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{"title":"‘Wall disease’: Unpacking the emotive geographies of post-conflict Nicosia","authors":"Amy Reid","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104217","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104217","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided by the ‘Green Line’, separating the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities into the north and south of the island respectively. This paper focuses on the capital city of Nicosia, which is often referred to as ‘Europe’s last divided capital’. Despite the cessation of violence, flags, checkpoints, commemorative sites, watchtowers, and evidence of the conflict continue to permeate the urban fabric of present-day Nicosia. Thus, whilst Cyprus could be considered as being ‘post-violence’ politically, the conflict arguably continues to manifest itself throughout the urban environment. A significant body of research has explored the Cyprus conflict; however, rather less attention has been paid to the emotional impacts of living in a divided city. Therefore, this paper makes three original contributions. The first is to apply <span><span>Tuan’s (1979)</span></span> theory of landscapes of fear to a reading of Nicosia. The second is to advance our knowledge on the emotional geographies of Nicosia, focusing on how emotions and experiences are shaped and spatially manifested by this post-conflict landscape. This approach seeks to add depth to the understanding of the complex relationship between place, emotion, and conflict. The final contribution of this article is to highlight the role that qualitative research can play in moving studies of emotional geographies forward.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104217"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160952","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":"Walking with water: Reframing drained waterways in Melbourne","authors":"Ana Cristina Lara Heyns","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104216","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104216","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the transformation of Melbourne’s waterways through urbanisation and colonisation, drawing on Indigenous paradigms of relationality to propose alternative frameworks for understanding and managing water. It challenges modernist water management practices that separate natural and urban systems, advocating for approaches that respect water as a relational and agentic entity. The study incorporates Indigenous methodologies and decolonial practices such as deep listening, walking, and yarning to explore the historical and cultural narratives of buried waterways. Using the Rippon Lea Estate as a case study, the research demonstrates how relational design, and augmented reality can reconnect urban communities with hidden waterways. The paper introduces three perspectives: water as a relational entity, the agency of water, and the reframing of drained waterways as active, though shadowed, contributors to the urban environment. These perspectives foster a holistic understanding of water that integrates Indigenous knowledge, promoting equity, sustainability, and a co-becoming relationship with water in urban landscapes. By engaging with water’s cultural, spiritual, and ecological dimensions, the study reimagines urban design and water governance for a future shaped by reciprocity and care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104216"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160953","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":"Transformations and eco-territorial governance innovations: The case of the Chaparri Nature Reserve, Peru","authors":"Vera Flores-Fernandez ,&nbsp;Pieter Van den Broeck ,&nbsp;Elke Hermans ,&nbsp;Constanza Parra","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past two decades, the expansion of Peru’s agro-export sector has driven agricultural frontiers into the Lambayeque region, leading to the criminalization of local peasant communities that advocate for nature conservation. In this paper, we examine the Chaparri Nature Reserve, the first private protected area created by a peasant community in Peru. We develop the concept of “eco-territorial governance innovations” to analyze how Chaparri’s collective action restores dry forest ecosystems and provides new socio-economic and socio-ecological development venues for peasant communities facing criminalization. Our findings show that eco-territorial governance innovations play a crucial role in reconstructing nature-culture relations and addressing socio-political gaps related to nature conservation and other socio-environmental causes. Through their governance innovations, the historically oppressed Chaparri community is developing alternatives to counteract adverse conditions, recover from marginalization, reaffirm their identities, and strengthen both local and <em>trans</em>-local ties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104178"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160702","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":"Beyond presentism in border externalization studies: Upcycled spatio-cultural geographies of imperial times","authors":"Sebastian Cobarrubias ,&nbsp;Martin Lemberg-Pedersen","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This Special Issue Introduction signals how post, decolonial and historical gazes enhance studies of border externalization efforts by European Union (EU) institutions and Member States in African countries. Research has only begun to acknowledge how economic, political and social geographies of extraterritorial migration management stretch back in time connecting to longer histories of empire. Predominantly, externalization studies have remained thoroughly embedded in a Eurocentric post-Cold War time frame where externalization was conceptualized as the spatial outgrowth of the European Union yielding a de-historicized spatiality, epistemology and narratives. This SI highlights the “methodological presentism” hitherto at work in border externalization research, and poses ways of challenging the associated epistemological boundaries. This introduction, and the themed articles therein, de-centre dominant spatio-temporal assumptions in border externalization research by applying a historical gaze on border practices through postcolonial and decolonial theory. We argue that future research on externalisation, and on the role of borders more broadly, would benefit from this approach, situating what seems an innovative spatial and political practice in a longer, and more instructive, timeframe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104197"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160950","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":"Assembling mountains through food. Typical cheese and politics of mountainness in the Italian Alps","authors":"Giacomo Pettenati ,&nbsp;Emanuele Amo ,&nbsp;Michael Woods","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of typical products in rural regions has sparked scholarly debate, with a great variety of approaches and perspectives employed to investigate agri-food goods with unique territorial characteristics. This paper delves into the complexities surrounding the identification and codification of such products, particularly focusing on the cheese industry within mountain regions. Through the assemblage theory, it explores the multifaceted elements contributing to the production of typical cheese, including geographical indications, local practices and knowledge. Using Castelmagno cheese as a case study, the research investigates the intricate dynamics of its recognition and production, shedding light on important issues such re-localization, economic strategies, and conflicts within the local community. By defining and analyzing the politics of mountainness inherent in the designation of typical products, this study uncovers the diverse perspectives and negotiations shaping rural economies and landscapes. The research elucidates the intricate relationship between the qualification of Castelmagno cheese as a typical product and the relational fabrication of the mountain, both as a tangible geographical entity and as a conceptual construct. Through qualitative methods such as interviews, observations, and literature analysis, it provides insights into the interplay between food production, cultural heritage, and the negotiation of territorial identities in mountainous regions, thus proposing an unconventional understanding of the relationships between food-making and place-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104210"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160955","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":"On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience’: A pragmatist approach to justice-based climate change governance","authors":"Nathaniel O’Grady","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholars have afforded much attention to environmental justice issues amid the recent global surge in climate resilience efforts. And yet our analysis of these issues frequently falls back on reductionist modes of critique that presume to know resilience’s implications for justice before actual inquiry. Ontological claims abound about resilience <em>being</em> neoliberalism or neo-colonialism incarnate and as such always-already complicit in the production of myriad injustices. This paper takes up geography’s recent revival in interest with pragmatist and conjunctural methodologies to offer a more nuanced account of resilience and justice. In so doing, it introduces the notion of ‘just resilience’ to foreground and explore the influence of state-based conceptualizations of justice in structuring major interventions carried out to adapt to and mitigate climate change. I compartmentalize just resilience into three related heuristically informed concepts to analyze its emergence in our shared present, evaluate how it shapes government intervention and highlight some of its consequences. <em>Topological composition</em> addresses how particular understandings of justice have been constructed through dialogue between government actors and communities disproportionately affected by environmental harm. Through <em>translational logistics</em>, I elaborate on how these conceptualizations of justice orient the uneven movement of resilience projects across different communities. Finally, <em>relational conceptualizations of scale</em> considers the effects that prevail where multiple different resilience projects are undertaken in the same local site simultaneously. Contrasting with mainstream critiques, a pragmatist-conjunctural approach emphasizes the possibility that resilience can operate as a vessel for the pursuit of environmental justice. Nevertheless, it also raises substantial concerns about: the extent to which the meaning communities invest into justice translates into governmental practice, the asymmetries in political agency that just resilience affords different people and the tendency of resilience projects to produce effects that compromise the very forms of justice that putatively structure their enactment. The paper substantiates its argument through research into the Justice40 initiative that continues to structure some ongoing climate resilience programs in the United States.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104163"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160704","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":"Ambivalent temporalities of mega-infrastructures in Lamu, Kenya","authors":"Gediminas Lesutis","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104199","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article, analysing politics of Lamu Port in Kenya, explores the ambivalent temporalities of mega-infrastructures as they unfold at different intersections of state politics, megaprojects, and everyday life. Although at its inception Lamu Port was central to state development strategies and local contestations that ensued as a response, with faltering project development goals, this infrastructure has gradually receded into a material, symbolic, and affective background of contestations and everyday life. Fishermen displaced by the new port construction precariously adapt to new material conditions. The port itself, once deemed threatening to local livelihoods or an anticipatory possibility of “development”, is overshadowed by changing state politics, leadership, and political dramas that ensue. In this context, some actors start to question whether the project will materialise at all, perceiving the lack of infrastructure development as more threatening than the new port itself. Centering these dynamics, the article foregrounds the analytical and methodological value of studying infrastructure over time, specifically how ambivalent temporalities of megaprojects demonstrate that infrastructure––once spectacular, disruptive, or anticipatory––gradually recedes into the backdrop, becoming one nebulous node within multiple layers of state-society relations, contestations, and everyday life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104199"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160708","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":"Privilege forged in space: Student experiences in transitioning to Zurich’s highly selective public secondary schools","authors":"Lara Landolt ,&nbsp;Carlotta Reh","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104219","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104219","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent debates within geographies of education and related fields stress the increasing importance of selective public secondary schools for privilege and elite reproduction in urban school landscapes and frame these processes as inherently spatial. This paper aims to contribute to these debates by exploring the social production of privileged school spaces at selective public secondary schools—a school type whose spatiality in elite reproduction remains understudied—and its impact on students’ self-understandings. It draws on ethnographic research with six students aged 11–15 during their transition to selective public secondary schools, called <em>Gymnasia</em>, in the City of Zurich, Switzerland. We analyzed the data using an approach informed by Henri Lefebvre’s theories of social space in <em>The Production of Space</em>. The analysis revealed that the <em>Gymnasia</em> drew on a variety of spatial practices and their material spaces to position themselves as educational spaces of distinction that encourage their students’ spatial independence. Students translated this into subjective lived spaces of privilege and an understanding of themselves as particularly responsible, independent and deservingly privileged students. We argue that that such interpretations may contribute to a social hierarchization of the student body in the region, with the <em>Gymnasium</em> students feeling socially superior. Finally, we argue that our findings underpin the analytical value of a Lefebvrian spatial lens to examine school spaces and how these shape students’ views of themselves and others in broader society.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104219"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159898","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":"Digitalising rural lifestyles: Online platforms and everyday life in Chinese villages","authors":"Xinhui Wu ,&nbsp;Chen Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article moves beyond the agriculture-centred perspective of researching digital lives in rural areas and the view of the urban–rural digital divide to focus on the daily interactions between rural practices and digital platforms in Chinese villages. Based on an analysis of qualitative data collected from two wider projects on rural development and poverty alleviation in China, the key findings of this article argue that rural residents are active prosumers of digital platforms who sustain their rural lifestyles through embedding new cross-platform practices into their familiar rural activities. These findings have confirmed the contradictions of the digital divide between rural and urban China. The contribution of this article offers a practice-oriented and cross-platform approach that can deepen digital and rural geographies’ understanding of the human-technology assemblage of the embodied, practised, and experienced rurality in everyday contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104206"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160129","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":"Spaces of cinema in rural Cyprus: Cinemagoing and the Turkish Cypriot audience in the Karpas region, 1960–1974","authors":"Barçın Boğaç ,&nbsp;Jonathan Stubbs","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the historical spaces of cinemagoing among the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus’ rural Karpas region during a period of significant political upheaval and economic isolation. Drawing on oral histories from sixty-six former cinemagoers and cinema operators, the study recovers previously undocumented aspects of rural film culture between 1960 and 1974, when the majority of Turkish Cypriots lived in militarised enclaves. The findings reveal how cinema culture not only survived but flourished in these adverse conditions. Local entrepreneurs established sophisticated distribution networks between urban centers and isolated villages, while adapting exhibition practices to local economic conditions through traditional bartering systems. The study examines how cinema architecture reflected both practical constraints and community security concerns, with cinema buildings serving multiple social functions beyond film exhibition. Of particular significance is the transformation of cinema spaces into vital community hubs, hosting weddings and other cultural events in the absence of other civic infrastructure. Rather than acting as a modernising force, cinema in Karpas operated within and adapted to traditional social and economic structures. This research contributes to broader debates about rural cinema culture by demonstrating how film exhibition could thrive even in conditions of extreme political and economic isolation, while suggesting that modernization was not a prerequisite for the emergence of a successful cinema culture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104176"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160130","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}