediated project of macro-regional politicaleconomic integration. Drawing on interviews with key institutional actors, policymakers and strategists, the paper examines the Tunisian case to highlight how the interests of international states and fractions of EU capital are being forged through new institutional and policy architectures in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The paper extends geographical research on the EU's relations with its neighbourhood and political science research on 'Europeanisation', both of which have primarily focused on the geo-political dynamics of macro-regional integration, on geo-political imaginations of the region and on the 'normative power' of the EU. It does so by examining the ways in which the EU is attempting to externalise its economic space beyond its borders through the negotiation of Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements and Agreements on Conformity and Acceptance of industrial products. It also highlights the contested nature of this process in relation to the complex politics of transformation in the southern Mediterranean. In doing so, the paper contributes to understanding of the reconfiguration of border spaces by exploring the tensions between the frontiers of capital accumulation and political-juridical boundaries.

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2015

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The socio‐ecological imagination: Young environmental activists constructing transformation in an era of crisis

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2021

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In this paper, I call for geographers to engage further with a so far under-explored concept of the socio-ecological imagination, which I define as a variant of political-geographical imagination(s) concerned with envisioning (and progressing) the transformation of relationships between human society and the rest of the planetary environment. In response to escalating ecological breakdown, and a recent surge in environmental movement mobilisation(s) led in many places by young people, this paper seeks to contribute to expanding understandings of the socioecological imagination, drawing on interviews and participant observation with young environmental activists in the North East of England. The paper performs two major tasks. First, through analysing the ways in which the environmentalists narrate their imaginaries of socio-ecological transformation(s), it is argued that dominant oppositional tendencies within participant narratives result from a tension between antagonistic and imaginative forms of transformative politics. Second, the paper explores in more depth the main forces constraining the imagination of alternative socio-ecological futures, proposing three major interconnected barriers that emerge from the environmentalists' narratives: crisis lockin; colonisation of the social imaginary; and dualistic temporal imaginaries of transformation. In sum, I suggest that these barriers warn of an imaginative gap between our current social reality and just and sustainable futures, driven by structural and psychological pressures faced by activists in the current era of multidimensional crisis. Bridging this gap can be aided by a greater engagement of geographers and environmental movements with a socio-ecological imagination and a processual understanding of space-time.

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Static imaginations and the possibilities of radical change: reflecting on the Arab Spring

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Macro‐regional integration, the frontiers of capital and the externalisation of economic governance

Macro‐regional integration, the frontiers of capital and the externalisation of economic governance

The socio‐ecological imagination: Young environmental activists constructing transformation in an era of crisis

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