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{"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":"Navigating change, maintaining breadth: The future of Geoforum","authors":"Julie MacLeavy,&nbsp;Sarah Hall","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In our first year as co-editors-in-chief, we reflect on <em>Geoforum</em>’s rich history and its pivotal role in advancing human geography. While the academic publishing landscape has evolved significantly, we remain committed to <em>Geoforum</em>’s core mission: publishing high-quality, interdisciplinary research spanning the breadth of human geography. We are mindful of the challenges confronting academic journals, such as increased competition and reviewer shortages. Nonetheless, by fostering a vibrant community, supporting early-career scholars through the Community Support Fund, and encouraging diverse perspectives, we aim to solidify <em>Geoforum</em>’s position as a leading platform for geographical scholarship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104181"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372439","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":"‘Doubly exploited’: Migration, activism and the generative geographies of labour agency","authors":"Sarah Peck","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholarship on the connections between migration and labour agency has considered the strategies, practices and grammars adopted by migrant and migrantised workers in their efforts to improve their working and living conditions, particularly in the context of precarious and insecure work. Using empirical material from the Indian Workers Association Great Britain (IWAGB), this paper explores the labour agency produced by an organisation of migrantised workers and the practices the organisation enacted to improve conditions within the sphere of production. The paper focuses on how the IWAGB’s labour organising was shaped by understandings of the intersections between race and class and in particular the principle of ‘double exploitation’, situating these understandings within the experiences, memories and legacies of migration and mobility. Using the 1967/68 Coneygre Foundry dispute as an example, the paper concludes that the discourses and practices enacted by the IWAGB in this dispute are expressions of the migratory geographies and political subjectivities of members of the group, with mobile experiences, memories and connections crucial for understanding the formation of migrantised worker labour agency and resistance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104190"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160698","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":"Revolutionary countryside: A feminist counter-topography of war in Myanmar","authors":"Hilary Oliva Faxon ,&nbsp;Jenny Hedström ,&nbsp;Nicole T. Venker ,&nbsp;Zin Mar Phyo ,&nbsp;Mi Mi","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the image below, Mi Mi ties together her experiences of seeing the Myanmar military burn homes, cooking by candlelight, and struggling to grow crops and make ends meet during a period of climate and economic crisis, all with her baby on her back. Her story raises broader questions about how we understand the intersections of gender, land and revolution in Myanmar and other militarized landscapes. In this paper, we employ collaborative and mixed methodologies to map violence and resistance on the land and in the body, starting from Mi Mi’s story to advance a feminist counter-topography of war. We borrow the notion of counter-topography from geographer Cindy Katz, who poses counter-topography as an analytical and political project that examines the intersecting effects and material consequences of large-scale processes in a particular place. Our analysis brings together diverse datasets to illustrate how Myanmar’s contemporary conflict is shaped by spatial patterns and intergenerational histories of violence and endured through embodied relations to land and kin.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104164"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160705","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":"The spatial heterogeneity of international financial contagion during the 2007–9 crisis: A sectoral perspective","authors":"Deeya Sewraj,&nbsp;Bartosz Gebka,&nbsp;Robert D.J. Anderson","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Does geography matter for the transmission and experience of financial crises, or does our modern globalised world display uniformity in how world-wide financial shocks affect different countries? Using a rich dataset of stock market returns disaggregated by country sectors, this paper explores how the 2007–9 financial crisis was transmitted globally. Employing and extending an empirical model which captures different forms of financial contagion and accounts for time trends in financial linkages, our results support the claim that geography matters, which is manifested by a substantial amount of spatial heterogeneity in how financial contagion spreads, observed at the country sectoral level. Our analysis further reveals that susceptibility of country-sectors to global contagious shocks depends on the contagion type experienced, and was partially driven by countries’ stock market sophistication and openness to foreign trade and to flows of capital and people.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104198"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160706","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":"“… they can’t occupy the sun …”: Cementing heterogeneous energy configurations as disentanglement in imagining a Palestinian cement factory","authors":"Samir Harb","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104203","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104203","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Geographies of infrastructure often overlook the importance of/the role of cement plants and their production networks as agents in political and ecological change. Cement provides a lens to understand the complex political and ecological networks associated with its production. Cement is a vital material for urban construction, and its production networks involve the flow of different materials to the cement plant. This article looks at the political ecology of cement by examining how cement production is part of a heterogeneous network of energy infrastructures. The article focuses on a case study of the planning and design process of the first cement factory in the Palestinian territories between 2014 and 2018. Drawing on theories from heterogeneous infrastructure configuration (HIC) in the global south, here we will see how Palestinian engineers have decided to adopt a diverse mixture of green energy infrastructure and technologies to emancipate Palestine from Israeli control over their energy resources. Here, a HIC approach can be extended to permeate colonial structures, where colonial structures are ongoing and present in every scale. In such a context, I argue that heterogeneity and a diversity of infrastructure technologies are chosen to be adaptable, resist disruption and offer a form of disentanglement from power structures. As the article shows, Palestinian experts have considered designing the cement plant and its energy supply network by assembling a heterogeneous energy supply system that will allow them to gain greater sovereignty over cement and its geographically spread socio-material configurations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104203"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160707","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":"Rethinking rewilded futures: Co-wilding as vibrant care and lively collaboration","authors":"Katherine Burlingame","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rewilding efforts have been extensively employed to return nature back to its natural rhythm, increasing biodiversity, allowing ecosystems to restore themselves, and mitigating the effects of climate change as human impact is slowly reversed. Rewilding, however, has also been described as a plastic word loosely applied across ecological science and environmental activism, and has been blamed for further perpetuating dualisms of nature and culture, wild and unwild, and unpeopled and peopled. The designation of an Anthropocene era in which humans have irreversibly transformed landscapes across the globe, however, has consequently challenged traditional conceptions of the wilderness while blurring the boundaries between the human and nonhuman world. Similarly, recent rewilding efforts around the globe reveal a unique story of enduring human care, underscored by the strengthening, rather than severing, of relationships between humans, nonhumans, and their shared landscapes. This paper therefore provides a critical review of recent ‘plastic’ rewilding interpretations and strategies that have led to a disconnection between policy and practice as well as the term’s expansion into popular nature writing and mainstream consumer marketing. Following calls for more inclusive rewilding futures, the concept of <em>co-wilding</em> is suggested as a form of <em>vibrant care</em> and <em>lively collaboration</em> to help mobilize new possibilities for coexistence on a damaged planet.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160958","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":"Productive exclusion: Accessibility inequalities and informal employment in Bogotá","authors":"Daniel Oviedo ,&nbsp;Luis A. Guzmán ,&nbsp;Nicolás Oviedo-Dávila","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104208","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public transport provision has historically been biased against less affluent neighbourhoods, making access to jobs more costly and difficult for a substantial segment of the low(er)-income population. Our research explores the distribution of accessibility to formal and informal employment in Bogotá, Colombia. Building on geocoded travel and household characterisation data for the city and potential accessibility metrics, we present evidence of the contribution of public transport to social and spatial inequalities in accessibility for individuals in different spatial, economic, and social categories and the resulting mobility and accessibility inequalities such a distribution entails. Our analysis draws on social and economic inclusion, linking accessibility to and by public transport to the degree to which individuals are included in the safety nets associated with formal employment. We interrogate the effects of the current configuration of Bogotá and its public transport networks on improving accessibility to quality job opportunities, interpreting higher dependency from informal jobs as productive exclusion. Our study combines two perspectives not often combined, identifying variable levels of social and productive inclusion within the population. The findings suggest that progressive investments in bus rapid transit (BRT) and other forms of public transport around high-demand and highly attractive corridors reinforce cycles of segregation and concentration of formal and informal economic activities. We provide empirical evidence that can contribute to design and target policies for low-skilled and low-income workers in the informal economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104208"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160619","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":"Decoding the Logics behind the Demolition and Redevelopment of Agbogbloshie Scrapyard, Accra, Ghana","authors":"Akwasi Owusu Sarpong ,&nbsp;Detlef Müller-Mahn ,&nbsp;Onallia Esther Osei","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grounded in the theoretical lens of urban revanchism (<span><span>Smith, 1996</span></span>), this inquiry sheds light on the continuous marginalization of informal e-waste workers by revanchist forces in emerging economies like Ghana. Urban revanchism refers to the forceful reclamation of urban spaces from specific marginalized groups. Delving into the logics and initiatives underpinning the forced expulsion of informal e-waste workers in Accra—where the informal sector employs a significant portion of the population—this qualitative study argues that the state’s pursuit of modern urban transformation is strongly motivated by neoliberal logics, rather than purely health and environmental protection or promotion concerns. The demolition of the Agbogbloshie scrapyard without exhaustive consultation puts the workers of this section in a marginalized position. The arbitrary nature of the demolition kicks out this sector from urban transformation planning that concerns its economic perpetuity, and its established routines and practices. Though the demolished site reinvents itself in another prime urban location, it loses profit and needs time to rebuild itself to its previous status if the state agencies allow it to do so without demolishing it again. Otherwise, this unsustainable cycle will continue. We suggest, therefore, that city authorities embrace a sustainable urban transformation that transcends the conventional strategies for inclusive redevelopment. Such urban planning includes the marginalized in the decision-making process, and execution for agreed displacements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104180"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160703","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":"The disaster contradiction of contemporary capitalism: Resilience, vital systems security, and ‘post-neoliberalism’","authors":"Stephen J. Collier","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104204","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the last few years, governments in the U.S. and Europe have responded to a series of events—from the Covid pandemic and energy shocks to a series of large-scale disasters—by directing trillions of dollars to measures that seek to bolster “resilience.” These interventions aim to ensure the function of vital systems by restructuring supply chains, investing in infrastructures, and providing governmental backstops for critical social and economic functions. The proliferation of such robust state actions challenges scholarly accounts—which were based on state practices of resilience in the 2000s and 2010s—that analyzed resilience as a philosophy of state <em>in</em>action, or, at most, a norm of government actions to restore market self-organization following disruptions.</div><div>Drawing on the Marxist state theory of Claus Offe, this article analyzes the variable forms of resilience in terms of the coherent dynamics of a ‘disaster contradiction’ of contemporary capitalism. Contrary to the dominant assessment of recent scholarship, it argues that the increasing centrality of resilience as a governmental norm reflects an ongoing <em>politicization</em> of disaster outcomes: contemporary capitalist states are held responsible for ensuring the continuous functioning of vital systems, and for fostering adaptive adjustment to shocks. But this responsibility is pulled between contradictory imperatives. On the one hand, events that disrupt vital systems threaten capital accumulation and social welfare, catalyzing state actions to curtail the scope of markets or individual choice. In this moment of the disaster contradiction, <em>interventions</em> in the name of resilience impose social, economic, and spatial order. On the other hand, such interventions create rigidities, inefficiencies, and unintended consequences, including a heightened risk of future catastrophes, that result in what Offe referred to as <em>crises of crisis management</em>. In this moment of the disaster contradiction, resilience appears in critiques of planning and intervention, and as a norm of state actions to establish—or, following crises, restore—market self-organization. It is argued that government interventions in the name of resilience in the 2020s may be analyzed as a distinctive episode in the development of the disaster contradiction, in which resilience is emerging as a key mode of ‘post-neoliberal’ government.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 104204"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160951","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}