Academic Articles & Research Papers

Urban Geography

For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: even those living beyond the administrative or fu...

Geographies of Resistance

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemp...

Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore divers...

Abolition geography: essays towards liberation

"Abolition geography: essays towards liberation." Political Theology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2...

Geographies of Exclusion

Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the dominant factor in the creation of social and s...

Encyclopedia of geography

With more than 1,200 entries, Encyclopedia of Geography reflects how the growth of geography has propelled a demand for intermediaries between the abstract language of academia and the ordinary language of everyday life. The six volumes of ...

Geography and Trade

I have spent my whole professional life as an international economist thinking and writing about economic geography, without being aware of it, begins Paul Krugman in the readable and anecdotal style that has become a hallmark of his writin...

Urban Geography

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of econ...

Participación e incidencia de las agencias reguladoras en el ciclo de las políticas públicas: Caso de estudio comparado en Colombia

Este artículo analiza cómo participan e inciden las agencias reguladoras en el ciclo de las políticas públicas en Colombia. La investigación desarrolla un caso de estudio comparativo de la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) y la...

Sustainable Administrative Reform Movements Policy in Joko Widodo's Administration

Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is a leader that is widely expected to transform Indonesia into a better country. Hopes and wishes were rising when he was elected as the president of Indonesia. This paper will describe various innovations undertaken b...

"Organizzare la semplicità" per una democrazia matura. Roberto Ruffilli e le riforme istituzionali

Perpetrators of Genocide: An Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil

According to Jewish-Christian tradition, the first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. “Two men,” says Elie Wiesel, and “one of them became a killer.”1 Throughout human history, social conflict is ubiquitou...

Trust in Colombia’s Justicia Especial Para La Paz: Experimental Evidence

Research on the determinants of institutional trust in courts that are part of transitional justice frameworks is scarce. This article relies on experimental evidence to explore whether features of the case and the ruling play a role in cit...

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Online Health Consultation Services: The Role of Subjective Norm, Trust, Perceived Benefit, and Offline Habit

The cyberspace plays an important role in improving the quality, equity, and efficiency of health services. Studying people's adoption of online health services, such as online health consultation services (OHCS) can benefit both industry a...

Página inédita sobre la muerte del libertador

Página inédita sobre la muerte del libertador del cronista medellinense José Antonio Benites, escrita a pocos días de conocida la muerte de Simón Bolívar en la Provincia de Antioquia y una de las últimas del autor del Carnero y miscelánea d...

Unpacking Terrorism, Revolution and Insurgency in Yemen: Real and Imagined Threats to Regional Security

Recent months have seen a seeming escalation in the international threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a terrorist network that has taken Yemen as its regional base of operations. In light of recent attacks, and resulti...

Understanding Synergy: Strategic Framework for Cultural Diplomacy

This paper is after introducing “Understanding Synergy Pattern” as Islamic-Iranian strategic framework for cultural diplomacy. Attending that is important because of growth of the role of culture in the international policy making and chang...

Education for Sustainable Development and Social Tolerance: Evidence from Teacher Education Institutions in Pakistan

Education for sustainable development is an evolving notion in teacher education that highlights the need for tolerance, acceptance, and diversity. Therefore, there is a greater need to elucidate the contributions of teacher educators in pr...

Sfera Politicii's Archive - Elena Ceausescu in the records

I don’t know why the idea that Elena Ceauşescu was the key element of her husband’s regime slowly stared to take shape. It is said that by growing older he started to lose his capacity of taking decisions, so he was more and more dependent ...

EL MUNICIPIO DE MADRID Y SU AYUNTAMIENTO: DESARROLLO DE LA PARTE URBANA POR URBANIZACIONES REALIZADAS.