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Special Issues of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers |
2009: Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict How can geographers contribute to world peace? This collection gathers the insights of geographers in every branch of the discipline to discuss territory and geopolitics, the social effects of violence, resource issues, and postconflict initiatives. The issue provides an ideal reader for courses devoted to understanding the impact of violence and prospects of peace in virtually every part of ARTICLES Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict: Introduction Conceptualizing ConflictSpace: Towards a Geography of Relational Power and Embeddedness in the Analysis of Interstate Conflict Oil Prices, Scarcity and Geographies of War Mobilizing Rivers: Hydro-electricity, the State and the Second World War in Canada Practicing Radical Geopolitics: Logics of Power and the Iranian Nuclear “Crisis” “A Microscopic Insurgent”: Militarization, Health, and Critical Geographies of Violence The Political Utility of the Nonpolitical Child in Sri Lanka’s Armed Conflict Terror, Territory, and Deterritorialization: Landscapes of Terror and the Unmaking of State Power in the Mozambican “Civil” War The Geography of Conflict and Death in Belfast, Northern Ireland What Counts as the Politics and Practice of Security, and Where? Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity After 9/11 Embedded Empire: Structural Violence and the Pursuit of Justice in East Timor Armed Conflict and Resolutions in Southern Thailand Crafting Liberal Peace? International Peace Promotion and the Contextual Politics of Peace in Sri Lanka “Nature Knows No Boundaries”: A Critical Reading of UNDP Environmental Peacemaking in Cyprus Walls as Technologies of Government: The Double Construction of Geographies of Peace and Conflict in Israeli Politics, 2002-Present Citizenship in the Line of Fire: Protective Accompaniment, Proxy Citizenship, and Pathways for Transnational Solidarity in Guatemala Staging Peace through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel “Foreign Passports Only”: Geographies of (Post)Conflict Work in Kabul, Afghanistan Territorial Tensions: Rainforest Conservation, Post-Conflict Recovery, and Land Tenure in Liberia Halfway to Nowhere: Liberian Former Child-Soldiers in a Ghanaian Refugee Camp Lucinda Woodward and Peter Galvin Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies: Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia “Post”-Conflict Displacement: Isolation and Integration in Georgia Satellite Data Methods and Application in the Evaluation of War Outcomes: Abandoned Agricultural Land in Bosnia-Herzegovina After the 1992-1995 Conflict After Ethnic Cleansing: Return Outcomes in Bosnia-Herzegovina a Decade Beyond War BOOK REVIEW ESSAY MANUSCRIPT REVIEWERS INDEX TO VOLUME 99 2010: Climate Change 2011: Energy The 2011 Special Issue of the Annals will be focused on Energy. The Call for Abstracts is as follows. Abstract submissions are due by August 1, 2009. The Annals of the Association of American Geographers invites abstracts of papers to be considered for a special issue on Energy. This special issue will be the third in a series that highlights the work of geographers on themes of timely importance and global significance. Papers will be sought from a broad spectrum of scholars who draw on a geographic perspective to address any one or more of the following related themes: geophysical and biogeographic dynamics of energy systems, nature-society and human-environment interactions related to energy, and topics pertaining to the economic, human, social, political, cultural, historical, and methodological issues that are focused on the geographic dimensions of energy. Examples of potentially relevant topics include original research focused on geographic analysis of energy and resource production, use, and consumption; alternative energy sources and social-environmental dynamics and impacts; energy policy; energy conservation; and other relevant areas. Abstracts of no more than 350 words should be submitted by 1 August 2009 to rmaier@aag.org. Final papers of no more than 7,000 words---to be submitted via Manuscript Central---will be due by 1 March 2010 for publication in 2011. All submitted papers will be subject to full peer review. 2012: Health The 2011 Special Issue of the Annals will be focused on Health. The Call for Abstracts will be available in late 2009/early 2010.
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