Geographical JournalPub Date : 2026-03-06Epub Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1111/geoj.70024
Kahina Meziant
{"title":"Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship","authors":"Kahina Meziant","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the concept of regrounding as a form of poetic justice that unsettles dominant paradigms of national citizenship. Drawing on nearly two years of institutional ethnography and participatory action research with organisations supporting migrants in northeast England, the paper develops a geopoetic method that centres material and affective practices—such as sharing tea, tending soil, and planting seeds—as modes of non-sovereign belonging. Inspired by Lauren Berlant's notion of the glitch, Édouard Glissant's poetics of relation, and Aya Nassar's geopoetic aesthetics, regrounding is introduced as a neologism that interrupts sedentarist logics and imagines alternative political attachments grounded in care, opacity, and relational infrastructures. Through three autoethnographic vignettes, the paper shows how everyday acts of co-presence and material engagement—rather than legal recognition—can compose justice and solidarity. These intimate practices challenge dominant citizenship regimes not through demands for inclusion, but through a feminist-material politics of refusal, opening space for inhabiting the world otherwise.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643194","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}
Geographical JournalPub Date : 2026-02-26Epub Date: 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12621
Jofelle Tesorio
{"title":"Thriving or sinking? The emplacement process of Ukrainian refugees in depopulating, peripheral areas in the Netherlands","authors":"Jofelle Tesorio","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12621","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12621","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ‘free-to-work, free-to-settle’ feature of the EU's temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees has led millions to various locations, with the majority gravitating towards urban areas. However, due to housing shortages, a significant number have moved to peripheral municipalities experiencing depopulation. These refugees often find themselves in villages without a network and where the Ukrainian diaspora is small or non-existent. Reflecting on their settlement and everyday ‘unproblematic’ encounters (conviviality) with neighbours, colleagues at work, and networks at various institutions in Het Hogeland and Pekela, The Netherlands, this analysis explores the emplacement process of Ukrainian refugees. Based on this reflection, the paper aims to address the question: Which factors facilitate or hinder positive encounters among Ukrainian refugees in these peripheral areas, motivating them to (re)consider taking root in these host localities?</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643215","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 : 2026-02-26Epub Date: 2024-12-07DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12612
Tony Fielding
{"title":"Japan: Internal migration and population decline","authors":"Tony Fielding","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12612","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12612","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Examining the interdependencies between internal migration and national population decline in Japan, this paper begins by analysing the impacts of internal migration on national fertility decline, for example, through the early post-World War II flows from high-fertility countrysides to low-fertility cities. It then focuses on the way in which, in the context of national population decline, internal migration exacerbates the problems facing Japan's rural areas by adding population loss and, in particular, the loss of young adult populations, to the mounting problems of public and private-sector disinvestment, job losses, ageing (both social and physical) and the abandonment of land use and built form.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12612","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147665916","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 : 2026-02-26Epub Date: 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1111/geoj.70005
Mike Chick
{"title":"Migrant language education in a Nation of Sanctuary","authors":"Mike Chick","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent reports and research evidence on the organisation and provision of language education for migrants in the UK have illuminated numerous shortfalls. Challenges have been identified not only in the ability of providers to deliver enough English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes to meet need, but also in the way that ESOL classes are organised and delivered. This article argues that the adoption of a participatory pedagogy to the ESOL classroom can facilitate a syllabus that is closer to migrants' needs and provides examples of how such an approach can transform the way language education for migrants is currently realised. Drawing on reflections from a pilot course of teacher education in Wales, the article details how the inclusion of a multilingual, participatory pedagogy provides the tools for ESOL classrooms to be based around issues of relevance to those making a new home in Wales while at the same time providing space in the syllabus that frees participants from the pressure of exam or assessment preparation. First the author examines how the focus on evidencing linguistic progression, through the employment of a rigorous testing regime, often leaves little or no time to foster a sense of belonging or inclusion among migrants desperate to build new lives. Then, the Welsh context in particular is discussed, with specific attention to the role of the Welsh language and the Welsh Government's Nation of Sanctuary aspiration. To end, the author provides reflections from a course of teacher education grounded in participatory pedagogy. It details the benefits of moving away from an outcomes-focused, prescribed syllabus to one based on the learners' own needs, interests, motivations and backgrounds, and which, it is argued, can transform the parameters of how migrant language education is understood and enacted.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147665874","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 : 2026-02-26Epub Date: 2025-03-31DOI: 10.1111/geoj.70004
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
{"title":"Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara","authors":"Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti-colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens of an independent Saharawi Republic. We contend that poetry can be considered a form of public or citizen diplomacy, and poets as citizen diplomats, when advocating for a state policy, interest or cause. We also show that studying poetry through the lens of public and citizen diplomacy allows us to learn more about the interplay of emotion and soft power in constituting citizens and in the relations between citizens of different states. In doing so, we contribute to ongoing debates on the role of non-state actors in public diplomacy and on the place of emotion in diplomacy. The article is based on fieldwork carried out in late 2022 and early 2023, in Mauritania, the Saharawi refugee camps/state-in-exile in Algeria, and in Spain.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643193","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 : 2026-02-26Epub Date: 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12608
Anastasia Christou, Christiana Karayianni
{"title":"Translanguaging decoloniality in a divided island as post-colonial pedagogic praxis: Cyprus and cultural subversions","authors":"Anastasia Christou, Christiana Karayianni","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12608","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12608","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a political and pedagogic project, decolonisation involves the deconstruction of dominant Eurocentric forms of knowledge production, and the pluralisation of the knowledge field. But, in the case of a divided Cyprus, such practices and structures take on different meanings, within and beyond different contexts. In this article we link feminisms of resistance to curricular practices as a decolonial pathway to erasure of epistemic and gendered violence. If we are to suggest a collective project of decolonisation of higher education in Cyprus, we initially need to deconstruct conceptual frameworks of social justice through decolonising pedagogic practices. We consider ‘translanguaging decoloniality’ as one such avenue to pedagogic praxis through enabling cultural subversions, storytelling in the curriculum, and re-framing/re-telling narratives of the nation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643187","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 : 2026-02-25Epub Date: 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12560
Franz Bernhardt
{"title":"Keeping a distance in neoliberal times: The politics of friendship in the City of Sanctuary movement","authors":"Franz Bernhardt","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12560","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12560","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2010, the UK government transferred all contracts for the accommodation and reception of asylum seekers from local authorities to private contractors, followed by large financial cuts to support services. This article explores the consequences of these neoliberal reforms for the languages of asylum used by the <i>City of Sanctuary</i> movement, and how these languages relate to the politics of asylum of the state. Drawing on an analysis of semi-structured interviews with the founders and volunteers of the movement in Swansea, the article uses Heideggerian and Derridean theories to show how the movement's original language of ‘friendship’ emerged in response to the UK government framing asylum seekers through languages underpinned by ‘foreignness’ and was meant to reduce relational distance. It then shows how neoliberal reforms of asylum housing caused discursive and practical changes within the movement: a moral responsibilisation of volunteers to substitute for support services lost through austerity measures, and a structural professionalisation to be able to do this support work. It was those structural changes, this article argues, which shifted the dominant framing of the relation between volunteers and asylum seekers from friends to case workers. This re-establishment of relational <i>distance</i> is of conceptual importance as it highlights how friends and foreigners can often be constructed in a very similar manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12560","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514576","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 : 2026-02-25Epub Date: 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12551
Gaël Bohnert, Brice Martin
{"title":"Farmers' adaptation and mitigation practices in the Upper Rhine Valley: Drivers, synergies and trade-offs","authors":"Gaël Bohnert, Brice Martin","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12551","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12551","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through semi-structured interviews, this work analyses the motives and drivers leading wine growers and crop farmers in the Upper Rhine Valley (France, Germany, Switzerland) to adopt climate change adaptation and mitigation practices. We show that the main motive is to adapt, seen from an individual and reactive point of view. However, these practices sometimes also bring negative side effects in the long term or on other actors, and considering other problematics. On the contrary, other farmers’ thinking is more anticipatory and they pay more attention to the common good. Nevertheless, they are not necessarily the most successful in adaptation in the short term as they often are more affected. This shows the limits of the concept of adaptation, as centred on individuals and eluding issues that are not related to climate change. That is why we prefer considering system transitions, taking into account the interactions between the diverse problematics and actors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12551","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136318743","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 : 2026-02-25Epub Date: 2024-05-18DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12590
Ahyeong Im, Eungul Lee, Yaqian He
{"title":"Detecting land cover and land use transitions and the associated temperature changes in the East Asian monsoon region","authors":"Ahyeong Im, Eungul Lee, Yaqian He","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12590","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12590","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unprecedented land cover and land use (LCLU) changes can significantly alter the interactions between the land and atmosphere through biogeophysical processes, potentially changing the monsoon systems. Therefore, it is necessary to quantify the LCLU changes and the impacts on the climate in the East Asian monsoon (EAM) region, where significant human-induced LCLU changes have occurred. This study quantified the LCLU transitions with fractional maps produced using the recently developed categorical LCLU maps from 1982 to 2015. In the five sub-regions, identified as having undergone significant LCLU transitions, the relationships of the transitions with 2 m temperature were investigated using the ERA5-Land reanalysis data. The quantified LCLU transitions revealed that, in northeastern China, the dominant trend was forests and grasslands changing into croplands. Moreover, in the marginal areas of Inner Mongolia, the transitions of grasslands to croplands and forests were evident. Croplands were mainly converted to forests in the Sichuan region. In particular, in the Sichuan region, the temperature increased by more than 0.04°C as the forests increased by 1%. In the marginal areas of Inner Mongolia, a 1% decrease in grasslands and a 1% increase in forests, respectively, were associated with a temperature rise of more than 0.03 and 0.04°C. The detected LCLU transitions affect the regional warming as demonstrated by correlation, regression and Granger-causality analyses and the related biogeophysical processes. Thus, the identified LCLU transitions can change the regional climate and potentially affect the monsoon systems by changing the contrast in heat between land and ocean. This empirical research will not only provide insight into possible changes to climate by LCLU transitions in the EAM region, but it will also yield practical information for implementing land cover policies while considering the geographical characteristics of the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141125150","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}
Geographical JournalPub Date : 2026-02-25Epub Date: 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12596
{"title":"Correction to Constructing exclusive student communities: The rise of ‘superior’ student accommodation and new geographies of exclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/geoj.12596","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.12596","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kenna, T., Murphy, A. (2021) Constructing exclusive student communities: The rise of ‘superior’ student accommodation and new geographies of exclusion. <i>The Geographical Journal</i> 187: 138–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12380</p><p>Figure 1, Figure 2, and the Graphical Abstract have been removed from the online version of the above article as the authors were not able to obtain permissions for re-use from the copyright holders. The conclusions of the paper remain unaffected.</p><p>The authors apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.12596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141347399","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}