Fuggin authors Flashcards
(25 cards)
Q
A
Barry & Maslin (2016)
Dialogue between a geographer and a geoscientist exploring the Anthropocene as both a scientific and political concept. Barry stresses colonial and capitalist histories; Maslin prioritises stratigraphic evidence.
Braverman (2021)
Wildlife conservation in Israel functions as a settler-colonial project — using species protection, surveillance, and rewilding to naturalise Zionist claims and criminalise Palestinian ecologies.
Cronon (1996)
Wilderness is a cultural construct, not untouched nature. Its romanticisation obscures Indigenous histories and everyday environmental responsibility.
Davis et al. (2019)
Proposes the ‘Plantationocene’ as a better framework for ecological justice — grounded in racial capitalism and Black geographies rather than universalised human agency.
Mohai, Pellow & Roberts (2009)
Environmental harms disproportionately affect poor and racialised communities. Environmental justice must centre race, history, and power — not just exposure.
Pasquali, Godfrey & Nadvi (2021)
RVCs in apparel are shaped by firm strategy and public governance. Weak labour regimes and trade rules support regional integration but exacerbate inequality.
Prudham (2009)
Commodification transforms nature into tradeable goods through abstraction. It is central to capitalism but incomplete and contested, especially in the case of nature.
Watts (1983)
Famines are social disasters caused by colonial capitalism dismantling traditional safety systems, not simply natural shortages.
Robbins et al. (2014)
Nature is shaped by discourse and power, not just ecology. Understanding environmental issues requires seeing how meanings of nature are constructed.
Pike, Rodríguez-Pose & Tomaney (2016)
Development is political and place-based. Rejects universal growth models in favour of context-sensitive, bottom-up, sustainable approaches.
Rodríguez-Pose (2013)
Institutions are vital for regional growth but hard to apply in policy. Emphasises arrangements over cultural change, and the need for context-aware governance.
Ponte, Sturgeon & Dallas (2019)
Introduces a four-part power typology (bargaining, institutional, demonstrative, constitutive) and stresses that sustainability in GVCs requires orchestration beyond lead firms.
Mariotti (2024)
Globalisation has shifted from win-win to win-lose, with states weaponising economic policy to gain advantage. Challenges liberal globalisation and multilateralism.
The Economist (2019)
Globalisation has slowed and regionalised. Trade, FDI, and supply chains are stagnating, exposing the limits of the ‘flat world’ narrative.
Pike et al. (2014)
Calls for dialogue between Northern and Southern development theories. Advocates for pluralism, context sensitivity, and justice-oriented development.
Yeung (2019)
Argues for mid-range, mechanism-based theory to explain uneven development. Critiques vague theorising and urges causal explanations grounded in critical realism.
Dicken (2015)
Globalisation is real but uneven, shaped by power and institutions. Critiques the myth of a flat world and shows how production networks deepen inequality.
MacKinnon & Cumbers (2018)
Tracks the shift from regional specialisation to global production networks. Uses concepts like agglomeration, spatial division of labour, and the new international division of labour.
Bhan (2017)
Critiques India’s housing policy for imposing formal, middle-class visions of housing on informal settlements. Argues for recognising socio-spatial realities of basti life.
Fields (2017)
Shows how finance reshapes urban housing and triggers resistance. After 2008, cities became sites for capital recovery and grassroots opposition to speculative logic.
Schapendonk & Steel (2014)
Challenges linear migration models. Uses ‘im/mobility’ to show how African migrants experience fragmented, negotiated journeys shaped by power and infrastructure.
Cresswell (2011)
Mobility is not neutral movement, but shaped by power, identity, and meaning. Proposes six axioms of mobility emphasising its political, embodied, and relational nature.
Reading summary
Critiques World Bank-led water privatisation for commodifying a basic need. Raises ethical, equity, and governance issues, and shows limits of rights-based anti-privatisation strategies.
