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{"title":"Gardens as multispecies public spaces in Georgian modernity.","authors":"Paul Manning","doi":"10.1177/25148486251371535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251371535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Kutaisi \"Boulevard\" (1848) was the first public \"park\" in Georgia, and quickly became the social and intellectual center of this small, peripheral Georgian city. Although a physically small, and perhaps from an outsider perspective, unremarkable plot of greenspace, as a greenspace, it became a public place central to the imagining of associated literary publics, and finally, as an infrastructure embodying an aspirational claim to modernity, its by turns dusty or muddy garden paths could also be found fault with as being materially a relatively abject incarnation of modernity, something which was felt to always be better incarnated somewhere else. In these critiques of the garden as infrastructure for \"liberal walking\", the dusty or muddy paths of the garden were of more interest than the plants. Although all gardens are centres of what Hartigan calls \"plant publics\", for these critics, the multispecies publics of the garden (humans and nonhumans) came to be an additional sign of the abjection of infrastructures embodying a failed modernity.</p>","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"9 1","pages":"138-159"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13046232/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147621879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From degradation to reproduction: Environmental justice and the racialized politics of environmental quality in Detroit.","authors":"Nicole Van Lier","doi":"10.1177/25148486251363737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251363737","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental injustice is frequently understood as the uneven distribution of environmental harms, to which low-income and racialized communities are far more frequently exposed. Alternatively, this paper explores environmental injustice through an uneven politics of environmental reproduction. I argue that environmental injustice can occur via the disproportionate burden low-income racialized communities bear for reproducing environmental quality. To expand on this understanding, I offer both a theoretical framework that centres the socioecological reproduction of racial capitalism, as well as an empirical case study of the fraught history of wastewater management in Detroit. I use Detroit's wastewater system as an example of urban infrastructure that is fundamental to the reproduction of environmental quality, which in turn sustains racial capitalism. Municipal wastewater treatment renews local water quality to support (sub)urban life, as well as industrial and commercial cycles of accumulation-particularly given the need to comply with state water quality regulations. Yet the politically and economically uneven management of Detroit's wastewater system has also contributed to the production of a racialized water affordability crisis. Over several decades, ratepayers in majority-Black Detroit have taken on a disproportionate share of financing wastewater and stormwater infrastructure for the wider metropolitan region, inflating household water bills to the point of compromising residential water security. Here, environmental injustice emerges through an inequitable economic burden for reproducing water quality, ultimately in service of sustaining racialized uneven development across the metropolitan region. Bringing the socioecological reproduction of racial capitalism to bear on understandings of environmental injustice, I argue that scholars and activists alike must consider who pays for and who benefits from maintaining environmental quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"8 5","pages":"1739-1762"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044430/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147621885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nuclear strata: Enacting clay for the deep geological disposal of nuclear waste in Switzerland.","authors":"Rony Emmenegger","doi":"10.1177/25148486251324935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251324935","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the realization of a deep geological repository, geoscientists have investigated various geological formations and assessed their suitability as host rocks for the long-term disposal of high-level nuclear waste. A fundamental epistemological uncertainty has characterized this geoscientific exploration of the subterranean, evolving not only as a scientific-technical challenge in deep geological disposal projects but also as a sociopolitical one. This paper scrutinizes how the Swiss nuclear waste organization, during its recent drilling campaign, has publicly staged the Opalinus clay as a stable rock in order to make its disposal project feasible and sound. Based on ethnographic fieldwork as well as document and media analysis, it traces how science communication experts have created and arranged a series of maps, models, and materials to make the subterranean tangible to a surface audience over the course of the campaign. Strategically assembled at specific events, it shows that these political materials did not simply represent subterranean spaces but constituted a stratified subterranean geology on the surface. On this basis, this paper underlines the performative dimension of geology and the key importance of stabilizing geology in science-society encounters for deep geological disposal projects to advance. By illustrating how the subterranean has come to matter and became politically significant in Switzerland's contentious nuclear (waste) history, this paper contributes to a better understanding of the constitutive role of geology for imagining a postnuclear future.</p>","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"8 3","pages":"978-1001"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044466/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147621871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate emotions in remote, rural, and small communities across Canada: Exploring lived experiences through interviews and letters.","authors":"Lindsay P Galway","doi":"10.1177/25148486241313355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241313355","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the consequences of climate change become more severe and widespread, efforts to understand and address the emotional dimensions of the climate crisis are increasingly necessary. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of climate emotions in remote, rural, and small communities across Canada. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and a letter writing process with 27 participants representing diversity in terms of geography, climate vulnerability, and socio-demographic characteristics. Thematic network analysis resulted in three global themes: (1) complex, intense, and interconnected climate emotions, (2) factors shaping climate emotions, and (3) consequences of climate emotions. The findings demonstrate that the lived experiences of climate emotions involve a wide array of complex, interconnected, and embodied emotions characterized by affective dilemmas and tensions. For most, climate emotions are challenging and experienced in isolation resulting in consequences for wellbeing, life decisions, and action. Importantly, the data illustrate the influence of intersecting identities, social factors, perceived responsibilities, and place in terms of giving rise and shape to climate emotions. The findings also emphasize that the lived experiences of climate emotions may be particularly impactful in remote, rural, and small communities that are commonly marginalized and disempowered, where people tend to have close connections to the natural world, and where a socialized silencing around climate change and climate emotions is pervasive. Taken together, the findings highlight the imperative of supporting collective coping through place-specific and intersectional processes that recognize the tensions and challenges that characterize climate emotions as well as the diversity of factors that give rise and shape to climate emotions.</p>","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"8 2","pages":"675-699"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13038173/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147591085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Greening the gentrification process: Insights and engagements from practitioners.","authors":"Jessica Quinton, Lorien Nesbitt, Daniel Sax, Leila Harris","doi":"10.1177/25148486241236281","DOIUrl":"10.1177/25148486241236281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Green gentrification implicates urban greening as a driver of neighbourhood 'upgrading' and subsequent displacement. However, it is unclear whether the concept resonates with, or supports the work of, those responsible for much of the greening occurring in cities - urban green planners/practitioners. We interviewed 33 planners/practitioners in Canada to refine our understanding of the relationships between urban greening and gentrification. We found that greening is closely tied to development, with funding/space for greening often provided through development requirements/incentives. Thus, rather than greening <i>causing</i> gentrification (as described in current literature), here greening is often a <i>requirement</i> and <i>direct outcome</i> of new development - contributing to what we describe as a broader <i>greening of the gentrification process</i> that is facilitated by various political-economic factors. Many interviewees stated that their current work focuses on addressing existing inequities rather than strategizing to limit future gentrification. However, they had mixed opinions about whether knowledge of green gentrification as a concept can help them promote equitable urban greening due to their lack of power over where/how urban greening occurs, along with the finding that greening is not causing gentrification. The uneven power dynamics between urban green practitioners/planners, developers, and elected officials also influenced views on whether gentrification is an intended outcome of greening. We conclude that relying on new development to provide urban greening is antithetical to addressing existing green inequities and is likely to exacerbate inequities through associating greening with gentrification. Recent measures to improve housing affordability (i.e. the removal of developer greening requirements) will disrupt the current development-greening relationship but are unlikely to address the issue of inequitable greening. Increased and ongoing collaboration between those working in urban greening, housing, and planning is paramount and should focus on affordability and equity across urban systems - attending to the interplay between greening, housing, affordability, and sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"7 4","pages":"1893-1917"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13032840/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147572222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant","authors":"Nick Hacking, Robert Evans, Jamie Lewis","doi":"10.1177/25148486231212083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231212083","url":null,"abstract":"Planning disputes are sites of contestation in which science-based regulations come into conflict with the place-based knowledge of local communities. The procedural and often technical nature of these regulations means that these controversies are marked by an asymmetry of resources that is often experienced by community groups as an asymmetry in credibility. In short, the expertise of developers is generally accepted as such, whilst the knowledge claimed by citizens is dismissed as ‘anecdotal’ or ‘NIMBYism’. In this article, we make the argument that the asymmetries of expertise are less stark than the current system typically allows and that recognising and accommodating this would improve the planning system by enhancing the representation and inclusion of community voices. We explore this position by using a case study of the construction of a Energy-from-Biomass plant in South Wales. Drawing from 30 qualitative interviews, we maintain that the planning process has the potential to function as one of a network of ‘trading zones’ in which different communities enact their rights and have their claims to knowledge and expertise recognised. Crucial to this argument is understanding that the levels and kinds of expertise that different parties bring to the interactions are more than just matters of attribution: community groups can have genuine expertise.","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"28 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grass versus trees: A proxy debate for deeper anxieties about competing stream worlds","authors":"Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Eric G. Booth, Rebecca Lave, Sydney Widell, Emma Lundberg, Ben Sellers, Paige Stork","doi":"10.1177/25148486231210408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231210408","url":null,"abstract":"Stream restoration has become an increasingly important focus in southwestern Wisconsin's Driftless Area, an unglaciated, hilly pocket of the Upper Mississippi River Basin rich in groundwater-driven coldwater streams, recreationally important trout species, and agricultural communities. Climate change is driving a major increase in precipitation and flooding across this rural and often under-resourced region, effects complicated by the ongoing legacies of white settlement and the changes it wrought to area streams, including the burial of floodplains in sediment displaced off area hillslopes. As managers work to consider how to “restore” Driftless streams, riparian vegetation—grass versus trees—has become a central and surprisingly controversial node. Current stream restoration practice typically includes the removal of riparian trees, though that practice has come under increasing criticism. Grounded in more than 5 years of qualitative and biophysical fieldwork in the region, we build from interviews gathered with 18 Driftless Area stream restoration managers from 2018 to 2020 to point to the ways that managers leverage arguments about erosion, flooding, habitat, and angler access, among other things, in service of grass and trees. Indexing the surface flows and underflows of this restoration debate, we introduce the rhetorical concept of the proxy debate to argue that debates about grass versus trees are tethered to competing perspectives on scale, temporality, and dynamism, surficial distractions from much deeper anxieties about what a stream is and should be. We turn to the ways that these distractions serve to further distance the stream restoration enterprise from acknowledging the ongoing human and hydrologic legacies of settler colonialism, and we close by suggesting that careful attention to rhetorical power—both to what arguments say and do, and to what they elide—offers a tentative first step toward restoring lands and relations by questioning what is taken for granted and what lies beneath.","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"106 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135373258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Meg Parsons, Gautami Bhor, Roa Petra Crease","doi":"10.1177/25148486231208205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231208205","url":null,"abstract":"Young people around the world are creating their own spaces, strategies, and politics for climate action. In this article we explore the everyday informal politics of climate activism by youth from Aotearoa New Zealand's largest city (Auckland). We examine how young people, frustrated by the lack of global and domestic political inertia, are operationalizing their concerns about climate change into actions in their daily lives directed at mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions. Through a relational qualitative approach, we document the contradictory standing of youth, specifically as agentic actors and environmental citizens, who are aware of and seeking climate action through multiple modes of action including protesting, eco-consuming, influencing others, and eco-caring work. Our youth participants reported how their participation in various forms of climate activism helped to reduce their eco-anxiety and made them more hopeful about their collective abilities to address climate change. Our participants highlighted a hopeful view that their small-scale individual actions will collectively add up to large-scale changes at a systemic level. However, they were highly aware of and critical of state and corporate actors attempts to shift responsibility for taking actions to mitigate climate change onto individuals. Rather than situating themselves solely as eco-consumers engaging in eco-friendly purchasing practices, our youth participants narrated their sometimes contradictory climate actions (protesting, buy-cotting or boycotting, changing how they used goods, and services) as acts of resistance against the socio-economic status quo (high-carbon, neoliberal, and capitalist) that could act as trigger points for wider change. In this article we identify the various methods by which young people are participating in daily climate politics and demonstrating their agency, which are evident in their diverse pro-environmental-oriented and climate mitigation actions; all of which is evidence of how youth are seeking to be good climate citizens.","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"75 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political ecologies of a university and land at Cairo's urban periphery: The American University in Cairo's suburban desert campus","authors":"Danya Al-Saleh, Mohammed Rafi Arefin","doi":"10.1177/25148486231202253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231202253","url":null,"abstract":"In 2008, the American University in Cairo (AUC) moved from its downtown campus in Tahrir Square to the center of New Cairo. Through an analysis of AUC's historical land acquisitions at Cairo's urban periphery, this article examines how the university sought to influence land use over the past century. We argue that AUC's relatively recent role in New Cairo is an expression of the institution's century-long aspirations to acquire land on Cairo's periphery for a permanent suburban style campus. Drawing on the tools of political ecology and critical university studies, we trace how a suburban desert campus is consistently envisioned as a mechanism for the institution to play a significant role in influencing land politics and use in and beyond its campus. We highlight two key ways that AUC has historically situated itself in the city's development. First, purchasing land in order to relocate to the outskirts of the city has been central to AUC's strategy for accumulating wealth to ensure its long-term presence in Egypt. Second, acquiring large tracts of land for a suburban desert campus has been instrumental to AUC's educational mission to shape its student body, Egyptian society, and the political ecology of desert land in Egypt. Through archival research, we show how AUC's relationship to land positions the university as a significant institutional force in Cairo's rapidly urbanizing desert periphery. This situated case study contributes to an emerging body of scholarship examining the fraught historical and contemporary relationship between universities, land, environmental knowledge, and uneven urbanization in the Middle East and beyond.","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135386106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘My body tells me to stay here’: Materiality, identity and everyday politics in Wentang Town, China","authors":"Peng Li, Siyu Tian, Luchao Yao, Dan Feng","doi":"10.1177/25148486231203111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231203111","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the relations of materiality, identity formation and everyday politics in the governance of geothermal resource in contemporary China. Drawing on ethnographic data, we found that the materiality of geothermal water in its lively and dynamic forms plays agentic roles in discourse constructions, embodied experiences and material practices, shaping the socio-natural politics. The social relations, contestations and conflicts are rooted in the ontological differences of geothermal water as understood by the competing actors. The study of geothermal water contributes to recent debates on the agency of materials in urban political ecology studies as well as exploring everyday politics by highlighting the multiplicity and heterogeneity of actors and the ways in which identity formations are mobilized in everyday governance. This paper sheds light on the heterogeneous configurations of urbanization processes and resource governance.","PeriodicalId":11723,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135386107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}