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{"title":"Queer(y)ing bodies as infrastructure: Glitchy modalities of infrastructural failure","authors":"Fang Bian","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104555","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104555","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By embracing “the glitch” as an alternative mode of queer failure, I argue for a queer ethico-political project: queer(y)ing bodies as infrastructure by locating “the glitch” as an epistemological reorientation toward sites and moments of digital-material incongruities that fail to compute with the algorithmic logic of platform capitalism. The glitch is not merely the revelation of infrastructural failure; rather, it holds the political possibility of a positional shift – one that reorients queer failure from radical passivity to collective action. I articulate this political possibility through three situated modalities of glitch politics by foregrounding how “glitch as limit”, “glitch as mess”, and “glitch as fugitivity” can save queer bodies from platform capitalism’s traps of normative binarisms that reduce them into either “good data” or “bad data”. Glitch, as a fantastic mode of infrastructure, reorients and disorients queer bodies to revel in all locations of in-betweenness that actively <em>reverse</em>, <em>repurpose</em>, and <em>refuse</em> the infrastructural violence of digital infrastructure <em>within</em>, <em>against</em>, and <em>outside</em> platform capitalism’s tyranny of infrastructural success.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104555"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146074991","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":"Encountering nonhuman charisma: caring for research pigs","authors":"Kate Goldie","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, I examine the pig as a research animal and consider how a species-specific focus adds complexity to the inextricability of care and harm in the laboratory. Laboratory animal science is an ethically charged space where care and killing are inseparable, yet little attention has been paid to how this paradox is complicated by the particular identities and relational qualities of different species. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with animal technicians (ATs) in two UK facilities, I trace the ways in which pig charisma is actively engineered and mobilised across their lives in research. Distributed practices position charisma as a tool for shaping the ‘ideal laboratory pig’ while further entangling care with harm. At the same time, the same traits that engender close interspecies intimacies with pigs and ATs also make their deaths ethically and emotionally fraught. By following charisma across breeding, laboratory care, and potential afterlives beyond the laboratory, I extend debates on cultures of care and more-than-human ethics, while prompting reflection on the porous boundaries between laboratory subject, farmed animal, and companion species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104568"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398827","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":"Situated science and the state: rethinking the role of Scientific Administrative Organisations in India’s Disaster Governance","authors":"Anshu Ogra ,&nbsp;George Adamson ,&nbsp;Amy Donovan","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104576","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104576","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>India’s National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) positions Scientific Administrative Organizations (SAOs) as nodal agencies for early warning and risk assessment across a range of hazards. This paper critically examines what it means for an SAO—specifically the Geological Survey of India (GSI)—to take on this expanded mandate in the context of landslide risk and early warning systems. Drawing on insights from the LANDSLIP project, which aimed to develop a prototype Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS), the study reveals that such responsibility allocation entails not only technical upskilling but also a fundamental shift in the epistemological underpinnings guiding the institutional practices of these SAOs. We use theories of co-production (Jasanoff, 2004b) and situated knowledge (<span><span>Haraway, 1988</span></span>) to argue that disaster risk knowledge is not merely transferred from science to policy but actively produced through historically situated institutional arrangements. The paper shows how GSI’s transformation involves negotiating interdisciplinary relationships, grappling with methodological uncertainty, and redefining its role as a producer of actionable knowledge. The analysis reveals that the NDMP’s current framework fails to recognize the institutional work and epistemic restructuring required to operationalize early warnings. We propose a shift from static task allocations to a dynamic, networked approach to knowledge production and coordination. This reframing offers critical insights into how national science-policy infrastructures must evolve to make disaster risk reduction more contextually grounded, socially inclusive, and institutionally robust. Crucially, this paper also challenges the often-felt—but rarely articulated—tension of drafting national disaster management policies that are largely modelled on frameworks developed in and for the Global North. It argues that such transplants frequently neglect the institutional histories, epistemic cultures, and infrastructural realities of countries like India, leading to gaps between intended policy goals and the actual capacities and contexts of their implementing agencies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104576"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398784","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":"The political economy of Chile’s coal transition","authors":"Daniela Soto Hernandez,&nbsp;Peter Newell","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In debates about just transitions the experience of unjust coal transitions loom large. Case studies often focus on the experience of countries in Europe and North America, comparing and contrasting more laissez-faire and interventionist state strategies aimed at supporting workers in the transition. In this article, we explore the neglected case of Chile: a country that has retired early most of its coal plants as part of national decarbonisation plan and a Climate Change Framework law which aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. We use the case study, based on extensive interviews with government, business and civil society actors, to understand the political economy of just transition in Chile. Described by many as a neo-liberal energy transition, we argue it embodies many of the contradictions of such transitions around the understated role of the state, the invisibilisation and socialisation of the social and ecological costs of transition and shallow forms of democratisation through performative patterns of public participation which seek to manage dissent. We suggest the transition reflects the prevailing model of capitalist extractivism in Chile and a series of settlements between the Chilean state, national and foreign capital contested by social resistance to sacrifice zones, helping to inform debates about neo-liberal energy transitions in general and just transitions in particular.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104574"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398778","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":"Living with the river: Territorial imaginaries, risk cultures, and everyday adaptation in a flood-prone neighborhood","authors":"Marilyne Gaudette ,&nbsp;Daniel Germain","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of floods, questions about the habitability of flood-prone territories are gaining urgency. This paper explores how residents of a floodplain neighborhood in Lachute, Québec (Canada), perceive, inhabit, and adapt to recurring floods. Based on 29 semi-structured interviews and qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2023, the study analyzes how lived experience, emotional ties, and symbolic representations shape risk imaginaries and adaptive behavior. Findings reveal two coexisting geographical imaginaries: one rooted in long-term exposure and a logic of cohabitation with the river; the other shaped by distance, denial, or defense. These imaginaries generate divergent attitudes toward adaptation, preparedness, and public policy. The paper introduces a conceptual framework linking representations of the river, flood events, and risk, highlighting the cultural dimensions of flood resilience. In doing so, it challenges dominant regulatory approaches based on static zoning and hydraulic models, and calls for more context-sensitive, territorialized forms of governance. The study contributes to debates on risk governance by foregrounding the symbolic and material dimensions of living with water.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104571"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398781","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":"Right place, right time: Luck, geography, and politics","authors":"Nick Clarke","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104546"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146036681","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":"Market mechanisms and low-income housing patterns in the context of urban growth: study of developer behaviours in Bandung Metropolitan Area Indonesia","authors":"Anita Vitriana ,&nbsp;Sara Özogul ,&nbsp;Sarah Mawhorter ,&nbsp;Johan Woltjer","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104565","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The private sector dominates low-income housing provision in both the Global North and South. Compared to the Global North, formal low-income housing in the Global South typically manifests as low-density urban sprawl. This study investigates how the layered motivations and strategies of developers shape low-income housing development patterns in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia. Semi-structured interviews with 21 developers—14 focused on subsidised housing and 7 on market housing with low-income housing experience—reveal a mix of motivations that combine economic pragmatism and socio-political considerations shaped by local embeddedness and institutional settings. Despite lower investment returns, low-income housing is perceived as a viable investment due to strong market demand, government support, and personal values. Developers’ continued preference for building single-family homes represents a rational and pragmatic response to cultural preferences, regulatory conditions, and capital constraints. Amid growing urban land scarcity, developers pursue increasingly distant land parcels and employ relational strategies to sustain this development model. As a result, multifamily housing remains marginalised, while developers’ decisions reinforce the trend toward smaller single-family units built farther from urban centres, exacerbating the spatial mismatch between housing and employment opportunities. This study demonstrates how market mechanisms operating within immature institutional frameworks can intensify spatial inequities rather than advance the social objectives of low-income housing. The research suggests that examining land and housing tenure systems can provide valuable insights into the persistence of low-density sprawl in such housing developments. We also recommend policy makers adopt narratives of higher-density housing to challenge such entrenched practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104565"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398773","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":"Labor, power and scale: an analysis of food policy councils and food labor advocacy in the United States","authors":"Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern ,&nbsp;Jonnell A. Robinson ,&nbsp;Frank Sarfo","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we focus on U.S.-based Food Policy Councils (FPCs), diverse networks of food system representatives that work regionally across sectors. We examine how these groups’ focus on regional scale can be both a challenge and an opportunity for prioritizing food system labor. Contrary to research in geography and other food system scholarship, which critiques locally focused market-based food movements for attending to the interests of well-resourced consumers and ignoring labor injustices and inequalities, this paper argues that FPCs are finding ways to contribute to social movements and policy change regarding food workers’ rights on a regional scale. Drawing on national survey data, focus groups, and interviews with FPC leaders, we conclude that FPCs have the potential to improve food labor conditions, particularly through their support of values-based procurement policies. By applying a food systems lens to concerns that are relevant to both workers and employers at the local and regional scales, some FPCs are bringing awareness to the conditions of food workers. While these approaches do not alleviate structural constraints to increasing low wages, nor power differentials between workers and owners, they highlight the value of place-based food labor advocacy and provide openings for rethinking critiques concerning regional and local food movements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104561"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398828","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":"Somaforming on an alien Earth","authors":"Roxane Gabet Severne ,&nbsp;Adam Searle","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104559","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104559","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The realities of climate catastrophe increasingly threaten opportunities for multispecies liveability on this planet; Earth is becoming more alien every day through unequal intensities of weirding. We explore the conceptual provocations in the idea of ‘terraforming Terra’: that is, exploring the politics of transforming exoplanets – fabulated in the pages of science fiction – in contemporary empirical situations on an alien Earth. Gleaning insight from the speculative fiction of Becky Chambers in her 2019 novella <em>To Be Taught, If Fortunate</em>, we examine her concept of ‘somaforming’ in relation to terraforming. Chambers presents somaforming as a technology deployed to adapt bodies to alien planets, as an explicit alternative to terraforming, enabling human survival in hostile exoplanetary environments. We read somaforming with empirical reference to ongoing technoscientific efforts seeking to adapt bovine bodies to the imagined futures caused by global warming, in preparation for weird worlds to come. We analyse two scientific experiments that attempt to adapt cattle to the negative environmental impacts of climate change – respectively parasitism and heat stress – affecting animal welfare and agricultural productivity. While these somaforming practices each use a different technology transforming the cows’ body – through paint or gene editing – we argue that both illustrate the dangers of allowing ‘somaforming experiments’ to pre-empt an alien Earth, in its foreclosing of alternatives to ‘business as usual’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104559"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398782","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":"Place, Process, People: Digital Placemaking across Global Supply Chains","authors":"Sidney James Boegman-Watt,&nbsp;Sophia Carodenuto","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104530","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104530","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chocolate is a staple of the North American diet whose main ingredient, cacao, can only be grown in equatorial regions that are distant from their principal consumer markets in the Global North. The commodity chocolate industry has been criticized for perpetuating environmental, social, and economic inequities for smallholder cacao farmers, especially those in West Africa, where the majority of cacao is produced. Craft chocolate presents an alternative to commodity chocolate, offering a promise of more ethical consumption and better outcomes for cacao producers. In addition to prioritizing alternative sourcing practices, this morality-driven sector is defined by a wide variety of cacao ‘origins’, or the places where cacao beans are grown. Many craft chocolate companies are dedicated to educating consumers about cacao origins, including the diversity of geographic regions, harvesting processes, and land stewardship—all of which impact chocolate flavour. The ubiquity of online consumption has shifted most of this education to digital spaces, resulting in increased mediation of place in online settings. In this study, we explore how digital placemaking—the construction of place that occurs through digitally-mediated experiences—is employed on direct-to-consumer craft chocolate websites operating in North America. Drawing on a human-place-technology framework of digital placemaking to analyze focus group data, we assert that these websites ‘bridge the gap’ between producing and consuming geographies by sharing experiences connected to place. We also critique the use of simplified location-based marketing narratives within placemaking practices for their potential to construct certain origins as innately ‘good’ and others as ‘bad’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104530"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145993531","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}