GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104126
Sarah Klosterkamp
{"title":"Dismantling displacement and de-tenanting—Toward a feminist legal geography perspective on the housing crisis and eviction court cases in Germany","authors":"Sarah Klosterkamp","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Displacement and de-tenanting are critical issues at the intersection of housing crises and legal frameworks, demanding a nuanced understanding that integrates class, gender, and race. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by employing a feminist legal geography perspective, specifically through courtroom ethnography. The examination of eviction court cases in Germany reveals the intricate ways in which legal mechanisms mediate and perpetuate. The paper thus demonstrates how eviction processes are not merely legal transactions but are deeply embedded in power dynamics that disproportionately affect marginalized communities. By foregrounding the experiences and voices of those impacted, this paper underscores the material realities of eviction and highlights the importance of a feminist legal geographic approach to understanding and addressing housing injustices. This perspective not only illuminates the courtroom as a pivotal space where socio-legal battles unfold and emphasizes the necessity of listening and attuning to the lived experiences of the displaced.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104126"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142319956","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-20DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104113
Joel Jennings
{"title":"Contours of collaboration: Understanding emerging communities of practice in economic development","authors":"Joel Jennings","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Economic development is an industry that pits localities against one another in pursuit of vital, community-sustaining jobs. Despite this competitive context, an established literature documents significant benefits to collaboration between economic developers and, notably, practitioners’ awareness of these benefits. While much of the existing literature focuses on the benefits of cooperation or developers’ attitudes toward cooperation, there has been limited emphasis on how these practices evolve in social terms. This paper draws on qualitative interviews with 30 economic developers and allied practitioners to interrogate the dimensions of cooperation in the Midwestern state of Missouri. It argues that we can usefully understand the relationships that shape cooperation between competing practitioners as a distributed community of practice. The study highlights the ways that economic developers have shaped the domain, community, and practice of economic development to facilitate social processes of shared learning. Participants in this research describe a community environment where cooperation is an accepted norm, but where collaborative knowledge generation and problem solving could be extended through greater intentional community formation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104113"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270346","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104108
Rosanna Carver , Erika Gavenus , J.J. Manson
{"title":"Stealing the seabed. The Canadian State and the question of Rights and Title over submerged lands","authors":"Rosanna Carver , Erika Gavenus , J.J. Manson","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recognising the seabed as a space of contested Rights and Title requires the Canadian State to fundamentally change its approach to the territories of Indigenous peoples. In 2023, the Canadian State declared an effective moratorium on deep-sea mining within its jurisdiction. While the importance of establishing environmental regulations has been recognised, discussion of access and Indigenous Rights and Title relating to the seafloor is lacking. This is despite challenges to State claims of sovereignty over, and activities pertaining to the seabed being increasingly invoked in the Canadian courts. Indigenous Rights over the seabed complicate State expressions of sovereignty over stolen and unceded marine scapes. However, the State’s definitions of “land” over which Rights are conferred—and the placement of the burden of proof onto Indigenous peoples—only serves to replicate colonial and racial logics of Indigenous peoples as static, both geographically and temporally. In contrast the State affords itself the potential to be flexible, including in how it mobilises the ocean's geo-physical characterstics, as new and emerging industries shape discussions of the seabed as a site of extraction. Instead of extending policies and practices that have been extensively critiqued in relation to terrestrial land, the current moratorium offers an opportunity to reconsider how the State operates with regards to the marine space. Engagement with these questions is necessary, lest the dispossession and theft that occur on land and offshore are continued and repeated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104108"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244152","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":"Extractivism triggering new forms of governance for the rights of nature: The case of Northwest Ecuador","authors":"Claudia Coral , Tobias Plieninger , Stefan Sieber , Valerie Graw","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The intensification of resource extractivism around the world poses multiple challenges and fosters the development of new governance structures, especially among communities on the frontlines of resource extraction. Through a narrative inquiry based on narrative interviews with local actors and experts, this article centres on governance as a resistance strategy of local, frontline, communities in the Ecuadorian Northwest Pichincha and Imbabura provinces. The narratives give insights into: a) How new processes of governance are triggered by mining conflict and, in particular, how governance is shaped and manifested; b) Governance challenges faced by local governments and communities; and c) Lessons and recommendations for governance and how these contribute to the discussion of post-extractivism alternatives. New governance processes are shaped through socio-organisational processes and the strengthening of associations and civil society organisations; the institutionalisation of private, civil society, and community conservation initiatives; as well as the actions of the organised community to successfully invoke the Rights of Nature (RoN) through legal litigation. Institutional gaps that reflect competing visions of development are seen as governance challenges by local government and community members. Overall, this study highlights the critical role of governance structures and instruments rooted in frontline community perspectives, offering pathways for the development of post-extractivism alternatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524001726/pdfft?md5=b338fee0d64f63482eb489c83210ade7&pid=1-s2.0-S0016718524001726-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244151","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104109
Adriana Ressiore C. , Carmen Lúcia Silva Lima , Esther Turnhout
{"title":"Care narratives: Babassu breakers and mother palm trees","authors":"Adriana Ressiore C. , Carmen Lúcia Silva Lima , Esther Turnhout","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Brazil, the women-led Interstate Movement of Babassu Coconut Breakers (MIQCB) is active in four states where babassu is prominent: Maranhão, Piauí, Tocantins, and Pará. Advocating for the rights and livelihoods of over 300 thousand babassu breakers, MIQCB has achieved significant successes, including the approval of several Free Babassu Laws that challenge the conventional logic of private property. However, despite these achievements, the Movement faces ongoing struggles both internally and against external development threats. This article draws on insights from fieldwork and a long-standing partnership with the Movement and explores their struggles for existence and resistance. Our analysis is grounded in feminist theories of care, political ontology, and everyday utopias to highlight the political dimensions of care, including the role of conflict. Our analysis demonstrates how the practical work of care, including interspecies reciprocity, is central to the movement’s resistance against dominant development paradigms and its enactment of everyday utopia aimed at creating a world where diverse lives, narratives, and relationships can exist.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104109"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524001702/pdfft?md5=9fdf83cbb38ef191925624018cd733c7&pid=1-s2.0-S0016718524001702-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142230489","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104112
Jaskiran Kaur Chohan
{"title":"The corporate food regime in conflict zones: Armed violence and agriculture in the Zona de Reserva Campesina-Valle del Río Cimitarra, Colombia","authors":"Jaskiran Kaur Chohan","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Conflict is the number one driver of hunger globally but few studies reflect on the role of global agribusiness in the proliferation of conflictive dynamics. This article explores the Corporate Food Regime in a local conflict setting in Colombia, arguing that instability is a condition for capital accumulation in conflict zones. It offers a novel methodological and conceptual approach to traditional food regime studies that are global historical and based on periods of stable capital accumulation, with tensions pushing for regime change. Contrarily, in the Zona de Reserva Campesina-Valle del Río Cimitarra (ZRC-VRC) case study, violence and instability are central mechanisms for undermining campesino (peasant) agriculture and opening new market frontiers, therefore, central to solidifying the Corporate Food Regime. Here, corporations are both directly (through land purchase and cultivation of cash crops) and indirectly (through the intensive production model used in both illicit and licit crops by campesinos and the eradication of coca by the military) involved in violent dynamics, which ultimately supports corporate profiteering. The Corporate Food Regime not only profits from conflict but drives it, as wider macro-economic policies undermine campesino farming, incentivise coca cultivation and violent socio-ecological dynamics. This paper uses a data set of 47 semi-structured interviews, observation, and field notes from the ZRC-VRC, to underline the different routes through which corporate power is articulated at a local level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104112"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524001738/pdfft?md5=9e4ea07b12f870ed5504684819877ba2&pid=1-s2.0-S0016718524001738-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168067","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104107
Richard Kirk
{"title":"Neoliberal necropolitics and the global competition for urban dominance","authors":"Richard Kirk","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104107","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I deploy Achille Mbembé’s notion of necropolitics to show that neoliberalism as an urban development strategy has resonant, however differential, impacts between the Global North and South. As neoliberalizing cities throughout the world engage in interurban competition in their efforts to achieve or maintain “global city” and “world-class” city status, this is intertwined with necropolitics in that local governments must decide whose lives are expendable and whose are not, who is valuable to neoliberal capitalist interests and who may be devalorized, excluded, and subjected to forms of violence such as expulsion and displacement—processes connected to disrupted social and resource networks, psychological trauma, disease, and death. I rely upon a series of urban vignettes (LA, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, London, and Paris) to articulate several resonances and points of departure between them, shedding light on “actually existing” manifestations of neoliberal necropolitics and its contemporary relationship to interurban competition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 104107"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524001684/pdfft?md5=bd60de2f10f2c9669b1a059e159f3fed&pid=1-s2.0-S0016718524001684-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163247","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104110
Hannah Porada , Rutgerd Boelens , Barbara Hogenboom
{"title":"Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala","authors":"Hannah Porada , Rutgerd Boelens , Barbara Hogenboom","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines territorial disputes in the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city located in the western highlands. Drawing on our field research, we explore how dominant territory-making practices and indigenous-led resistance play out over an emerging municipal territorial ordering plan that gets interwoven with disputes over large-scale mining, waste disposal, and municipal authority amid wider urban–rural marginalization and tensions. We innovatively combine the notions of territory, territorial ordering governmentality, and the echelons (or levels) of rights framework to unpack the different layers on which dominant actor alliances’ territorialization strategies and the responses of territorial defense movements emerge. Departing from an understanding that the disputes in the valley are not only about resources, but also entwine struggles over rules, authority, and discourses, we make a twofold argument. First, we argue that the ruling-group’s existing territory-making practices and new territorial ordering techniques coincide across the echelons, building on and reinforcing stark power imbalances. Second, we argue that indigenous-led, territory-based resistance movements engage in diverse strategies of contestation to articulate shared concerns around externally-imposed territorial interventions across echelons, but are challenged by micropolitical fragmentation, threats and instances of violence, and fragile multi-scalar support networks. Our analysis suggests that future territorial defense depends on the strengthening of multi-scalar and multi-actor alliances that – while acknowledging difference and tensions within and among resisting actors − devise their strategies along the four interconnected echelons and articulate their concerns in converging yet plural resistance strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 104110"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524001714/pdfft?md5=c2b1638d94aed74798b51834eb172ff4&pid=1-s2.0-S0016718524001714-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142147658","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104106
Amy Clarke , Liz McDonnell
{"title":"Mobilising (and immobilising) giving in pandemic and austerity Britain","authors":"Amy Clarke , Liz McDonnell","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Set in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK austerity, this paper explores maps of giving and mobilised resources alongside interview narratives to examine the various energies that support and/or hinder giving. Conceptualising giving as a form of mobility, we find that individual acts of giving have the potential to generate momentum and positive feedback loops – given the right circumstances – to create highly energised mobilities of giving. We also find, however, that mobilities of giving are affected by wider contexts of austerity and perceptions of state non-giving. Indeed, our interviews suggest that state non-giving may act as an important (though not insurmountable) counterweight to individual giving. Overall, we argue that some level or at least perception of governmental generosity is needed to maintain individual giving, but that, in practice, state and civil society are often working in opposite directions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 104106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142136390","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}
GeoforumPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104104
Dena Aufseeser
{"title":"Contending with coloniality: Unsettling migration narratives of Venezuelans in Peru","authors":"Dena Aufseeser","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article explores how Venezuelan migrants in Peru negotiate sometimes-contradictory notions of identity, solidarity and modernity. Building from decolonial scholarship, it argues for the importance of situated racialized accounts of migrants’ experiences. I found that a common identity as Latin Americans facilitated migration, with an emphasis on solidarity and ‘brotherhood’. Yet, Venezuelans’ narratives also reinforced hierarchical notions of development that position whiter populations as more advanced than indigenous populations. Their stories reveal a constant negotiation between discourses of shared identity and hierarchical understandings of development and modernity that are constantly perpetuated under the coloniality of power. My findings reiterate a need to not only consider multiple intersecting components of migrant identities but also the ways in which identities shift and take on different meanings in different spatial contexts. Based on 18 migrant narratives, the article addresses a lacuna of analyses examining how migrants themselves re-theorize race and development. By centering coloniality and racialization in migration, I challenge linear narratives of migration from less developed to more developed countries and show how some migrants grapple with vulnerability while also reinforcing uneven power dynamics of racialized othering.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 104104"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142088417","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}