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Legal geography I: Everyday law Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Päivi Kymäläinen
This report on legal geography explores everyday law and how law is discussed as lived, performed and re-created in mundane life. Everyday law means a legal pluralism that also includes informal parts of law, such as customs, norms, and alternative legal systems. It also refers to the manifestations, performances, contestations, and constitution of the law in mundane places. Focusing on ordinariness
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Participatory art and geography: Politics, publics, and space Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Danny McNally
This paper posits participatory art as a distinct but underexplored practice of interest for human geography’s contemporary work on art and aesthetics. It suggests that participatory art needs a conceptual, critical, and interdisciplinary grounding in human geography to advance the expanding relationship between participatory art practice and theory, aesthetics, and geography. Through three analytical
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Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Gediminas Lesutis, Maria Kaika
This article traces the trajectory of critical geographical scholarship on the body’s intertwinement with infrastructure systems. In doing so, it argues that although the body is not ontologically infrastructure, it can nevertheless enable infrastructure’s functioning – whether by being made into infrastructure of surplus value production or by suturing widening gaps in sub-optimal infrastructure systems
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Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Josephine Gillespie, Daniel F Robinson, Tayanah O’Donnell
Scholarly work in the field of legal geography has grown dramatically in recent decades. While much legal geography scholarship has been influenced by a European-North American perspective, we argue that a distinctive legal geography scholarship also emanates from outside the dominant perspective. Here, we review research from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa and label this work as Antipodean legal
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Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Anke Schwarz, Monika Streule
Political subjectivity and territorialization often appear disconnected in recent debates. We propose a fresh approach based on Latin American scholarship to understand subjects and territories as relational: Subjects are (de)stabilized in processes of territorialization, while territories are (de)stabilized in processes of subject formation. We introduce the concept of territorial subjectivities and
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Futures should matter (more): Toward a forward-looking perspective in economic geography Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Huiwen Gong
Although the future is an increasingly important topic for regional economic development, our knowledge of the future as a research subject has been limited. Following futures studies, we develop a perspective on a specific version of regional futures research based on critical realism. We believe that discussing regional futures could be a promising “boundary object” for scholars taking different
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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
The emotions and the affective qualities of space (i.e. affective spatialities) have featured prominently in social geography research. This report discusses how recent studies have taken seriously...
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Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Jeremy J Schmidt
This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the c...
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Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Kathleen Stokes, Alejandro De Coss-Corzo
As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to social, politi...
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Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Hannah Morgan
Over the last decade, geographical research has documented how digital technologies are changing experiences of (im)mobility into and within Europe. For irregular migrants in the European context, ...
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Queering as (un)knowing: Ambiguities of sociality and infrastructure Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Gediminas Lesutis
Putting queer theory in dialogue with critical infrastructure studies, this article proposes a theoretically, methodologically and empirically expansive reading of queer epistemologies. Reiterating...
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Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Karen PY Lai
In the first of my reports on financial geography, I focus on a growing body of work that engages with the state as a vital and strategic actor in financial markets and in the global economy. After...
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Cultural geographies II: In the critical zone? – Environments, landscapes and life Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Harriet Hawkins
In this second review of recent cultural geography research, I use the concept of The Critical Zone (originally from US Geoscience) as a lens. The environment is far too voluminous a field of cultu...
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Geographies of migration III: The digital migrant Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Francis L Collins
There is a growing focus on digitisation, datafication, automation and artificial intelligence in migration studies. This report reviews accounts of these technological innovations with a particula...
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Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Farhana Sultana
Praxis is central to political ecology scholarship but replete with tensions and ambiguities. This report explores advancements in praxis across epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, and po...
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Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Sthembiso Pollen Mkhize, Anele Mthembu
This article provides a critical review of research on geographies of sexuality and acknowledges how sexual identities are constructed through an intersection of multiple dimensions in the sub-Saha...
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Geographies of science and technology III: Careful entanglements, responsible futures Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Martin Mahony
In my previous progress reports I suggested that geographers might attend more to the leaky boundaries of ‘science’ and ‘technology’ and to their imbrications in the mundane spaces of the everyday,...
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Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Katharine Vincent
In this report, I review the concept of community-based adaptation, showing how it morphed from a participatory development-informed approach centred around agency and empowerment to one which is o...
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Health geographies II: Resilience, health and place Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Janine Wiles
Resilience means doing well in the context of difficulty; it is both process and outcome, individual and collective, and it relates to inequities because it is about accessing resources. Resilience...
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History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Paloma Puente-Lozano
Amongst recent contributions to the field, this report detects ongoing and emergent topics within disciplinary histories and reflects on the evolving meaning of the ‘international’ character of geo...
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Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Andrew Tucker
Geographers working on sexuality - and specifically of relevance to this report, scholars working on non-heternormative sexualities - have come to understand the need to engage with the urban South...
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Towards geographies of privileged migration: An intersectional perspective Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Karine Duplan, Sophie Cranston
While geography has traditionally ‘looked down’ in the search for social justice, a recent trend in the social sciences has argued for thinking through privilege. Taking this call seriously, this p...
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Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Andrew Leyshon
This is the second of three reports on economic geography. It focuses on research that addresses issues deemed to be both urgent and generative of crisis. This report focuses on the crisis created ...
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The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Nicole Kleinheisterkamp-González
Geographers have increasingly studied labor and climate change, albeit not in a unitary field. I propose to address this by outlining an environmental labor geography – that draws from labor geogra...
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Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Isaac Rivera
Geography as a discipline is entangled in settler colonial regimes that continue to shape geographic practice and the boundaries of geographical knowledge. Digital technologies play an instrumental...
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Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Joanna Jordan, Claudio Minca
Makeshift camps have increasingly become a permanent presence along border areas and in cities around Europe and elsewhere, constituting a ‘hidden geography’ that is crucial to overland mobilities ...
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Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Carolin Schurr, Nadine Marquardt, Elisabeth Militz
Technologies are at the heart of geographic analysis. More-than-human geographies, actor-network theory, and new materialism have all called for attending to technological infrastructures and artef...
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Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Alexander Liebman, Liana Katz, Andrea Marston
In this review, we read the interdisciplinary traffic across critical human geography and feminist science and technology studies (FSTS) in light of the insights and destabilizing aporias—in other ...
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Algorithmic epistemologies and methodologies: Algorithmic harm, algorithmic care and situated algorithmic knowledges Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Sophia Maalsen
Algorithms have been the focus of important geographical critique, particularly in relation to their harmful and discriminatory effects. However, less attention has been paid to engaging more deepl...
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Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Jennifer L Fluri
This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the geopolitics and political geographies of migration. There has also been an extensive amount of scholarship, including several spe...
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The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Devra Waldman, D Asher Ghertner
This essay analyzes embodied experiences of enclaving. It argues that by tracking revolutions in built form that gating enacts, urban geography has simultaneously tracked revolutions in urban subje...
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Quantitative methods II: Big theory Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Rachel Franklin
In this second report on quantitative methods, I consider the foundational triumvirate that underpins the sub-discipline: data, methods, and theory. I argue that, although ‘big data’ and, more rece...
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Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and ontology of futures Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Gale Raj-Reichert
This review builds on Strauss’s (2020) discussion of how labour geographers conceptualise worker agency ontologically and epistemologically. Research on labour agency has been dominated by a narrow...
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Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Josef Bernard, Annett Steinführer, Andreas Klärner, Sylvia Keim-Klärner
This paper introduces and discusses regional opportunity structures as a concept for analysing the interlinkages between structural conditions in space, social inequalities, and people’s agency, wi...
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Geographies of marketization: Studying markets in postneoliberal times Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Christian Berndt, Marc Boeckler
This paper is as an invitation to rethink social studies of economization and geographies of marketization at a time when the heydays of neoliberal marketization seem to be over. After briefly summ...
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The digitalising state: Governing digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Ayona Datta
This paper will investigate the emergence of a digitalising state in the global south through a focus on new techniques of governance initiated by the information age. It will discuss the mechanism...
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Why can’t we grasp gentrification? Or: Gentrification as a moving target Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Marijn Knieriem
Since the term “gentrification” was coined by Ruth Glass in 1964, this concept and the phenomenon it referred to have been subject to change. This paper reviews the literature and employs Ian Hacki...
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Path tracing in the study of agency and structures: Methodological considerations Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Markku Sotarauta, Markus Grillitsch
Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development and empirical studies. This...
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New geographical directions for food systems governance research Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Christopher Yap
Food systems governance has emerged as a distinct focus of geographical research. Researchers and policymakers are increasingly engaging with food systems as complex, multi-scalar and cross-cutting...
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Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment: The negative geographies of city logistics Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Samuel Mutter
Critical approaches to logistics, in dialogue with geography and related disciplines, have exposed the turbulence behind apparently seamless transnational circulations of stuff. As everyday urban l...
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Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Carlos Tornel
The purpose of the paper is to expand the concept of energy justice by considering the struggles over coloniality and cultural identity in the Global South and their interactions with the spatial a...
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Revocalising human geography: Decolonial language geographies beyond the nation-state Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Eleanor Chapman
This paper emphasises the decolonial importance of geographical engagement with the materiality of language as an embodied and embedded relation. It shows how abstractions of language(s) as discret...
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GIScience III: Questions of time Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Matthew W. Wilson
In this, my third annual report, I contemplate inquiries about time as these might impact the work of GIScience. I review how GIScience grapples with, and thereby constitutes, the temporal dimensio...
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Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy: New directions in geographic research on confinement Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Ettore Asoni
What separates camps and prisons as distinct institutions of confinement? This question has important implications for geographic research, and particularly for current and potential intersections ...
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Innovating urban governance: A research agenda Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Pauline McGuirk, Tom Baker, Alistair Sisson, Robyn Dowling, Sophia Maalsen
Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban p...
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The geography of abortion: Discourse, spatiality and mobility Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Sydney Calkin, Cordelia Freeman, Francesca Moore
Abortion has historically been ignored in geography. Although bodies and pregnancy have been increasingly studied since the 1990s, a reticence around abortion remains. In recent years, however, thi...
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The settler colonial city in three movements Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Michael Simpson, David W Hugill
This paper traces the trajectory of scholarship on the settler colonial city and argues that this literature could pay closer attention to the dynamic circulations, movements, and mobilities that c...
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Viable geographies Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson
What is a viable life? This paper addresses this question with reference to viability as a concept and young people’s social action across the world. The notion of viability offers a framework for ...
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For a new weird geography Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jonathon Turnbull, Ben Platt, Adam Searle
The contemporary ecological condition is one of ‘global weirding’, a term coined to describe both anthropogenically changed worlds and the experience of dwelling within them. In this paper, we fore...
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Urban geography II: Materially important cities Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Donald McNeill
This report reviews recent literature that provides a new understanding of the material formation of urban space in the context of carbon/post-carbon urbanism. First, it discusses the concept of ex...
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Shadow care infrastructures: Sustaining life in post-welfare cities Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Emma R Power, Ilan Wiesel, Emma Mitchell, Kathleen J Mee
Economic restructuring and welfare reform are driving new forms of urban poverty in the global north. Shadow care infrastructures is a new frame for conceptualising the complex and interconnected p...
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Geographies of night work Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Robert Shaw
Night work is an area in which transformational changes are occurring, many identified by geographers, but in which the role of night itself – the ‘nocturnality’ of night work – has often been over...
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How well do we know green gentrification? A systematic review of the methods Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Jessica Quinton, Lorien Nesbitt, Daniel Sax
This systematic literature review identifies and critiques methodological trends in green gentrification research (focusing on studies of vegetative greening) and provides suggestions for advancing...
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‘Our citizenship is being prostituted’: The everyday geographies of economic citizenship regimes Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Sarah Peck, Daniel Hammett
There is much interest in economic citizenship schemes, yet little attention has been paid to the quotidian impacts of such schemes on local communities, environments and notions of citizenship. This paper responds to this lacuna by reviewing the existing literature on economic citizenship and considering what an ‘everyday geographical’ lens would add to existing theorisations. ‘Everyday geographies’
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Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Megan Nethercote
This article interrogates the racial logics of home and homemaking. It opens up the conceptual terrain of home to property – a technology of racial dispossession and handmaid of racial capitalism. I reconceptualize home as dominion and as belonging. Unhoming names the synergies between these modalities that authorizes the unmaking of racialized subjects’ homes. I argue unhoming is a structural feature
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Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Jake Hodder, David Beckingham
This article considers how digitisation is reshaping archival research in geography. Digitisation is more than a technical convenience, something that simply speeds up existing ways of working. Through novel practices of recombination, digital archive platforms enable researchers to extract and recombine fragments of historical information, drawn across multiple periods, places, collections and contexts
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Geography and ethics I: Placing injustice in the Anthropocene Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Jeremy J Schmidt
This report on geography and ethics focuses on the conditions of ethics. It identifies the ethical stakes of how accounts of unequal anthropogenic impacts on the Earth are specified with respect to both injustice and to what are deemed viable futures. It centres arguments of Indigenous and Black scholars regarding kinship and intersectionality, and respective ethical practices of struggle, resurgence
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Social geography II: Space and Sociality Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
By drawing together recent geographical literature on assemblages, infrastructures and topology, this progress report examines how debates on the spatial ontologies and epistemologies of power have evolved in social geography. This report argues that the three forementioned approaches each illuminate certain qualities of the relationship between sociality and space, allowing researchers to advocate
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Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Francis L. Collins
Migration is deeply entangled with colonialism, not only in the historical emergence of nation-states, sovereignty and mobility but in the ongoing continuation of colonial power relations underpinned by racism and exploitation. This report on the geographies of migration explores this relationship through a focus on postcolonial approaches to migration in geography, and emergent efforts to instil a
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A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 7.602) Pub Date : 2022-05-08 Clare Holdsworth, Sarah M Hall
Teleology shapes the design of much geographical research through the requirement to identify outcomes. In contrast, the theoretical orientation of geographical research on the everyday promotes a relational and visceral approach to resist the teleological logic of the primacy of outcomes. With this paper, we address this tension between different orientations to the practice of geographical research