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{"title":"‘Transcending Dual Disputes’: Global Black Geographies and the Practice of Liberation","authors":"Agostinho M. N. Pinnock,&nbsp;Rita Gayle,&nbsp;Lina Lucumi Mosquera,&nbsp;Lombe Mwambwa","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Established in spring 2019 as a digital community, the Global Black Geographies (GBG) Collective aimed to (re)-read and (re)-learn significant Black theorists using a ‘Black perspective’. They argued that when Black theorists, ideas and scholars migrated to the mainstream, they became increasingly unrecognisable within their original contexts. The Collective considered these developments part of the generalised violences of the neoliberal academy which routinely drained Black knowledges of their political energies and reproduced them as homogeneous and politically sterile ideas unable to facilitate ‘Black freedom’. Using this framework to evaluate Black Geographies' global reach and applications, the group subsequently developed the ‘GBG’ reading practice to critique these issues. This roundtable mirrors that practice, offering insights into an increasingly globalising view of Black Geographies scholarship, which the group contends must remain accountable to its roots to support Black liberation struggles worldwide. Building on key themes raised in the case studies, this model of collaborative learning across different Black geographies theorises the practice/praxis of Black Geographies through a critique of ‘wayardness’.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048254","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":"Envisioning Liberal Internationalism: Mapping and the League of Nations' Geographical Department","authors":"Jake Hodder,&nbsp;Philip Jagessar","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper argues that mapping was a foundational technology through which the idea of liberal internationalism was actively produced. Focusing on the League of Nations' Geographical Department, we show how a new sphere of international challenges was constituted where none had previously existed or been widely agreed upon. Internally, the Secretariat used thematic mapping to construct technocratic authority and a shared institutional identity; externally, it acted as a cartographic clearinghouse, aggregating and adjudicating maps it lacked the means to produce. A dependence on colonial sources tethered the League's universalist vision to imperial power, a bind we trace forward into the cartographic practices of its successors, including the United Nations. Recovering the geographical construction of liberal internationalism, we argue, shows how the international sphere was made and, as the present crisis reveals, how it might also be unmade.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994029","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":"Royal Geographical Society (With IBG) Medals and Awards Celebration 2026","authors":"Jane Francis,&nbsp;Loretta Lees,&nbsp;Anoop Nayak,&nbsp;Rachel Pain,&nbsp;Enric Sala,&nbsp;Danielle Schreve","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70116","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2026 celebrations, which occurred at the Society on 8 June 2026, with contributions from Loretta Lees, Anoop Nayak, Rachel Pain, Enric Sala and Danielle Schreve.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943469","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":"Presidential Address and Record of the Royal Geographical Society (With IBG) AGM 2026","authors":"Jane Francis","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70117","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the 2026 Annual General Meeting, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, Professor Dame Jane Francis, spoke about the breadth of geography as a discipline and her recent experience at the Antarctic Treaty Meeting in the context of geopolitical unrest and climate change.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943470","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":"Private Transport Accessibility to Basic Services in Rural Germany: Comparative Indices of Car and Walking","authors":"Stefan Neumeier","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accessibility research links normative perspectives on social equity with empirical assessments of people's ability to reach essential opportunities. Accessibility to basic services is widely recognised as a key indicator of well-being, social inclusion and territorial justice, and is increasingly emphasised in international policy frameworks for sustainable regional development. In Germany, this is embedded in the constitutional principle of ‘Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse’ (equivalent living conditions), which requires equitable access to essential infrastructure and services across regions. Despite its importance, nationwide evidence on spatial accessibility to multiple basic services remains limited, constraining a systematic understanding of its spatial distribution. This paper addresses this gap by developing a nationwide index of physical accessibility to basic services in rural Germany. It focuses on the extremes of private transport modes—car travel and walking—drawing on existing accessibility results across multiple services and applying the Mazziotta–Pareto method to construct harmonised indicators. The resulting composite indices aggregate accessibility across service categories and enable regional comparison under contrasting mobility conditions. By comparing high- and low-mobility scenarios, the analysis reveals spatial patterns of accessibility by private transport and highlights territorial disparities in access to essential infrastructure. The indices provide a high-resolution overview of accessibility in Germany, identifying areas dependent on car travel and those reachable on foot, thereby offering a novel dataset for spatial equity research and informing planning and policy debates.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943280","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":"Rethinking Democracy in Times of Polycrisis","authors":"Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Which forms of democracy are in crisis in a time of multiple and overlapping socio-ecological crises, often referred to as the polycrisis era? This commentary engages with debates on the nature of contemporary democratic breakdown and the kinds of political practices required to address it. I argue that the democratic crisis of the polycrisis era should be understood not as the exhaustion of democracy per se but as the exhaustion of its liberal, anthropocentric and technocratic hegemonic form, and that democratic renewal therefore depends on building counter-hegemonic, plural and more-than-human political narratives. In doing so, the commentary strengthens the case for rethinking democratic politics in times of polycrisis, particularly against critics who downplay the urgency or existential character of the current democratic crisis. In contrast to such scepticism, I align with scholars arguing that sustaining and renewing democracy is inseparable from confronting the political challenges posed by the polycrisis context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148849251","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":"Global Black Geographies: Tracing a Wayward ‘Method’","authors":"Agostinho M. N. Pinnock","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70119","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This Special Section utilises Saidiya Hartman's (2019a) notion of waywardness as a method to account for certain under-theorised expressions of global Black geographies. Arguing that much of the current focus in Black Geographies scholarship centres on the Global North, almost to the exclusion of other voices, it deploys the idea of ‘the wayward’ to investigate how ‘global’ conversations about Blackness unfold in diverse locations. The introduction/editorial contextualises ‘the wayward’, suggesting that it offers a likely method for considering other expressions of Blackness which unveil these multiplicities. Three individual case studies and a roundtable make up the rest of the discussion. The roundtable, which takes its cue from the reading practice of a transnational digital collective, the Global Black Geographies Collective, outlines an approach for (re)considering the scholarship and ideas of classic Black scholars and theorists from a ‘global’ perspective. Regarded an essential component of the methodology of ‘the wayward’ in how it brings together diverse geographies of Blackness within one forum, the overall aim of the special section is to offer possible insights into how these groups mobilise in community to disrupt the centred thinking of Global North ideas about Black geographies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783978","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":"‘No Braids, No Beads, No Locking of Hair’: ‘Race’, Nation and Identity in (Post)-Colonial Jamaica","authors":"Agostinho M. N. Pinnock","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper discusses the links between hair and Jamaica's often unnamed ‘race’ politics as an expression of waywardness. Using a court ruling in which a 7-year-old, female student was mandated to cut her hair—at the time worn in locs hairstyle—it teases out the links between embodiment, coloniality and incidents of racism which show up in the state's (post)-colonial imagination of itself as ‘new’ and sovereign.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783818","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":"Water Imaginaries of Care, Collectivity and Contextuality in Migrant Households' Stories of Adaptation to Water Scarcity","authors":"Louise Turner,&nbsp;Claire Hoolohan,&nbsp;Sarah Mander","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70114","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change is leading to changing water availability and is likely to impact systems of supply and associated practices in the Global North. As a way of contending with these possibilities, this paper shows how migrant households from water-scarce countries offer insights into specific practices, such as water reuse, minimising water waste and bucket-bathing in the context of reduced water availability, alongside reflexivity on hydrosocial (water–society) relations. Using stories, a novel medium for geographical work, to relay insights from participants' experiences, this work draws on a set of 16 household interviews in England to offer three imaginaries of sustainable water futures. Imaginaries are how we envisage the world and potential future worlds and are a valuable tool in contemplating futures under changing socioecological conditions. Three imaginaries of care, collectivity and contextuality in water use are unpacked through the practices and hydrosocial relations described in household stories. These imaginaries connect the stories with the broader analysis uncovered in the dataset. We provide directions for water planning to contend with the potential for water scarcity through the implications of our findings. We pose questions around the visibility of water systems inside and outside the home, and whether social connectedness to water (or not) at the societal scale exists and how this might influence more or less sustainable use. We additionally probe into the potential for malleability in resource-intensive water practices such as bathing. This work discusses how the influences of the life course, as well as family and personal histories, are vital to understanding water use. It further demonstrates that imaginaries can be expressed through the use of stories. Moreover, we demonstrate how migrant households' stories of adaptation to water scarcity are able to stimulate reflection on issues of water use, everyday practice and sustainable water futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753422","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 Making of an Authoritarian University: Insights From India","authors":"Ichamati Mousamputri","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70120","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This commentary explores geographies of authoritarianism in universities in contemporary India. It first develops an analytical framework of authoritarian campus geographies by combining insights from critical campus geographies and authoritarian geographies that centres a multi-scalar practice-orientated understanding of authoritarianism. The commentary then applies this framework to trace and analyse authoritarian practices within university contexts. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and higher education policies, the paper outlines four broad but interconnected categories of authoritarian practices—<i>centralisation</i>, <i>bureaucratisation</i>, <i>securitisation</i> and <i>militarisation</i>. In exploring the relationships of these practices with the space and institution of the university, the commentary shows that authoritarian politics go beyond undermining academic freedom by effectively remaking the university space and affecting everyday life within the campus. The commentary aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of authoritarianism in India by tracing its institutional, spatial and everyday manifestations within university contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753652","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}