Scale and the limitations of ontological debate: a commentary on Marston, Jones and Woodward

Leitner, Helga; Miller, Byron

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00236.x

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“…We utilize McAdam et. al's theoretical framework of contentious politics (2001) and its later conceptual extension by geographers (Leitner and Miller, 2007;Leitner et al, 2008;Martin et al, 2003) to justify the point of entry for our analysis. We employ statistical methodology drawn from social network analysis (SNA) (Wasserman and Faust, 1994) to understand what the role of users self-identifying with a place has on their communicative practices within these networks of contention.…”

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confidence: 99%

Occupied with Place: Exploring Twitter Resistance Networks

Hemsley¹,

Eckert²

2014

iConference 2014 Proceedings

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From Tehran Square to Gezi Park, Twitter is an emergent tactic of protestors in the public square. Our work utilizes the theoretical framework of contentious politics and its human geographic extension as a framework for examining the role of "place" in Twitter-based networks of resistance. We examine Twitter traffic about local instantiations of Occupy Wall Street across eight cities. The study addresses mutual communications between Twitter participants in hashtags related to each of these local instantiations. This work explores the role of place as a constitutive component of these networks. To do so, we employ descriptive statistical and chi-square tests to examine the significance of user-defined metadata regarding place to the exchanges between users within a network. We conclude that place matters and point to future directions in computational and traditional qualitative analysis, spatial-temporal studies of social media, and the effects of locational propinquity for network development.

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Occupied with Place: Exploring Twitter Resistance Networks

Hemsley¹,

Eckert²

2014

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“…7 Interestingly, Neil made a similar argument when critiquing Castells' and others' concepts of "spaces of flows" (Smith 1996). 8 Jones et al (2007) offer a reply to Leitner and Miller (2007) as well as to the other critics and sympathizers in Transactions' "scale debates".…”

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Neil Smith's Scale

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In this essay, part of a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, we trace his contributions to conceptualizing scale. From his important foundational text, Uneven Development, to his later works that fashioned a more malleable, constructivist, and socio-cultural approach, Neil Smith made lifelong contributions to our understanding of the processes of scale production-contributions that have forever altered how we understand the relationships among space, capitalism, and politics.

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“…First, current approaches to economic globalization have yet to sufficiently capture the complex evolving relationships between actors and the multiple 'spaces' that constitute them in a globalizing world economy. Geographical thought has for some time sought to question the simplistic territorial conceptions of scale (Marston et al 2005;Leitner and Miller 2007;Nicholls 2009) along with the idea that economic activity is 'contained' in places or territories (Yeung 1998;Bathelt and Glückler 2003;Dicken 2003). However, whilst recent debates about GPNs (Henderson et al 2002;Lim 2006;Pan 2009) or the 'embeddedness' of regional clusters (Hite 2003;Hess 2004) have begun to theorize the interrelationships between place, materiality, territory and the economy, ongoing economic interconnectedness requires a more radical reconfiguration of how the different dimensions to global economic space are conceptualized.…”

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confidence: 99%