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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

{"title":"Of ships and soundboxes: Contrapuntal explorations of hydrocoloniality and the materiality of music","authors":"Diego Astorga de Ita","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper I explore the relation between music, (enviro)materiality, and coloniality by examining <em>son</em> Jarocho, the music of the Mexican region of Sotavento in southeast Mexico. This essay brings together geography, blue humanities, and ecomusicology, using notions of hydropoetics and hydrocolonialism, building upon the material turn in music geographies. I approach the phenomenological confluence of Sotaventine cedar chordophones and ships using and critiquing Foucauldian theoretics, alongside Hofmeyr’s hydrocolonialism and Gilroy’s circumpelagic theories. I survey the regional histories of luthiery, shipyards and timber trade and their connections, counterpointing these histories with the poetics of son Jarocho and with materials gathered through interviews and music-making alongside musicians and luthiers in Sotavento. From this I propose that musical aesthetics emerge from navigations that are topophilic and imperial. I counterpoint the Sotaventine case with the history of violins and their link to <em>pau-brasil</em> exploitation in Brazil, following ecomusicological works. Surveying histories of cedar and <em>pau-brasil</em> I argue that exploitation and exploration are a univocal aspect of the hydrocolonial project that entangles the biological, geographical, military, and mercantile into the endeavour of the <em>exploração</em> and that this informs musical materialities, poetics, and aesthetics to this day<em>.</em> Lastly, I briefly consider the implications of the hydrocolonial history of musical matters in the context of the Anthropocene. <em>Una versión en español de este texto está disponible en los materiales suplementarios.</em></div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104156"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664183","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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Creative production in the digital age: A network analysis of the digital game industry in China 数字时代的创意生产：中国数字游戏产业的网络分析

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104158

Yarong Zhan , Tengfei Wang , Xuecheng Bi

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New directions for resilience research: The significance of volume and verticality 复原力研究的新方向：体积和垂直度的意义

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160

Janine Natalya Clark

{"title":"New directions for resilience research: The significance of volume and verticality","authors":"Janine Natalya Clark","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Volume and verticality are concepts that have become increasingly important in disciplines such as human, political and cultural geography. In contrast, they have received little (explicit) attention in resilience research. Building on the idea that resilience is a multi-systemic process, this article directly engages with volume and verticality as a novel multi-systemic approach to resilience and it analyses height-depth dynamics through a focus on the underground. It makes two important and original contributions to resilience scholarship. First, it demonstrates that volume and verticality offer a more holistic and 3D way of thinking about some of the shocks and stressors that individuals and communities face – and how they deal with them. Second, the article uses volume and verticality to complexify some of the critical discussions about resilience and power. It maintains that giving attention to volume and verticality illuminates neglected expressions of power, and it explores this using the three key concepts of scale, resistance and agency. This is a mainly conceptual piece of work that further develops its arguments by applying the lenses of volume and verticality to three case studies – the gold mining settlement of La Rinconada in Peru, ‘basement tenants’ in Beijing, China, and a community of homeless people living underground in Bucharest, Romania.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104160"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664212","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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“Renovate to rent” as a spatio-temporal fix under state entrepreneurialism: Urban renewal through long-term rental apartment development in China "以租代售 "作为国家企业主义下的时空修复：中国通过长租公寓开发实现城市更新

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104159

Chenxi Li , Shenjing He

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Using wastewater to overcome health disparities among rural residents 利用废水克服农村居民之间的健康差距

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103816

Rochelle H. Holm , Gina Pocock , Marie A. Severson , Victor C. Huber , Ted Smith , Lisa M. McFadden

{"title":"Using wastewater to overcome health disparities among rural residents","authors":"Rochelle H. Holm , Gina Pocock , Marie A. Severson , Victor C. Huber , Ted Smith , Lisa M. McFadden","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103816","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103816","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the need for novel tools to promote health equity. There has been a historical legacy around the location and allocation of public facilities (such as health care) focused on efficiency, which is not attainable in rural, low-density, United States areas. Differences in the spread of the disease and outcomes of infections have been observed between urban and rural populations throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this article was to review rural health disparities related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic while using evidence to support wastewater surveillance as a potentially innovative tool to address these disparities more widely. The successful implementation of wastewater surveillance in resource-limited settings in South Africa demonstrates the ability to monitor disease in underserved areas. A better surveillance model of disease detection among rural residents will overcome issues around the interactions of a disease and social determinants of health. Wastewater surveillance can be used to promote health equity, particularly in rural and resource-limited areas, and has the potential to identify future global outbreaks of endemic and pandemic viruses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103816"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10292026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10022499","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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“Doing What We Can with What We Have”: Examining the role of local government in poverty management during the COVID-19 pandemic “量力而行”:考察地方政府在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间在贫困管理中的作用

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103812

Fiona Long , Joshua Evans

{"title":"“Doing What We Can with What We Have”: Examining the role of local government in poverty management during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Fiona Long , Joshua Evans","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103812","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103812","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic and concern regarding the subsequent vulnerabilities of houseless populations, countries have sought to adapt and enhance emergency housing policies with a view of better protecting this population. Drawing on the poverty management perspective, this article focuses on local government and its role in managing houselessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. It achieves this by treating local council meetings as sites of problematization, in which the management of houselessness is rationalized and solutions negotiated. We transcribed local council meetings in Bristol, England and Edmonton, Canada, for an 18-month period from March 2020. Our analysis found that a common set of ‘problem spaces’ - systems, strategic opportunism and power - were evoked by municipal officials in both cities. Under the umbrella of ‘doing what we can’, local councils: conceptualized houselessness as complex and systemic; identified what does and does not work; discussed jurisdictional limitations and their impact; and defended new forms of accommodation. Significantly, despite the discursive desire to ‘build back better’, and a slightly rebalanced poverty management landscape in terms of care and control, local governments alone were unable to end houselessness within the post-COVID city.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103812"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10277843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9711969","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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Grandparenting left-behind children in Javanese Migrant-sending villages: Trigenerational care circuits and the negotiation of care 爪哇移民村留守儿童的祖父母抚养:三代关怀回路与关怀谈判

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103767

Bittiandra Chand Somaiah , Brenda S.A. Yeoh

{"title":"Grandparenting left-behind children in Javanese Migrant-sending villages: Trigenerational care circuits and the negotiation of care","authors":"Bittiandra Chand Somaiah , Brenda S.A. Yeoh","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103767","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parental labour migration requires recalibrations of care arrangements within the left-behind family. Existing studies of left-behind families, however, have largely concentrated on parental rather than grandparental caregiving of grandchildren. We argue that grandparents are pivotal to care work and changing family formations within migrant-sending villages. Grandparents provide supplementary care, substitutive care and even reconstitutive care, depending on the migration and marital status of the parents. The paper emphasizes the often unilateral care-contracts between grandparents and migrant parents, drawing on material primarily from the qualitative interviews of grandparent carers of left-behind children, and the grandchildren themselves. By considering a variety of family contexts in flux as a result of parental migration (mother, father or both parents) and marital dissolution amidst migration, we examine family situations holistically by taking into account the different modes of care provided by grandparents (occasionally in tandem with aunts) within changing care contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"143 ","pages":"Article 103767"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10347432/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9822610","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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Understanding livelihood changes in the charcoal and baobab value chains during Covid-19 in rural Mozambique: The role of power, risk and civic-based stakeholder conventions 了解2019冠状病毒病期间莫桑比克农村木炭和猴面包树价值链的生计变化:权力、风险和基于公民的利益攸关方公约的作用

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103706

Judith E. Krauss , Eduardo Castro Jr. , Andrew Kingman , Milagre Nuvunga , Casey Ryan

{"title":"Understanding livelihood changes in the charcoal and baobab value chains during Covid-19 in rural Mozambique: The role of power, risk and civic-based stakeholder conventions","authors":"Judith E. Krauss , Eduardo Castro Jr. , Andrew Kingman , Milagre Nuvunga , Casey Ryan","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103706","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103706","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce the transmission of Covid-19 had different repercussions for domestic, regional and global value chains, but empirical data are sparse on specific dynamics, particularly on their implications for value-chain stakeholders’ local livelihoods. Through research including weekly phone interviews (n = 273 from May to July 2020) with panellists in six Mozambican communities, our research traced firstly how the baobab and charcoal value chains were affected by Covid NPIs, particularly in terms of producers’ livelihoods. Secondly, we ask how our findings advance our understanding of the role of civic-based stakeholder conventions and different types of power in building viable local livelihoods. Our conceptual lens is based on a synthesis of value-chain and production-network analysis, convention theory and livelihood resilience focusing on power and risk.</p><p>We found that Covid trading and transport restrictions considerably re-shaped value chains, albeit in different ways in each value chain. The global baobab value chain continued to provide earnings particularly to women, when other income sources were eliminated, with socially oriented stakeholders altering their operations to accommodate pandemic restrictions. By contrast, producers involved in the domestic, solely market-oriented charcoal value chain saw their selling opportunities and incomes reduced, with hunger rising in charcoal-dependent communities. Our paper argues that local livelihoods were more resilient under Covid NPIs if civic-based conventions and collective, social power were present.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"140 ","pages":"Article 103706"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9995225/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9217046","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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Digital geographies of the bug: A case study of China's contact tracing systems in the COVID-19 病毒的数字地理:中国COVID-19接触者追踪系统的案例研究

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.10.007

Yi Yu , Dylan Brady , Bo Zhao

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