Alexander B Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander B Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander B |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 530 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
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
Geographies of precarity and violence in the Kurdish kolberi underground economy
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
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
Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait. John Western
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…
Trapped in the Logic of the Modern State System? European Integration in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
In the wake of the Single European Act of the mid-1980s and a series of follow-on initiatives aimed at fostering greater integration in Europe, a number of commentators began describing Europe as a truly novel political-territorial arrangement. By the middle of the 1990s, however, the adoption of a common currency came to dominate the European integration agenda. The embrace of monetary union reflected a view of European integration that was firm…
Rethinking geopolitics in an era of climate change
Reading Daniel Deudney's Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village
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…
Political Geography in the Geographical Review: Volumes 1–99
Editors' Note: This essay by Alexander Murphy begins the final set of retrospective works commissioned to celebrate the centennial volume of the Geographical Review. In this group, American Geographical Society Councilors undertake the challenge of reviewing major conceptual approaches or topical fields as presented in the journal's first ninety‐nine volumes and to muse about how those approaches will contribute to the field in its second century…
Intersecting Geographies of Institutions and Sovereignty
The concept of sovereignty developed along with the modern state system. Its institutionalization greatly influenced interactions among political-territorial entities and largely coopted the modern geographical imagination. An international system based on sovereign principles has never been realized, of course, and accelerating globalization, increased mobility, and a revolution in the technology of communication are challenging sovereignty’s fu…
"Gérard Dussouy's "Systemic Geopolitics
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
Rethinking multi-level governance in a changing European union: Why metageography and territoriality matter
The extraordinary career of Gilbert White
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…
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
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 …
Living together separately
The Changing Geography of Europeaness
What is Europe? Who is a European? Questions such as these have long been the subject of debate, 1 but they were not prominent features of public discourse from the mid-1950s through 1989. Once the
Geographies of precarity and violence in the Kurdish kolberi underground economy
Trapped in the Logic of the Modern State System? European Integration in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
In the wake of the Single European Act of the mid-1980s and a series of follow-on initiatives aimed at fostering greater integration in Europe, a number of commentators began describing Europe as a truly novel political-territorial arrangement. By the middle of the 1990s, however, the adoption of a common currency came to dominate the European integration agenda. The embrace of monetary union reflected a view of European integration that was firm…
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 …
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
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…
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
Living together separately
Cultural Encounters with the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographic Themes
Chapter 1 Introduction: Encounters with Environment and Place Part 2 Part I: Constructing Cultural Spaces Chapter 3 Domestic Architecture in Early Colonial Mexico: Material Culture as (Sub)Text Chapter 4 The Clash of Utopias: Sisterdale and the Six-Sided Struggle for the Texas Hill Country Chapter 5 The Struggle for Urban Public Spaces: Disposing of the Toronto Waterfront in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 6 Place Your Bets: Rates in Frontier Expa…
Territoriality, morality, and international law: Thoughts on Hendrix's 'moral theory of state territory
(2001). Territoriality, morality, and international law: Thoughts on Hendrix's ‘moral theory of state territory’. Geopolitics: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 163-168
Landscapes for Whom? The Twentieth-Century Remaking of Brussels
From Geopolitics to Global Politics: A French Connection
Key Words: French-language geographygeopoliticsglobal politicsmodern state system
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 …
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