Political geography has long played a prominent role in conceptions of political realignments. In this paper, I apply a spatial analysis to examine the political geography of voting during one of the principal political realignments in American electoral history, the 1928-1936 Democratic realignment. The spatial analysis challenges some of our common conceptions of this realignment. For example...

This paper argues that research in political ecology would benefit from more explicit and careful attention to the question of scale and scalar politics. Although political ecologists have extensively considered scale as a methodological question, they have yet to develop an explicit theoretical approach to scale as an object of inquiry. We highlight one principal drawback to this underdevelope...

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extended abstract 1. introduction the term “state” owing to its simultaneous presence in two epistemological and scientific fields named political science and political geography has assumed multiple meanings, applications, natures and synonyms, in a way that it has stirred a kind of chaos and lack of consensus, especially among political geographers. according to various texts, “state” is an a...

The traditional culture of play and movement in West Africa offers obvious possibilities for an original “alternative” culture. But this culture, which in reality no longer exists in the primary sense of the word, is still too often observed in a selective and unverified manner, should not be overestimated ; still less should it be opposed in a critical way to the modern concept of sport and it...