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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104302

Jamie Peck , Matthew Sparke , Dimitar Anguelov , Jun Zhang

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Women’s agency in environmental interventions: Navigating “resilient livelihoods” in Kenya 环境干预中的妇女机构：在肯尼亚引领“弹性生计”

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104343

Charlotte Maybom , Mikkel Kjartan Funder

{"title":"Women’s agency in environmental interventions: Navigating “resilient livelihoods” in Kenya","authors":"Charlotte Maybom , Mikkel Kjartan Funder","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, we extend the critical research on gender mainstreaming in environmental interventions by focusing on women’s agency and rationales in such projects, and how this connects to “resilient livelihoods”. We approach “resilient livelihoods” as a contested space in which different actors have different perceptions and aims, and therefore different priorities in their pursuit of resilience. We further argue that the perceptions and motivations behind women’s agency in environmental interventions go beyond immediate aims of addressing environmental risks such as climate change and resource scarcity, to also include efforts to secure greater room for manoeuvre in households and beyond, and we show how they may sometimes succeed in this endeavour. Specifically, we analyse how women use a “resilient livelihoods” project in Kenya as a platform for i) leveraging their preferred livelihood strategies, and ii) altering gender relations more broadly. In so doing, they draw on their own agency to move beyond the conventional “gender inclusive” activities and narratives of the project. We find that women’s ability to pursue their livelihood priorities and challenge gender norms in the project constitutes a potential force for positive change, despite persistent constraints. The article thereby highlights the importance of understanding women’s’ wider agency and perceptions of “resilient livelihoods” when analysing gender dynamics in environmental projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104343"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271912","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}

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What Terra are we terraforming? Lessons from the 2011 triple disaster in Japan 我们在改造哪个地球？2011年日本三重灾难的教训

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104331

Annaclaudia Martini

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The modalities of power driving climate-related resettlement: Evidence from the Philippines 驱动气候相关重新安置的力量模式：来自菲律宾的证据

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104338

Justin See , Ginbert Permejo Cuaton , Brooke Wilmsen , Pearly Joy Peja

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‘I felt I was melting‘: Embodying climate change through urban heat “我感觉自己在融化”：通过城市的高温体现气候变化

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104330

Zofia Boni , Zofia Bieńkowska , Barbara Jancewicz , Małgorzata Wrotek , Paloma Yáñez Serrano

{"title":"‘I felt I was melting‘: Embodying climate change through urban heat","authors":"Zofia Boni , Zofia Bieńkowska , Barbara Jancewicz , Małgorzata Wrotek , Paloma Yáñez Serrano","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104330","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104330","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on climate change, dominated by biophysical and environmental sciences, is often presented through abstract models and numbers. As such, climate change is not easily seen, felt, smelled, tasted or heard. By taking a phenomenological approach, we suggest looking at the body – and not only the changing temperature degrees or other environmental factors – as an important locus of climate change.</div><div>Our empirical case is increasing urban heat, one of the most pronounced consequences of climate change. This article stems from mixed-methods research with older adults, a group especially vulnerable to heat stress, living in two European cities, Warsaw and Madrid. In the summers of 2021 – 2022, we conducted ethnographic research, including participant observation, group interviews, and participatory workshops, studying people’s daily experiences of urban heat and climate change. In 2022 we also conducted a representative thermosurvey among older adults living in those two cities.</div><div>To understand their embodied experiences of urban heat, we first discuss older adults’ somatic modes of attention to their bodies and minds, social relationships and surroundings, and second, we analyze their embodied perception of climate change and how it affects their being-in-the-world. We demonstrate that the framework of embodiment enables a new and different understanding of climate change, as it provides a subjective perspective from a ground up on how environmental shifts affect people’s lives. By focusing on older adults’ experiences of urban heat we demonstrate that climate change is not only a biophysical, environmental or geopolitical process, but that it is also a process of embodiment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222054","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}

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Constrained agency and everyday borderworkers in public sector institutions 受约束的机构和公共部门机构的日常边境工作者

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104314

Kathryn Cassidy, Gill Davidson

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Sustainability Worlding in the Global South – Worlding and environmentalities in Kakapir Fishing Village, Pakistan 全球南方的可持续发展世界-巴基斯坦卡卡皮尔渔村的世界和环境

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104325

Dur-e-Shahwar Khalil, Maarten Van Acker, Thomas Vanoutrive

{"title":"Sustainability Worlding in the Global South – Worlding and environmentalities in Kakapir Fishing Village, Pakistan","authors":"Dur-e-Shahwar Khalil, Maarten Van Acker, Thomas Vanoutrive","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104325","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104325","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The literature on southern urbanisms has mobilized the concept of worlding and assemblage thinking to decenter and challenge dominant narratives in urban theory which stage Western urban models as universal paradigms. Worlding refers to the ways in which a wide range of local actors aim to position their city in the global urban hierarchy through the production of urban imaginaries referring to urban models and other cities to legitimize their urban development plans. Following the rise of sustainability thinking, sustainable urban and coastal development, including nature preservation, has become a part of such urban imaginaries. The aim of this paper is to better understand how small places such as a small Pakistani village of Kakapir are included in sustainability worlding practices through modelling, inter-referencing and the emergence of new solidarities in the context of coastal zone management in the Global South. The small fishing village Kakapir near Karachi, Pakistan is explored as a case since it is used as a model for sustainable urban coastal development in documents at both the national and international level. This research scrutinizes documents, media reports and other sources over three decades to delineate the discursive construction of Kakapir as a model of sustainable coastal zone management and its residents as exemplary environmental stewards managing mangroves sustainably. By integrating worlding practices and theories of environmentality into a cohesive analysis, this paper enriches the discourse on southern urbanisms and broadens our understanding of sustainable urban development through theoretical and practical lenses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104325"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185415","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}

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Formalization through contracts: Implications for power in smallholder cocoa supply chains 通过合同正规化：对小农可可供应链权力的影响

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104323

Sophia Carodenuto , Claire Cutler , Sokhna Dieng , Marshall A. Adams , William Thompson

{"title":"Formalization through contracts: Implications for power in smallholder cocoa supply chains","authors":"Sophia Carodenuto , Claire Cutler , Sokhna Dieng , Marshall A. Adams , William Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104323","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104323","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, accounting for the majority of global cocoa production, exemplify the challenges of addressing environmental sustainability and social equity in informal agricultural supply chains. In this paper, we explore the implications of contractual relationships at the ’first mile,’ where smallholder cocoa farmers first market their product. Our analysis is motivated by the European Union’s Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR), which aims to eliminate deforestation from global supply chains and is likely to accelerate contract formalization within the cocoa sector. Using in-depth case studies of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, we examined both formal and informal contracts, supported by 107 in-person interviews, to understand how these relationships shape smallholder agency and power dynamics. Formal contracts, as manifested through certification, offer certain structured benefits and are often viewed as a pathway to sustainable cocoa production. However, our findings reveal that they may constrain farmer agency by limiting flexibility in buyer selection and amplifying existing inequalities. Conversely, informal contracts, though opaque, appear to provide smallholders with greater negotiating power and autonomy at the first mile. These findings raise critical questions about the trade-offs inherent in formalization and highlight the need for nuanced policy approaches to achieve equitable and sustainable outcomes in global supply chains.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104323"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185416","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}

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Sustainability transition in shrinking regions: uncovering perceived regional opportunity spaces and expectations shaping regional development 缩小区域的可持续性转型：揭示区域机会空间和塑造区域发展的期望

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104326

Annamari Kiviaho , Torsti Hyyryläinen

{"title":"Sustainability transition in shrinking regions: uncovering perceived regional opportunity spaces and expectations shaping regional development","authors":"Annamari Kiviaho , Torsti Hyyryläinen","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104326","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104326","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Unsustainable consumption and production practices are driving various sustainability challenges, creating an urgent need for a radical shift in socio-technical systems toward more sustainable modes of production and consumption, known as a sustainability transition. This transition is also relevant for regions suffering from population decline. By integrating insights from regional opportunity space, sustainability transition, and shrinking regions, this article contributes to the broader discussion on how opportunities related to sustainability transitions are perceived in regions with declining populations. Empirically, this study examines the perceptions of municipal chief executives and chairmen of the municipal executive boards in the South Savo region in Eastern Finland. Based on 24 semi-structured interviews, the findings reveal that municipal decision-makers identified several opportunities, such as renewable energy and nature-based sustainable tourism. Although interviewees could discuss various aspects of the sustainability transition, their narratives were dominated by an economic perspective, thus the opportunity space offered by the sustainability transition was primarily perceived as a financial opportunity. This study also focused on the expectations of decision-makers and revealed that, despite their initial hopes that these opportunities could diversify local industries or create job opportunities, the conversation later shifted to the perception that many threats are associated with them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104326"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185417","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}

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The dark side of knowledge geography: their effect on local innovation in the shadows 知识地理学的黑暗面：对地方创新的影响

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104329

Xionghe Qin , Dong Zhang , Chunguang Hou , Seamus Grimes

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