The Dictionary of Human Geography

scripts and the far from imaginative death and destruction they inspire or help legitimate; the second relates to how such destr ...

US Southern Command (Central and South America and the Caribbean). sd gerrymandering The deliberate drawing of electoral distric ...

1988; but see Peach, 1996ab, for an alternate view). Current attempts by various authorities in Italy to create separate, gated ...

to a network of global cities that spanned the globe as the skeleton of the globalecon- omy. They suggested that ‘[t]he world ci ...

and as important staging posts for the oper- ations of multinational corporations’. Sassen’s work on the global city has also st ...

manipulation it raises questions about the distinctions between so-called ‘gifts of nature’ and social artefacts derived from na ...

(together with closed circuit television, radio- frequency ID chips, biometric ID cards and high-resolutionremote sensingimagery ...

that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ...

terms of the extension, acceleration and in- tensification of consequential worldwide inter- connections (Held, McGrew, Goldblat ...

avoids end-state end-of-geography ideas about global flattening (Swyngedouw, 2004). With a related repudiation of what she calls ...

Suggested reading Cosgrove (2001); Woodward (2006). glocalization This awkward adversary of spell-check programs globally has be ...

coordination modelled neither on hierarchies nor on markets but onnetworks, especially where these are ‘self-organizing’. For Je ...

governmentality A concept devised by the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926–84) to describe the practices of government of a p ...

reinvigorate this sub-field (see Lemke, 2001; Elden, 2007b; Legg, 2007b). se Suggested reading Burchell, Gordon and Miller (1991 ...

activating the disjunctures and displace- ments between different voices and voca- bularies, and so ensuring that theoretical wo ...

than Newtonian equations, and in this form it is widely used today. It may be used for the assessment of likely policy impacts b ...

per unit area. As a consequence, there is a narrow and broad interpretation of the tech- nologies themselves. In the narrow sens ...

Revolution, a number of important problems emerged: first, increasing pest and weed prob- lems; second, problems of storage and ...

purchasing power parities, derived from data on the costs of a ‘standard basket’ of goods and services. In addition, as a recent ...

planning; (c) the nature of the intersec- toral and interregional transmission of growth; (d) the relationship between the publi ...