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{"title":"Professor Peter Haggett (1933–2025)","authors":"Richard Harris, Tony Hoare, Kelvyn Jones, David Richards, John Wylie","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Those words are found in the introduction to <i>Diffusing Geography: Essays for Peter Haggett</i>, a book published in celebration of his life and academic achievements as he neared ‘retirement’. Three decades later, they stand well as the opening to this shorter but equally heartfelt tribute to Professor Peter Haggett (CBE, FBA), following his death on 9 February 2025, at the age of 92. We are saddened by the loss but share the smiles and gratitude. Over a 70-year career, Peter's impact on geography, and the study of it, was immense. As Flowerdew (<span>2004</span>, p.156) writes, ‘the term “quantitative revolution” … does not do justice to the changes that Haggett and his colleagues tried to bring about (and largely succeeded) in the way geography was studied’, often still is, and is being rediscovered today in areas of geographic data science.</p><p>Peter was born on 24 January 1933 in Pawlett, rural Somerset, with the Quantock Hills to the West, and the Mendip Hills to the East. Much of his life was lived within the shadows of the same. In later years, he authored <i>The Quantocks: Biography of an English Region</i> (Haggett, <span>2012</span>), with his daughter, Jackie, as photographer—the third of four children from his long and happy marriage with ‘the Homerton College girl with the sparkling eyes [Brenda]’ (Haggett, <span>1990</span>, p. xv).</p><p>Injured playing rugby at school and encased in a plaster cast, Peter kept up his studies, reading about the <i>Geomorphology of New Zealand</i> (Cotton, <span>1942</span>). Later, as a geography undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, the first book that Peter bought was Richard Hartshorne's <i>The Nature of Geography</i> (<span>1939</span>). He sold it, soon after, for further reading on geomorphology (he was low on funds and there were no relevant examination questions about the Hartshorne book) but, interest piqued, subsequently bought another copy (Haggett, <span>1990</span>).</p><p>In 1966, after spells at UCL and back at Cambridge, Peter joined the (then) Department of Geography at the University of Bristol. Aged just 33, he was only its second established chair. He never really left. Peter ‘retired’ from the Department in 1998 but went (literally) up the road as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, remaining a Senior Research Fellow of the University as of last year. He kept in touch with the (now) School of Geographical Sciences throughout—in person, by e-mail and by handwritten letters. He was a Head of Department, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and, for a year in the mid-1980s, the University's Acting Vice Chancellor in a difficult period for university funding. <i>Plus ça change</i>…</p><p>That long service to Bristol is paralleled by equal success in the discipline that he ‘most succinctly defined as “the study of the Earth's surface as the space within which human populations live”’ (Haggett, <span>1990</span>, p. 8). In 1","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Labour turnover and employment dynamics in the e-waste industry of Ghana","authors":"Khiddir Iddris,&nbsp;Martin Owusu,&nbsp;Martin Oteng-Ababio,&nbsp;Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research focuses on labour turnover and employment dynamics within Ghana's e-waste industry, specifically at Agbogbloshie, Accra's primary e-waste recycling site. The study investigates the factors influencing people's involvement in different roles within the e-waste value chain through qualitative research methods. This involves in-depth interviews and content analysis to comprehend motivations, income structures, age distributions and transitional patterns. The study reveals that health concerns and the desire for financial stability significantly impact individuals' decisions to enter and advance within the industry. The findings also suggest a shift from entry-level positions to more lucrative roles facilitated by financial resources. However, challenges such as income variability, lack of safety measures, and limited resource access persist, particularly for those in lower-level roles. The study recommends the implementation of integration, regulation and support mechanisms to promote sustainable livelihoods and productive employment in the sector, aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG 8). Policymakers are encouraged to establish supportive regulatory frameworks, enhance resource accessibility, promote skill development, foster public–private partnerships, advocate for circular economy principles, and invest in capacity-building and awareness initiatives to address the complex challenges of the e-waste industry. Overall, this study offers valuable insights for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and researchers seeking to promote sustainable development and inclusive growth within the e-waste industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘…and the evidence was irrefutable’: The politics of evidence in the World Commission on Dams","authors":"Christopher Schulz,&nbsp;William M. Adams","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Evidence-based policy-making increasingly shapes the practice of advisory bodies, including global environmental assessments (GEAs). Advocates point to the power of evidence (particularly, but not only scientific evidence) to improve policy-making. Here we discuss how political considerations shaped evidence-gathering and use within the World Commission on Dams (WCD), a GEA body which was active between 1998 and 2000. We use insights from semi-structured interviews with participants in the WCD process. First, we argue that the WCD shows that the political nature of evidence-gathering has long been important in GEA processes. Despite rhetoric emphasising the objectivity of its evidence base, the WCD's evidence-gathering was permeated by political considerations, for example in convening stakeholders with opposing views, giving evidence an instrumental purpose in widening participation and epistemic authority beyond just information and learning. Second, we show how a diversity of evidence (in form and substantive content) can challenge mainstream views. Contrary to the conventional emphasis on technical and quantitative data in GEA processes, we show how personal engagement with emotionally charged evidence, including that from grassroots sources and participatory processes within the WCD, created a shared understanding among opposing sides.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fin or tech? The role of financial and technological capabilities in global fintech development","authors":"Xinchen Luan,&nbsp;Wenwan Jin,&nbsp;Shengjun Zhu,&nbsp;Bofei Yang","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fintech has been an emergent crucial area for enhancing national competency and transforming the global financial landscape. Financial and technological capabilities are the two key factors influencing fintech development. This study seeks to clarify the impacts of the two factors and investigate their relationships. The data mainly originate from the Orbis patent database to depict the pattern of global fintech development. The empirical findings demonstrate that both financial and technological capabilities promote fintech development, and technological capabilities are more important. As national capabilities increase, the positive effects of financial capabilities weaken and turn negative when national capabilities are high, whereas technological capabilities continue showing increasingly positive effects. Furthermore, financial and technological capabilities have a reinforcing relationship with each other. But when national capabilities are high, financial capabilities prohibit the promoting effect of technological capabilities. This study provides empirical evidence and policy implications to assist countries in their fintech development.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: Exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England","authors":"Liam Saddington,&nbsp;Fiona McConnell","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>State-based imaginaries dominate how children are taught about the world in formal educational spaces. Geographical education in schools draws upon a range of representations from atlases to wall maps, which portray a highly ordered image of a world that is neatly divided up into bounded nation-states. While scholarship within political geography has long sought to challenge the ‘territorial trap’ which underpins these approaches, and there is increasing awareness and prominence of children's political geography within the subdiscipline, little attention has focused on how children themselves conceptualise and think about the state. This paper aims to contribute to contemporary debates on children's geopolitics and work on the production of geographical knowledge to explore children's understandings of statehood through a focus on English primary school pupils (aged 9–11). We have developed and run an educational activity which addresses the question of ‘what is a country’ and creates space for pupils to critically engage with ideas of statehood. This paper draws upon participation observation of this activity with 441 pupils from 17 classes across 10 state-maintained primary schools in England. We find that children have complex geopolitical understandings of the world which encompass nuanced articulations of the politics of difference, legitimacy, the act of recognition, and legacies of colonial practices. While the norms of a state-based international system are firmly established by the end of primary school in the UK, pupils do not merely accept the status quo of the current international system, but can offer nuanced critiques, thinking creatively about different forms the state could take, and engaging with questions of justice and equity. We thereby argue that children should be thought of as critical and creative geopolitical thinkers who can imagine more just and equitable futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How different emotions emerge in the context of the energy crisis: A contribution to emotional energy geographies","authors":"Maria Budnik,&nbsp;Katrin Grossmann,&nbsp;Celine Hess,&nbsp;Tine Wemheuer","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12619","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The emerging field of emotional energy geography within energy social sciences explores the intersection of energy systems and lived experiences. Pioneering contributions emphasise the need to understand energy usage and decision-making in novel ways. This paper contributes to this discourse by examining emotions in the face of insecurity, steep price increases, and a political crisis, focusing on Germany during the 2022 European energy crises. Political actors predicted either a ‘hot autumn’ or a ‘winter of rage’. However, the massive protests that were anticipated scarcely materialised, and the groups affected internalised the crisis. The study investigates how individuals felt about the situation when rage did not manifest on the streets, exploring the emergence of other emotions. It explores emotions such as fear of costs, conflicts over energy provision, social stress, and pride in energy-saving capacities. The literature on social psychology and emotional sociology posits that emotions arise through the process of defining a given situation. Here, attribution of responsibility appears crucial for the understanding of varied emotional reactions. Shame may lead to internalised conflict avoidance, while collective anger becomes a mobilising force. Drawing on four expert interviews and 30 qualitative interviews with retirees, single parents, and students—groups vulnerable to rising energy costs—the paper challenges expectations of widespread anger. Instead, emotional experiences are intricately tied to existing strategies for coping with poverty and support networks that mitigate the impact of the crises. The findings contribute to a better empirical understanding of emotions in social crises, highlighting the roles of pre-existing coping mechanisms and support structures in shaping emotional responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comprehending the interaction between urban function and morphology at traffic analysis zones scale: The case study from Hangzhou","authors":"Wencang Shen,&nbsp;Qiyu Hu,&nbsp;Zhengfeng Zhang,&nbsp;Lu Niu","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12620","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Urbanisation is transitioning from disorderly sprawl to compact intensification, accompanied by functional differentiation and morphological changes spatially. This study addresses the relationship between urban functions and morphologies at the block scale in Hangzhou. Leveraging geo-big data, we adopt a points of interest (POI) weighting method to map four essential urban functions—residential, commercial, public service, and industrial—at the traffic analysis zones (TAZ) scale. Additionally, we estimate morphological indices using building footprint data and building volume data. Our investigation reveals intriguing patterns: residential, commercial, and public service functions exhibit a central concentration trend diminishing towards the periphery, whereas industrial functions demonstrate a multi-hotspot distribution. Morphological indices like patch density and mean volume diminishing towards the periphery, while mean patch size and patch shape index, presenting a pronounced peripheral and multi-hotspot distribution trend. Significantly, nuanced associations between urban functions and morphologies were elucidated. Residential zones tend to display dense and small patches, while commercial areas showcase larger patches, volumes, and complex shapes. Furthermore, construction intensity-based heterogeneity analysis unveils dynamics in the relationship between functions and morphologies, particularly pronounced in high-density areas. These findings underscore the importance of integrating morphological considerations into urban planning, offering a fresh perspective for functional zoning planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive","authors":"Anna Jackman","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12618","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drones are a growing feature of everyday airspace, with more-than-military drones deployed across diverse civil, commercial, and recreational applications. Yet, from reports of drones flying in proximity to manned aircraft and transporting contraband into prisons to drones used to spy on ex-partners, so too have concerns grown around drone incidents and misuse. Drawing on the testimony of Mass Observation Archive (MOA) correspondents, this article explores everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse, while bringing drone geographies into novel dialogue with feminist geographical and geopolitical work on the everyday, storytelling, and (digital) technology. An established UK archival project, the MOA seeks the views of ‘ordinary’ people to inform an understanding of everyday life in Britain through issuing questionnaire-style ‘directives’ on wide-ranging themes, from current events to articles of interest, to its panel of volunteer correspondents. Drawing on the author's development of a drone-themed directive, this article examines everyday understandings of growing and anticipated drone presence, while reflecting on the geopolitical implications of increasingly diffuse airpower as access to drones widens. In so doing, it responds to calls from drone geographies to diversify the methodologies deployed in the drone's critical accounting, while bringing the MOA dataset into dialogue with feminist work to deepen understandings of ‘everyday droning’.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12618","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-production of smart eldercare between technology and service-oriented companies in China","authors":"Yi Yu","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12616","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Smart eldercare is promoted as a potential solution to the urgent healthcare crisis stemming from an ageing population and a shortage of staff. The exact meaning of smart eldercare varies among stakeholders, including government bodies, eldercare firms, and the elderly. This study investigates the differing strategies of technology-focused and service-focused companies within smart care. Emphasising the political elements of intelligent eldercare, it highlights the importance of co-production. Using thematic analysis, the study demonstrates that technology-focused firms at a 2024 smart eldercare summit in Shanghai prioritise innovation and market prospects of emerging technologies, based on ethnographic research. In contrast, service-oriented firms focus on the pragmatic utilisation of technology in their eldercare services. This study contributes to the understanding of smart eldercare technology adoption and co-production by revealing the complexities and discussions associated with real-world implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy interactions at a multiscale geographical space for developing the green economy: Evidence from the international diffusion of environmental goods","authors":"Jingxuan Gui,&nbsp;Xiyan Mao,&nbsp;Peiyu Wang","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12617","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The institutional and multi-scale perspective provide a promising nexus between economic geography and environmental governance. They help to overcome the duality of the global–local nexus for regions in a globalising world, enabling the rediscovery of the role of states and their governance. This article proposes that the scalar structure of institutional linkages is not continuous from the global to the local, where the state level is a discontinuity. The supra-national interdependence is horizontal and the sub-national governance is hierarchical. They interact with each other to affect the path development of new economies. International trade in environmental goods during 2001–19 is used as an empirical case. The results show that the liberalising trade policies (international interdependencies) open a window of opportunity for countries to develop a green economy, while domestic industrial and environmental policies (domestic governance) help to anchor the opportunities by enhancing the effect of trade policies. These results show that an enabling system of environmental governance requires a multi-scalar structure that includes states. Domestic governance allows the states to adapt to the global governance regime, and then seize the development opportunities offered by international interdependencies. The states play a crucial role in balancing the multi-scale interactions in the global governance regime. This is different from what the conventional global–local nexus might conclude.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"191 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}