This article reflects on the multiple worlds generated around waterscapes in the diverse Mapuche territory, Wallmapu. We contrast the responses of three Mapuche communities to external interventions and water availability in the Chimehuin and Lepá rivers in Argentina, and the Huenehue River in Chile. The comparison reveals the nature of Mapuche waterscapes, the tensions provoked by the global economy

This paper argues that in Patagonia-Aysén (southern Chile) nature discourses and neoliberalism have a close association. The current discourse of “green” development is presented as a capitalist practice, a renewed form of colonization that creates a narrative around the need to protect this pristine environment because it is a “Reserve of Life.” To explore these complex processes further, the paper

The Arrowhead Trail was an early 20th century automobile highway, running 853 miles between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City via southern Nevada. While some of the road evolved into a modern highway, much of the original road was abandoned and parts even submerged underneath Lake Mead after construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. This study examines the condition of two sections of the Arrowhead

The Nazi Party launched a series of ambitious building programs soon after seizing power intended to achieve a comprehensive spatial reorganization of Germany. As part of these expansive building programs, the regime invested considerable time, effort, and resources in creating an archipelago of places of memory substantiating Nazi ideology and power. This commemorative topography stitched together

Postnuclear land conversion has gained attention as more civilian nuclear power reactors reach their design life. To date, most former nuclear power plant sites have been converted into another power plant or are sitting idle, often with spent nuclear fuel on site. However, a former nuclear power plant site in the town of Haddam, Connecticut, presents an alternative possibility: land conversion into

Place attachment is recognized as integral to addressing place-based challenges, such as environmental degradation. In combination with place identity and place meaning, place attachment can contribute to one’s engagement in environmental stewardship behaviors. Building upon ongoing efforts to monitor the health and recovery of Washington’s Puget Sound, a region experiencing profound population growth

This paper provides a critique of the “specialty towns” program, a key constituent of China’s current new-style urbanization campaign. It problematizes the contradictory accounts of the program, namely, emphasizing “place-based” strengths while simultaneously standardizing forms, functions, and goals with a strong “place-neutral” approach. We argue that three key building blocks are critical for understanding

The urban transformation of the Mediterranean coast constitutes a critical historical phenomenon. Especially representative is the process that took place in Spain in the latter years of Francisco Franco’s regime (1959–1975). Tourism, alongside foreign investment and emigration, were the drivers behind Spain’s economic miracle, paving the way towards a successful democratic transition. Although a topic

This paper examines how social movement organizations shift scale through the case of the immigrant rights movement. This was largely a local movement for the first decades of its existence. However, in the late 1990s, repressive federal policies increased the salience of national politics for many organizations. While recognizing the importance of national politics, many organizations remained mostly

Metropolitan university campuses (MUCs) are of interest for policymaking given their general highly car-oriented nature, and the subsequent need to promote policies that enhance sustainable accessibility outcomes. Hence, a growing body of research has emerged over the last decade focusing on travel behavior associated with those metropolitan enclaves. However, limited attention has been paid to distance

Before the advent of refrigeration and grocery stores, Louisiana’s rural Creoles—mixed-race French-heritage people who usually identify as black—supplemented their diets through self-provisioning activities such as the ritual of butchering of a hog and distributing its products amongst kin and neighbors. Called a boucherie, this activity continues in the state’s rural southwest and is deeply linked

Results from an online survey of the mobility of people who grew up in Nebraska indicate that rural stayers, defined as those Nebraskans who have had some experience living in communities with fewer than 2,500 residents, express stronger place-based attachments than others. Key components of this attachment include general contentment living in Nebraska, connection to family, a desire to raise children

Studies of indigenous place attachments tend to focus on the alternative environmental ontologies that animate and inform indigenous peoples’ relationships with place, but rarely engage with the material and psychological impacts of colonialist practices—namely, displacement and dispossession of land. Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 triggered the internal displacement of tens of

Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment

Published evidence of prehistoric settlement from the lowlands of Amazonian Peru is sufficiently scarce to perpetuate debates over the presence and impact of early populations in western Amazonia. In this paper we review the cultural prehistory of the Lower Ucayali River, assess the presence of archeological sites and recovered artifacts, and describe a promising new site (Suni Caño) which may have

Food waste has emerged as a key governance challenge in many cities, as the scale of waste has concerned stakeholders across the food system. While food waste is often analyzed at the consumption level, food is lost across all stages in the food system. In addition, a range of global, national, regional, and urban institutions influence how people consume and waste food at the local level. To understand

The world is becoming ever more digitally connected. The submarine fiber-optic cable network is crucial for maintaining and developing this connectivity. This article first introduces the key characteristics of and required changes in the network. It then clarifies the network’s importance in generating and relaying meanings and practices that sustain contemporary, networked societies globally. Next

Over the past five decades, the methodological approaches used to understand peoples’ emotional ties to place have been incredibly diverse, employing both quantitative and qualitative techniques (Lewicka 2011). In recent years more ethnographic, participatory visual methods such as cognitive (mental) mapping, narrative mapping, and psychogeography are showing considerable promise in revealing peoples’

(2020). Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration. Geographical Review. Ahead of Print.

(2020). BOMBS AWAY: Militarization, Conservation and Ecological Restoration. Geographical Review. Ahead of Print.

The differentiated legal landscape that undocumented students face varies considerably across the United States. This study articulates the multiscalar and socio-legal contexts that frame the limitations and opportunities for undocumented youth accessing higher education in a new destination state. The Virginia experience as a southern and new immigrant destination is instructive. Virginia is the only

(2020). UNSETTLED WATERS: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West. Geographical Review. Ahead of Print.

When comparing integration patterns, policies, and attitudes towards migration, postsocialist European countries stand out from West European countries in having a less-developed integration infrastructure, fewer immigrants and less openness towards migration and diversity. Focusing on the case of East Germany, this article highlights the specifics of a migration and integration environment that was

In 1989, after an incident in which a white teacher used a derogatory word against three black students in a high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the school developed a program called “Understanding and Sharing Diversity” (US Group). Every two months, approximately 60 students participated in all-day forums, where they could speak freely about issues and experiences regarding race, racism, and identity

Although the food regime concept has become an important approach for addressing the global food trade, most of its applications have utilized qualitative methods. This article applies a quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and a more-than-qualitative relational approach, drawing from the geography literature to explore regional food regimes in Asia in the World Trade Organization (WTO) era.

The article argues that the governance of immigration, especially at local level, can be considered a “battleground” involving diverse actors. Beyond the idea of a “negotiated order” as the result of the interaction among actors (mainly institutional) in the multilevel governance framework, the management of asylum at a local level is the outcome of conflict and cooperation, of alternative views and

Global choke points are preeminent nodes in geographic networks and geopolitical touchpoints subject to control by nations. They appear today as recurring theaters of conflict worldwide and also in archaeological investigations delving thousands of years back in time. How different were today’s global choke points at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ~ 20,000 years ago? For the first time, we map nine

In this paper we provide a detailed geographical analysis of the role of the New York-London (NYLON) connection in the world city network. We find that its pre-eminence is much greater and much more diverse than previously considered. Our analysis draws on a data collection of the worldwide office networks of producer services firms across cities in 2018, and applies a purposeful combination of principal

The investigation of intergovernmental conferences is an important lens to examine international geopolitical issues that seem to remain understudied in the existing literature, especially from the perspective of how emerging countries shape their discourse, image, and geopolitical imaginations through such conferences. This paper aims to read China’s relationships with the outside world from both

In the Geographical Pivot of History paper (1904), Halford Mackinder suggested that four powers might strive for control of Eurasia: Germany, Russia, China, and Japan. In Democratic Ideals and Reality (1919), Mackinder announced that East Europe would be the key to Heartland control. Only two powers abutted East Europe: Germany and the emerging Soviet Union, Germany being the stronger power. Throughout

A society’s cultural heritage is its inheritance of physical artifacts and intangible attributes, and their maintenance, protection, and continuation for future generations. The meaning of cultural heritage is, however, constantly changing in light of globalization and rapid urbanization. To better understand interactions between people and cultural heritage in daily life, and return cultural heritage

This study examines the job earnings of STEM college graduates in the U.S. over the 2000-2010 decade. Findings show that after controlling for individual and college level characteristics, geographic factors, mainly the college area’s STEM employment concentration and proximity to STEM clusters, are significantly related to STEM graduates’ job earnings, unemployment, and underemployment. Women and

This paper explores the politics and practices of commemoration in the aftermath of Turkey’s July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Developing a concept of “memorial publics,” this paper examines two distinct but interrelated forms of commemoration: websites that have been set up to tell the story of the resistance to the coup attempt and a new monument that commemorates the victim-heroes of that night’s fighting

This paper presents a comprehensive effort to analyze the relationship between Evangelical Protestant identity and religiosity along with socioeconomic characteristics, political predisposition, and extreme weather events on the one hand, and opinions toward global warming on the other. Using survey data from the Pew Research Center from 2006–2013 and the 2016 American National Election Study merged

Innovation policies have become an important element in national and regional innovation systems. This study presents a framework to analyze innovation policies and outputs, in terms both of knowledge and economic benefits, in China, with a focus on Jiangsu. We classify local innovation policies into seven major categories and twenty-one subcategories as well as five categories of national policies

Building on reinvigorated scholarly debates on the concept of value, this paper examines forms of valuation that coexist with and challenge those typically associated with capitalist natures. Based on archival, ethnographic, and interview data, we analyze a historical case of the Venezuelan Society of Speleology (SVE) that since 1967 has been exploring and mapping the country’s caves. Its results are

This paper presents empirical material drawn from an intentionally local AIDS quilting project in a disadvantaged inner-city district of Dublin, Ireland. The paper aims to address two key gaps in human geography. Firstly, by examining the AIDS quilts through their primary functions of therapy, activism, and commemoration, this paper finds an emphasis on place, rather than names that foregrounds the

This paper provides evidence about the relevant role of geography on spatial local networks in trade credit between industrial reduced size companies and distin- guishing the spatial behavior according to the firms’ size and technological intensity. Using data from a survey of small and medium companies in the municipality of Madrid (Spain), we find significant spatial effects in trade credit between

To what extent does local variation exist in the expressed interests of planta- tion museum tourists? While the study of plantation museums is of growing importance in the tourism literature, these existing studies have tended to focus on a single site or a single region. This study examines data collected at several southern plantations across multiple smaller areas in the U.S. Southeast. Specifically

Building on an emerging scholarly literature that discusses methodological issues related to the safety of researchers, I explore the lived experiences of Western researchers who conducted fieldwork in authoritarian settings. Through an analysis of power as a relational phenomenon, the article examines the ways in which researchers are subject to diffuse topologies of power that can be deployed in

In urban contexts of prolonged economic crisis, there emerge new forms of economies that express a different way for producers and consumers to have an active presence in the market and be agents in the city’s economy. The initiative is taken above all by the most vulnerable groups, which seek creative unconventional responses to their situation, with or without the intervention of public authorities

(2020). SHRINKING THE EARTH: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance. Geographical Review: Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 425-429.

(2019). LISTENING IN: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland’s Mother Country.. Geographical Review. Ahead of Print.

(2019). BUILDING AND DWELLING: Ethics for the City. Geographical Review. Ahead of Print.

(2020). BOMBS AWAY: Militarization, Conservation and Ecological Restoration. Geographical Review: Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 433-435.

(2020). GENEALOGIES OF ENVIRONMENTALISM: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken. Geographical Review: Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 430-432.

China’s phenomenal growth and unprecedented urbanization are accompanied by social and environment problems such as rising inequality and rural stagnation. However, a new form of development based on Alibaba Group’s Taobao e-commerce platform, known as Taobao villages, has emerged in rural China to capitalize from e- commerce and sustain rural development. We investigate development trajectories and

We assess Montana highway maps produced between 1914 and 2000 to identify how the Montana Department of Transportation and its predecessors used maps to frame Montana’s place identity and heritage for promotional purposes in the twentieth century. After 1934, we document how Montana’s official state maps became a key source and shaper of tourist knowledge about the state, its history, and its attractions

The predominant trend has been rapid and unprecedented migration from rural to urban China since the mid-1980s. This dramatic demographic change has profoundly reshaped the migrants’ sense of the newly settled place. By examining the perceptual changes that have occurred in this usual context, we attempted to analyze the impact of social connection on the migrants’ sense of belonging to the host cities

Wilbur Zelinsky's 1971 paper in Geographical Review entitled the "Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition" was both forward-looking and offered innovative ideas regarding human geographic mobility. One of the most interesting aspects of the paper was a set of predictions for mobility in a "future superadvanced society". Many of these predictions have now come to pass, including a general decline in international

The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial

We study hurricane risk on the U.S. Gulf Coast during 1950-2005, estimating the wind damage and storm surge from every hurricane in this extended period. Wind damage is estimated from the known path and wind speeds of individual storms and calibrated to fit actual damage reports for a sample of Gulf Coast storms. Storm surge is estimated using the SLOSH model developed by NOAA. These models provide

Despite the fortification of buildings, streets, and public squares, Rio de Janeiro's beaches remain widely regarded as democratic spaces of social diversity and accessibility. Our study revisits the question of Rio's “democratic” beachfronts, based on local interviews, field observations, official reports, and newspaper accounts. We focus on historical and contemporary perceptions of planning, privatization

On 4 May 2007 an ef-5 tornado leveled 95 percent of Greensburg, Kansas. Because city leaders encouraged everyone to use “green” building techniques as they rebuilt their homes and businesses, not only has the return to normalcy been exceedingly slow, but some of the town's older residents feel that officials have overlooked their needs. These minor episodes of discord enabled us to learn what features

Vehicle-related hyperthermia is an unfortunate tragedy that leads to the accidental deaths of children each year. This research utilizes the most extensive dataset of child vehicle-related hyperthermia deaths in the United States, including 414 deaths between 1998 and 2008. Deaths follow a seasonal pattern, with a peak in July and no deaths in December or January. Also, deaths occurred over a wide

Although Soviet-era urban-growth controls produced relatively sustainable metropolitan development patterns, low-density suburban sprawl has accelerated markedly in modern Russia. Distinctive features of Moscow's development history are its greenbelt, which dates from 1935 and is becoming increasingly fragmented, proliferation of satellite cities at the urban fringe, conversion of seasonal dachas into

Historical scholarship in traditional geopolitics often relied on documents authored by states and by other influential actors. Although much work in the subfield of critical geopolitics thus far has addressed imbalances constructed in official, academic, and popular media due to a privileging of such narratives, priority might also be given to unearthing and bringing to light alternative geopolitical

Cultivated in the Eastern Mediterranean region for millennia, the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) was profoundly significant in the economies, ecologies, cultures, and diets of the peoples of many towns and villages of rural Anatolia. When the United States compelled Turkey to eradicate cultivation of the plant in the early 1970s in order to diminish the flow of heroin into America, farmers were obliged

Western Kansas has an historical identification with cattle, with a focus on cattle ranching and more specifically since the 1950s, beef-cattle feedlots. Since the mid-1990s large dairy operations have moved into southwestern Kansas. Today more than twenty large dairies house more than 70,000 milk cows. These operate as confined feeding operations similar to beef-cattle feedlots. Regional advantages