In 2019, the Council of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) mandated the formation of the Climate Action Task Force, which is charged with reimagining the organization of the annual conference to fully acknowledge and actively address the scale of the contemporary climate crisis. In considering alternative conference models, this article argues that the AAG should avoid reaching for a simple, technical fix, such as maintaining a central conference location, with virtual participation added in. I argue here that the current high-emissions configuration of the AAG Annual Meeting reflects a confluence of processes, including the neoliberal internationalization of the academy. This form of internationalization, oriented toward those who can both afford and are permitted to gain entry to the United States, currently reproduces and deepens a politics of knowledge enclosure, in which ideas are most available to an elite transnational group of scholars. If the underlying cultural politics that promote hypermobility remain unchallenged, any shift in format might simply reproduce, even deepen, the process of knowledge enclosure. Thus, a strong reaffirmation of geography as a public good in practice and intent should serve as a guiding principle for change.

2019 年，美国地理学家协会 (AAG) 理事会授权成立气候行动特别工作组，负责重新构想年度会议的组织，以充分承认并积极应对当代气候危机的规模。在考虑替代会议模式时，本文认为 AAG 应避免寻求简单的技术解决方案，例如维护一个中央会议地点，并添加虚拟参与。我在此认为，AAG 年度会议的当前高排放配置会议反映了一系列进程，包括学院的新自由主义国际化。这种国际化形式，面向那些既能负担得起又被允许进入美国的人，目前复制并深化了知识圈地政治，其中思想最容易为精英跨国学者群体所接受。如果促进超级流动性的潜在文化政治仍然没有受到挑战，那么任何形式的转变都可能简单地复制甚至加深知识圈地的过程。因此，强烈重申地理在实践和意图上是一种公共产品，应作为变革的指导原则。