{"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, 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}
Geographical JournalPub Date : 2026-03-30Epub Date: 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1111/geoj.70056
Emily Billo, Zoe Pearson
{"title":"Universities as Spaces of Possibility: Towards More Creative, Caring Academic Labour","authors":"Emily Billo, 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}
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