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<description><![CDATA[Despite decades of water-supply development programs in the Global South, their effect on gendered access to water remains both unclear and contradictory. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining the expansion of a rural water-supply network aimed at reducing household water scarcity in the arid zone of Rajasthan, India. Specifically, the Indira Gandhi Canal was conceived and constructed during the green revolution to &#8216;green the Thar Desert&#8217;. But now, through a complex network of reservoirs, treatment facilities, distribution centers, and supply pipelines, it connects much of rural and urban western Rajasthan to a drinking water-supply network. The paper examines the interaction of water-supply technologies, social power relations and dynamic socioecological change operating within these development processes. To do so it draws on household surveys, interviews with water users and government engineers, and participant observation with women and children water collectors. The paper finds that this ongoing water development project rendered the water provision landscape technical on the surface, but that uneven flows of water between villages and people reveal a more complex water provision landscape. The expansion of the network based on a technical reimagining of water supply has resulted in intervillage scarcity, intragender differential access, usurious private water markets, the abandonment and then the proposed rehabilitation of traditional water bodies, and urban water logging. In the conclusion I argue for a rethinking of water-supply development programs through a political ecology approach that focuses on the emergent capacities of water-supply technologies to redirect existing socioecological associations in unanticipated ways. Looking at the relationship between nature&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;society and technology may illuminate the possible ruptures in these associations and the ways that they may be rearticulated to produce less differentiating modes of accessing water. <leading1> <absctd_n><?tf=&#8220;t005&#8221;>Keywords: political ecology, water, power, gender, scarcity, India
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<title><![CDATA[The &#8216;impossible&#8217; community of the citizens: past and present problems<?tf=&#8220;t001&#8221;></font>. Etienne Balibar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the wake of previous reflections on the antinomies of citizenship&#8212;which derive both from the tension between an &#8216;insurrectional&#8217; logic of equal liberty and a &#8216;constitutional&#8217; project of building a community of citizens, and more recently from the conflict between (national) social citizenship and neoliberal forms of global governance&#8212;this paper focuses on problems of &#8216;representation&#8217; and &#8216;agency&#8217; linked to the idea of democratizing democracy itself. It will try in this sense to propose a more specific determination to the idea of an unfinished, although contingent, history of citizenship in the modern world.
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<title><![CDATA[Landscapes of performance: stalking as choreography. Elaine Campbell]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recent advances in nonrepresentational theory (NRT) encourage us to think of landscape as something which is actualised by, in, and through the performativities and affectivities of seeing. While NRT certainly moves us from a static to a more dynamic account of landscape, and along the way introduces an innovative, theoretical vocabulary for talking about and experiencing landscape, it may inhibit more than (or as much as) it facilitates understanding. In this paper, NRT&#8217;s contribution to the geographical canon will be critically interrogated; in particular, NRT&#8217;s focus on performance, and its preference for practices and materiality over imagery and the symbolic, will be questioned. This provides the important groundwork for considering the broader utility of NRT, most especially its resonance with the concerns of cultural criminology and its burgeoning interest in &#8216;criminologies of space&#8217;. Using the phenomenon of stalking as an exemplar of a performative practice in late modernity, the paper sets out an understanding of landscape as an intersection of representations, discourses, sensibilities, <i>and</i> material practices. In this way it offers a synthesising, hybridised account of landscape which draws on Foster&#8217;s notion of choreography to better capture the interrelationalities of the performativity of lived experience(s) and the structuring relations of sociocultural norms, values, and relations of power. Making use of a number of data sources, which include interview material, Hollywood films, and online discussion boards, the paper examines stalking as a choreographic and choreographed process which, amongst other things, engenders a world of imaginary and transgressive landscapes.
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<title><![CDATA[Bloodlands: critical geographical responses to the 22 July 2011 events in Norway. Veit Bachmann, Luiza Bialasiewicz, James D Sidaway, Matthew Feldman, St&#229;le Holgersen, Andreas Malm, Robina Mohammad, Arun Saldanha, Kirsten Simonsen]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Immanence has resurfaced as a topic of theoretical interest, as it is perceived to bear upon many current developments in society and nature. In this paper, I delve further into this concept by examining my personal relations with a lawn. In this telling, lawns are typified by immanence, whether that refers to the growth of vegetation, the prospering of animal life within, or the emerging human capacity to control nonhuman immanences. In particular, I examine my role in the death of a lizard and scrutinize the guidance that immanence, as a concept, provides in ethical dilemmas. Uncertainty about the lizard body and what it can do plays a central role in this consideration. Although immanence can provide only equivocal answers, it retains significance not simply because it designates an essential attribute but also because its material manifestations have a duration that places humans in a disposition of suspended animation. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>immanence, lawn, animal, lizard, duration, Bergson, Spinoza
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<title><![CDATA[Putting space in place: philosophical topography and relational geography. Jeff Malpas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Space is a concept that is central to geographical thinking. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to exploration of the concept of space as such, and this is so outside of geography no less than within it. Beginning with an examination of the &#8216;relational&#8217; view of space that now seems dominant in geography as well as many other areas of the social sciences (and which is often presented as an elucidation of space itself), this paper explores the concept of space as it stands in connection with time and place, making particular use of the notions of boundedness, extendedness, and emergence while also shedding light on the idea of relationality. The aim is to outline a different mode of theorizing space than is to be found in much of contemporary geography and social theory&#8212;one that also draws geographical thinking into the domain of &#8216;philosophical topography&#8217;. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>boundary, boundedness, concepts, emergence, extendedness, geography, ontology, philosophy, place, relationality, space, time, topography, topology, void
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<title><![CDATA[Not exactly like the phoenix&#8212;but rising all the same: reconstructing displaced livelihoods in post-cleanup Harare. Amin Y Kamete]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Studies of displacement often emphasise massive physical dislocation. In this paper, based on a study of displaced youth in Harare, Zimbabwe, I argue for the freeing of the concept from &#8216;physical uprooting&#8217; and build a case for focusing on in situ displacement and displaced livelihoods. I consider attempts by youth to reconstitute displaced livelihoods in the wake of &#8216;cleansing&#8217; by the state. I scrutinise evolving recovery tactics in the face of determined efforts by the authorities to repress the &#8216;filth&#8217;, demonstrating that the youth&#8217;s resistance comprises a myriad of spatialised recovery strategies for dealing with spatialised repression. I argue that it is the mutation of the youth&#8217;s modes of operation that have enabled them to (re)contaminate and (re)subvert the &#8216;purified&#8217; spaces. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>Harare, Zimbabwe, Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order, youth, displacement, repression, resistance, recovery
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<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the political aesthetic of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Ranci&#232;re who in their own ways, found resources in an innovative reading of Kant&#8217;s <i>Critique of Judgment</i>. The paper explores the Kantian legacy in the political understanding of these two thinkers. It then focuses on Ranci&#232;re&#8217;s notion of dissensus and argues that his politics shares the aesthetic features associated with the Kantian sublime. <br> <br><b>Keywords:</b> politics, aesthetics, sublime, common sense, dissensus, Arendt, Kant, Ranci&#232;re
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<title><![CDATA[Economies of empathy: Obama, neoliberalism, and social justice. Carolyn Pedwell]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This paper asks how we might theorise the politics of empathy in a context in which visions of social justice premised on empathetic engagement need to be situated within prevailing neoliberal frameworks. Through reading the ambivalent grammar of President Obama&#8217;s emotional rhetoric, I examine how it resonates in different ways both with feminist and antiracist debates about empathy and social justice and with the neoliberal discourse of the &#8216;empathy economy&#8217; expressed within popular business literatures. I argue that, in framing empathy as a competency to be developed by individuals alongside imperatives to become more risk-taking and self-enterprising, Obama&#8217;s rhetoric reveals its centrist neoliberal underpinnings and risks (re)producing social and geopolitical exclusions and hierarchies. Yet, I suggest that seeing the phenomenon of &#8216;Obama-mania&#8217; as produced not only within discourses of neoliberal governmentality but also through more radical intersections of empathy, hope, and imagination illustrates how empathy might be conceptualised as an affective portal to different spaces and times of social justice. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>affect, empathy, hope, imagination, neoliberalism, Obama, social justice
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<title><![CDATA[Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (and not matter) within food consumption practices. Adrian B Evans, Mara Miele]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Contemporary European consumers find themselves at an interesting point in history with regards to their relationships with animals. On the one hand there has been a growth in the acknowledgement of animal sentience, yet on the other hand, largely unabated, we continue to farm, kill, and eat animals for food. In this paper we contend that these ambiguities are played out within everyday embodied practices of preparing, eating, and shopping for food. We begin our account by outlining a novel performative approach to food consumption practices, which we have termed &#8216;foodsensing&#8217;, and we contend that every act of sensing food is always already an act of making sense of food. This approach allows us to examine the complex interplay between material and symbolic dimensions of food consumption practices. Throughout the paper we draw on this notion of foodsensing, in conjunction with empirical material taken from forty-eight focus group discussions conducted across seven European countries, to shed new light on the ways in which farm animals are made to matter (and not matter) within food consumption practices. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>animal welfare, food consumption, embodied practices, relational ethics
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<title><![CDATA[The contingency of the laws of nature. Quentin Meillassoux]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My starting point is Hume&#8217;s sceptical doubt as to the necessity of causal connection. This doubt consists in challenging the metaphysician to found rationally the necessity of the causal relation&#8212;that is to say, to prove that it is necessary that the same effects should always follow from the same causes. According to Hume, this challenge cannot be met, because the only instances that could possibly rationally found causal necessity are experience and logical necessity. Now, I can certainly affirm on the basis of experience that causality has never failed in the past; but that does not allow me to prove that the same will apply in the future. As for logic, it prescribes only noncontradiction; and there is nothing contradictory in conceiving that objects might behave differently tomorrow than they did today, under exactly the same conditions. Hume&#8217;s conclusion is that our adhesion to causality proceeds from a vital habit, an accustomedness that persuades us that the causal sequences we have observed in the past will be repeated identically in the future. This conclusion is sceptical in the sense that it disqualifies the metaphysical claim that one can discover through a priori reasoning the necessities that govern nature. However, it is possible to draw a very different conclusion from the same premises. For, rather than conceding that reason cannot prove causal necessity a priori, why not affirm that reason reveals that all causal relations are <i>contingent</i>, that it opens up the possibility that, in the future, completely different effects could follow from exactly the same causes? In that case, reason would have discovered, beneath the apparent fixity of empirical constants, a chaos indifferent to all causality. This is the hypothesis to be examined, and we shall try to show that there exist precise reasons to take it seriously. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>Hume, causality, contingency, chaos, transfinite, reason
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<title><![CDATA[More parts than elements: how databases multiply. Adrian Mackenzie]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Databases organise, configure,&nbsp;and perform thing-and-people multiples in sets. Belonging, inclusion, participation, and membership: many of the relations that make up the material-social life of people and things can be formally apprehended in terms of set-like multiples stored in databases. Mid-20th century database design derived different ways of gathering, sorting, ordering, and searching data from mathematical set theory. The dominant database architecture, the relational database management system, can be seen as a specific technological enactment of the mathematics of set theory. More recent developments such as grids, clouds, and other data-intensive architectures apprehend ever greater quantities of data. Arguably, in emerging data architectures databases themselves are subsumed by even more intensive set-like operations. Whole databases undergo set-like transformations as they are aggregated, divided, filtered, and sorted. At least at a theoretical level, the mathematics of set theory, as philosophically rendered by Alain Badiou, can also suggest some explanations of how multiples expand, ramify, and split in databases. Badiou&#8217;s account locates forms of instability or incoherence inherent in any set-based doing of multiples in the relation between parts and elements, between inclusion and belonging. Against the grain of Badiou&#8217;s resolutely philosophical project, a set-theoretical account of databases might also point towards some vertiginous elements that elude regulation, norms, and representation. <br> <br><b>Keywords: </b>database, algorithm, set theory, Badiou, infrastructure
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<title><![CDATA[Experimenting with ontologies: sets, spaces, and topoi with Badiou and Grothendieck. Arkady Plotnitsky]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The paper explores the ontology and logic of the irreducibly multiple in set theory and in topos theory by considering the differences between Badiou&#8217;s logical and Grothendieck&#8217;s ontological approach to topos theory. It argues that Grothendieck&#8217;s ontological program for topos theory leads to a more radical concept of the multiple than does the set-theoretical ontology, which defines Badiou&#8217;s view of ontology even in his later, more topos theoretically oriented work. Extending Grothendieck&#8217;s way of thinking to other fields enables one to give ontological multiplicities&#8212;no longer bound by the set-theoretical ontology or ultimately by any mathematical ontology, even in mathematics&#8212;a great diversity and richness. It follows that the set-theoretical ontology is not sufficiently rich to accomplish what Badiou thinks it could accomplish even in mathematics itself, let alone elsewhere; and Badiou wants it to work elsewhere&#8212;indeed, wherever it is possible to speak of ontology. I shall also consider, in closing, some implications of the arguments for the workings of the multiple in ethics, politics, and culture. <br> <br><b>Keywords:</b> logic, mathematics, multiplicity, ontology, philosophy, set theory, topos theory
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Experimenting with ontologies: sets, spaces, and topoi with Badiou and Grothendieck]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Differences: chaos in the history of the sciences. Michel Serres, Taylor Adkins]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this paper from the book <i>Les origines de la g&#233;om&#233;trie</i> (The origins of geometry), subtitled <i>tiers livre des fondations </i>(third book of foundations) (Serres, 1993, Flammarion, Paris), I argue that the history of the sciences and, in particular, the history of mathematics cannot be written using the tools and models of traditional historiography. Rather, I claim that there is a need for a science of history that takes seriously what I see as a radical contemporaneity or copresence of the archaic and the contemporary. The model of history that I propose attempts to seek a degree of congruence between a model of time that is not chronological but rather percolating and filtering the ways that the mathematical tradition is reinvented. There exists&#8212;or seems to exist&#8212;a structural similitude between mathematics itself and the form or model of historiography required to write its history.
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