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{"title":"Special economic zone urbanism in Africa: capital, territory, and contested industrialization","authors":"Han Gao ,&nbsp;Xingping Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces the concept of Special Economic Zone Urbanism (SEZ Urbanism) to examine how SEZs operate as institutional tools for capital accumulation and territorial restructuring within multi-scalar networks, shaping Africa’s urbanization frontiers. African SEZs are shifting from traditional export-processing zones to integrated city–industry complexes that integrate infrastructure, real estate, manufacturing industries, and services. SEZ Urbanism is conceptualized as an ideal-type analytical framework, viewing urbanization as an institutional process rather than a fixed model. It rests on three key features: (1) policy coupling that links land governance, capital accumulation, and regulatory experimentation through multi-functional development; (2) cross-sectoral, multi-scalar governance embedding SEZs into national urban and regional strategies with unified planning and financialized investment; and (3) an urban-oriented logic where zones actively produce and reorganize urban space regardless of proximity to existing cities. Using a function–spatial embeddedness continuum, the study situates SEZ Urbanism within global infrastructure-led development and the spatialization of industrial policy. Drawing on a function–spatial embeddedness continuum, this study identifies three SEZ types: high-embedded integrated city SEZs, medium-embedded industrial–urban satellite SEZs, and low-embedded industrial city SEZs. Positioned within global infrastructure-led development and the spatialization of industrial policy, SEZ Urbanism acts as a governance laboratory where neoliberal privatization and developmental industrialization intersect, embedding in global production and financial networks while retaining strategic state control, yet carrying potential risks of spatial exclusion and socio-economic inequality under financialization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 104403"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933913","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":"Heated discussions: youth-led dialogue with older generations reveals unwitting silences and shared feelings about climate change","authors":"Charlotte Earl-Jones,&nbsp;Aidan Davison,&nbsp;Chloe Lucas","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Created by past and older generations, the climate crisis is an issue of intergenerational injustice for younger and future generations. However, little is known about how this temporal injustice is affecting intergenerational relationships in a changing climate. We report on an innovative study into the variety and complexity of affective intergenerational dynamics relating to climate change. We facilitated a two-day participant action workshop in Tasmania, Australia, in which 14 young people (15–19 years) conducted interviews with an important adult in their life from an older generation (36–82 years). Thematic analysis of youth-led interview transcripts, as well as transcripts of group activities with younger and older cohorts, revealed organising themes. Older participants described younger people as being more connected to global issues, such as climate change, than they were in their youth. While older participants told of becoming aware of climate change in adulthood, young participants narrated climate change as a constant presence in their lives. Participants discussed diverse emotional ways of coping with climate change, ranging from avoidance and apathy to anger and joy/hope, as well as the multiple pressures faced by young people. Our findings reveal that youth-led dialogue provides opportunities for both younger and older people to express their fears about climate change to each other, often for the first time, thereby reconfiguring intergenerational emotional dynamics and enabling recognition of differences in responsibility across the generations. Both young and older cohorts uncovered silences in their intergenerational relationships that were not previously recognised, enabling mutual learning and building empathy. The research shows how emotionally open, safe and facilitated dialogue between generations can disrupt generational binaries and foster opportunities for mutual support and cross-generational collaboration to address the unequal impacts of climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 104391"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933912","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 new economic nationalism: industrial policy and national security in the United States, China, and the European Union","authors":"Jostein Hauge,&nbsp;Bruno Houtzager,&nbsp;Alessandro Julian Hörmann","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104382","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the resurgence of industrial policy and national security strategy across the United States, China, and the European Union. We analyse how these major economic powers are implementing distinct approaches to industrial policy while pursuing similar objectives of technological leadership and national economic prosperity. The United States has adopted a hawkish stance with extensive trade policies and subsidies. China has pursued ambitious growth in a range of sectors through long-term planning and strong government control. The European Union has balanced autonomy with trade openness and somewhat less state intervention. Our comparative analysis reveals that while these policies may be successful in strengthening domestic economies, they collectively reshape the world economy in ways that may disadvantage other nations, especially in the global South. However, ‘connector’ countries in the global South are benefitting by forging strategic ties with several superpowers. Additionally, the rise of China gives hope for South-South development cooperation that upend existing imperial arrangements often characterised by North-South relations. We argue that the convergence of industrial policy and national security represents more than a temporary response to recent disruptions; it signals a fundamental shift in the world economy towards more economic nationalism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 104382"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144925881","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":"Two Late Imperial Oil Booms: A comparison of the constrained national energy imaginaries of the UK’s North Sea and US hydraulic fracturing","authors":"Gabe Eckhouse ,&nbsp;Ewan Gibbs","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104389","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104389","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The UK and the US dominated global oil production for nearly a century. Imperial power was central to their control over the extraction and flow of oil; coups, wars, and price controls have long accompanied this ‘violent’ commodity. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, however, both countries experienced major oil and gas booms—North Sea production in the UK and hydraulic fracturing in the US—late into their lives as global hydrocarbon powers. This paper develops a comparison of the <em>energy imaginaries</em> that shaped these two cases, advancing the concept of the <em>late imperial oil boom</em>. In both instances, national hydrocarbon endowments were reframed as sources of energy security and geopolitical renewal amid growing instability in global markets. We emphasize the specific geographic, technical, political, and economic conditions that shaped the development of each boom. By contrasting these two ongoing extractive sectors, we offer a novel comparative account of national energy projects under conditions of imperial decline—highlighting how material constraints shape hydrocarbon imaginaries, even in the richest and most technologically advanced states. Despite considerable differences, both booms were animated by a shared imaginary: that national fossil fuel resources could restore energy security, revive economic strength, and reassert global political influence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104389"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890847","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":"“I just lower my head and move on.” Spatialized inequality and the politics of teenage parenthood: Navigating stigma, shame and the fear of social work intervention in a deprived coastal town","authors":"Emma Geddes ,&nbsp;Aniela Wenham","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mainstream policy and research have driven forward numerous interventions relating to persistent and significant variation in the rate of teenage pregnancy both between and within local areas in England, including a focus on the high concentration of young parenthood in deprived coastal communities. Coastal towns in England face a constellation of unique, complex and intertwining pressures which drive clusters of socio-economic deprivation and social issues. Building upon what is known about the spatial concentration of young parenthood within deprived coastal towns, we take a place-based approach to understanding social inequalities, presenting qualitative evidence relating to the intersection of young parenthood and forms of social injustice, particularly the increased likelihood of the children of young parents being the subject of compulsory investigation by Children’s Services. We explore findings arising from qualitative participatory arts-based research with 18 young parents and interviews with 15 practitioners, examining the significance of the spatial context in understanding young people’s experiences of stigmatisation and considering the potential for provision to respond to distinctive features of the locality. This paper contextualises broader socio-economic structures impacting upon the experiences of teenage parents and the effect of disadvantage on the ability of young people to achieve the ‘good’ parent status to which they aspire. Through the lens of a deprived coastal town in the North of England, the findings highlight the importance of the ‘locale’ in navigating stigma, and how this creates a ‘spatialised subjectivity’ which interacts with a particular fear of professional intervention, including the threat of child removal.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104386"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144886739","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":"Unveiling the emotional and social consequences of deindustrialisation: The case of East Germany’s shipbuilding industry","authors":"Nora Mariella Küttel","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104390","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104390","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the emotional and social consequences of deindustrialisation through oral history interviews with former workers from East Germany’s shipbuilding industry. It reveals how the transition to a market economy after 1990 not only let to job losses but also fractured workplace relations, disrupted community attachments, and introduced new forms of spatial displacement and uncertainty. Drawing on emotional geographies, labour geography, and memory studies, the analysis explores how workers experienced, made sense of, and remembered these transformations. It further argues that memory acts as a form of agency through which workers reassert meaning, identity, and value in the face of structural change. Narratives of pride, dispossession, and fractured bonds show that industrial decline is not merely an economic shift but a deeply affective, contested, and ongoing process. The article contributes to more nuanced understandings of post-industrial transformation by centring its emotional, spatial, and temporal dimensions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104390"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863719","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 biopolitics of taming: biosecurity, technology, and the transformation of wild boar hunting in uruguay","authors":"Juan Martin Dabezies","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the transformation of wild boar hunting practices in Uruguay, focusing on the intersection of biosecurity imperatives, technological advancements, and traditional hunting ethics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores how hunters navigate their evolving roles as recreational sportsmen and state-regulated “controllers” of zoonotic threats and invasive species. The research reveals a complex process of “taming” hunters, integrating them into broader biosecurity frameworks while simultaneously generating spaces for resistance and negotiation. The adoption of night vision technologies and the shift towards pest control ethics challenge traditional notions of fair chase and sportsmanship, reshaping human-animal relationships. This transformation reflects global trends in multispecies governance, where veterinary logic and transnational biosecurity concerns increasingly mediate local practices. The paper argues that while these changes enhance efficiency in population control, they risk eroding the diversity of hunting practices that have historically functioned as adaptive local knowledge systems. By examining the tensions between state legibility and hunter agency, the study contributes to broader discussions on the biopolitics of wildlife management, the ethics of human-animal interactions, and the challenges of balancing biosecurity needs with cultural traditions in an era of increasing ecological disruptions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104384"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863718","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":"Risky waters: Household debts for financialised inclusion","authors":"Philip Mader ,&nbsp;Solène Morvant-Roux ,&nbsp;Brendan Ecuyer","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper critically examines the financialisation of water access in the global South through household indebtedness. It introduces the concept of ‘de-risking by the poor’ to describe how financial risks are transferred from water providers and investors to low-income households under the guise of inclusive development. Drawing on three case studies—WaterCredit microfinance in South Asia, post-payment water connections in Morocco, and debt-collecting prepaid meters in Colombia—the paper shows how water inclusion is increasingly mediated by debt-based arrangements that protect providers from financial and political risks in the interest of full cost recovery. These arrangements function through three key modalities of risk-shifting: tranching (segmenting users and services by risk and cost), conditionalisation (making water access contingent on debt servicing), and responsibilisation (imposing behavioural expectations on users). Unlike traditional blended finance models, this form of de-risking by risk-shifting to the poor relies on the financial exposure of the very low-income households such arrangements claim to benefit. The analysis reveals how water-debt arrangements not only deepen financialisation but also undermine the human right to water, exacerbate inequality, and depoliticise water access by framing it as a matter of individual responsibility. By foregrounding risk as a central analytical lens, the paper contributes to critical debates on financialisation and development and calls for a shift toward rights-based and public models of water provision that do not rely on the indebtedness of the poor.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104383"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863721","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":"It takes a village: reflexive capacity in municipal climate change adaptation processes","authors":"Dennis Fila ,&nbsp;Hartmut Fünfgeld","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104387","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing the need for inclusive policymaking in climate change adaptation, our research focuses on the development and implications of <em>reflexive capacity</em> in processes of six German municipalities and districts. We understand <em>reflexive capacity</em> as the collective ability of actors in an institutional context to recognize, challenge, and transform the power structures and practices that shape their agency. This approach is grounded in a triad of theories: governmentality, communicative planning, and sociological institutionalism. Each of these theories informs our understanding of <em>reflexive capacity</em>, providing a multifaceted approach to how decision-makers engage with, and are influenced by, local social and political dynamics. Using this lens, we explore the ways in which resource-constrained, smaller municipalities in Germany navigate complex adaptation challenges. Drawing on qualitative data collected between 2021 and 2023 within a transdisciplinary research project such as focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and document analysis, we analyse the factors that shape the <em>reflexive capacity</em> of municipalities, including the role of local leadership, civic engagement, and institutions. Our findings suggest that while resource-constrained municipalities face a range of challenges in building stocks of capacity, there are substantial opportunities for enhancing adaptive capacity through more collaborative, and flexible governance structures by building on <em>reflexive capacity</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104387"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863717","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":"Corrigendum to “Production of space and time in ‘New’ Turkey: Re-conquest and resistance in the making of Istanbul Airport” [Geoforum 162 (2025) 104277]","authors":"Ayşe Serdar","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104385","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104385"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144988595","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}