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{"title":"Vegetal Infrastructure: Rwanda's Eucalyptus Boom and the Material Politics of Tree Planting as a ‘Nature-Based Solution’","authors":"Nathan Clay","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70080","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Planting trees has become a global obsession. Forest restoration and afforestation have been rebranded as ‘nature-based solutions’ to climate change. Nations, corporations and non-profits together aim to plant trillions of trees, roughly equivalent to a new Amazon. This article considers the local implications of this terrestrial transformation. It reports on empirical findings from Rwanda, where over fifty million trees—mostly eucalyptus species—have been planted during the past fifteen years. Based on fieldwork with four rural communities, I demonstrate how the material properties of eucalyptus intersect with state and market rationales to make tree planting profitable, scalable and legible. Building from geographic thinking on infrastructure and human-plant relations, I develop the concept of <i>vegetal infrastructure</i> to analyse how trees are enrolled in political projects, producing durable inequalities that become a palpable fixture on the landscape. The article emphasises the urgent need to diversify global reforestation mandates and offers vegetal infrastructure as a lens to assess their local implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668283","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":"Petropower in Law-Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX","authors":"Daniel A. Finch-Race,&nbsp;Pancho Lewis","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70082","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute-long piece on behalf of federal law enforcement indicates how the workings of power in the United States of America are entangled with the ubiquity of oil extraction, transportation and consumption. It is concluded that such marketing is an expression of insecurities about the durability of the nation's global dominance in a period when low-carbon transitions are reshaping geopolitical structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147667973","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":"Universities as Spaces of Possibility: Towards More Creative, Caring Academic Labour","authors":"Emily Billo,&nbsp;Zoe Pearson","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70056","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In Spring 2025, we had the opportunity to read, write discussion questions and organise a conference panel for the book <i>Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University</i> by Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern, published in 2024 by Between the Lines Press, Toronto. We write this commentary to compel geographers to read this book and to share an example of how reading this book encouraged us to construct our academic conference labour differently, offering our discussion questions to facilitate discussion groups for other readers. We see the book as a guide for the current moment in higher education, including the ongoing neoliberalisation of the academy and limits on academic freedom, processes that structure our everyday university labour. In this commentary, we draw on our own experiences of burn out, combined with the book's call for more caring academic labour practices, to invite readers to rethink, reframe, to do and be otherwise, in their academic journeys. In highlighting all the ways, we can change our academic labour, the book recalls an energising space of possibility, a space from which we might reimagine the university.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668665","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":"Migration, circular mobility and food security in Nicaragua: An analytical framework based on food sourcing and farm household multi-localisation","authors":"Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh,&nbsp;Geneviève Cortès","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the links between agriculture, circular mobility, migration and food security in the Global South. It focuses on farm households in Nicaragua which, for generations, have engaged in diversified livelihood strategies including mobility and migration. The article proposes an original framework, based on the concept of multi-localised family food systems, to link household socio-spatial practices with food security. Multifactorial and cross-sectional analysis shows that household food security is the result of complex strategies combining agricultural practices, pluri-activity, economic diversification and the circulation of resources linked to migrant remittances and donations from networks and public policies. Although the links between migration, circular mobility and food security are neither linear nor systematic, our findings reveal that not only the maintenance of family farming but also the multi-localisation of households, circular mobility practices and migration play key roles in food supply and security. These findings suggest that public policies and the interventions of development agencies should take a better approach to support the food coping strategies of these multi-localised households, taking greater consideration of off-farm diversification, mobility and migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562853","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":"Regional variations in aerosol-temperature coupling over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India: A vector autoregression analysis (2005–2023)","authors":"Mansi Janmaijaya,&nbsp;Pankaj Kumar","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the complex interactions between aerosol absorption properties and maximum temperature during pre-monsoon seasons (2005–2023) across Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India (21.5°–28.5° N, 69.5°–88.5° E). Utilising satellite-derived aerosol measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and maximum surface temperature data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), both spatial patterns and temporal evolution of aerosol-temperature coupling were analysed through correlation studies and vector autoregression (VAR) modelling. Our findings reveal distinct spatial gradients in aerosol distribution, with Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) increasing west-to-east (0.35–0.93) and stronger absorption patterns in the eastern sector (Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth (AAOD): 0.037–0.092). Post-2018, the region experienced intensified Ultraviolet Aerosol Index (UVAI) and increased frequency of temperature extremes exceeding 40°C, with 2021 marking a peak of 162 high UVAI (&gt;2) events. To investigate UVAI-temperature interactions, relative humidity and wind components were included in the VAR model with a consistent 2-day lag relationship. Our analysis revealed regionally distinct response patterns: the Primary Region (eastern Chhattisgarh-western Odisha) exhibits oscillatory temperature responses to UVAI shocks with multiple fluctuations persisting through day 10, with relative humidity functioning as a critical mediating factor and wind patterns establishing feedback mechanisms with aerosols. In contrast, the Secondary Region (eastern Uttar Pradesh) shows a smoother, monotonic temperature response with a more straightforward pathway from aerosol forcing to temperature response. Fire events are associated with only 6.1% of UVAI events (1.0–5.0), with declining fire association as UVAI intensity increases indicating substantial contributions from other sources, including industrial emissions and desert dust. These findings highlight the region-specific nature of aerosol-temperature coupling and its recent intensification, with important implications for understanding regional climate dynamics and air quality management strategies in South Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147665803","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":"Understanding the 2024 UK riots","authors":"Alastair Bonnett,&nbsp;Peter Hopkins","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To introduce this Special Section, we reflect on the riots that took place in the United Kingdom in late July and early August 2024 and the questions, issues and challenges that this raises for geography as a discipline and for our practice as geographers. We challenge the silences and absences that have prevailed since the riots took place and raise questions about several issues that remain under-explored. We address the ways in which far-right ideas have become increasingly mainstream and consider the role that Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment played in catalysing the situation. We conclude by considering the importance of these issues for geography and suggest avenues for further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566673","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":"Experiencing the summer 2024 UK riots: Reflections from North East England","authors":"Taj Khan,&nbsp;Peter Hopkins","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this commentary, Taj Khan – a community activist based in Newcastle upon Tyne – reflects upon her experiences and negotiations of the summer 2024 UK riots. We discuss the changing everyday mobility practices that Taj negotiated at the time as well as the ways in which she was encouraged to avoid urban spaces and religious buildings. We also reflect on the counterdemonstration she attended and how this transformed urban space through solidarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564511","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":"Constructing citizenship and indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights and identities in cultural heritage sites","authors":"Taraf Abu Hamdan,&nbsp;Olivia Mason","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the relationships between Bedouin rights, citizenship and indigeneity in cultural heritage sites in Jordan. State narratives in Jordan deny indigenous rights to Bedouin by claiming there are no indigenous populations. We use this denial as a starting point to explore two key questions. First, what drives this denial, and second, what does it reveal about indigeneity and citizenship tensions in Jordan? Bedouin in Jordan are narrated as Jordan's citizenry backbone and through frameworks that see them as a monolith. Yet experiences of Bedouin vary and many face displacement and dispossession. Indeed, in cultural heritage sites Bedouin are central to their legitimisation, while simultaneously their rights are not recognised. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Bedouin communities, we explore how tensions around citizenship, indigeneity and identity arise at the everyday level. We argue that a more critical engagement with indigeneity is necessary in Jordan. Without this, valuable indigenous knowledge, identities and rights risk being erased. Beyond our focus on Jordan, this paper makes broader contributions to debates on indigeneity and citizenship. We conclude by arguing that by applying the term indigenous to more diverse settings, and centring indigenous understandings of the term, we can reclaim its use from a grounded perspective and continue to refuse the way the term indigenous is used and narrated by colonial, postcolonial and settler-colonial states.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643207","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":"The United Kingdom's first anti-Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza","authors":"Kawtar Najib","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In summer 2024, the United Kingdom was the scene of several days of horrific public attacks against Muslim populations. While some have described these attacks as spontaneous riots between far-right groups and anti-racist activists, these were in fact the United Kingdom's first anti-Muslim pogroms, occurring in a very specific genocidal context against the Muslim populations of Gaza. In this commentary, I explore why such pogroms happened by analysing the nature of British Islamophobia, its specific geographies and the political context in which they were able to develop to better understand how to combat anti-Muslim racism and thus better protect Muslims in Britain.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147665914","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":"Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality","authors":"Paul Griffin,&nbsp;John Clayton,&nbsp;Edith Adamson","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147665978","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}