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{"title":"Fostering geographical conversations","authors":"Sara Fuller","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A conversation can be viewed as a relatively mundane act, one that many of us perform daily. We speak to family members, friends, colleagues, or strangers, in person, on the phone, or online. These conversations play a vital role in connecting us to each other and the world around us. As I write this editorial, global shocks—economic, political, and social—are ever more present in our lives. At the same time, our capacity to respond to such disruptions is also being challenged. Conversations, then, particularly those of a geographical nature, serve as a critical conduit to maintain care, solidarity, and conviviality as we situate ourselves in these increasingly turbulent environments.</p><p>Academic journals, including <i>Geographical Research</i>, play an important role in nurturing such conversations. The geographical relevance of current global debates hardly needs to be stated. From the spatial dynamics of global finance to the social impacts of climate change, the richness of geography is reflected in the wide range of manuscripts we publish in the journal, all of which contribute to ongoing dialogues in their fields. We are currently reviewing our article types to allow us to appropriately capture and communicate these important exchanges and will share more information about this in due course. At a more personal level, as the (still relatively new) Editor-in-Chief, I am taking great pleasure in conversations about all elements of the journal, including supporting authors with submissions, engaging with reviewers, and working alongside the editorial team.</p><p>Beyond the array of published articles in <i>Geographical Research</i>, we are also fostering other means of conversation. As an editorial team, we have decided to move away from Twitter/X as a social media platform. We now have a growing presence on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geographical-research/ and Bluesky @geogresearch.bsky.social. We encourage you to follow us there for news and updates that we will post regularly.</p><p>Our 2025 webinar series, held in collaboration with Wiley and the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG), is now up and running. Organised by our Senior Associate Editor, Elaine Stratford, our theme this year is <i>Elemental geographies</i>. In the coming months, we will explore how, at a time of accelerating planetary crises, geography remains attuned to the agency of the elements—earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal—as these more-than-human forces shape landscapes, lifeworlds, and governance.</p><p>Conversations will consider how elemental processes are theorised, practiced, and mobilised for advocacy. Our first webinar in April was a plenary presented by Elaine Stratford on <i>The Drowned – a cultural and political geography</i> while our upcoming May webinar comprises a discussion with Catherine Walker and colleagues on young people’s stories of climate change, drawing from a recent special section in the journal (see Walker et a","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"172-173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944666","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":"Editorial: Indigeneity and infrastructures of settler colonialism","authors":"Phil McManus, Ben Silverstein, Naama Blatman, Lorina L Barker, Angela Webb","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The fields of Indigenous infrastructure research and critical studies in settler colonial infrastructures are rapidly expanding across much of the world. These complementary fields offer compelling ways of connecting disparate research concerns, enriching our understanding of the historical geographies of infrastructure in settler colonies. In Australia, various academic disciplines have engaged in what is often called the “infrastructural turn.” Yet research on the intersections of infrastructure and Indigenous histories and geographies remains limited. To be sure, Australian scholars have undertaken important research about Indigenous access to infrastructure, looking at infrastructural deficiencies and inequalities generated by the geographies and economies of Australian settler colonialism, where access to water, homes, and basic social infrastructure in Indigenous communities continues to lag far behind non-Indigenous Australians (Moskos et al., <span>2024</span>). By and large, such work illustrates that Indigenous peoples continue to be marginalised in policy spaces where decisions are made about infrastructure developments on their land (Jackson, <span>2021</span>; Lea, <span>2020</span>; Norman et al., <span>2023</span>).</p><p>For instance, discussing renewable energy transitions, Norman et al. (<span>2023</span>) show that Aboriginal landowners have been largely excluded from policy discussions, leaving them unable to reap the benefits of emerging new economies and renewable energy projects on their land. Likewise, Jackson (<span>2017</span>) discusses the exclusion of Indigenous people from water planning and its detrimental effects. Rather than viewing this as a failure to meet cultural or economic expectations, Jackson reckons with the historical production of entitlement and access that generate colonising patterns of water allocation. Considering water policy exclusively as a problem of supply and demand, she claims, amounts to “water colonialism” and obscures the deeper issue of water justice. A critique of water colonialism, by contrast, brings to the fore Indigenous ontologies of and relationships with water as central to issues of justice (Hartwig et al., <span>2022</span>; Jackson, <span>2017</span>; Jackson, <span>2021</span>; Laborde & Jackson, <span>2022</span>. See also Marshall, <span>2017</span>). Justice considerations extend to other infrastructural domains such as housing. Lea (<span>2015</span>) argues that the development of Aboriginal housing policy reproduces an anthropocentrism that is characteristic of settler colonial ontologies, in part a result of the exclusion of Aboriginal people from meaningful policymaking. Lea’s research situates Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory as a policy domain where pressures to meet restricted budgets or discipline Aboriginal subjects as homeowners take precedence over the provision of safe and sustainable housing. Thus, “houses-that-are-not-housing” (Lea & P","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"214-220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944663","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":"Paper bags to food relief: Whither the tuckshop?","authors":"Miriam J. Williams","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I can distinctly remember the simple joy of writing my name, primary school class, and lunch order on a brown paper bag. After calculating the money my order would cost, I would place the correct amount of coins in the bag before carefully folding the top to prevent the money from falling out. The brown paper bags were collected in class in a basket each morning and taken to the school canteen, to return at lunch time filled with our lunches. Sometimes the change was placed back in the bag along with my lunch. It was the only time I dared to eat a salad sandwich at school. Made fresh, it was bearable and much better with pineapple and tomato, those risky fruits that need to be consumed with haste. If I had packed the same sandwich in my lunch box, it would have been an inedible soggy mess. But as a sandwich fresh from the canteen, made by one of the many volunteers, it was the perfect lunch for a primary school student growing up in regional New South Wales, Australia in the 1990s.</p><p>Students would also visit the canteen at break times. We would line up eagerly awaiting our turn at the canteen window. I would purchase rings of frozen pineapple (there was a lot of tinned pineapple in my diet as a child), a bag of red frog lollies, cups of frozen juice with a popsicle stick inside to make an ice block, or a flavoured milk. The options were not always healthy, but the experience of looking after money in my bag, learning to wait patiently in line, politely ordering from the counter and receiving change were prime social and life skills.</p><p>Growing up, I did not question that we would have access to a school canteen. It was just there. Each primary and high school had a different canteen, reflecting the communities that sustained them. Canteens were often run by the parents and citizens associations of the school and staffed by parents, grandparents, or guardians who would volunteer their time. I do not know how they decided what was on the menu. I’m sure many canteens sold the ubiquitous sausage roll, meat pie, and cheese sandwich, maybe even a vegemite sandwich. But did all canteens have frozen pineapple rings, or was this unique to my public primary school?</p><p>By the 2000s, there were many more food options available at my high school canteen. I distinctly remember hot chips, chicken burgers, salads, and sandwiches being on the menu. However, the canteen line was much longer at a school with 950 students. There were no paper bags full of lunch orders delivered to classrooms. Instead, frequenting the canteen was more of a patience game with only those willing to wait in line able to purchase the food available, which I rarely did. By senior high school, my friends and I were more likely to walk across the park to the supermarket for more convenient food than spend our precious lunch breaks waiting in line to visit the school canteen.</p><p>Fast forward a couple of decades and I once again am connected to the world of school canteens, a","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"174-178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944742","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":"Robert John Solomon (2.11.31–14.6.24)","authors":"Robert Freestone","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bob Solomon (Figure 1) was a foundation member of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG). He taught and researched in human geography at the University of Tasmania for over a decade from the late 1950s before serving a term in the House of Representatives as the Liberal member for the Hobart seat of Denison. Thereafter he pursued a somewhat peripatetic career mainly in the private sector and pursued his interests in urban affairs and writing.</p><p>Solomon was born in Condobolin in central western New South Wales (NSW) and went to primary school in Rous near Lismore and Aberdeen in the lower Hunter Valley as the family moved following his father’s appointments as a headmaster. He was a boarder at Barker College on Sydney’s upper North Shore from 1943 and completed his Leaving Certificate in 1948.</p><p>With an interest in geography kindled at school, he undertook a BA at the University of Sydney and graduated with first class honours in 1954. Led by Professor James Macdonald Holmes, regional studies were a major concern of the human geography lecturers John Andrews, Ken Robinson and Jack Devery. Solomon did his thesis on Broken Hill “as a geographical entity rather than a geological wonder” under the “sustained assistance and advice” of Macdonald Holmes and Robinson (Solomon, <span>1953</span>), the latter influentially working on his own historical geography of Sydney (Robinson, <span>1952</span>). Solomon had older Jewish family connections in Broken Hill but was brought up the Methodist Church (Clarke, pers comm, <span>2024</span>).</p><p>Solomon was a keen student and president of the student geographical society in 1953. His record-breaking athleticism also singled him out, as it had at school from the age of 15. As a middle-distance runner, he competed at the representative level and was captain of the University’s Athletics Club, honorary treasurer of the Sports Union and a sports editor of the student newspaper <i>Honi Soit</i>. In 1955 after completing a Diploma of Education, teaching at Sutherland Intermediate High School and joining the Council of the Geographical Society of NSW, he left for Oxford University midway through the year as the NSW Rhodes Scholar. He was reputedly only the second geographer globally after Chauncy Harris two decades earlier to have that honour (Solomon, <span>2014</span>). He had been encouraged to apply by Professor of Physiology Frank Cotton whose innovative methods influenced his athletic training (Solomon, <span>2007</span>). His ambition was to become a “geographer cum educationist” (Sydney Morning Herald, <span>1954</span>). At Wadham College, he continued his running career with his specialty the 440 yards (quarter mile). Academically, his tutor was Martyn Webb, later Professor of Geography at the University of Western Australia (Ryan, <span>2021</span>).</p><p>Passing on the opportunity to work with Erwin Gutkind on his International History of City Development at the University of Pennsylv","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"293-298"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944548","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":"Genius loci: An essay on the meanings of place, John Dixon Hunt, Reaktion Books, London, 2022, 208 pp., ISBN 978 1 78914 608 0 (hbk)","authors":"Rana Dadpour","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"291-292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944872","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":"Navigating turbulent waters","authors":"Sara Fuller","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12690","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I write this first Editor-in-Chief commentary while reflecting on my recent summer break in Aotearoa New Zealand. I was fortunate to spend some time at Cape Reinga in Northland. The lighthouse there marks a meeting point of the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, with whirlpools where the currents collide. These turbulent waters not only represent a special place in Māori culture but also serve as a contemporary metaphor for geography and geographers. Turbulence in the academy and the positioning of geography within such debates are, of course, now well-rehearsed conversations in <i>Geographical Research</i> and elsewhere. Nonetheless, the personal and professional impacts of the waves currently buffeting the higher education sector cannot be underestimated.</p><p>However, the continuing relevance and vibrancy of the discipline of geography as a ‘meeting of the seas’ gives ongoing cause for optimism. In this context, it is a great privilege to contribute to the geographical community in Australia and beyond as the new Editor-in-Chief for <i>Geographical Research</i>. The coming months will provide an opportunity to reflect on the vision and purpose of the journal and ensure it continues to foreground the dynamic research, teaching, and praxis that characterise the discipline.</p><p>But this work cannot be undertaken without deeply and sincerely acknowledging the work of my Editor-in-Chief predecessor, Elaine Stratford. Put simply, the journal has flourished under Elaine’s leadership over the last decade. There will, I hope, be other opportunities to formally recognise Elaine’s contributions but the journal’s current success and reputation by any range of metrics—be that impact factor, international readership, or number of submissions—is a result of Elaine’s ongoing care, vision, and commitment. I draw readers’ attention to the tribute in the recent newsletter of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) (<span>2024</span>) for more heartfelt reflections.</p><p>Elaine will continue as Senior Associate Editor to the benefit of the entire editorial team, and it is a collective I join with great enthusiasm. I am already indebted to Kirstie Petrou for her patience and knowledge as editorial assistant, and I have received a warm welcome from Brian Cook, Clare Mouat, Patrick Moss, Miriam Williams, and Alexander Burton in the editorial team as well as Simon Goudie and colleagues at Wiley. I look forward to developing relationships with the editorial board and colleagues at the IAG Council over time.</p><p>Of course, reflections on the purpose of <i>Geographical Research</i> need to be considered within their wider context. Returning to the metaphor of turbulent waters, the world of publishing is itself experiencing considerable disruption, not least from the growing impact of generative artificial intelligence. This will undoubtedly bring some ethical dilemmas to the forefront as we explore how AI tools are utilised in scholarly writing and journal","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12690","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447047","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":"Resilience—The role of place and time","authors":"Patrick T. Moss","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“Resilience” is an increasingly important term, which is used to characterise the ability of a system (either human or natural) to cope with uncertainty and change. This term has been supplementing “sustainability” and “vulnerability” in policy and academic discourse, as well as being positioned as a response to global climate change and natural hazards in particular (Achour et al., <span>2015</span>; Weichselgartner & Kelman, <span>2015</span>). The importance of this concept has become apparent to me with the development of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Resilience Centre, which has been developed to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines within the institution, facilitate engagement with other academic institutions, government, and industry, and provide the capacity to develop multidisciplinary teams centred on resilience. The key focus areas are climate, communities, disasters infrastructure, and nature, which match QUT strengths, as well as having a high degree of crossover. I am directly involved with the QUT Resilience Centre (as the Climate Theme Leader), and with its development, I have grappled with the definition and practicalities of “resilience,” as well as the role that place and time play in understanding the concept.</p><p>As a geographer, I see “place” as a central component of “resilience,” that is, the resilience of a system, whether natural or human, is directly related to the geographic characteristics of a location. For instance, the resilience of Brisbane is directly related to the place it is situated within. This is starkly illustrated by the Brisbane River or Maiwar (indigenous name of the river) and colloquially referred to as “The Brown Snake” (QUT [Queensland University of Technology] Digital Collection, <span>2024</span>). Its modern-day characteristics (since European colonisation) are shaped by the fact it is tidal and has experienced extensive urbanisation and dredging, which in combination has significantly increased sediment load over the last 200 years (ABC, <span>2017</span>). Despite these alterations, the Brisbane River has been relatively resilient in the face of significant land use and land cover changes (Kemp et al., <span>2015</span>). However, particular challenges for resilience in the 21st century in the context of the Brisbane River are disasters in the form of floods, with the significant flood events of January 2011 and February 2022.</p><p>A wealth of academic discourse has emerged in relation to these events, with a focus on framing the floods in the context of media definitions and broader community narratives (Bohensky & Leitch, <span>2014</span>), building community resilience (Hayes & Goonetilleke, <span>2012</span>), and flood immunity myths (Cook, <span>2018</span>). In addition, much of the research into resilience has been implemented in planning for climate resilience (Brage & Leardini, <span>2018</span>), water sensitive design (Za","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"6-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447151","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":"Editorial: Storytelling towards solidarity: Creative, hopeful, and inclusive climate change education","authors":"Catherine Walker, Ellen van Holstein, Natascha Klocker","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12689","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geography is a discipline that speaks to students’ imaginations (Hammond et al., <span>2022</span>). However, for learners and educators, imagination can take shape against a backdrop of existential ecological concern, where climate change “encompasses and exacerbates nearly every other problem threatening human progress in the twenty first century” (United Nations, <span>2014</span>, p.30). Learners and educators are exposed to an abundance of information about climate change that can be divisive, impersonal, and difficult to process. Scholars increasingly acknowledge that scientific accounts alone “do not offer relatable, connective or inspiring accounts of human-climate relationships” (Verlie, <span>2022</span>, p. 3).</p><p>The papers in this special section illustrate different ways in which storytelling is helping learners and educators to understand their entanglements with climate change across times and places, and to build collective responses with solidarity at their centre. Together, the papers highlight valuable affordances of stories and storytelling in the context of climate change education (CCE). Stories generate empathy, enable personal and collective sense-making, and can mobilise transnational solidarity. In a highly uneven global landscape of climate vulnerability and agency, the papers also show different meanings of climate justice for young people to address the climate crisis and its complexity and the inequalities written therein.</p><p>Our aim to create a collection of storytelling papers themed around solidarity in CCE was motivated primarily by the young people whom we have spoken to in our research and teaching, but it also ties together calls for more attention to empathy, inclusivity, and creativity in CCE. Scholars have advanced arguments to expand CCE beyond the domain of scientific knowledge to better engage and support learners who report feeling overwhelmed and anxious because of climate change (Baker et al., <span>2020</span>; Halstead et al., <span>2021</span>; Trott, <span>2024</span>; Verlie, <span>2022</span>; Walker et al., <span>2022</span>). Rousell and Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (<span>2020</span>), p.203) have completed a systematic review of CCE highlighting the marginalisation of arts and humanities in CCE and have called for participatory and creative approaches that “empower children and young people to meaningfully engage with entanglements of climate fact, value, power and concern across multiple scales and temporalities” and that are “open to radical and visionary alternatives for the future.”</p><p>The capacity for stories to open the imagination to alternative futures has been further explored by those who have used speculative fiction in their research and teaching practice (Bowman & Germaine, <span>2022</span>; Finnegan, <span>2023</span>). Other researchers have noted that storytelling can inspire agency and action, opening space for communities to imagine the kinds of futures they w","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"59-64"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446892","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":"Legal geographies in the making: Urban inequality, neighbourhood networks, and pandemic territorialities","authors":"María Lois,&nbsp;Silvia González-Iturraspe,&nbsp;Mireia Delgado-Castresana,&nbsp;Pedro Limón-López,&nbsp;Mariano García de las Heras,&nbsp;Javier De Pablo-Del Valle,&nbsp;Sergio-Claudio González,&nbsp;Heriberto Cairo","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12686","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In March of 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) escalated into a global health emergency. In Madrid, public institutions were overwhelmed by this crisis, and mutual aid networks were deployed in multiple neighbourhoods to assist thousands of families—approximately 15,000 households—with food and care in the absence of actions taken by the Madrid City Council. Drawing on a mixed methodology that combines discourse analysis and statistical data from social actors and multi-level institutions, this study aims to highlight the patterns of socio-spatial inequalities in Madrid in light of the urban impact of pandemic regulations and the role of public institutions in re-territorialising its already existing inequalities through legal zoning. In particular, this study examines the relationship between the territorial irruption of COVID-19-related collective action initiatives and the re-spatialisation of social inequalities in Madrid. In line with this objective, two additional questions are addressed. The study highlights the value of a legal geography theoretical framework in examining how law works as a political technology over territory and also shows how social organisations and networks have claimed legal regulations as bottom-up social change processes, challenging the dynamics in the political production of law. The aim of this work is twofold: on the one hand, we wonder to what extent the solidarity networks could be related to urban territorialities and the spatialisation of social inequalities in Madrid. On the other hand, we aim to show how a legal geography perspective could be useful in examining how law is used over territory as a political technology and as a surveillance tool and, conversely, how from social movements representing social networks in pandemic, many regulations are demanded and vindicated as bottom-up social change processes that mean a contention of former dynamics in the political production of law.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"199-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12686","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944401","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":"Urban expansion and livelihood dynamics in peri-urban Tamale, Ghana","authors":"Suale Iddrisu,&nbsp;Kabila Abass,&nbsp;Richard Serbeh,&nbsp;Gift Dumedah,&nbsp;Afriyie Kwadwo,&nbsp;Joseph Alhassan,&nbsp;Gabriel Alexander Kpevu,&nbsp;Razak M Gyasi","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12681","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the heart of this paper are concerns for food security and sustainability—two challenges of wide relevance for geographers. Our work focuses specifically on the Guinea northern savanna ecological zone of Ghana, where poverty is grim and livelihood opportunities are limited and the intersection of urban expansion and livelihood dynamics is not well understood. This study analysed trends in and effects of urban expansion on farmers’ livelihoods in four peri-urban communities around Tamale in the Republic of Ghana. The study employed a mixed methods design comprising quantitative and qualitative methods. It used geospatial techniques, secondary data, and a qualitative study involving 56 heads of households and seven key informants. Results indicate that while the surface area of farmlands reduced by 77% from 1996 to 2023, urban or built-up areas increased by 93% in the same period. Findings show that while urban expansion reduced the sizes of farmlands, households’ agricultural output, and income, it created nonfarm livelihood opportunities for some households. To minimise the effects of urbanisation-induced arable land shrinkage, affected households adopted three strategies: agricultural intensification, agricultural diversification, and adoption of nonfarm livelihood activities. Key policy initiatives by the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly are needed to protect agricultural lands to stem declining agricultural production and to ensure livelihood sustainability in the metropolis.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"40-58"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447044","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}