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Towards new knowledge complexes for critical geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine
This response engages with the commentaries of Gordon Waitt, Anna De Jong, Samantha Wilkinson, Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina van Hoven, and Harng Luh Sin on our challenge for geographers to work ‘beyond moralizing, disciplining, and normalizing discourses’. We show how, when read together, these authors articulate progressive geographic imaginations and repeat orthodoxies and impasses that constitute
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Glitches in the technonatural present Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, Oscar Hartman Davies, Julia Poerting, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Jennifer Dodsworth, Henry Anderson-Elliott
Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined elements of the ‘technonatural present’, which pose varied challenges and openings for the future of geog...
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On the intersection of geographical thought and artistic practice: DIY urbanism, flow, and imagining urban futures Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Rachael Boswell
In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I...
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Building decolonial climate justice movements: Four tensions Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Michael Simpson, Alejandra Pizarro Choy
Prevailing approaches to resolving the climate crisis further entrench and extend the same institutions of racial capitalism and colonial domination which have precipitated this crisis. The need to...
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Inhabiting the extensions Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Somda, Giulia Torino, Miya Irawati, Niranjana R., Nitin Bathla, Rodrigo Castriota, Simone Vegliò, Tanya Chandra
Across the different vernaculars of the world's urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaff...
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Automation and environmental dispositions Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 James Ash
To think through the dispositions automated systems attempt to generate, it is key to understand how automated systems relate to the environments in which they operate. Developing Lin et al.’s impo...
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Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy * Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Julian Brigstocke
This speculative genealogy of trends in the written forms of geographical scholarship, 2020–2043, explores the dramatic transformations in the discipline that came with a ‘neo-formalist’ turn towar...
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Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Penelope Anthias
In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon devel...
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The structure of informality: The Zambian copperbelt and the informal/formal dialectic Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Brandon Marc Finn
The study of urban informality has exploded since Keith Hart theorized the term the ‘informal sector.' This explosion has coincided with a growing interest among urban scholars who train their eyes...
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Centering the geographical imaginations of research participants in narrating speculative futures Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Elizabeth Nelson
In this commentary, I consider how geographers narrating speculative futures might risk disempowering their research participants. Reflecting on my work with community cultural organizations, I dis...
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Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual history Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 António Ferraz de Oliveira
Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for reimagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond rest...
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Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Federico Ferretti, Geronimo Barrera de la Torre
When it comes to the ‘History of Geography’, many still think of something descriptive and conservative, which has virtually no links with the ‘future’, a metaphorical place where ‘progress’ and ‘a...
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Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Carolyn Prouse
In this commentary, we argue that geographical thought and praxis must engage with repressive biosecurity and biosurveillance systems and fight for alternatives. In doing so, geographers can contri...
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Economies of attachment: Promissory objects, differentiation, and other futures? Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Rebecca Coleman
In this response to Anderson's formulation of a theoretical framework for understanding attachments, I propose a third concept to join those of forms of attachment and scenes of attachment: economi...
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Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Brooke Wilmsen, Sarah Rogers
This provocative article by Sango Mahanty and co-authors proposes rupture as a temporally and spatially expansive view of change and one that encompasses intersections with other crises. In our com...
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Practising geography in/with technical worlds Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Weiqiang Lin
Over the past decade, geographical scholarship has grown steadily enamoured with all things technical. In some ways, such a focus is an outflow of the recent philosophical turn towards critical rea...
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So what is assetization? Filling some theoretical gaps Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Eve Chiapello
Birch and Ward (2022) propose the concept of assetization to frame a research agenda in Human Geography. This interesting proposal suffers from a rather imprecise definition of what an asset is, an...
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Attachment: A question of how and a question of why Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Mitch Rose
Attachment has not been a central concern for cultural geographers for some time – a consequence, I have argued, of process ontologies that emphasise becoming over being. Ben Anderson's article pro...
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Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Emma Fraser
This commentary considers the complex theoretical discussion in dispositions towards automation, and considers future dialogues and directions the authors might take up. Specifically, the commentar...
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Affective infrastructures and political organisation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Rodrigo Nunes
In this commentary on Kai Bosworth's ‘What Is “Affective Infrastructure”?’, I seek to address some of the issues that he raises about the notion by fleshing it out in relation to the problem of pol...
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Autogestion and ecological politics in the work of Henri Lefebvre Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Chris Butler
In this commentary, I discuss how Napoletano, Urquijo, Clark and Foster engage with the work of Henri Lefebvre through three interlinked themes: the dialectical method, the nature–society problemat...
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Defetishizing the asset form Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Stefan Ouma
In response to Birch and Ward's paper, this commentary makes a call for a more systematic attempt to politicize contemporary logics of property ownership, and the extractive financial schemes based...
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Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Taylor Shelton
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in critical approaches to mapping and quantification within geography. Such works have embraced the potential of these methods to advance the cause o...
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Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Deepti Prasad, Tooran Alizadeh, Robyn Dowling
Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked...
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Coming to terms with affective infrastructure Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Helen F. Wilson
Affective infrastructure has become an unremarkable feature of geographical research. By examining how ‘affective infrastructure’ has been mobilised within geography and political theory, and chart...
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Dimensions of repair work Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Stefania Barca
Reflecting on the necessary, though risky path of overcoming dualistic thinking about repair and care work, I develop analytical distinctions between different kinds of repair work, reflecting gend...
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Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Meg Parsons
In this dialogue, wellbeing-led approaches to governance are situated within broader conversations occurring between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars about decolonisation, climate change, and...
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Whose geography, whose future? Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Eden Kinkaid
In this commentary, responding to the prompt ‘reimagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis,’ I offer some provocations to queer this question of geography's future. I begin from momen...
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Beyond moralising, disciplining and normalising discourses: Re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine
Despite significant advances over the past few decades, geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness remain under-theorised and researched. Indeed, even when applying critical thinking, geographer...
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Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Callum Sutherland
In this paper, I outline the spatial imaginaries of the late radical thinker Mark Fisher (1968–2017). I begin by explaining Fisher's focus on culture and desire as forces that must be addressed if ...
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Ruptures of the Anthropocene: A crisis of justice Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Ankit Kumar
The Anthropocene and associated sense of crises, most prominently climate change, have opened up an urgency versus justice dilemma. While an epochal thinking drives the urgency, it is essential to ...
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Repairing social connections; Dismantling carbon infrastructures with care Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Chantel Carr
In this final commentary to close the forum, I engage with the responses to Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis. These rich analyses provide a basis from which to reflect on three ...
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Space, abandonment, closure, and performance: Writing about the relationship between law and war Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Alex Jeffrey, Craig Jones
This author’s response responds to the reviews for The Edge of Law and The War Lawyers. This response focuses on four themes that are both present in the reviews and constituted central themes of t...
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March of the kitten herders Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Keith Woodward
Everything is affective; everything is infrastructural. Or: (1) affectivity is the relational force of materiality and (2) a thing is the convergence of a range of relations and is itself a composi...
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Imagining urban nature in the places we dwell Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Wendy Steele
As part of a critical ‘dialogue’ around the ontological nature of more-than-human well-being in an ecological emergency, I am interested in putting Anna Yates, Kelly Dombroski, and Rita Dionisio's ...
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What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Hannah Hickman
As fields equally concerned with the production of space and place, geographers and planners are engaged in understanding the compact city both as a concept and as a built and lived reality. In res...
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Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Sango Mahanty, Sarah Milne, Keith Barney, Wolfram Dressler, Philip Hirsch, Phuc Xuan To
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Ruptu...
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Collective care and climate repair Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Natalie Osborne
This engagement with Chantel Carr's article, ‘Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis’, considers possible organising structures of care and climate repair, and the ways this labour ca...
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Agrarian crisis, affect, and accumulation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Sarah Besky
This commentary responds to Mahanty et al.'s article, which offers ‘rupture’ as an alternative analytic to ‘the Anthropocene’. I apply this concept to fieldwork in Kalimpong, a district of the Indi...
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What is generated through rupture? Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Raven Cretney, Sylvia Nissen
Our commentary explores the contested possibilities of rupture, disaster, and emergency, and reflects on growing fears around political extremism. Rupture as theorised by Mahanty et al. captures th...
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It’s not about compact cities Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Johannes Herburger
While the compact city has become a major element for sustainable urban development and one of the most controversially discussed issues in contemporary urban studies, I argue that compactness has ...
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Density and the compact city Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Colin McFarlane
The ‘compact city’ agenda has become commonplace and is often presented as an urban ‘good’ in mainstream urban research, policy, and practice. Haarstad et al.'s intervention aims to bring critical ...
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The politics of knowledge: Feminist strategies for transformation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Wendy Harcourt
In my commentary I take up the challenge of finding an academically fuelled strategy to make the necessary deep inroads into the Sustainable Development Goals by looking at lessons learnt from the ...
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Recuperating labour's environmental potential Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Julia Corwin
In response to Carr's article, ‘Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis’, I explore how repair labour demonstrates the importance of skilled, hands-on labour for responding to times of...
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What do we want from a concept? Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Kai Bosworth
The article ‘What is “affective infrastructure”?’ sought to historicize and rework a concept in geographical and philosophical thought. In doing so, it aimed to understand how scholars use the noti...
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Grounding the compact city Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Håvard Haarstad, Kristin Kjærås, Per Gunnar Røe, Kristian Tveiten
In our article ‘Diversifying the compact city’, we aimed to open a dialogue, in human geography and beyond, on how to broaden the scope of how we examine and critique compact urbanism. The insightf...
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Emplacing the disposition toward automation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Bo Zhao
In this commentary, I emphasize the necessity of situating the disposition toward automation in a place where the in-process disposition takes shape. Using this place perspective, I can critically ...
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Passages to the outside: A prelude to a geophilosophy of the future Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Martin Savransky
What might it take to reimagine the futures of geographical thought on an Earth whose geological disjunctures and catastrophic dynamics have radically upended the progressive temporality that once ...
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Transforming dispositions towards automation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 David Bissell
Speaking to debates on how digital automation is changing people's capacities, my commentary affirms the value of surveying the myriad dispositions to automation that are muffled by the force of do...
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A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Andrew Tucker
While work on solidarities forms a core element within geographical scholarship, especially as related to forms of shared connection to address forms of inequality, few studies from the geographies...
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Follow the thing: Air rights Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Hung-Ying Chen
This commentary responds to ‘Diversifying the compact city’ (Haarstad, Kjærås, Røe, and Tveiten 2022) by introducing the elemental thinking of urban air rights. I argue that the analytical tool of ...
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Spatial politics of dignity: De-universalizing and diversifying the concept Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Katrin Grossmann, Elena Trubina
This author reply responds to commentaries on the implications of our article, ‘Dignity in Urban Geography: Starting a Conversation’ (2022). It elaborates on four points raised by the commentators:...
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World-making, desire, and the future Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Margaret M. Ramírez
In this commentary responding to Sutherland's paper, I insist that human geographers must be explicit about the geographies we theorize from so as to avoid universalizing narratives. Engaging the w...
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Desiring infrastructure Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Ara Wilson
Infrastructure has been an object of political action in its form as public good. Kai Bosworth's article, ‘What is “affective infrastructure,”’ views political action as a result of infrastructure,...
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Working dignity into urban geography Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Caroline Keegan
This commentary responds to Grossman and Trubina's (2022) article, ‘Dignity in Urban Geography: Starting a Conversation’. I consider their argument and framework for integrating a formal conceptual...
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GeoAI, counter-AI, and human geography: A conversation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Krzysztof Janowicz, Renee Sieber, Jeremy Crampton
This conversation inaugurates a new venture for Dialogues in Human Geography in which we host a discussion on topics of concern to our readers. Inspired by the underlying ethos of the journal as a ...
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Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’ Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Kean Birch, Callum Ward
An asset is both a resource and property, in that it generates income streams with its sale price based on the capitalization of those revenues. Although an asset's income streams can be financiall...
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Situating Mark Fisher’s spatiality? A response to Callum Sutherland’s ‘Mark Fisher and reimagining post-capitalist geographies’ Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Oli Mould
The work of the late Mark Fisher, one of the revered British cultural critics of the past 20 years, is implicitly spatial, yet remains largely absent from geographical scholarship. Callum Sutherlan...
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For a spatial politics of dignity Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Sara Safransky
This commentary responds to Grossmann and Trubina, ‘Dignity in Urban Geography: Starting a Conversation.’ I discuss the contributions of their article and reflect on the stakes of their relational ...
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Forms and scenes of attachment: A cultural geography of promises Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Ben Anderson
Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural geography is full of relations that look like attachments. But attachment as a concept is mostly absent, used inter...