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Rethinking ‘causality’ in quantitative human geography Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Jing Zhang, Levi John Wolf
Causality is at the core of much contemporary discussion in social sciences, philosophy, and computer science—from the establishment of basic definitions of causality to developing methods for causal inference, this discussion is increasingly finding voice within geographical literature. However, geographers have long discussed (and differed) about the role “causality” plays in our work. We present
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For critical geo‐histories of population. Engaging geographically with Massimo Livi Bacci's works Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Federico Ferretti
This paper aims at calling geographers' attention to the works of Italian historical demographer Massimo Livi Bacci, who authored fundamental texts on the indigenous genocide in the Americas, on the history of world population, on global migrations and on population's environmental ‘sustainability’. In denouncing colonial crimes, critically questioning commonplaces of Malthusian origin and challenging
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-02-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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The past, present, and future of underwater spaces: From tourist experiences to the possibility of habitation Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Phillip Vannini
This paper reviews contemporary geography literature pertaining to the development and experience of underwater spaces. Examining the underwater world as a space of practices, experiences, and visions that are both phenomenologically and geopolitically rich, the review covers research studies from human geography and cognate fields concentrating on the tourism and travel literature. After a brief overview
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The rise of ‘infrastructural populism’: Urban infrastructure and right-wing politics Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ross Beveridge, Matthias Naumann, David Rudolph
Right-wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This review article develops a fresh perspective through examining how right-wing populists are engaging with urban infrastructure. Examining the literature on populism and urban infrastructure we outline ‘infrastructural populism’, a
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-01-28
No abstract is available for this article.
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Greenwashing: Appearance, illusion and the future of ‘green’ capitalism Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Joe Williams
Greenwashing is a well-understood concept, describing the use of false or misleading claims and symbolism to give an impression of a company or organisation's commitment to environmental protection and sustainability. While many environmental groups use the concept widely to criticise the ‘optics’ strategies of organisations wanting to improve their image while maintaining a business-as-usual approach
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Climate change and mental health and wellbeing: Reflections from a health geography lens Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Gina Martin
There is a growing recognition of the importance of research into the effects of climate change on mental health and wellbeing. This paper provides an overview of the pathways through which climate change can affect mental health and wellbeing, highlighting the valuable contribution that health geography can make in this field of study. Given expertise in spatial processes, human-environment interactions
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Thinking night studies through a southern European perspective Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Giuseppe Tomasella
To emphasise the contribution of situated perspectives to the advancement of the field, this review provides a genealogy of night studies across southwestern Europe. This interdisciplinary field of research has significantly developed in English-speaking scholarly communities, and it has only more recently been growing in importance on southwestern European scholars' research agendas. Usually, they
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Geographies of storage Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Sayd Randle
Resource storage has long played a key role in the production of socio-ecological arrangements and economic relations. Even so, storage as a concept has remained somewhat marginal within geographical scholarship, often obscured by an analytical focus on the dynamics of movement. Reviewing recent works from geography, science and technology studies, and anthropology that center sites and practices of
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-12-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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Problematizing urban microtoponyms Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Sergei Basik
A spatial perspective on microtoponyms, informal non-standardized names of small objects and places known to the locals, is an often-neglected segment of urban political toponymic theory and practice. Though critically-oriented thinkers have acknowledged the role of vernacular place names in the spatial organization of symbolic cultural landscapes, place-making processes, and the everyday life of people
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-12-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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Education-migration brokers, international student mobilities and digital transformations in pre- and post-pandemic times Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Shing Ho Luk, Brenda Yeoh
Originating in the early 20th century, international education migration has undergone significant growth to become a sprawling industry responsible for managing substantial student mobility. This process encompasses more than just the students themselves, incorporating a diverse array of actors, regulations, and technologies. Within this multifaceted system, commercial brokers play a vital role by
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Event ethnography: Studying power and politics through events Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Natalie Koch
Event ethnography is a methodological tool that involves ethnographic research on or at events. “Events” are activities, gatherings, and collective experiences that are limited in time and are highly diverse in their scope, organization, and thematic organization. Because of their temporary nature, events serve as unique venues for the convergence of actors who are usually spatially, temporally, and
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-11-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity: From a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Ross S. Purves, Flurina M. Wartmann
Tranquil places that induce a sense of calm and peacefulness are important for those seeking respite from their stressful everyday lives. Although tranquillity is a word commonly used in everyday English, we show that its definition is complex, most often encompassing sight and hearing, with strong cultural and historical influences. To shed light on the concept of tranquillity and related research
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Slowness as warfare: Towards a relational approach to political violence in the West Bank Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Dorota Golańska
Engaging with recent applications of the concept of slow violence to the ongoing political developments in the West Bank, this review article argues that the relational approach offered by feminist geopolitics facilitates the conception of slow violence and warfare as part of a single complex of violence. The article traces feminist geopolitics' contribution to research on geographies of slow violence
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Rethinking geographies of sovereignty: Towards a conceptual framework of situated sovereignty Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Bastian Lange, Marco Pütz, Bianca Herlo
We engage with debates on shifting geographies of sovereignty in the digital age by providing a conceptual framework for “situated sovereignty”. Our contribution draws on a review of the scholarly literature and current sovereignty practices. We aim to move beyond state-centred and territorial understandings of sovereignty. A common discussion is the necessity of reconfiguring notions of sovereignty
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Urban military geographies: New directions in the (re)production of space, militarism, and the urban Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Giacomo Spanu
Armed forces in urban areas are a very visible source of socio-spatial and urban change. Even in contemporary cities ‘at peace’, this presence and ensuing changes can be wide-ranging, evident across infrastructure, organisations, narratives of place, events, and everyday activities. Although over the past 2 decades critical military studies and urban geopolitics have explored some of these themes,
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-10-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Historical geographies of alternative, and non-formal education: Learning from the histories of Black education Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Jacob Fairless Nicholson
Shining a light on the various non-formal education spaces that have garnered attention in geographies of education over the past two decades, this review takes stock of how historical spaces of education and learning have become a key focus of this body of work. In so doing, the review signals prominent and emergent themes around which scholarship in this subdiscipline has cohered: most notably, geographies
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-09-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-08-09
No abstract is available for this article.
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Towards an understanding of quality and inclusivity in human-environment experiences Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Andrew K. Palmer, Mark Riley, Beth F. T. Brockett, Karl L. Evans, Laurence Jones, Sarah Clement
As calls grow for relational approaches to nature and wellbeing research that consider reciprocity in human-environment interactions, the concept of affordances is gaining importance as a useful way of thinking about nature experiences. Affordances provide a framework to enable individualised conceptions of nature by focusing on what is functionally meaningful to people. However, affordance thinking
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Geographical articulations of rurality at the rural-urban interface Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ningning Chen
Research on the intermediate space or interface where rural and urban boundaries become blurred has been gaining momentum within geography and other intersecting fields. In contrast to the dominant focus on the growth of urbanism at the rural-urban interface, a growing number of studies have emerged to intervene the debate from the rural side. This paper contributes to this burgeoning scholarship by
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Where are you at? Re-engaging bioregional ideas and what they offer geography Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Ella Hubbard, Samuel Wearne, Krisztina Jónás, Jonny Norton, Maria Wilke
Bioregionalism was popularised in the 1970s back to the land movement. It is distinguished from other forms of environmentalism through the spatial imaginary of a bioregion as the scale for environmental action and regenerative living. Bioregional thought has been widely critiqued by geographers for its potentially deterministic understanding of the relationship between place and culture. This paper
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From globalisation to the planetary: Towards a critical framework of planetary thinking in geography Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Oli Mould
With climate change and pandemics, the last few years has ushered in a planetary age. Moreover, the concept of the ‘globalisation’—a totalising and capitalist-centric concept that homogenises the entire planet into a territory to conquer—has become incapable of adequately accounting for the planetary events taking place. To date, geographical literature has used the term ‘planetary’ in important, but
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Geographies of queer economies Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Rowan Rush-Morgan
This paper provides a critical overview of research in geography that has explored the economic lives of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals. I begin by considering how the consumption and production of mainstream commercial gaybourhoods is the primary approach through which geographies of sexuality, and queer geographies have engaged with economy. I then examine the
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-07-10
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Geographies of big water infrastructure: Contemporary insights and future research opportunities Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Trevor Birkenholtz
Largescale “big” water infrastructure is once again at the forefront of the global developmentalist agenda and is receiving attendant scholarly attention. Given this parallel growth, now is time to take stock of current scholarly contributions and explore opportunities for future research. In this paper, I review recent developments and insights gained from research on big water infrastructure, and
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Historical geographies of Japanese colonial urbanism Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Yiming Xu
While historical geographers contributed to colonial projects as surveyors, explorers and map-makers, since the 1990s they have contributed to the critical analysis of the imaginary and material geographies of empire. However, as the only example of Asian-led colonialism, the study of Japanese colonialism has not received anywhere near the same degree of scholarly attention as western colonialism,
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-06-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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The digitalisation of consumption and its geographies Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Chen Liu
As consumer cultures become increasingly digital and the digital/data has become more commodified, geographers have turned their attention to researching the ways in which consumption spaces, socialities and subjectivities are (re)produced by the digitalisation of everyday life. This article investigates the relationships between the digital and geographies of consumption based on a close reading of
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Maritime temporalities and capitalist development Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Alejandro Colás, Liam Campling
This intervention develops arguments in our book Capitalism and the Sea on the complex temporalities attached to capitalism's intense and peculiar relationship to the global ocean. Technological innovations like the steamship or containerisation plainly transformed the pace and intensity of maritime commerce, and aspects of the global economy. We take this further to argue that the very origins and
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-05-09
No abstract is available for this article.
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A review of literature on slum redevelopment policies of India: Geographies of dispossessions and caste Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Naomi Hazarika
This paper reviews literature and identifies trends in the study of slum redevelopment and rehabilitation policies in India since the country's Independence. In doing so, it brings into conversation literature from various disciplines centered around slum redevelopment and rehabilitation policies of Indian cities. The paper begins by laying out the history of slum redevelopment and rehabilitation policies
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Where the power lies: Developing a political ecology framework for just energy transition Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Dickson Boateng, Julian Bloomer, John Morrissey
This critical review lays down the fundamentals for rethinking just energy transition. It reviews the theoretical perspectives of energy justice, socio-technical transitions (STTs), and political ecology and presents a plausible and useful way to approach a just low-carbon transition using Political Ecology as a broad framework. This Political Ecology framework for Sustainable Energy Transition (PESET)
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-04-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Policy diffusion, policy transfer, and policy mobilities revisited: A call for more interdisciplinary approaches in human geography Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Wolfgang Haupt
Geographers and urban studies scholars tend to rely on policy mobilities approaches to explain processes of policy spread, whereas political scientists and public policy scholars usually draw on either policy diffusion or policy transfer. I challenge this widespread scholarly practice of selecting approaches based on the association with a certain discipline. Instead, first and foremost, the specific
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Weather and exercise: A comparative review and the role of geographers Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Antonia Hodgson, Russell Hitchings
As part of an argument about the value of a geographical approach to the connection between local weather and physical exercise, this paper begins with how that connection features in four areas of scholarship that have been at the forefront of exploring it so far. By comparing how each of them commonly imagines ‘the human’ and ‘the weather’ in their studies, we particularly highlight how different
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Historical geographies of place naming: Colonial practices and beyond Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Beth Williamson
European colonialism sought to inscribe order and meaning on non-European landscapes through the process of place naming. Naming or renaming was fundamental to the extension of imperial control over physical and human environments. This article offers a brief overview of the ways critical place name studies has addressed these colonial practices. In particular, the paper examines the power relationships
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Sarah Rogers, Zali Fung, Vanessa Lamb, Ruth Gamble, Brooke Wilmsen, Fengshi Wu, Xiao Han
For the past two decades, work across a range of fields, but particularly geography, has engaged ‘critical hydropolitics’ as a way to highlight not only the politics inherent in decisions about water, but also the foundational assumptions of more conventional hydropolitical analyses that tend to focus on conflicts and cooperation over water resources, with a heavy emphasis on ‘the state’ as the key
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Remote sensing of night-time lights and electricity consumption: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Dipendra Bhattarai, Arko Lucieer, Heather Lovell, Jagannath Aryal
Night-time light (NTL) satellite imagery can provide unique insights into the energy sector. Nevertheless, there are limited studies that have systematically reviewed the literature on the relationship between electricity consumption and NTL. Therefore, this paper aims to provide a systematic review of studies that have explored this relationship. The review identified over 200 regression models estimating
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Addressing the need for more nuanced approaches towards transit-induced gentrification: A case for a complex systems thinking framework Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Emma McDougall, Kaitlin Webber, Samuel Petrie
The role of public transportation has shifted over the last 2 decades as planners and policymakers increasingly integrate new transportation infrastructure as an economic growth tool that promotes density and desirability. This shift has also positioned new infrastructure as a driver for neighbourhood change and gentrification, leading to the evolution of literature that explores transit-induced gentrification
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Geographical approaches to religion in the past Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Ruth Slatter
This review assesses (anglophone) cross-disciplinary research that has used geographical methodologies to study religion in the past. It identifies three prominent themes within the existing literature: the spatalisation of religion, the intersections between religion and built environments, and the relationships between religion and physical landscapes. It argues that the application of geographical
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Resetting urban human-microbial relations in pandemic times Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Cecily Jane Maller
Microbes, particularly of the viral kind, are currently preoccupying human activity and concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although for a long time there has been fear associated with ‘germs’, notably viruses and bacteria and the diseases they cause, the pandemic has set these fears into overdrive. As serious as this ongoing event is, there are broader interests and important alternative narratives
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-02-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Thinking problem-space in studies of revolt and archival methods Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Ben Gowland
This article engages with Jamaican anthropologist David Scott’s conceptual analytic of problem-space and maps out the potential contributions problem-space thinking can make to geographical studies of revolt and protest as well as archival methods. Scott's theory is broadened spatially through the introduction of space-time geographies scholarship and in particular the spatial ontology of Massey. I
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The power of story: Understanding gendered dimensions of mobility among Tucson refugees Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Sarah Clark, Orhon Myadar
The paper focuses on the power of a single story to bring the human contexts and circumstances that shape refugees' post-resettlement lives to the forefront. Through an ethnographic example, the article brings attention to the lived experience of refugees and dismantles gendered tropes that are rooted in Western and white feminist theoretical frameworks. We do so through the prism of mobility-related
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Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Levi Van Sant, Taylor Shelton, Kelly Kay
In this review, we bridge recent studies on the political economy of urban and rural real property ownership, focusing on the US. While there are many parallels and interlinkages between urban and rural phenomena, we note that the field generally produces a different literature for each space: one largely about urban housing and another about rural land. We argue that foregrounding their common legal
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-01-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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Whose geography do we review? Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Nicholas Jon Crane, Christina Ergler, Paul Griffin, Mark Holton, Kevon Rhiney, Caitlin Robinson, Gregory Simon
In the context of discipline-wide efforts to produce more inclusive, just, and equitable norms of geographical knowledge production, section editors for Geography Compass identify five concrete practices by which to address systemic inequities, injustices, and exclusions through their editorial work.
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Beyond the usual suspects: Invisible labour(ers) in futures of work Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Evie Gilbert
Invisible labour exists within all forms of work. In looking to the future of work (FoW), this article reviews the literature on two separate examples; digital work and the 4IR, to uncover invisible labour within these futures. The focus of this article remains on paid work but recognises that ‘employed’ does not correlate with visible. In contributing to feminist labour geography, this review aims
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People-watching and urban life: Toward a research agenda Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Mark Jayne
Taking inspiration from studies of ‘seeing-and-being-seen’ at the vanguard of intellectual debates regarding urban life since the late-eighteenth century, this paper explores the popular contemporary pastime of people-watching. Drawing on cumulative theoretical, empirical, and methodological resources generated by generations of critical urbanists I highlight the ways in which geographies of people-watching
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Issue Information Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2022-12-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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Re-engaging psychology for (more) human geographies of the future Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Tim Bunnell, Huiying Ng, Si Jie Ivin Yeo
Recent work in several fields of psychology has advanced understanding of how humans imaginatively construct, simulate and (pre-)feel the future. These advances have not yet been substantively engaged in social and cultural geography. In this paper, we identify, review and begin to draw together scholarship in human geography and several subfields of psychology on the ways in which people imagine and
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Velomobilities: Cycling geographies and well-being Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Gordon Waitt, Ian Buchanan
Cycling has cut across public health and policy forums in the last decade given trends in urban governance for liveability and uptake of cycling during the COVID-19 pandemic. This review discusses work that helps understand where, how, and why time spent cycling can contribute to health and well-being. The review discusses how cycling geographies offers an alternative to biomedical approaches that
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Challenging neoliberal sport: Skateboarding as a resilient cultural practice Geography Compass (IF 4.141) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Rhys Gazeres
This paper argues that research on sporting cultures can illuminate wider debates over the power relations materialised through the fields of cultural practice. Specifically, as neoliberalism has spread across the social realm, sport has come to mirror and reinforce its logics, placing emphasis on individualised competition and ultimately contributing to the reproduction of neoliberal hegemony more