ABSTRACT This article demonstrates the usefulness of time-geographic approach in research with irregular migrants. Time-geographic approach acknowledges individual space-times as being assembled of multiple elements (e.g. housing, the Internet, friend, fear, legal status). Through an ethnographic research with 50 irregular migrants in Finland, I demonstrate how these irregular migrants try to transform

ABSTRACT Football clubs located within competitive metropolitan spaces and owned by local municipalities develop their socio-spatiality through strong multiscalarities. Drawing from the sociology of football, human geography, geopolitical economy and urban studies, our study reveals that, within the competitive metropolitan city-region space, politico-institutional actors may capture small football

ABSTRACT In São Paulo, squatting movements provide an alternative route to housing for members. At the same time, they highlight the city’s housing deficit and high rates of property vacancy. This article analyses the spatio-legal work at one of these squats, known as the Prestes Maia occupation, by one housing movement, the ‘Movimento Moradia, Luta e Justiça’ (Housing Struggle and Justice Movement)

ABSTRACT The paper presents and discusses the state post-disaster reconstruction intervention (SPDRI) of the city of L'Aquila, Italy, after the 2009 earthquake. The paper argues that SPDRIs are of great interest for the study of the state and, more in particular, of the refashioning of state actions at a time of widening spatial divides and localized crisis. It also argues that SPDRIs and other interventions

ABSTRACT In many regions with long-term structural economic and demographic problems, small towns are shrinking as their urban centres, they are losing population, jobs, vibrancy and infrastructure. Yet, knowledge about their trajectories remains vague as studies on urban shrinkage have so far focused on large cities. When monitoring population change of small towns in Germany, there are ambiguous

ABSTRACT In this letter, addressed to the collective of geographers, the EARTH is begging them to quickly rise up to the unprecedented and urgent challenges that ‘the EARTH’ and ‘them humans’ face in this extraordinary grave planetary moment of the climate emergency. With the help of a human ghostwriter, the EARTH accuses geographers for having committed a series of mis-translations, notably by having

ABSTRACT Regional bioeconomies promote sustainable, regional economies under the auspices of EU green growth policies. Combining prospects of rural rejuvenation, sustainability and innovation, they are employed to address climate change, societal challenges, and often benefit from substantial public funds. Yet, despite public finance's key role for bio-based transitions and (regional) bioeconomies

ABSTRACT This manuscript reviews the urban growth process in the Temuco-Padre las Casas conurbation (Chile) on indigenous land, highlighting three topics of great interest. First, the ability of legislation to regulate the protection of indigenous land. Second, the role played by the real estate sector as the main protagonist of urban expansion on indigenous land. Finally, the subsidiary role of those

ABSTRACT European grocery retailers, once the most internationalized players in the global economy, have increasingly disposed of their Chinese subsidiaries since 2010. This paper examines the dynamics of European grocery retail divestment in China between 2010 and 2020. Based on secondary data of company documentation and news reports, we analyse the processes and drivers of these divestments within

ABSTRACT The emergence of the Singapore heartland as a tourist environment is explored. The ‘heartland’ refers to suburban residential neighbourhoods, often sited away from mainstream attractions and iconic landmarks, and seldom visited by mass tourists. The increasing trend of visitors to the heartlands and companies offering heartland tours is studied. Applying the concepts of ‘frontstage’ (featuring

ABSTRACT Existing conceptualisations of financial inclusion must account for the promise of a better future that is an integral part of such processes. This argument is drawn from an analysis of elite-led financial inclusion processes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Financial inclusion names processes through which poorer people become enfolded in financial technologies, practices and markets

ABSTRACT While re-employment opportunities for redundant workers have been a much-debated topic in economic geography, the characteristics of these new employments and the medium-run effect of major lay-offs constitute a less explored field. The present paper investigates skill matching between the pre-redundancy job and the employment workers have five years after redundancy by studying the distance

ABSTRACT Video games developers engage with their creations, and games in general, in profoundly emotional ways. Since the industry became a mass-market phenomenon, a growing body of research has emerged interrogating the connections between developers and the games they produce and how these connections relate to broader affective issues seen in the cultural and creative industries. Most of the research

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the characteristics and functional-demographic diversity of municipalities in Poland that use spatial data. It answers the question about the relationship between accessibility to services of general interest (SGI; public administration, child-care, educational, medical, and cultural services) in municipalities and their demographic conditions. Demographic literature

ABSTRACT Responding to ideas about ‘geologizing the social’ (Clark and Gunaratnam 2017 Clark, Nigel, and Yasmin Gunaratnam. 2017. “Earthing the Anthropos? From ‘Socializing the Anthropocene’ to Geologizing the Social.” Journal of Social Theory 20 (1): 146–163. doi:10.1177/1368431016661337.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]. “Earthing the Anthropos? From ‘Socializing the Anthropocene’

ABSTRACT After the evacuation of the Gush Katif settlement and intensifying with the 2008–2009 Israeli War on Gaza, the border town of Sderot and its surrounding landscape became, for American Christian Zionists, a pilgrimage landscape and therefore a sacred space as it was performed as an event site portending the apocalypse. Christian Zionists interpreted the war and the landscape it took place on

ABSTRACT In many countries, the objective of reducing public spending combined with the introduction of New Public Management reforms have led to changes in the territorial organization of public services and to a withdrawal of public facilities in many places. Our hypothesis is that in France, this territorial process has not occurred in the same way in all cities. We assume that while medium-sized

ABSTRACT For the past ten years, the growth debate has been urban-centric, at least in Germany, while rural areas have been largely associated with depopulation. Despite their importance, small towns fall into a systematic perception gap in scientific and planning discourses. Against this background, this paper applies a threefold conceptualization of scalar relations paying analytical attention to

This article is published as part of the Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography special issue “Palestinian Futures Anticipation, Imagination, Embodiments”, edited by Mikko Joronen, Helga Tawil-Souri, Merav Amir & Mark Griffiths. ABSTRACT In this paper, I examine the activities of internally displaced Palestinians as performative resistance against the settler-colonial dispossession. Since 1948

ABSTRACT This paper will map out the geographical contours of life in the Anthropocene borne out of the ruins produced by the particular relations of globalized capitalism and modernizing aspirations in Iceland. The focus on Iceland is in recognition of islands as scenes where these relations play out with particular intensity and visibility. Therefore, the paper will outline the island scene upon

ABSTRACT The central themes of this study are how housing tenure affects moving away from neighbourhoods with differing degrees of immigrant concentration in Stockholm and, comparing two cohorts, how the relationship between housing tenure, ethnic background and residential mobility develops over time. The findings reveal that the effect of housing tenure on moving varies marginally between neighbourhood

ABSTRACT This paper will map out the geographical contours of life in the Anthropocene borne out of the ruins produced by the particular relations of globalized capitalism and modernizing aspirations in Iceland. The focus on Iceland is in recognition of islands as scenes where these relations play out with particular intensity and visibility. Therefore, the paper will outline the island scene upon

ABSTRACT The central themes of this study are how housing tenure affects moving away from neighbourhoods with differing degrees of immigrant concentration in Stockholm and, comparing two cohorts, how the relationship between housing tenure, ethnic background and residential mobility develops over time. The findings reveal that the effect of housing tenure on moving varies marginally between neighbourhood

ABSTRACT This article explores a particular futural logic prevalent in Israel’s practices of governing Palestinian life in the West Bank: the governmentalizing of possibility through anticipation and uncertainty. We draw on long-term fieldwork focused on different West Bank contexts – checkpoints, farmland access and house demolitions – where governing functions via prospective futures that call people

ABSTRACT This article brings attention to the diversity of urban conditions, actors, agency, and development paths in contrast to the imperatives of urban entrepreneurialism and competitiveness. Rather than presupposing the critical role of exogenous sources of growth, the aim of the current paper is in exploring empirically the role of local agency in achieving continuity or change through the lens

ABSTRACT This article addresses the relationships between emotions and the law, and how they define public order and constitute emotional legal landscapes. Using the example of the litigation process of the censorship of Dries Verhoeven’s art installation Ceci n’est pas …  we explore the power of individual and collective emotions in acting as a stimulus to the evaluation of the acceptability and legality

(2020). The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 400-403.

ABSTRACT In this article, I analyze the politics of urbanization and competitiveness-led state spatial transformations through political narratives. By analyzing empirical material, I search for ways of reasoning and rationalities that disclose the dynamics of the depoliticization and politicization of different spatial transformations of urbanization. Based on extensive interviews, I argue that a

ABSTRACT In this article, I analyze the politics of urbanization and competitiveness-led state spatial transformations through political narratives. By analyzing empirical material, I search for ways of reasoning and rationalities that disclose the dynamics of the depoliticization and politicization of different spatial transformations of urbanization. Based on extensive interviews, I argue that a

ABSTRACT This article addresses the relationships between emotions and the law, and how they define public order and constitute emotional legal landscapes. Using the example of the litigation process of the censorship of Dries Verhoeven’s art installation Ceci n’est pas … we explore the power of individual and collective emotions in acting as a stimulus to the evaluation of the acceptability and legality

ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to understand how new social and environmental practices are introduced and developed in clusters. From an international perspective and based on cluster literature, we propose that leading firms and supporting organizations are the main drivers of these practices. In particular, we work on the hypothesis that firms with solid international experience, innovative

Triangulation is increasingly being seen as a concept that has lost clarity and become too broad to be of use. A new language is required to explain how and why researchers bring together multiple perspectives to study phenomena. By drawing on my own research experiences I propose ‘collage’ as a framework for using multiple methods in geography. This framework differs from triangulation in two important

ABSTRACT Triangulation is increasingly being seen as a concept that has lost clarity and become too broad to be of use. A new language is required to explain how and why researchers bring together multiple perspectives to study phenomena. By drawing on my own research experiences I propose ‘collage’ as a framework for using multiple methods in geography. This framework differs from triangulation in

ABSTRACT This essay introduces the Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B, which brings together contributions to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, on 24 April 2018. In addition to a revised and extended version of my keynote lecture (‘Why Did It Take So Long? Trump-Bannonism in a Global

ABSTRACT This is a revised and extended version of my keynote lecture to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B that also includes my Introduction, and articles by Manu Goswami, Tova Höjdestrand and Kanishka Goonewardena

ABSTRACT This is an edited transcript of a lecture to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B which also includes an Introduction by Gillian Hart, and articles by Kanishka Goonewardena, Gillian Hart and Tova Höjdestrand based

ABSTRACT This is a revised and extended version of my contribution to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B which also includes articles by Gillian Hart, Kanishka Goonewardena, and Manu Goswami. The article investigates

ABSTRACT This is a revised version of a presentation to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B, which also includes an Introduction by Gillian Hart, articles by Gillian Hart and Tova Höjdestrand based on their contributions

ABSTRACT This article brings together philosophical anthropologist Hemuth Plessner’s views on identities with geographer Anssi Paasi’s concepts of border and boundary. Plessner viewed personal identity as a kind of ‘void’ able to coordinate internal and external personal relations in such a way that an imagined unity unfolds. This happens through a process of individuation understood as both at once

ABSTRACT This is an extended book review essay considering Christian Abrahamsson’s impressive 2018 monograph Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought. It argues that, rather than addressing ‘a geography of position’, this work explores ‘a geography of preposition’, showing how topographies of position (of identities, peoples and places in the world) are always inextricably shaped by topologies

ABSTRACT Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are promised by their developers to transform mobilities, making travel accessible to all – including those unable to drive due to age, affordability or disability – and thereby widen the distribution of what Urry calls ‘network capital’. This paper interrogates promotional visualizations about CAVs as they imagine future automated mobilities and the

ABSTRACT While academic and policy analyses have explored universities’ roles in urban regeneration and regional development, issues arising from intraurban collaboration and competition in multi-university city-regions have received scant attention. In response, this paper examines how higher education institutions (HEIs) connect and splinter urban space at multiple scales through a case study of

ABSTRACT Urban studies are still troubled by Friedrich Engels’ argument from 1872: that the bourgeoisie’s only method to solving housing problems is to shift them elsewhere. Through analysing urban policies in Oslo, Norway, this paper demonstrates that the almost 150-year-old argument is still relevant. This cannot be confronted without a better understanding of class as a complex and constituting

ABSTRACT Since the 1970s the government of Burkina Faso together with international donor organizations has pushed for increasing national rice production to cope with the country’s food import dependency. This paper traces this development and illustrates that rice production in Burkina Faso is the outcome of interrelated global and local processes. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork

ABSTRACT Food security has been a critical aspect of Pakistan’s development, with multiple projects and policies focused on improving food production, availability, and affordability. However, there is comparatively less work on the inter-relations of the food and energy systems, particularly in the country’s current resource-constrained times. In the past few years, Pakistan has been severely influenced

ABSTRACT The diffusion of global retailers and the introduction of ‘modern’ channels of distribution and sourcing, combined with affluent domestic demand for higher-quality fresh produce, have caused significant transformations in food retail systems in the Global South. This paper examines Thai food systems undergoing transformation by drawing on qualitative interviews with key stakeholders along

In an era of climate change and escalating global sustainability problems (IPCC 2019; IPBES 2018; UN 2015), there is an urgent need for substantial and sustainable transformation of food and energy systems locally and globally. Accordingly, issues of food and energy provision are featured prominently in the list of the UN Sustainable Development Goals from the central SDG2 Zero Hunger and SDG7 Affordable

ABSTRACT The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’.

ABSTRACT As energy transitions are progressing and economies of scale are kicking in, renewable-electricity generation begins to include, and be dominated by, large-scale operations. This shift is accompanied by far-reaching changes in the ownership and financing structures of renewable-energy projects, involving connections and (inter)dependencies between international and domestic investors and policies

ABSTRACT In Sweden, immigrants’ integration and residential patterns are much disputed. Segregation is seen as a threat to social cohesion and policies at least rhetorically aim to create mixed neighbourhoods. Immigrants’ settlement patterns and residential mobility are often explained with competing spatial assimilation and place stratification theories. Building from these two theories, this study

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ABSTRACT This paper attempts to assemble a conceptual framework for understanding to what extent an energy technology is simply a way of putting nature to work, and to what extent it is a way of putting other segments of global society to work. The turn to fossil energy reversed the relation between energy and space, as fossil fuels henceforth propelled new transport technologies that provided access

ABSTRACT This article seeks to map the empirical value of approaching counter-hegemonic creative activist practices with the concept of what David Harvey calls ‘spaces of hope’. It takes up the question of ‘how can these practices foster “spaces of hope” in the neoliberal city?’ by unpacking two case studies of publicly accessible, creative activist events in Leipzig, Germany: (1) GSO, an electronic

ABSTRACT World cites are critical nodes in global production networks (GPNs). Being ‘gateways’, they serve as hubs for transport and logistics, industrial processing, corporate control and service provision as well as knowledge transmission. In this article, the concept of gateway cities is applied to Buenos Aires and the oil and gas sector. The author explains processes of concentration and dispersal

ABSTRACT The ways in which green neighbourhoods have developed over recent decades has become increasingly globalized, driven by the challenges of climate change and the globalization of knowledge exchange including a shift towards quantified approaches of carbon control. As a result, cities do not only share knowledge, experiences and practices but also compare and compete with each other in their

ABSTRACT Technology, in its various forms, mediates encounters between individuals and the lived time–space. Mobile phones, internet, navigation systems, and advanced transport technologies dramatically change the ways in which space and time are conceptualized, represented, and embedded into societal practices. This paper explores the routine spatiotemporal practices of older adults, who lie outside

ABSTRACT The European Green Capital (EGC) award has become a familiar feature in a polycentric sustainability governance landscape increasingly characterized by fragmentation and voluntary initiatives. Unclear accountability for translocal connections renders these initiatives at risk of locking unsustainable practices into transitions. Seeking clarity, this paper examines accountability through the

ABSTRACT With an increasingly financialized real estate industry now becoming manifest on a global scale, there has also emerged an ever-increasing tendency for the circulation of images used in its promotion, including lifestyle magazines, on-line adverts and on-street hoardings. In drawing upon Dublin as a case study, and with a particular focus upon stylized hoardings surrounding new urban developments

ABSTRACT Post-secular constructions of space and re-configurations of traditional sacred places are examined inspired by de Certeau’s conceptual quadrant of space, place, strategy and tactics. De Certeau’s theorization enables us to draw out the subversive or disruptive spatial practices of post-secular pilgrimages as instances of pedestrian rhetorics, pilgrimage as a space of enunciations and as the

ABSTRACT Recent literature has problematized the limits of deeply held assumptions about linear, unidirectional upgrading trajectories in global value chains (GVCs). As firm and chain trajectories and sources of upgrading have changed in recent years, GVC analysis has adjusted to focus on new emerging actors and new distributions of power within value chains. After a discussion of some limits to the