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Temporal logics in geographical research on migration and refugees Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Goshu Wolde Tefera, Alan Gamlen
This paper identifies and examines three key approaches prevalent in the geographical study of migration: the displacement and mobilities approach, the transit and waiting approach, and the immigrant settlement approach. Each approach is analyzed in terms of its treatment of time and migratory experiences, critiquing them for reinforcing conventional temporal categories: the past, present, and future
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The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Leif Johnson, Malene H Jacobsen, Patricia Ehrkamp
Fluid metaphors describing “floods of migrants” or an “influx of migrant workers” are often used by journalists, politicians, and scholars to describe migration processes. While scholars have critiqued these metaphors as part of popular discourse, the roles fluid metaphors play in migration scholarship itself have received less attention. Through analysis of five academic journals, this article analyzes
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Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Wesley Attewell
This essay revisits geographical debates on empire to clarify how broader geopolitical economies of power and violence have always been experienced at the scale of the everyday as an intimate politics of relation- and difference-making. It is guided by two questions that promise to stretch geographical writing on empire in new ways. They are: how has empire always been a racial project? And how has
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GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Victoria Fast
Since the inception of volunteered geographic information in 2007, this area of study has seen a proliferation of terms and concepts representing diverse forms of user-generated geographic data and systems. Despite the rich development of VGI (volunteered geographic information) in geography, recent trends indicate a disjointed research field. This progress report critically examines the trajectory
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The agrarian question of climate change Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Kasia Paprocki, James McCarthy
The agrarian question of the twenty-first century is the agrarian question of climate change. The classical agrarian question asked how capitalist development was reshaping fin de siècle agriculture and with what consequences. The answers often contradicted predictions, and thereby teleological notions of development. Today, we must ask how climate change adaptation and mitigation, alongside and through
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Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Hannah Brais, Mylene Riva
While clinical practitioners have long recognized the importance of trauma-informed models of care, geographies of care scholars have been slow to engage with and address trauma in its methodologies for better understanding environments that support, or hinder, care for people. Marrying the conceptual contributions of geographies of care, trauma geographies, and geographies of addiction, this paper
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Digital geographies 1: Reality bytes Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Sophia Maalsen
This report is intended to provide a foundation to debates which illustrate how geographers have approached the challenge of understanding something variously invisible and immaterial as the digital and its impacts on the production of space. Thus, this first report will focus on how geographers conceptualise digitally produced and mediated spaces. It will trace the way we have understood digital spaces
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Political geography I: Blue geopolitics Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Reece Jones
This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the political geographies of oceans. While oceans were overlooked for many years as theories of sovereignty, territory, and borders focused on terrestrial politics, the significant impact of climate change resulted in a new focus on the role oceans place in global environmental and political systems. At the same time, the enclosure of
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Ageing in networks: The unbounded geographies of non-migrant and migrant older adults Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Vincent Chua, Chen-Chieh Feng
We propose ‘ageing in networks’ as an optic that shows how the social networks of older adults extend beyond their residential neighbourhoods to extra-local and transnational settings. The paper brings together literature on ageing and social networks in mobilities and migration research to identify shared thematic framings between non-migrant and migrant older adults. Our approach broadens the analytical
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Animal geographies III: Relational and political Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Leah Gibbs
Animal geography is inherently relational. At its core is curiosity for relations between humans and nonhuman animals. As in other fields, relational approaches are increasingly adopted as conceptual framework and methodology. Two current relational themes of the field are care, killing and ethics; and how humans and nonhuman animals create space, particularly the home and the city. Animal geographies
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Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Peter Adey, Weiqiang Lin, Kaya Barry, Tina Harris, Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, Lucy Budd
In this article, we build on Adey, Budd and Hubbard’s 2007 ‘Flying Lessons’ paper by proposing four trajectories – bodies, infrastructures, technologies and disruptions – along which future research may follow for aeromobility studies. Since ‘Flying Lessons’, concerns for aviation have spread and developed into new areas beyond the experience of the individual air-passenger, but they have also remained
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History and philosophy of geography II: In search of ‘a properly geographical theorist’ Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Paloma Puente-Lozano
This report offers an interpretation of recent scholarship that articulates pasts and futures of geographical thought and praxis. By focussing on growing concerns about speculative, abyssal, and analytical styles of thinking in Geography, I argue that a more cogent philosophical take on geographic theory-making is needed. Drawing upon ongoing discussions on the role of geographic theory, I use the
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(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Johanna L Waters, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Møller Madsen, Taina Saarinen
In this paper, we foreground the bodies of students and academics in studies of the internationalisation of higher education (IHE) and consider how internationalisation processes are shaped by embodiment and the geographies of (em)placement. Over the past 20 years, IHE has been extensively discussed within academic and policy circles. Such accounts have often been dominated by macro-level concerns
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The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Ed Atkins
The transition from fossil fuels poses risks to communities and industries dependent on carbon-heavy work. This article calls for geographical scholarship to engage more fully with the experiences of those ‘stranded communities’ at risk of such change. It critically reviews examples of deindustrialisation and the decline of coal communities to demonstrate how energy transitions will animate new work
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Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Andrew Tucker
Health has become a key focus for scholarship within the geographies of gender and sexualities. This progress report offers a schematic overview of the multiple ways in which the study of health (and especially disease and the lack of good health) has been studied in relation to such geographies. It explores the multiple ways in which an understanding of place has been operationalised, considers the
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Health geographies III – Landscapes of care Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Janine Wiles
In this third report, I focus on the concept of ‘landscapes of care’ in health geography. I explore three interrelated areas of recent work: landscapes of inequities and slow violence; landscapes of care as more than clinical, and more expansive ways to think about landscapes of care. All raise interesting questions about defining and understanding different kinds of care, complexities of familiar
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Conjunctural urban geographies: Modes, methods, and meso-level concepts Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Mark Davidson, Kevin Ward
Urban geographers have recently been developing “conjunctural analysis.” This paper contributes to this emerging project in two ways. First, it argues that the existing literature has overlooked a critically important theoretical distinction—between normative and rationalist analysis. Second, we develop three meso-level concepts—plasticity, composites, temporalities—to provide concrete guidance on
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Method in relational-explanatory geography Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Human geography’s onto-epistemological expansion in recent decades has not been well matched by methodological development. Learning from the methodological pluralism in four relational approaches, this paper reflects on key issues in relational-explanatory theorizing before introducing a social science method of process tracing in relation to a comparative methodology. I argue that contrastive explanations
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Multispecies homescapes Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Nora Schuurman
This paper proposes a change in the conceptualisation of home, as part of a wider paradigmatic transformation in the understandings of the boundaries between humans and animals, and nature and culture. A new concept of multispecies homescapes is suggested, building on recent work on human–animal relationships as well as writings on the home in human geography. Multispecies homescapes are approached
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Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Kristen Ounanian, Matthew Howells
Coastal communities have long been at the periphery of human geography. Nonetheless, the coasts present a rich context to understand and deconstruct processes of displacement—enclosure, ocean grabbing, gentrification, and financialization—and the salience of adjacency claims as resistance. While scholars have theorized that the coast’s spatial specificity may enable communities to raise adjacency claims
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New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Tim Hall, Richard Yarwood
This paper argues that reconsidering the disciplinary significance of the geographies of crime is timely. It has three aims. First, it identifies recent developments in the geographical study of crime, arguing that they both challenge and extend its intellectual traditions. Second, using the example of cybercrime, it identifies new forms of crime that deserve scrutiny by geographers. Third, it draws
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Rendering development investible: The anti-politics machine and the financialisation of development Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jack Taggart, Marcus Power
We critically engage with the so-called ‘Financialisation of Development’ and argue that such is neither automatic nor inexorable. We review and extend a body of recent research that underscores the extensive ‘work’ required by ‘big D’ Development actors to render target contexts legible, attractive, and amenable to private finance and investment. We introduce the framework of ‘rendering (Development)
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From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Nuria Font-Casaseca, Maria Rodó-Zárate
Some of the most exciting progress to address central limitations in GIS is currently originating from the margins of cartographic traditions. This article explores the potential of a proactive engagement with mapping technologies from peripheral positions, such as humanist, feminist, decolonial, queer, and black perspectives, to overcome what we identify as five intrinsic challenges of GIS: the representation
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Legal geography I: Everyday law Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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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Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation. Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Peter Merriman
Building upon the current concern with relational, processual and assemblage approaches to place, this paper argues for a move away from 'pointillist' and constructivist accounts of the assembling of places because they reinforce binaries, reintroduce structures and highlight singular representational moments in the building, identification and dismantling of places. Drawing upon Deleuze's philosophy
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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities Prog. Hum. Geogr. (IF 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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 6.3) 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...