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Remoteness and subjectivity in gas extraction: Indigenous agency and the roadless design

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104166

Ana Watson , Conny Davidsen

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Strategic silences for normative work: Inclusions and exclusions of migrant labour in policy foregrounding of the Swedish gig economy

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104157

Natasha A. Webster , Qian Zhang

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Seeing economic development like a large language model. A methodological approach to the exploration of geographical imaginaries in generative AI

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104175

Boris Michel, Yannick Ecker

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‘Never turn your back on the Ocean’: Conversations with Fear on Yuin Sea Country 永远不要背对海洋在汤阴海之国与恐惧对话

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104165

Alexis Farr , Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita

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Seeing rivers otherwise: Critical cartography as a form of critical pedagogy 以另一种方式看待河流：作为批判性教学法一种形式的批判性制图学

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104167

Daniele Tubino de Souza , Karolien van Teijlingen , Rutgerd Boelens , Gabriela Ruales

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The Technopolitics of Hydrogen: Arab Gulf States’ Pursuit of Significance in a Climate-Constrained World 氢的技术政治学：阿拉伯海湾国家在气候受限的世界中追求意义

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104168

Tobias Zumbraegel

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Culling optimism: Circulating neoliberal affects in entrepreneurial animal disease policy 消灭乐观主义：企业动物疾病政策中循环往复的新自由主义影响

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104145

Charlotte-Anne Chivers , Damian Maye , Gareth Enticott

{"title":"Culling optimism: Circulating neoliberal affects in entrepreneurial animal disease policy","authors":"Charlotte-Anne Chivers , Damian Maye , Gareth Enticott","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism, this paper explores how animal disease eradication can represent an unimaginable fantasy, the pursuit of which is an obstacle to farmers’ emotional and financial prosperity. The paper shows how atmospheres of optimism surrounding disease eradication are constructed and linked to policy mobilities. These apparent <em>trans</em>-national circulations of neoliberal logics of ‘ownership’ provide policy legitimacy at times of crisis, but also disguise the emotional experiences of neoliberal policy lives and serve political interests by marginalising alternatives to the allure of eradication. The paper bases these arguments within an analysis of the development of animal disease policy in England since 1997, and recent interviews and workshops exploring future policy options for disease control with farmers and other stakeholders. Following the development of bovine Tuberculosis policy, the paper shows how the transnational mobility of neoliberal policies promoting farmer ownership were used to legitimise farmer- owned culling companies to control infected wildlife. In describing how these policies unravelled through emotional burnout and disillusion amongst farmers, the paper describes the difficulties of detachment from a relation of cruel optimism, either marked by tragedy and trauma, or an incompleteness defined as ‘attached detachment’. In conclusion, the paper calls for further attention to other rural and agricultural fantasies to shed further light on the inequities of neoliberal life and need for just transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 104145"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698023","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}

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Postneoliberal resilience: Interrogating the value of the resilience multiple in the post-Covid-19 conjunctural crisis 后新自由主义的复原力：拷问 "科维德-19 "事件后危机中复原力多重性的价值

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104162

Chris Zebrowski

{"title":"Postneoliberal resilience: Interrogating the value of the resilience multiple in the post-Covid-19 conjunctural crisis","authors":"Chris Zebrowski","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 response has revived scholarship on the end of neoliberalism. And yet resilience, long associated with neoliberalism by critical scholars, has persisted as a norm orienting state action. This article explores how resilience ideas are being adopted and adapted within a period of postneoliberalism. Employing a conjunctural approach, this article details how resilience ideas are being reinscribed within an emergent set of critiques, rationalities, and reforms in the wake of Covid-19. Analysis centres on how resilience is invoked both as a paradigm, through which problems of pandemic preparedness are being framed and as a core idea, for building back better within Covid-19 recovery plans. Rather than being overdetermined by neoliberalism, this article examines how resilience ideas are being drawn upon to support projects that aim to depart from or oppose neoliberal logics of governance. This affirmational approach, I argue, departs from a critique of resilience based on rejection, and instead operates by affirming the value of resilience and repeating it differently. Here, the multiplicity, mutability and, indeed, resilience of resilience ideas enables the concept to not only support distinct political programmes, but to consolidate disparate ideas, policies and institutions into new political configurations and state forms. I argue that that the remarkable persistence of the value of resilience has been achieved by the ability of resilience ideas to support emergent assemblages of diverse political ideas, programmes, and institutions in a time of postneoliberal conjunctural crisis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 104162"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698103","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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Mapping the spatial and temporal patterns of housing instability in Malmö 绘制马尔默市住房不稳定的时空模式图

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104161

Karina Raña Villacura

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Of ships and soundboxes: Contrapuntal explorations of hydrocoloniality and the materiality of music 船与音箱：关于水殖民地和音乐物质性的协奏曲探索

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104156

Diego Astorga de Ita

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