Kitchen Drama: Performances,patriarchy and power dynamics in a Dorset farmhouse kitchen

The paper explores the power relations that identified a farming family through a particular farmhouse kitchen in Dorset, England. Studying this kitchen space was important, because on one hand it embodied a systemic sense of power, symbolising patrilineal inheritance with its ownership passed through male hands. Memories and voices haunted its space and pieces of inherited family furniture dominated its configuration, resisted change and defined performances. On the other hand, kitchen space exposed the complexity of power relations as household members were simultaneously disciplined by it and affected its substance. An episode of kitchen life illustrates this paper based on participant observation of a farming family in Dorset.

Drama de Cocina: interpretación, patriarca y dinámicos de poder en una cocina granja de Dorset

Este papel explora las relaciones de poder en una familia granja a través de su cocina en Dorset, Inglaterra. Estudiando este espacio cocina era importante porque por una parte personificó un sentido sistemático del poder, simbolizando la herencia patrilineal con la propiedad que traspasa por las manos masculinas. Las memorias y las voces andan por el espacio de la cocina los pedazos de muebles heredados de familia dominaron su configuración, resistieron variación y definieron interpretaciones. Por otra parte, el espacio de la cocina expone la complejidad de relaciones de poder mientras los miembros de la familia fueron disciplinado simultáneamente por él y afectaron su sustancia. Basado en observación participante, este papel utiliza como ilustración un episodio de la vida de la cocina de una familia granja en Dorset, Inglaterra.     

Fractal Simplification of Lines Using Convex Hulls

We investigate the problem of the simplification of a curve from a geometric viewpoint. Starting from a fractal hypothesis, we consider that the best methods are those that keep an estimated value of the fractal dimension constant, before and after simplification. We propose a simplification rule based on the use of local convex hulls that corresponds to a new algorithm for computing fractal dimension. This algorithm is both accurate and universal, and does not imply the need to make arbitrary hypotheses regarding the structure of the curve. A comparison is made with other fractal approaches and with the well-known Douglas-Peucker method.     

A SPATIAL HEDONIC APPROACH ON LAND USE CHANGE ANTICIPATIONS*

ABSTRACT This paper estimates land use conversion anticipation when zoning is the primary tool of land use regulation. Extending the Capozza and Helsey model (1989) to the case of uncertainty in future land use zoning, a spatialized hedonic model is proposed to estimate such anticipation phenomena at a fine level (cadastral unit). Estimations use Mixed Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) techniques with a two‐stage model that links agricultural and developable land markets. This allows for mapping varying spatial parameters that measure anticipation effects within the theoretical framework. Results confirm the influence of anticipation on agricultural land prices in the Provence region. Moreover, the level of data spatialization allows us to take into account intra‐municipalities' heterogeneity of land use conversion anticipation.     

Refugees, repatriation and liberal citizenship

This article considers the meanings attached to refugeehood, repatriation and liberal citizenship in the twentieth century. Refugees are those who have been unjustly expelled from their political community. Their physical displacement is above all symbolic of a deeper political separation from the state and the citizenry. ‘Solving’ refugees’ exile is therefore not a question of halting refugees’ flight and reversing their movement, but requires political action restoring citizenship.All three ‘durable solutions’ developed by the international community in the twentieth century - repatriation, resettlement and local integration - are intended to restore a refugee's access to citizenship, and through citizenship the protection and expression of their fundamental human rights. Yet repatriation poses particular challenges for liberal political thought. The logic of repatriation reinforces the organization of political space into bounded nation-state territories. However, it is the exclusionary consequences of national controls over political membership - and through this of access to citizenship rights - that prompt mass refugee flows. Can a framework for repatriation be developed which balances national state order and liberal citizenship rights?This article argues that using the social contract model to consider the different obligations and pacts between citizens, societies and states can provide a theoretical framework through which the liberal idea of citizenship and national controls on membership can be reconciled.Historical evidence suggests that the connections in practice between ideas of citizenship and repatriation have been far more complex. In particular, debate between Western liberal and Soviet authoritarian/collectivist understandings of the relationship between citizen and state played a key role in shaping the refugee protection regime that emerged after World War II and remains in place today. Repatriation - or more accurately liberal resistance to non-voluntary refugee repatriation - became an important tool of Cold War politics and retains an important value for states interested in projecting and reaffirming the primacy of liberal citizenship values. Yet the contradictions in post-Cold War operational use of repatriation to ‘solve’ displacement, and a growing reliance on ‘state-building’ exercises to validate refugees’ returns demonstrates that tension remains between national state interests and the universal distribution of liberal rights, as is particularly evident when considering Western donor states’ contemporary policies on refugees and asylum. For both intellectual and humanitarian reasons there is therefore an urgent need for the political theory underpinning refugee protection to be closely examined, in order that citizenship can be placed at the centre of refugees’ ‘solutions’.     

The SpatialARMED Framework: Handling Complex Spatial Components in Spatial Association Rule Mining

Recent research has identified spatial association rule (SAR) mining as a promising technique for geographic pattern mining and knowledge discovery. Nevertheless, important spatial components embedded in the studied phenomenon, in particular complex spatial functional relations such as neighborhood effects and spatial spillover effects have largely been neglected. This article unravels this specific problem to enhance the effective application of SAR mining practices in spatial data analytics. The main discussion focuses on the specification of complex spatial components by means of spatial dependence properties of the data and on how to integrate them in the process of SAR mining. A comprehensive framework dubbed SpatialARMED is proposed for the effective extraction of spatial patterns. The framework is then showcased through its application to crime analysis.