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The ‘Borders of Berlin’: West African protests and the coloniality of Euro-African deportation cooperation

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104205

Aino Korvensyrjä

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Resistance in a “sacred geography”: Critical perspectives on land, ecology, and activism among Dersimi Alevis in Turkey 神圣地理 "中的抵抗：土耳其 Dersimi Alevis 人对土地、生态和行动主义的批判视角

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104263

Hayal Hanoğlu , Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach , Wendelmoet Hamelink , Marcin Skupiński

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Knowledge exchange in peripheral coworking spaces: A study of proximities using social network analysis

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104264

Mikel Oleaga

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Seeing self-help urban design as a social movement in the global south: A case in Accra, Ghana

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104260

Hsi-Chuan Wang

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Local varieties of state-directed green and digital innovation processes in China: Evidence from Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Longyan

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104247

Chris Brueck , Ingo Liefner

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Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy: Big data insights into competing framings and implications

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104241

Ida N.S. Djenontin , Harry W. Fischer , Junjun Yin , Guangqing Chi

{"title":"Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy: Big data insights into competing framings and implications","authors":"Ida N.S. Djenontin , Harry W. Fischer , Junjun Yin , Guangqing Chi","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Restoration has become a key environmental policy goal of the contemporary era. Yet, what restoration means and how it is pursued remains an object of debate. This study examines the nature of restoration discourses on Twitter – a large, open, and global record of public discussions around contemporary restoration matters. We apply machine learning-powered text analysis of about 350,000 geolocated tweets spanning 2015-2022, focusing on four main restoration terms – landscape restoration; forest and landscape restoration; ecological restoration; and ecosystem restoration. Findings reveal a wide diversity of environmental policies framed through the language of restoration, underscoring its public appeal and use by different institutions from global to national and subnational scales. Restoration discourses foster both ecological and human-centered framings, with the former being more prominent. Other distinct discourses convey promotional efforts, momentum building, political engagement by proponent actors, and what restoration should deliver. Only a few discourses feature quick fixes such as tree planting, potentially implying that contemporary restoration interventions are more diverse than headline-grabbing targets to plant trees. There is little discussion of rural livelihoods, tenure rights, or tradeoffs between environmental objectives and local needs. Although the discourses vary across the restoration terms, we find some shared discourses as well as unique ones. We underscore how restoration discourses carry different worldviews with implications for the purported socio-ecological benefits of restoration. Our work shows how data-driven analysis of social media can shed light on the rhetoric of restoration policy agendas and their nuances among a broad spectrum of social and policy actors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 104241"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548848","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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More than ‘self-help’: The urban governance of the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104250

Hillary Birch

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Struggles over value, access and positionality: Differentiated dis/association agency in humanitarian aid

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104258

Dorothee Nussbruch, Lotte Thomsen

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Subjects of injustice: Inequity, misframing and human rights violations in a Tanzanian REDD+ pilot project

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104245

Emma Jane Lord , Siddharth Sareen

{"title":"Subjects of injustice: Inequity, misframing and human rights violations in a Tanzanian REDD+ pilot project","authors":"Emma Jane Lord , Siddharth Sareen","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest carbon offsetting schemes, including Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), have attracted criticism from the outset, for building upon former colonial international relations to justify continued fossil fuel emissions and industrialized profit. Typically, implementation contexts in tropical forests feature entrenched inequities of power, wealth and social status. Worryingly, numerous implemented REDD+ projects have adversely impacted marginalized local communities. Impacts include contestation over rights and benefits, violence, and human rights abuses. This manuscript mobilizes <em>misframing</em> as an environmental justice lens to understand a failed REDD+ project in Western Tanzania, with contested land tenure status, boundary conflict and forced evictions. Empirical analysis draws upon 72 individual and 5 group stakeholder interviews, extensive document analysis, and eight months of ethnographic fieldwork, including extensive participant observation, during 2014–2022. Using an interactionist social science approach, we elucidate perspectives of marginalized groups and project practitioners’ justifications for their treatment. We show how misframing works through this REDD+ intervention, shifting the burdens of global climate concerns while injustices and inequities are socially reproduced. To safeguard against misframing and these attendant risks, we argue for mandatory attention to human rights protections in REDD+ projects, and for forest governance to explicitly address marginalized groups’ justice concerns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 104245"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143529745","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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Figurations of belonging – How high-skilled migrants form relations of recognition

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104249

Gregor Schäfer , Claire Maxwell

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