Ann B Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 308643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann B Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann B |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0271-9620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 90 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 622 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
What comparative analysis can tell us about transboundary cooperation challenges in China’s Greater Bay Area
The Voice of a Stranger: Rumor, Radio, and the Aurality of Difference in Interwar Japan
In the late 1930s, a unique strain of media criticism developed in Japan surrounding radio broadcasting, sound, and the limits of public speech. Galvanized by a ban on "groundless rumors" which stifled independent expression in favor of state broadcasting, many intellectuals heralded rumor as a voice of the people—a mode of aural transmission that presented a more vernacular alternative to the foreign intrusions of broadcast sound. In order to be…
Named Landforms of the World: A Geomorphological and Physiographic Compilation
Prior to the current era of digital geomorphological mapping, global and regional-scale land surface characterization was advanced by qualitative interpretations that relied on human visualization aided by disciplinary knowledge of geophysical processes combined with extensive field study. In the early twentieth century, Fenneman proposed to devise systematic physiographic divisions of the United States and in 1916 produced what is still regarded…
Taking territory seriously in a fluid, topologically varied world: Reflections in the wake of the populist turn and the Covid-19 pandemic
This article is published as part of the Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography special issue based on the Vega symposium: ‘Bounded spaces in question: X-raying the persistence of regions and territories, edited by Anssi Paasi.ABSTRACTA concern with territory may seem anachronistic in the face of the interconnected, fluid, topologically complex political-geographic landscape of the twenty-first century. Yet in many places borders are hard…
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
The modernist territorial order and the Ukraine crisis
Geographies of precarity and violence in the Kurdish kolberi underground economy
Ronald John Johnston, 1941-2020
Political Rhetoric and Hate Speech in the Case of Shamima Begum
The relationship between political rhetoric and hate crime has been a topic of growing concern in recent years, with the narratives promoted by politicians widely seen as legitimating and inspiring hate crime as well as soothing or inflaming the tensions that result from antecedent hate crime events such as terrorist attacks. The potential return of so-called 'IS bride' Shamima Begum from a Syrian refugee camp in 2019, following her high-profile …
Geography: Why It Matters
Alexander B. Murphy. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018. xii and 162 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 9781509523009); $12.95 paper (ISBN 97815095230
Reflections on the geographical parameters of a very geographical study
Marvin W. Mikesell, 1929-2017
Marvin W. Mikesell occupies a prominent position in the history of mid-to-late twentieth-century U.S. cultural geography. One of the most distinguished doctoral students of Carl Sauer at Berkeley
Herz und mund und tat und terrorismus (heart, mouth, deed, and terrorism)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the efforts of a terrorism that makes revolution its goal have sprung from the dream of unity between words and action. In Ōe Kenzaburō’s linked texts, “Seventeen,” we find a depiction of a terrorist, or “political youth” who dreams of attaining a “peak orgasm” in communion with the “Pure Emperor.” Moreover, for this youth, “terrorism” means an action undertaken by the self at the very moment of coitu…
Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus
Gerard Toal. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. xx and 387 pp., photos, maps, graphs, tables, notes, index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 9780190253301).Territorial struggles in Ukraine and the Caucas
Modern poetry, popular song and their dangerous liaisons
In this article, Tsuboi Hideto examines the mutually entwined pursuits of modern poetry and music in interwar Japan, focusing especially on the work of Nakahara Chūya, Kitahara Hakushū, and the People's Poetry group. Cutting across their respective distinctions within the poetry establishment, Tsuboi draws attention to these figures’ shared investment in symphonic, folk and popular music. In so doing, he identifies among them a prevailing concern…
Relevance Debates
In the early 1970s a growing number of geographers began calling for direct disciplinary engagement with major social, political, and environmental policy challenges. Disagreements over how such work might be undertaken and whose interests it might serve came to be known as the relevance debate. In the ensuing decades, a broad commitment to relevancy came to pervade most geographic scholarship, but policy relevance was seen as only one dimension …
A Framework for Comparative Study of Minority-Group Aspirations
Most states have one or more ethnic minorities. Members of such groups invariably experience some degree of dissatisfaction with their status. In consequence, tension between subnational identity and national affiliation is a persistent and pervasive reality. Although a large literature addresses the relationship between culture and nationality, it cannot be said that the interaction of minority-group aspirations and related government policies i…
Hitler ’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich
The Past Is a Foreign Country-Revisited
Transforming The United Nations System: Designs for a Workable World
Transforming The United Nations System: Designs for a Workable World. By Joseph E. Schwartzberg. xxxix and 364 pp; maps, diagrs., bibliog, index. Tokyo, Japan: 2013. $40 (paper), isbn 9789280812305
Crossroads of War: A Historical Atlas of the Middle East
Political Geography
Harm J. de Blij, 1935–2014
What Carl Sagan did for cosmology, Harm de Blij is doing for geography. See, hear, or read him and you will sign on for a continuing course in a subject that he has brought alive like no one else i
Bureaucratic fields and the Brussels machinery: Reading Merje Kuus' Geopolitics and Expertise
Strategic directions for geography: Lessons from the U.S. National Academies' Understanding the Changing Planet
The U.S. National Academies' recent effort to specify “strategic directions for the geographical sciences” identifies a variety of ways in which research drawing on geographical ideas, methods, and techniques can help address pressing social and scientific challenges. The value of the study does not lie solely in the identification of promising research areas; it also offers insights into the relevance of geography's longstanding concern with loc…
Territory's Continuing Allure
The role of the territorial state has changed in recent decades in the wake of the communications revolution; the explosion of transnational social, political, and economic formations; accelerated mobility across international boundaries; and the inability of states to address pressing socioeconomic and environmental issues. Yet in the rush to document and assess the networks, flows, and relational spaces that are part of this shift, it is import…
Regions as social constructs: The gap between theory and practice
Over the past decade and a half spatial concepts have come to play an increasingly significant role in the theoretical literature on society. This is in large part tied to the rise of structurationist thought and other related theories of society (see Giddens, 1976; 1985a; Bhaskar, 1979). In their efforts to carve out a middle ground or dialectical synthesis between the polarities of structure and agency, proponents of these theoretical perspecti…
Entente Territorial: Sack and Raffestin on Territoriality
Two of the most prolific contributors to the theoretical literature on territoriality-Robert Sack and Claude Raffestin-treat territoriality in fundamentally different ways. Sack conceives of territoriality as a spatial strategy that individuals, groups, and organizations use to achieve particular social and political ends. Raffestin, in contrast, takes a relational approach to territoriality-seeing it as arising out of, integral to, and reinforci…
Historical Justifications for Territorial Claims
The justifications that states offer in support of their actions play an important role in shaping territorial conflicts between states. During the past forty years, territorial claims against neighboring states have almost always been justified as attempts to recover land that had been “wrongfully'’taken away. This article charts the rise of this kind of historical argument, beginning with the Peace of Westphalia. It is an argument that has its …
The role of geography in public debate
Many geographers work on matters of great relevance for the issues facing society, but geography is rarely invoked in public debates over matters of contemporary concern. As a result, geographical perspectives are often missing from public discourse, and outmoded conceptions of geography are reinforced. This forum considers the importance and challenge of addressing this state of affairs. Four distinguished geographers who have been involved in d…
Enhancing Geography's Role in Public Debate
Even though many geographers work on topics of great societal import, geography is largely missing from wider debates on political and social matters. This state of affairs reflects the historical marginalization of the discipline and the paucity of visible studies linking geographical scholarship to the major concerns of the day. Addressing this situation presents fundamental challenges for the community of geographers—ones that go far beyond ef…
Territorial Policies in Multiethnic States
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
Geography's Place in Higher Education in the United States
Geography's institutional position in US colleges and universities has strengthened over the past 15 years. Student numbers have increased, many existing geography programmes have expanded, and new programmes have been launched. This article documents these developments and situates them historically. Attention is then directed to reasons behind the discipline's recent growth: heightened public interest in geographical issues, expanding awareness…
Advancing geographical understanding: Why engaging grand regional narratives matters
Work in contemporary human geography only occasionally addresses the grand, empirically based regional narratives that figure prominently in the public debate. Since such narratives have a powerful influence on ideas and actions, whether and how geographers speak to them are important questions for the effort to promote “public geographies.” Three case studies illustrate what is lost if grand regional narratives are not addressed more directly by…
National Claims to Territory in the Modern State System: Geographical Considerations
Recent research has focused on the efforts of national leaders to legitimize and strengthen national identity through the construction of uncomplicated, linear national histories. Paralleling, and in some respects advancing, these efforts are initiatives aimed at staking national claims to particular territories. These claims are the product of 'regimes of territorial legitimation' that reflect the norms of the modern state system. They are funda…
A Framework for Comparative Study of Minority-Group Aspirations
Most states have one or more ethnic minorities. Members of such groups invariably experience some degree of dissatisfaction with their status. In consequence, tension between subnational identity and national affiliation is a persistent and pervasive reality. Although a large literature addresses the relationship between culture and nationality, it cannot be said that the interaction of minority-group aspirations and related government policies i…
The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953
Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies
New Horizons for Regional Geography
Two prominent U.S. geographers outline the framework and mandate of an emerging new regional geography as a tool for understanding rapid and profound changes in the contemporary world. In so doing, they differentiate this new approach to the geographic study of regions from both (a) the traditional practice of regional geography prevailing in the discipline from the mid-19th century and (b) accounts of geography's role in contemporary affairs off…
Is there a politics to geopolitics
The term geopolitics is understood and used in a variety of ways. Political geographers typically invoke the term with reference to the geographical assumptions and understandings that influence world politics. Outside of the academy, geopolitics often connotes a conservative or right-wing political-territorial calculus associated with the strategic designs of Henry Kissinger, Aleksandr Dugin, and followers of the new Geopolitik in Germany. This …
Identity and Territory
John Agnew's effort to highlight what he calls the “Territorial Trap” 1 underlying much thinking about the international system has been notably influential – at least in political geography circle
Taking territory seriously in a fluid, topologically varied world: Reflections in the wake of the populist turn and the Covid-19 pandemic
This article is published as part of the Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography special issue based on the Vega symposium: ‘Bounded spaces in question: X-raying the persistence of regions and territories, edited by Anssi Paasi.ABSTRACTA concern with territory may seem anachronistic in the face of the interconnected, fluid, topologically complex political-geographic landscape of the twenty-first century. Yet in many places borders are hard…
The Past Is a Foreign Country-Revisited
Rethinking multi-level governance in a changing European union: Why metageography and territoriality matter
The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium: A Study in Cultural-Political Geography
Linguistic regionalism and the social construction of space in Belgium
Article Linguistic regionalism and the social construction of space in Belgium was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 104)
Rethinking geopolitics in an era of climate change
Economic Regionalization and Pacific Asia
Recent efforts to analyze the geographical underpinnings of the international economic order have increasingly focused on three key world regions: western Europe, North America, and Pacific These regions are treated as the centers of gravity of the global economy, with the power to dictate its future course. Pacific Asia is the newest to be thought of as a world economic force, and the term Pacific Asia is not widely accepted. Instead, many analy…
The Emerging Europe of the 1990s
Democratic movements in Eastern Europe and the economic integration of the European Community are fundamentally changing the economic, social, and political map of Europe. Germany will play a crucial role but faces significant problems associated with reunification. Close political and economic ties are likely to emerge between northern countries in Eastern Europe and their neighbors to the west, which may exacerbate regional disparities in East …
The modernist territorial order and the Ukraine crisis
Academic life in some recent Russian fiction
Territorial Policies in Multiethnic States
The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium: A Study in Cultural-Political Geography
Ocean Boundary Making: Regional Issues and Developments
Most nations are currently engaged in various forms of ocean boundary making and indeed the present decades will be looked back on as the 'golden age' of ocean boundary making. This is creating new regional pressures and the need for collective regional responses to these issues. This book examines the issues at stake and the boundary making processes. It discusses these in a general way, showing how the recently concluded Third UN conference on …
Historical Justifications for Territorial Claims
The justifications that states offer in support of their actions play an important role in shaping territorial conflicts between states. During the past forty years, territorial claims against neighboring states have almost always been justified as attempts to recover land that had been “wrongfully'’taken away. This article charts the rise of this kind of historical argument, beginning with the Peace of Westphalia. It is an argument that has its …
The Borders of Ethical, Erotic, and Artistic Possibilities in 'Little Women
Regions as social constructs: The gap between theory and practice
Over the past decade and a half spatial concepts have come to play an increasingly significant role in the theoretical literature on society. This is in large part tied to the rise of structurationist thought and other related theories of society (see Giddens, 1976; 1985a; Bhaskar, 1979). In their efforts to carve out a middle ground or dialectical synthesis between the polarities of structure and agency, proponents of these theoretical perspecti…
A Framework for Comparative Study of Minority-Group Aspirations
Most states have one or more ethnic minorities. Members of such groups invariably experience some degree of dissatisfaction with their status. In consequence, tension between subnational identity and national affiliation is a persistent and pervasive reality. Although a large literature addresses the relationship between culture and nationality, it cannot be said that the interaction of minority-group aspirations and related government policies i…
The Emerging Europe of the 1990s
Democratic movements in Eastern Europe and the economic integration of the European Community are fundamentally changing the economic, social, and political map of Europe. Germany will play a crucial role but faces significant problems associated with reunification. Close political and economic ties are likely to emerge between northern countries in Eastern Europe and their neighbors to the west, which may exacerbate regional disparities in East …
Nation, State, and Territory: A Political Geography
1. The Nation 2. The State 3. Territory 4. The Frontier 5. Geographical Aspects of National Defence 6. Territorial Administration 7. The Rise and Demise of Empires 8. Aspects of International Organisation
We Are Not French! Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
Part One: Politics and Pedagogy: A History of Breton in the Schools 1. The Revolution of 1789 2. After the Revolution 3. Breton or No Breton in the Schools? 4. After the Second World War Part Two: The Breton Movement: a 'Breton World' 5. The Breton Movement 6. Celts 7. Wars and Petitions 8. Debates, Demos and Dance 9. Teaching and Learning Breton Part Three: Diwan:Breton Schools 10. Growth, Finance and Structure 11. Teachers and Pedagogy 12. Bret…
Urbanism and the diffusion of substate nationalist ideas in Western Europe
The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953
Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies
Emerging Regional Linkages Within the European Community: Challenging the Dominance of the State
Linguistic regionalism and the social construction of space in Belgium
Article Linguistic regionalism and the social construction of space in Belgium was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 104)
Planning for Places in an Issue-Based Legal Environment: The Challenge of Coherence
Towards greater Europe? A continent without an iron curtain
The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping
Economic Regionalization and Pacific Asia
Recent efforts to analyze the geographical underpinnings of the international economic order have increasingly focused on three key world regions: western Europe, North America, and Pacific These regions are treated as the centers of gravity of the global economy, with the power to dictate its future course. Pacific Asia is the newest to be thought of as a world economic force, and the term Pacific Asia is not widely accepted. Instead, many analy…
The sovereign state system as political-territorial ideal: Historical and contemporary considerations
A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers (both of these terms in the plural) – from the great strategies of geopolitics to the little tactics of the habitat. Michel Foucault From the perspective of the late twentieth century, the territorial structure of the international state system appears to be one of the great constants in human affairs. Faith in the stability of the system has b…
The Russian Civil War: Documents from the Soviet Archives
Russia's experiences during the Civil War determined the framework within which the Russian people were governed throughout the Soviet period. These newly released documents reveal how the events of 1
The Territorial Strategies of IGOs: Implications for Environment and Development
Growing recognition of the extent and severity of environmental degradation around the globe has prompted increased involvement by international governmental organizations (IGOs) in environ mental matters. Beginning with the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the environmental activities of IGOs have ex panded to the point where some of the most important programs of the UN and the World Bank are?at least in name?focused on…
Roessingh, Martijn A. Ethnonationalism and Political Systems in Europe: A State of Tension
Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space
Critical Geopolitics presents a brilliant and radical analysis of the ideas which have driven nations to attempt to remap the globe in their own image. The essays - ranging across Britsh colonialism to Nazi geopolitics, from America's ambitions to the bloodshed of Bosnia and Ireland - unearth a new political history of the struggle for space and power in the West, and revise the geographies of global politics at the end of the twentieth century
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