Qualitative methods II: minding the gap

Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications. Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com/In our last review we drew together work exploring interactions between the performativity of research practices and the spaces of qualitative research (Davies and Dwyer, 2007). In this, we focus on the oscillating political subjectivities mobilized in research by human geographers and other qualitative researchers

Imaginarios en disputa o sobre la territorialización de un conflicto urbano. El caso de “La Canchita de los Bomberos” (Mar del Plata, Argentina)

Apenas transcurridos tres meses de la creación del Programa Crédito Argentino del Bicentenario para la Vivienda Única Familiar, el Municipio de General Pueyrredón anuncia las tierras disponibles para comprometer en su implementación; entre ellas, el predio conocido como Canchita de los Bomberos de la ciudad de Mar del Plata. Frente a ello, se conforma un grupo de vecinos autoconvocados en defensa de su utilización como espacio público-verde, llevando a cabo diversas estrategias cuyo objetivo es evitar la construcción de viviendas en esa zona. Paralelamente, otras personas manifiestan su parecer en relación a la ejecución del programa y desarrollan prácticas que cuestionan la legitimidad de las demandas sostenidas por aquellos vecinos. El propósito del artículo es analizar las formas de apropiación simbólica que se refuerzan y/o modifican en función de la disputa; lo que Melé (2003) llama el proceso de territorialización del conflicto. Se argumenta que, aunque se produce un choque de imaginarios (Hiernaux; 2008a), emerge un imaginario dominante que logra imponerse y legitimar el uso y disfrute del espacio a su favor

Another history of violence: the production of "geographies of terror" in Colombia's Pacific coast region

A conceptual framework of "geographies of terror" can serve as a critique of contemporary dominant geopolitical discourses on the "war on terror" and as a methodological tool for studying the impact of terror and its spatial manifestations on local populations on the ground. Applying this framework to the study of violence in Colombia's Pacific coast region allows critical engagement with the discourses on "forced displacement" that have become institutionalized in Colombia to refer to the systematic terror campaign unleashed by armed groups on rural black populations in this region. Beyond the usual focus in displacement debates on humanitarian assistance and resettlement of the displaced population in the cities, this framework stresses the need to empirically engage with and conceptually address the situation in the countryside, where rural dwellers are threatened by armed actors on an everyday basis but also resist the imposition of these regimes of terror

Comunidades Negras y Espacio en el Pacífico Colombiano: Hacia un Giro Geográfico en el Estudio de los Movimientos Sociales

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Colombia: old and new patterns of violence

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Las políticas de etnicidad en América Latina: comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes como nuevos sujetos políticos y el desafío descolonial

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Anti-geopolitics

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Geographies of terror: an analyhtical framework for the study of terror

There is a consensus today that the so-called 'war on terror' has redefined political and diplomatic international relations. But what terror is evoked here exactly? In this context I want to propose a conceptual-methodological framework for the study of terror and terrorism, which I have called 'geographies of terror'. I propose this framework for two principal reasons: (1) to redirect contemporary geopolitical discourses on the ‘war on terror’ that define ‘terrorism’ in a restricted fashion as a terrorism against systems of the western neoliberal democratic state, while at the same time they hide ‘other terrorisms’, including those orchestrated by these very neoliberal democratic states; and (2) as a methodological tool for the systematic study of the impact of terror on local populations