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Spaces of Democracy Bernett-Prelims.Qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page Ii Bernett-Prelims.Qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page Iii Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page i Spaces of Democracy Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page ii Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page iii SPACES OF DEMOCRACY Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation Edited by CLIVE BARNETT AND MURRAY LOW SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page iv Editorial arrangement, Chapter 1 © Clive Chapter 6 © David M. Smith 2004 Barnett and Murray Low 2004 Chapter 7 © Murray Low 2004 Chapter 2 © John O’Loughlin 2004 Chapter 8 © Lynn A. Staeheli and Don Chapter 3 © Ron Johnston and Charles Mitchell 2004 Pattle 2004 Chapter 9 © Gareth A. Jones 2004 Chapter 4 © Richard L. Morrill 2004 Chapter 10 © Clive Barnett 2004 Chapter 5 © Sallie A. Marston and Chapter 11 © Sophie Watson 2004 Katharyne Mitchell 2004 Chapter 12 © Bryon Miller 2004 First published 2004 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 4733 7 ISBN 0 7619 4734 5 (pbk) Library of Congress Control Number 2004102659 Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page v Contents List of Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Geography and Democracy: An Introduction 1 Clive Barnett and Murray Low Elections, Voting and Representation 23 2 Global Democratization: Measuring and Explaining the Diffusion of Democracy 23 John O’Loughlin 3 Electoral Geography in Electoral Studies: Putting Voters in Their Place 45 Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie 4 Representation, Law and Redistricting in the United States 67 Richard L. Morrill Democracy, Citizenship and Scale 93 5 Citizens and the State: Citizenship Formations in Space and Time 93 Sallie A. Marston and Katharyne Mitchell 6 Open Borders and Free Population Movement: A Challenge for Liberalism 113 David M. Smith Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page vi vi CONTENTS 7 Cities as Spaces of Democracy: Complexity, Scale and Governance 128 Murray Low Making Democratic Spaces 147 8 Spaces of Public and Private: Locating Politics 147 Lynn A. Staeheli and Don Mitchell 9 The Geopolitics of Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America 161 Gareth A. Jones 10 Media, Democracy and Representation: Disembodying the Public 185 Clive Barnett 11 Cultures of Democracy: Spaces of Democratic Possibility 207 Sophie Watson 12 Spaces of Mobilization: Transnational Social Movements 223 Byron Miller Index 247 Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page vii List of Contributors Clive Barnett is Lecturer in Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes. Ron Johnston is Professor of Geography, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. Gareth A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. Murray Low is Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. Sallie A. Marston is Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tuscon. Byron Miller is Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Studies Programme, University of Calgary, Alberta. Richard L. Morrill is Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle. Don Mitchell is Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Syracuse. Katharyne Mitchell is Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle. John O’Loughlin is Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder. Charles Pattie is Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield. David M. Smith is Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page viii viii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Lynn A. Staeheli is Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder. Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes. Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page ix Acknowledgements This volume grew out of sessions at the Annual Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society–Institute of British Geographers at The University of Sussex in Brighton, and the Association of American Geographers in Pittsburgh, both in 2000. We would like to thank all those who took part on those occa- sions. We would also like to thank Drew Ellis and Jonathan Tooby of the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, for preparing the maps and figures. We would like to thank Robert Rojek at Sage for his help during the preparation of the book. Finally, we would like to thank Julie McLaren and Abbey Halcli for their support and encouragement throughout. Clive Barnett and Murray Low Bernett-Prelims.qxd 7/6/2004 3:45 PM Page x Chapter-01.qxd 7/6/2004 3:46 PM Page 1 1 Geography and Democracy: An Introduction Clive Barnett and Murray Low Where is Democracy? Amid debates about globalization, neo-liberalism, and anti-capitalism, it is easy to forget that probably the most significant global trend of the last two decades has been the proliferation of political regimes that claim to be democracies. Democracy refers to the idea that political rule should, in some sense, be in the hands of ordinary people. It is also a set of processes and procedures for trans- lating this idea into practices of institutionalized popular rule. In a remarkably short space of time, commitment to democracy has become near universal. The universalization of democracy as an ideal, if not as a set of agreed-upon prac- tices, is historically unprecedented: ‘Nothing else in the world which had, as far as we can tell, quite such local, casual, and concrete origins enjoys the same untrammeled authority for ordinary human beings today, and does so virtually across the globe’ (Dunn, 1992: 239). This assertion pinpoints one key geo- graphical dimension of the contemporary ascendancy of democratic norms. This is the problematic relationship between the particular historical-geography of democracy’s ‘origins’ on the one hand, and democracy’s more recent global- ization on the other. However, it is striking how little impact processes of democratization, or democracy as a broader theme, have had on research agendas in human geography. While a great deal of critical analysis is implicitly motivated by democratic norms, there is relatively little empirical research or theoretical work that explicitly takes democracy to be central to the human geographic endeavour. This book aims to address this lacuna, by bringing together contributions from across the discipline of geography, addressing various research fields in which democracy is often a veiled backdrop, but not usually a topic of explicit reflection. We hope the book will thereby help to encourage the sort of detailed attention to issues of normative political theory that has recently been called for by others (Agnew, 2002: 164–78). The ghostly presence of democracy in geography can be illustrated with reference to a number of fields. First, debates on the geography of the state, Chapter-01.qxd 7/6/2004 3:46 PM Page 2 2 SPACES OF DEMOCRACY starting in the 1970s with Marxist-inspired work on the capitalist state, and developing in the 1980s and 1990s through an engagement with regulation theory, certainly took the concept of legitimacy and the representative dimen- sions of state institutions into account. However, detailed examination of routine democratic procedures of participation and representation have remained peripheral to the analyses developed in this area, which remain constrained by a conceptualization of political processes as derivative of more fundamental economic interests. More broadly, the neo-Gramscian state theory most favoured in geography has remained largely untouched by the flowering in the last three decades of post-Enlightenment liberal political philosophy that has reinvigorated debates about democracy, citizenship, and power. The concern with social justice stands as a second example of the margin- alization of democracy as a theme in human geography. This might sound counter-intuitive, since the value of democracy as a form of rule is often linked to its role in securing social justice (Rawls, 1971). Geographers have engaged in debates about social justice since the 1970s. But geographers’ interest in these questions has tended to focus on substantive distributive outcomes and spatial patterns, rather than on the issues of political process and procedure that would lead to democracy becoming a central topic for debate. Themes of geography and justice have been revitalized recently by the development of an explicit concern with moral and ethical issues (see Proctor and Smith, 1999). Yet the focus of this ethical turn has been on moral rather than political theory, leading to a concentration on questions of ethical responsibility detached from both wider issues of institutional design and political processes. A third example of the displacement of democracy in geography is recent research on the geographies of citizenship. This work has concentrated on relationships between migration, citizenship and discourses of belonging and identity, and how these shape differential access to material and symbolic resources from states.
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