{"title":"For everything there is a season …","authors":"Elaine Stratford","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12685","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since December 2015, it has been my singular privilege and pleasure to serve as editor-in-chief of this journal, to work with and for the Institute of Australian Geographers Council and our publisher, Wiley, and to champion geography in any way I could through such means. At the end of November this year—10 years in—I will lay down that service and step into a new role as senior associate editor.</p><p>It is time, and it is good to know that it is time.</p><p>My decision to encourage rejuvenation on the team has been made and staged over several months. In Brian Cook, Patrick Moss, Clare Mouat, and Miriam Williams, we now have a group of associate editors with diverse disciplinary and academic and other skills and energy aplenty. In Alexander Burton, we have a committed early career academic as book editor. Kirstie Petrou has been with me for the full decade and has been a wonderful editorial assistant throughout and will continue in that role. I am in her debt. Our editorial board includes diverse and dedicated members on whom we can rely. And I have had the absolute pleasure of working with Wiley staff who are fully focused on the merits of journal publishing. In recent years, that team has included Rebecca Ciezarek, Simon Goudie, Emy Rubano, Eden Batol, Lilly O’Scanaill, Martha Rundell, and Ashlinn Theroux. Huge thanks to all and to the many unseen staff at the publishers, as well.</p><p>I have been incredibly grateful to work with successive supportive IAG Councils, which have allowed me great creative freedom and autonomy, aspects of working life I value most highly. And while I leave it to Council, rightly, to announce my replacement I am delighted that my recommendation has been endorsed. Readers of our journal will learn more about that person in weeks and months following the publication of this, my last issue at the helm. Watch this space!</p><p>For my last editorial reflections, and before turning to introduce the papers in this issue, I wanted to share insights I gained from attending a Wiley editors’ workshop in London, fortuitously held the day before I left the UK after a month in the archives in September [thanks Simon!].</p><p>There, I learned a great deal that I think will shape publishing in general and in this journal in coming years—and I think the pace of change will only increase, requiring of us both the energy to seize opportunities and the nous to do so critically and creatively.</p><p>The full-day workshop was held on 18 September in a lovely four-storey building on the corner of Fitzroy Square, within “coo-ee” of University College London, which is enticingly embedded among the streets of Camden. Among the 100 or so in attendance were Wiley staff, editors from journals across the span of disciplines from humanities to physics and medical science, and consultants such as James Butcher—who has a long track record of academic publishing with <i>Nature</i> and a business and a fascinating blog, Journal·ology. It was als","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 4","pages":"482-485"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12685","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641485","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 power of trees: How ancient forests can save us if we let them By Peter Wohlleben, Collingwood: Black Inc. 2023. pp. 271. Vic. 9781760643621 (paperback), 9781743822869 (hardback)","authors":"Guy M Robinson","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 4","pages":"616-617"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642254","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}
Matilda Harry, Michelle Trudgett, Susan Page, Rebekah Grace
{"title":"We are Country—Country mentors us","authors":"Matilda Harry, Michelle Trudgett, Susan Page, Rebekah Grace","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12674","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores epistemological and ontological accounts of Country’s mentorship among young Indigenous Australian knowledge holders, creatives, entrepreneurs, changemakers, and advocates. Using a qualitative decolonising race theoretical lens, the research team adapted and explored multi-directional, more-than-human understandings of the human–Country mentorship relationship to reflect young mob experiences of enacting and embodying Country. The findings highlight Country’s agency, sentience, and authority, whereby young mob shared how they were guided by, sustained by, and obligated to Country. This research honours Country as a knowledge holder and mentor. The research team aims to be transformative by showing new ways to understand Country and both-ways mentorship relationships with young mob and Country. The article is a unique contribution to the research field, as mentorship literature often fails to effectively unpack Indigenous Australian relationality with Country, problematises young mob, and is contextually bound to individual programs, singular communities, or cohorts. By giving voice to Country as a mentor, the research team aims to disrupt Western hegemonic power relations in dominant mentorship frameworks and challenge mentorship theory, practice, and policy. We hope this article encourages geographers and others to take Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing and becoming more seriously.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 4","pages":"526-540"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12674","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642465","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":"Emotional geographies of roadkill: Stained experiences of tourism in Tasmania","authors":"Elleke Leurs, James Kirkpatrick, Anne Hardy","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12673","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-5871.12673","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globally, road fatalities affect wildlife populations and ecosystems, leading to ecological imbalances, economic losses, and safety hazards for both animals and humans. However, the emotional toll on humans is less well understood. This research explores tourists’ responses to roadkill, using emotional geography as the overarching framework, and focusing on the island state of Tasmania in Australia. Tasmania is known for its diverse and abundant native wildlife, as well as the unfortunate distinction of having Australia’s highest rate of wildlife fatalities caused by vehicle collisions, commonly referred to as roadkill. A mixed-method questionnaire asked respondents to share emotions, and we then considered their relationships to socio-demographic attributes. Around 97% of respondents encountered roadkill during their stays, and 63% encountered live animals on or near the road. Tourists identified sadness as the most felt emotion when confronted with the consequences of wildlife–vehicle collisions. Anger and disgust were also experienced, primarily because of the unpleasant sight of roadkill and the realisation that animals suffered. Women reported being more negatively affected than men. Tourists who had visited to see wildlife were more affected than those who had not. Analysis leads to the conclusion that unplanned, sporadic, unexpected, and confronting encounters with dead animals detract from the tourism experience for most, especially encounters with wildlife was anticipated as a positive experience on tour. Such findings have wider implications for those working in the tourism industry in mainland Australia, Canada, and South Africa, where roadkill is also problematic.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 4","pages":"541-552"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189593","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":"Geographical distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic and key determinants: Evolution across waves in Spain","authors":"Rosina Moreno, Esther Vayá","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12669","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-5871.12669","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, most research has examined specific temporal snapshots. This study diverges by offering a comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 incidence across the Spanish provinces throughout six distinct waves of the pandemic. Using <i>spatial</i> exploratory techniques, we find no single pandemic; rather, there have been waves. Significant differences in the spatial distribution of cases and deaths across six waves show that each has unique characteristics. Homogeneous conclusions cannot be drawn at the national level. Notable regional differences in the pandemic’s spatial distribution suggest a need for subnational responses, reflecting variations in climate, economic dynamism, sectoral specialisation, and socio-health resources. Spatial regression models show that the main determinants of COVID-19 incidence depend on stage. Traditional factors commonly associated with epidemiological studies, such as temperature, exerted significant influence during the pandemic’s onset. However, as mobility restrictions were enforced and vaccination campaigns were rolled out, economic conditions, and especially levels of economic activity, emerged as increasingly significant determinants.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 4","pages":"486-502"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12669","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189594","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":"Migratory outcomes across localities and generations in Kupang, Indonesia","authors":"Fandi Akhmad, Ariane Utomo, Wolfram Dressler","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12665","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-5871.12665","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the outcomes of internal migration in Indonesia, specifically focusing on the intersecting themes of ethnicity, informality, and entrepreneurial migration. We examine how Javanese migrants perceive the benefits and challenges of their migration and subsequent engagement in the informal sector as self-employed migrants/small business owners in and around Kupang’s traditional markets. We use a sequential mixed-methods approach (a household survey with a structured interview [n=344] and in-depth/semi-structured interviews [n=28] in 2020). Drawing on Hein de Haas’s framework on the internal dynamics of migration, we explore the multifaceted outcomes of entrepreneurial migration beyond the economic consequences addressed in similar studies. The perceived positive impacts of this migration include sufficient income to cover daily needs and children’s education, as well as new remittances and employment opportunities for communities in Java and Kupang. However, these broadly empowering trends were set against the experience of those migrants who, because of less informal sector labour experience, could not easily negotiate their settlement in a new host environment, leading to varied adverse consequences. Ultimately, then, the article highlights the importance of social networks, knowledge, and reciprocity in supporting the successful establishment of entrepreneurial migrants in emerging destinations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 4","pages":"585-600"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12665","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141937716","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":"Midwinter twinkling: Wayfinding love through radical empathy, sky-sharing, and futuring","authors":"Clare M Mouat","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12671","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-5871.12671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This commentary further explores the revolutionary possibilities of love using a therapeutic wayfinding analysis of New Zealand’s new Matariki public holiday and the author’s <i>hamefarin</i>/homecoming in mid-2022. Wayfinding underwrites our personal and disciplinary journeywork of futuring and reinforces the importance of rest, repair, awakening, and articulating our “next normal.”\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 3","pages":"339-344"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12671","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141937634","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":"Nurturing a new generation of geographers","authors":"Elaine Stratford","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12672","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-5871.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The first week of July was a busy time for those attending the Institute of Australian Geographers’ conference in Adelaide, South Australia. Like all such meetings of our community I have attended, it was characterised by collegial warmth, interesting presentations, and opportunities to mingle during breaks, social events, and field trips. Huge thanks to the organisers and Council for your efforts.</p><p>Later in the week, Iain Hay powerfully appealed to us all to understand the parlous state of the discipline in Australia and to be strong public advocates for what we do, including across all three tiers of government and the private and non-government sectors. His views will feature in our Wiley Lecture paper in due course.</p><p>I mention that important presentation because, early in the week, I was delighted to spend part of an afternoon with around 40 higher degree research candidates in a conversation focused on writing and publishing strategies. If their penetrating questions and engaging discussions are anything to go by, I have hope for geography—notwithstanding the perennial and urgent need to ensure the discipline is visible, legible, and relevant to those who shape policy across all sectors.</p><p>With their blessing, I want to share the questions higher degree research candidates had prepared in advance and which I was provided in the lunch break to reflect on prior to our session. Their queries reveal both concerns our early career peers have and their views on the state of the discipline and higher education and on writing and publishing (see also Stratford, <span>2024</span>; Stratford et al., <span>2024</span>). The questions illuminate a collective astuteness that bodes well, especially IF more of us energetically campaign for geography in the public domain to optimise the chance, first, that the discipline is recognised and funded under its own name and, second, that new job opportunities are created from those efforts. What I won’t do here is provide the answers I worked through with the candidates. Doing so would turn this work into a longer paper rather than an editorial and perhaps in the new year I can return to such a task. In the interim, readers might be interested in viewing one of our webinars from February this year on a related topic. You can find the recording on the journal homepage under Browse > Webinars.</p><p>Last but not least, I am delighted to welcome to the core editorial team two new Associate Editors, Brian Cook and Miriam Williams. My thanks to them for their engagement and service. And thanks, too, to Mark Wang, who is stepping down from the Board. I also want to welcome Sarah Rogers and Catherine Walker, who are joining the Board from mid-year. We are always deeply grateful to Board members, reviewers, authors, and our readers for ongoing support for the journal, discipline, and Institute and I know our colleagues at Wiley feel the same. [Correction added on 9 July 2024, after first online publi","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"62 3","pages":"336-338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12672","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141884033","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}
Catherine Walker, Ellen van Holstein, Natascha Klocker
{"title":"Young people at a crossroads: Climate solidarity through intergenerational storytelling","authors":"Catherine Walker, Ellen van Holstein, Natascha Klocker","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12668","url":null,"abstract":"School‐based teaching on climate change rarely draws on diverse experiences and knowledge about climate change that circulate in migrant homes and communities. We set out to consider experiences of climate change education (CCE) in schools in Manchester, UK, and Melbourne, Australia, among migrant‐background students. We interviewed young people aged 14 to 18 and educators in multicultural secondary schools about climate change education. We then trained and supported young people to interview their parents. Here, we show how those interviews built young researchers’ appreciation of family stories. Those accounts revealed aspects of parents’ lives growing up that provided a platform from which families could discuss the changing relevance of climate change in their countries of origin and present locations. From those shared insights emerged critical, contextually informed understandings of climate change. Given those outcomes, we argue that intergenerational and cross‐cultural storytelling, when brought into dialogue with scientific knowledge, can support climate change educators. They can then draw upon a range of knowledges and responses to climate change wider than that, which currently exists in most classrooms. We conclude by suggesting that among diverse learner cohorts, what then becomes possible is work to build a greater sense of agency and capacity for empathy with respect to climate change.","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863590","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}