Research and Publications
Networks and Relational Understandings of Space and Place
I have a general interest in the history and evolution of geographic thought, and I am particularly interested in approaches to space-society relations that deal with networks and relational thinking in human geography. I have applied insights from these perspectives in the area of children's geographies (critically examining networks of aid for poor children) and in political geography (examining some dimensions of the US war on terrorism in its early stages).
Relevant Publications
Bosco, F. (2007) “Hungry Children and Networks of Aid in Argentina: Thinking About Geographies of Responsibility and Care”. Children's Geographies 5, 1-2: 55-76. Abstract
Bosco, F. (2006) "Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Approaches in Human Geography" In S. Aitken and G. Valentine, eds. Approaches to Human Geography. London, Sage, pp. 136-146.
Ettlinger, N. and Bosco, F (2004) “Thinking through Networks and their Spatiality: A Critique of the US (Public) War on Terrorism and its Geographic Discourse.” Antipode 36, 2: 249-271. Abstract
Geography and Social Movements
Drawing from an interdisciplinary framework, I have been working towards explaining social movements' formation, evolution, and sustainability from the perspective of critical human geography. I have written on the role that place, space, social networks and emotions play in the sustainability of movements. I have also analyzed how social movements construct memorial landscapes and how activists inscribe urban landscapes to deal with disagreements and conflicts that threatens the sustainability of their collective action. Several of the papers on social movements are based on my dissertation research; most recent ones developed out of the original fieldwork data but draw on newer fieldwork and data as well.
Relevant Publications
Bosco, F. (forthcoming) "Emotions that Build Networks: Geographies of Two Human Rights Movements in Argentina and Beyond". Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.
Bosco, F. (2006) “The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Three Decades of Human Rights Activism: Embeddedness, Emotions and Social Movements.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96, 2:342-365. Abstract
The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and human rights activists in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000)
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Bosco, F. (2004) “Human Rights Politics and Scaled Performances of Memory: Conflicts among the Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.” Social and Cultural Geography 5, 3, 381-402. Abstract
The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and their landscapes of memory (1999 and 2000)
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Bosco, F. (2001) “Place, Space, Networks, and the Sustainability of Collective Action: the Madres de Plaza de Mayo.” Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 1, 4: 307-329. Abstract
Development and Social Change
Another area of my research involves issues of development and social change, in particular as they relate to state-society relations, networks of governance, and globalization.
Relevant Publications
Bosco, F. (2005) Review of Culture and Public Action, by V. Rao and M. Walton, eds. Journal of Regional Science, 45, 4: 875-877
Bosco, F. (1998) “State-Society Relations and National Development: A Comparison of Argentina and Taiwan in the 1990s.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 22, 4: 623-642. Abstract
