Hannes Gerhardt
University of West Georgia, Geosciences, Faculty Member
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... The New Shape of Global Power (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2005); J. Agnew, 'Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics', Annals of the Association of American... more
... The New Shape of Global Power (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2005); J. Agnew, 'Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95/2 (2005); J. Agnew and S. Corbridge ...
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Research Interests: Geography, Sovereignty, Political Science, Arctic, Politik, and 3 moreArktis, Geopolitik, and suverænitet
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Introduction and Context The interview presented here is an effort to expose critical geographers to the work of Michel Bauwens and the P2P Foundation he co-founded in 2006 (https://p2pfoundation.net). Bauwens and his associates have long... more
Introduction and Context The interview presented here is an effort to expose critical geographers to the work of Michel Bauwens and the P2P Foundation he co-founded in 2006 (https://p2pfoundation.net). Bauwens and his associates have long been promoting the idea of an emerging “commons-based peer production” economy (CBPP), which is posited as a nascent mode of production that could eventually supplant capitalism as we know it. More precisely, the P2P Foundation theorizes and supports a technologically enabled socio-economic turn, rooted in the productive and liberating potential of a collaboratively shared and managed material and digital commons, in which
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Fall 2007 present University of West Georgia, Dept. of Geosciences Associate Professor EDUCATION 2002 – 2007 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ PhD in Geography; split minor in Sociology and Anthropology Dissertation:... more
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Fall 2007 present University of West Georgia, Dept. of Geosciences Associate Professor EDUCATION 2002 – 2007 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ PhD in Geography; split minor in Sociology and Anthropology Dissertation: The Geopolitics of Distant Suffering: U.S. Government and Faith based Responses to “Genocide” in Sudan 1996 – 2000 University of Oslo Oslo, Norway MA in human geography 1989 –1994 University of Miami Coral Gables, Fl. BA in philosophy
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This article reviews three theories of U.S. imperialism: super-imperialism, ultra-imperialism, and imperial rivalry, in the context of the U.S.'s relation to the current dollar dominated, financialized growth model. Instead of... more
This article reviews three theories of U.S. imperialism: super-imperialism, ultra-imperialism, and imperial rivalry, in the context of the U.S.'s relation to the current dollar dominated, financialized growth model. Instead of ultimately choosing one theory over others, based on an analysis of the Federal Reserve's response to the financial crisis of 2007/8, the article finds evidence for all three approaches, each emphasizing a particular aspect of the global political economy. The U.S. is currently torn among three tendencies: (1) a hegemonic state that dominates geoeconomically; (2) a state serving the interests of a transnational capitalist class: (3) a state increasingly in geopolitical competition and rivalry with other states.
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This paper addresses the positioning of the Inuit with regard to the institution of sovereignty within the broader context of an Arctic region that is becoming increasingly territorialized. First, the paper considers the Inuit Circumpolar... more
This paper addresses the positioning of the Inuit with regard to the institution of sovereignty within the broader context of an Arctic region that is becoming increasingly territorialized. First, the paper considers the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) and its emphasis on the need to think past a strict Westphalian conception of bounded state sovereignty in favor of a circumpolar cooperation that recognizes the Inuit people as key actors within any regime of Arctic governance. Juxtaposed to the ICC, however, the paper goes on to analyze the Greenland self rule government, which, in positioning itself for the creation of a future independent “Inuit state”, takes a much more traditional approach to international relations, thus embracing a more territorial conception of sovereignty. A rift is hence uncovered in the way that Inuit identity and sovereignty are conceived by the ICC and the Greenlandic self rule government. The paper continues to consider the possible impact of an inde...
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This chapter considers the global networks, historical events and political economic contexts that have given rise to Evangelical and Pentecostal faiths in Brazil. Acknowledging Brazil’s long-held traditions for religious tolerance and... more
This chapter considers the global networks, historical events and political economic contexts that have given rise to Evangelical and Pentecostal faiths in Brazil. Acknowledging Brazil’s long-held traditions for religious tolerance and syncretism, we query the roles of international forces in producing Brazil’s rather unique religious landscape. By unpacking a host of interrelated political, social and economic factors, we offer fresh insight regarding the growth and development of evangelical and Pentecostal faiths in Brazil and Latin America more generally. We explore the roots of their missionary efforts and the ways they adapted and grew in the late twentieth century. Related to these developments are domestic and international political events, as well as the changing role of the Catholic Church in Brazilian society. By focusing on the northeastern city of Fortaleza, we highlight the ways religious conversion and evangelical/Pentecostal growth connects to larger processes of globalization and political economic change. While proselytizing efforts were once linked with urban poverty and American missionaries, today Brazilians are leading this charge, establishing churches throughout the Amazon as well as in Africa and Asia. Our findings suggest that the growth of these Brazilian faiths relates to a multitude of political economic processes and patterns of global change: Brazil’s return to democracy in the 1980s and the rise of neoliberalism in the 1990s played important roles as did domestic and international migration patterns and shifting urbanization trends. These churches’ practices have adapted and evolved as they have globalized which explains the appeal of these faiths to Brazilians and elsewhere throughout Latin America. Just as Brazil’s religious past was characterized by rapid spiritual change and global connectivities, so will its religious future likely be just as dynamic and heterogeneous.
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In this paper, I work through the possible contours of an anti-genocide based on a framework informed by the work of Giorgio Agamben. Such a framework posits the inherent need to circumvent sovereign power within any form of normative... more
In this paper, I work through the possible contours of an anti-genocide based on a framework informed by the work of Giorgio Agamben. Such a framework posits the inherent need to circumvent sovereign power within any form of normative activism. To begin, I show how the nascent anti-genocide movement promotes an ideal in which ‘Western’ states, particularly the USA, accept
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... The New Shape of Global Power (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2005); J. Agnew, 'Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics', Annals of the Association of American... more
... The New Shape of Global Power (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2005); J. Agnew, 'Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95/2 (2005); J. Agnew and S. Corbridge ...
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Gerhardt, H. and Stokke, K.(2001), Industrial district or subordinated production: A case study of small-scale carpentry industries in Accra, Ghana. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 83: 175187. doi: 10.1111/j.... more
Gerhardt, H. and Stokke, K.(2001), Industrial district or subordinated production: A case study of small-scale carpentry industries in Accra, Ghana. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 83: 175187. doi: 10.1111/j. 0435-3684.2001. 00105. x
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When considering the intersection between geographical knowledge and geopolitical practice, emphasis generally falls on the state and the state's self-serving calculations. This paper, instead, focuses on geopolitical civil society,... more
When considering the intersection between geographical knowledge and geopolitical practice, emphasis generally falls on the state and the state's self-serving calculations. This paper, instead, focuses on geopolitical civil society, emphasizing the role that rationalized norms and emotive care-ethics play in molding and facilitating certain forms of geographical knowledge and subsequent foreign interventions. The case to illuminate this theoretical focus centers on American evangelical actors and their specific geopolitical vision, which is largely based on the perceived universal authority of the Bible. The case illustrates how the religious normative imperative to evangelize the world has led to geographically blunt imaginaries that present spaces of alterity as being in urgent need of spiritual and also geopolitical intervention. Opposed to such imaginaries, however, this paper also traces the emergence of an ethics of care that has developed within evangelical circles regard...