{"title":"Absence and distance: reflections on festival landscapes in a pandemic","authors":"Amelie Katczynski, E. Stratford, P. Marsh","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2107230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2107230","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Some studies of self and landscape in festival events emphasise presence, closeness, and connectedness and focus on embodiment, inhabitation, and dwelling. But in the COVID-19 pandemic, absence and distance appear as increasingly common terms to describe festival events and landscapes that have changed in unanticipated ways. The risk that festivals would become hotspots of virus transmission requiring physical distancing and limits on movement resulted in significant alteration of festivals or their cancellation and absence from people’s lifeworlds. In this study, we explore how absence and distance have unfolded in lived experiences of altered festival landscapes during the pandemic and reflect on how care has been mobilised and emplaced.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"57 1","pages":"1808 - 1826"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88396249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shelters and clinics: sites where care and violence are mutually constitutive for migrant workers in Singapore","authors":"L. Antona","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2107229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2107229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper critically interrogates care and violence, demonstrating how they are both spatialised and mutually constitutive within the shelters and clinics of Singapore for migrant workers. While there are seemingly disconnected sites, both clinics and shelters are utilized to provide different forms of care, discursively represented as spaces of protection and healing. Drawing on ethnographic research with migrant domestic workers at these sites, this paper will, however, argue that shelters and clinics are also spaces where violence is enacted and experienced. Indeed, despite having lived through different forms of violence in their employers’ homes, this paper will reveal how domestic workers were subjected to further suffering and bodily harm; all while, paradoxically, receiving different forms of care. Building on social and cultural geographic debates, and particularly on feminist scholarship that foregrounds care, violence, and the body, this paper will argue that care and violence are mutually constitutive in these sites. Moreover, it will show that the migratory regime in Singapore creates spaces where the care that is practiced cannot be abstracted from violence. Beyond coexisting, in these geographies care and violence are shown to be inextricably connected.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"77 1","pages":"1790 - 1807"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83979473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nasya S. Razavi, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, S. Basu, Anindita Datta, Karen de Souza, Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Elsa Koleth, Joy Marcus, F. Miraftab, B. Mullings, S.A. Nmormah, Bukola Odunola, Sonia Pardo Burgoa, Linda Peake
{"title":"Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city: a feminist comparative study of the gendered experiences of Covid-19 in Southern cities","authors":"Nasya S. Razavi, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, S. Basu, Anindita Datta, Karen de Souza, Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Elsa Koleth, Joy Marcus, F. Miraftab, B. Mullings, S.A. Nmormah, Bukola Odunola, Sonia Pardo Burgoa, Linda Peake","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2104355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2104355","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on GenUrb’s comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities in five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China—we engage in an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in women’s everyday lives. Our research employs a variety of context-specific methods, including virtual methods, phone interviews, and socially-distanced interviews to engage women living in neighbourhoods characterized by underdevelopment and economic insecurity. While existing conditions of precarity trouble the before-and-after terminology of Covid-19, across the five cities the narratives of women’s everyday lives reveal shifts in spatial-temporal orders that have deepened gendered and racial exclusions. We find that limited mobilities and the different and changing dimensions of production and social reproduction have led to increased care work, violence, and strained mental health. Finally, we also find that social reproduction solidarities, constituting old and new circuits of care, have been reinforced during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"582 - 599"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43139051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘At home’ with alcohol: new insights into young people’s domestic practices in China","authors":"Chen Liu, M. Jayne","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2107231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2107231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on three types of domestic alcohol practices: drinking at home, accommodating alcohol products, and crafting alcohol drinks. It explores how Chinese young people associate their emotional, creative, and embodied experiences with domestic alcohol consumption and how the social and material space of home shapes their alcohol-related practices, drawing on a qualitative analysis. We argue that domestic alcohol practices shaped by diverse dwelling patterns can (re)produce the socio-cultural structures and multiplex spatiotemporalities of home. This article can contribute to geographies of alcohol in the domestic sphere by a deep investigation of the relationship between people, the socio-material space of home, alcohol-related practices, and the plural meanings of domestic lives from a non-Western perspective. It can also develop the relational geographies of domestic lives through a nuanced understanding of Chinese young people’s relational knowledge, imaginaries and practices that constitute the interplay between alcohol practices and the social, material and atmospheric aspects of home-making.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"12 1","pages":"1827 - 1845"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73889986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical toponymies beyond the power-resistance nexus: multiple toponymies and everyday life in the (re-)naming of South China Sea Islands","authors":"Chen-Yi Wu, Craig Young","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2104357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2104357","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper advances theoretical developments in critical toponymies through focusing on the renaming of South China Sea Islands and everyday use of names by fishermen in Hainan, China. Undergoing a series of historical renamings associated with European colonial influences and claims of sovereignty by the Chinese state, multiple official and vernacular toponymic systems co-exist and operate in complex ways in everyday life. By focusing on complexities in the everyday usage of these co-existing toponymic systems, this paper develops calls in the literature to engage with a more complex understanding of the operation of power in naming beyond a focus on a power/resistance dichotomy. Whilst acknowledging the role of political power, it develops this by analysing how renaming is also influenced by social and demographic change, developments in other areas such as heritage, and technological changes, which have received scant attention in the critical toponymies literature. The paper explores the naming of oceanic features to shift the focus of analysis away from the literature’s concentration on cities and street names. Overall, the paper argues for a more nuanced and diversified approach to analyzing critical toponymies.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"1732 - 1751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90046613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Collins, Megan Rushton, Katharine E. Welsh, A. Cliffe, Eloise Bull
{"title":"Nature, nurture, (Neo-)nostalgia? Back-casting for a more socially and environmentally sustainable post-COVID future","authors":"Rebecca Collins, Megan Rushton, Katharine E. Welsh, A. Cliffe, Eloise Bull","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2104354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2104354","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Commentaries on lived experiences of COVID-19-induced ‘lockdown’ have simultaneously directed public imaginations backwards to draw inspiration and fortitude from historical periods of national and global challenge, and forwards into futures characterised by greater environmental sensitivity and community resilience. In this article, we argue that individuals’ and households’ practical coping strategies from different phases of lockdown within the UK offer clues as to how adaptive embodiments of close connection – to nature and community – both inform contemporary practices of everyday resilience and signpost towards enablers of a more socially compassionate and environmentally sustainable future. Our novel approach to conceptualising post-COVID recovery draws on ‘back-casting’ – an approach which envisages pathways towards alternative, ‘better’ futures – to work back from the notion of sustainable lifestyles, through participants’ narratives of coping in/with lockdown, to the forms of adaptation that provided solace and encouragement. We highlight how these embodied and emotional adaptations constitute a form of nascent ‘neo-nostalgia’ capable of reaching beyond the enabling of coping mechanisms in the present to inform long-lasting capacity for individual and community resilience in the face of future socio-environmental crises.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"699 - 718"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43234572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to love: arranged marriages and the British Indian diaspora","authors":"Ayurshi Dutt","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2095123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2095123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"1082 - 1084"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46906983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black in White Space: the enduring impact of color in everyday life","authors":"Joshua Z. Merced","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2097441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2097441","url":null,"abstract":"(2), 165–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-009-9119-4 Bhopal, K. (1999). South Asian women and arranged marriages in East London. In R. Barot, H. Bradley, & S. Fenton (Eds.), Ethnicity, gender and social change (pp. 117–134). Macmillan Press Ltd. Chantler, K. (2014). What’s love got to do with marriage? Families, Relationships and Societies, 3(1), 19–33. https:// doi.org/10.1332/204674313X13794148714614 Wilcock, A. (2022). Exploring understandings of domestic violence with women in Sunderland: Negotiating and positioning emotionality within sensitive research. In S. Quaid, C. Hugman, & A. Wilcock (Eds.), Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21st century: Exploring diversity, social change and inequalities 1st ed., (pp. 16). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003039433","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"1084 - 1085"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45079298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The geographies of sexual violence in education: a photovoice study in and around a South African township secondary school","authors":"Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2090022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2090022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper centers on the voices of adolescent school children to examine the geographies of sexual violence in a South African township secondary school. In doing so, I analyze data generated through photovoice to show how school children identified and described school-related geographies of sexual violence. Using their visual artifacts, adolescents identified certain spaces as ‘hotspots’ for sexual violence, and these spaces, in turn, shaped the nature and forms of this violence. Drawing on these findings, the article highlights how adolescents conceptualize school-related geographies of sexual violence, and how in these geographies, this violence occurred. Within this context, the paper calls attention to the intersection of childhood sociocultural geographies and children’s experiences of sexual violence.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"16 1","pages":"1713 - 1731"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75222654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The production of urban commons through alternative food practices","authors":"Lana Slavuj Borčić","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2020.1795234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1795234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses creation of commons in the urban context from the perspective of alternative food networks. I explore how buying groups produce commons in the urban fabric through their decisions and practices relating to the distribution of organic food. Participatory action research and semi-structured interviews with members of buying groups (GSRs) in Croatia are used to examine the ways in which self-organised citizens manoeuvre through legal entanglements in order to obtain quality food directly from local producers. By collaborative acts of resistance based on solidarity and mutual support, buying groups transform and appropriate public and private spaces into urban commons, in which they regain control over the food they consume. Commoning practices have enabled buying groups (GSRs) to develop resilience and confront the dominant food regime.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"23 1","pages":"660 - 677"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14649365.2020.1795234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59910228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}