[PDF][PDF] Making sense of (the Russian war in) Ukraine: On the politics of knowledge and expertise

A Vorbrugg, J Bluwstein - Political geography, 2022 - Elsevier
The 2022 Russian invasion has led to unprecedented public and political attention to all
things Ukrainian. In this intervention, we contend that critical geographic scholarship about …

Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East

L Chelcea - Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
During the 2010s, several studies questioned the conceptual stability of “post-socialism.” I
review some of these critiques, paying particular attention to the contradictions of the “Global …

Worlding geography: From linguistic privilege to decolonial anywheres

M Müller - Progress in Human Geography, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Geography studies the world. Our knowledge of the world, however, comes mostly from
Anglophone sources. This makes Geography in urgent need of worlding–of including …

The Global Easts in global urbanism: views from beyond North and South

M Müller, E Trubina - Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Global urbanism tends to think cities in categories of “Global North” and “Global South”. But
what about all those cities that escape easy classification into these hemispheric …

Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies

Y Zhao - Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Engaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a
translational turn to foreground dialogues—rather than equivalences—between languages …

English and the dissemination of local knowledges: A problematic for South–South dialogue

H R'boul - The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The dominance of English in research cultures exemplifies a linguistically-mediated
epistemicide that reseats Anglophone knowledges higher in the epistemological hierarchy …

IR theory and area studies: A plea for displaced knowledge about international politics

K Kaczmarska, S Ortmann - Journal of International Relations and …, 2021 - Springer
This article critically engages with the hierarchical binary between theory and area research
in the study of international politics. We pose questions about the processes which construct …

Suburbanisation in East Germany

M Bernt, A Volkmann - Urban Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Rampant suburbanisation is one of the most visible changes evidenced in cities throughout
Central and Eastern Europe in the past three decades. In this paper, we analyse how …

The end of postsocialism (as we knew it): Diverse economies and the East

O Cima, L Sovová - Progress in human geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper brings together two streams of literature which rarely enter into conversation:
diverse economies scholarship and critical readings of postsocialism. Mobilising the cases …

[PDF][PDF] Contextualizing the contextualizers: How the area studies controversy is different in different places

J Busse, M Valbjørn, A Doolotkeldieva… - International Studies …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
As part of recent years' efforts at reaching a more context-and diversity-sensitive study of
international relations, the nexus between fields of IR and Area Studies (AS) has received a …