- What might an analysis of politics which focuses on the operation of power through space and place, and on the spatial structuring of inequality, tell us about the world we make for ourselves and others?
- How is power structured and brought to bear on people through spaceand place?
- How does power operate locally, nationally and globally and in both its soft and hard forms
- How does it operate through urban planning, architecture, housing policy, immigration policy and national borders?
- How does it work to discipline and exclude some, while insulating others from the excesses of inequality and degradation?
- How are space and place utilised as a means of dividing people into 'us' and 'them'?·
- How and in whose interests do these divisions function as they pit against each other not only people who live in different parts of the world but also those who live just a few metres apart?
- What might an analysis of politics through questions of space and place indicate about how power, injustice and inequality could be better understood and more effectively contested?
We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to people working in, among others, philosophy, ethics, political theory, politics, sociology, social policy, globalisation, international relations, cultural studies, history, architecture, photography, geography, planning, refugee studies, migration studies, urban studies and area studies. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Nicola Clewer: nicolaclewer.hughes@ukonline.co.uk.
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