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{"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}

{"title":"Using 360° immersive storytelling to engage communities with flood risk","authors":"Katie Parsons,&nbsp;Alison Lloyd Williams,&nbsp;Christopher Skinner","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12682","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Communities worldwide face escalating flood risks due to climate change, a fact that emphasises the critical role of flood preparedness in community flood resilience. Globally, flood risk is expected to double by 2050. In the United Kingdom, where this study is set, approximately one property in six is already at risk of flooding, with that figure set to increase significantly in coming decades. Children and young people are often overlooked in work on flood resilience and response. Researchers working with flood-affected children have learned from their experiences and supported them in telling their stories and sharing insights about how to best manage flood risk in the future. Here, we advance a research approach that co-created with young people and teachers a suite of educational resources centred on using innovative 360° animation and immersive storytelling approaches. That work has allowed us to bring to life testimonies by children affected by flooding and to advance debates on how empathy can be amplified to widen engagement across a range of audiences and stakeholders. The tools we developed place the user in the centre of the child’s flood-impacted world, something that has received relatively little attention. The results provide significant new insights on the use of 360° storytelling approaches that can prompt enhanced, empathic responses that motivate users to want to learn more about flooding, help create a sense of solidarity, and inspire action. We argue that such empathy-driven, action-oriented responses are crucial when developing future flood preparedness plans and enhancing broader community flood resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"91-102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446673","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":"Knowledge co-production praxis in sustainability science: Insights from three contexts","authors":"Emma Ligtermoet","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12679","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Knowledge co-production is needed as never before to support social change in the face of climate, water, biodiversity, and other sustainability crises. Co-production brings together diverse groups and their ways of knowing to generate new knowledges and practices that reconfigure or generate transformative social changes and that invite reflexivity. Within sustainability sciences, tensions exist between descriptive, analytical framings of co-production used to <i>interrogate</i> knowledge-power relations and instrumental or normative framings used to <i>build</i> such relations. The former has been criticised for being overly descriptive and difficult to translate into policy outcomes and the latter for failing to sufficiently interrogate power dynamics and for perpetuating existing inequities. As researchers, how are we to navigate this tension? Co-production praxis involves <i>reconfiguring</i> knowledge-power <i>relations</i> for just and transformative social changes. I suggest what is needed is a critical lens on those relations to underpin and guide feasible and action-oriented processes and outcomes for such changes. In three ways, I present and reflect on co-production contexts with different temporal, spatial and epistemological characteristics. These contexts are analysing historical co-production of knowledge of coastal freshwater floodplain Country of the Northern Territory, facilitating the Kunwinjku Seasons calendar and enabling reflexive co-production praxis with sustainability science researchers at a national science institution. I demonstrate the need within each context to weave analytical, practical, and reflexive work to reconfigure fairer societal outcomes and to pay greater attention to socio-institutional changes arising from our engaged work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"9-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12679","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446738","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":"Mapping migrants’ narratives: A qual-GIS approach to Cairns’ urban liveability","authors":"Rana Dadpour,&nbsp;Lisa Law,&nbsp;Nick Osbaldiston","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12680","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study introduces a novel approach to urban liveability research by combining interviews with participatory mapping techniques. More specifically, the research integrates concepts from geographic information systems (GISs) with episodic narrative interviews to develop a qualitative GIS (qual-GIS) methodology to map and interpret the spatial experiences of recent migrants to Cairns. This qual-GIS approach involves participants annotating amenity maps with personal narratives, effectively geolocating subjective experiences, and providing visual representations of liveability insights. During mapping sessions, participants identified and highlighted significant locations by annotating maps with pens and sticky notes to express their spatial stories and place attachments. Analysis of annotated maps in ArcGIS enabled the juxtaposition of qualitative insights with quantitative data, offering a rich, spatially informed understanding of liveability in place. The maps transcended their function as mere analytical instruments or memory aides, and the activity evolved into a platform for migrants to articulate experiences of, and emotional ties to the city. This approach enhances understandings of urban liveability from first-hand experiences and establishes qual-GIS approaches as valuable tools in urban and regional policy and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"26-39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446739","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":"Social-ecological memory: From concepts and methods to applications","authors":"Ana R. Cardoso,&nbsp;Cláudia Fernandes,&nbsp;João P. Honrado","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12683","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social-ecological memory (SEM) may be a key source of resilience in social-ecological systems (SES), allowing for renewal and reorganisation after disturbances. This study provides an overview of the genesis and evolution of the SEM concept, its research trends and gaps, and its potential applicability to geographical thought. Combining systematic review and bibliometric analysis, we collected 219 records published in the last two decades, which were reduced to 87 relevant records after applying the inclusion/exclusion criterion. The results indicate that interest in SEM research is growing, but wide acceptance and concordance around terminology are still lagging. The concept has substantially evolved and expanded over the last decade but remains mostly abstract and conceptual. Research has focused predominantly on European countries, rural contexts, and westernised societies, identified multiple disturbances and ecosystem services as driving the maintenance and evolution of SEM, and highlighted an unequal interest between social and ecological memory carriers. Our review underlines the strong pertinence of the SEM concept for the study and management of social-ecological systems, which would benefit from the development of application strategies and tools. In the future, researchers should seek to expand the idea of social-ecological memory into an applied field having clearer links and boundaries with more established concepts important in geography, among them traditional ecological knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"179-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944556","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":"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":"&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is time, and it is good to know that it is time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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!].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt; 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":"Imagining alternative climate futures in higher education","authors":"Eric Magrane","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12678","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Across the globe, interdisciplinary and creative approaches to climate change education are crucial at all levels, particularly in higher education. In this article, I draw from insights working with a class at New Mexico State University in the United States. The aim was to examine approaches to understanding, communicating, and representing climate change. Each student was asked to compose a narrative in which they imagined the year 2100 as a time when we have adequately mitigated and/or adapted to the climate crisis. The assignment set the tone for collective action and foregrounded the importance of story and imagination in building just and sustainable futures. The class complemented a public climate change speaker series and, as a second assignment, students suggested which speakers to invite to shape the series in the future. The two assignments opened new spaces to empower, learn with and from, and build connections between university students and academic staff to shape climate discourse and action in communities. Reflecting on what was learned, sharing an example of a climate futures assignment, and presenting views on a collaborative approach to climate change education all add, I hope, to the literature on imagining futures, empowerment, and authentic learning in climate change education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"65-74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447049","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":"Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia’s settler-colonial infrastructure","authors":"Naama Blatman,&nbsp;Lucy Taksa,&nbsp;Ben Silverstein,&nbsp;Phil McManus,&nbsp;Lorina Barker,&nbsp;Angela Webb","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12675","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australian railway histories are dominated by narratives of engineering triumphs, colonial expansion into empty land, and bringing civilisation and development through railway infrastructure. These settler-colonial stories can be read back on themselves as histories and geographies of Aboriginal dispossession and colonial possession. Indeed, Aboriginal people, lands, waterways, and cultures have always been implicated in railway infrastructures, willingly or not. Aboriginal people’s entanglements with the New South Wales railways, to which we refer as “rail relations,” have involved dispossession, removal, employment, mobility, and travel, including the forced removal of children known as the Stolen Generations. These are relations of harm, loss, and grief but also of pride, connectivity, and survival. We argue in this paper that when Aboriginal communities engage in storying the New South Wales railways as Aboriginal they reassemble this infrastructure otherwise: not just as a tool of dispossession but also as life affirming. Indigenous storytelling can therefore overcome settler colonial erasure and the oversimplification of railway infrastructure hi/stories. Research about how Aboriginal lives have been interconnected with railways expansion and development is limited. While Aboriginal railway stories are continuously told within communities, they remain almost entirely silenced elsewhere. Overcoming the invisibility of Aboriginal rail relations is crucial as both truth-telling of the past and to ensure more just infrastructural outcomes now and in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"279-290"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.12675","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944711","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}