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Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut. 呼吸着失败的空气：贝鲁特的污染问题。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2025-11-06 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/23996544251394575

Tiina Järvi, Mikko Joronen

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Arctic circles: Transprofessional networking and international governance. 北极圈：跨专业网络与国际治理。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2025-07-24 eCollection Date: 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/23996544251360540

Merje Kuus

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'A bureaucracy within a bureaucracy': The Department of Fisheries and Oceans and relationships under the Maa-nulth Treaty. “官僚机构中的官僚机构”：渔业和海洋部及其在《马努斯条约》下的关系。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2025-05-06 eCollection Date: 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/23996544251334524

Onyx Sloan Morgan, Heather Castleden

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What's the problem? Unpacking the problem-complex of coal extraction and climate action in Whitehaven, UK. 有什么问题吗？解开英国怀特黑文煤炭开采和气候行动的复杂问题。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2025-03-13 eCollection Date: 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/23996544251326510

Cille Kaiser, James Patterson

{"title":"What's the problem? Unpacking the problem-complex of coal extraction and climate action in Whitehaven, UK.","authors":"Cille Kaiser, James Patterson","doi":"10.1177/23996544251326510","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23996544251326510","url":null,"abstract":"We explore why and how problems related to climate action emerge in specific, sometimes peripheral, places. Diverse forms of socio-political contestation over both fossil fuels and low-carbon shifts imply that the problems that climate policy is positioned against are neither singular nor self-evident. Climate action intersects with complex socio-material settings, which can produce new problems and amplify or refract existing ones (e.g. job losses, inequalities, marginalization). Understanding how this occurs is an urgent challenge which requires interrogating the emergence and evolution of problems on the ground. We examine the case of a proposed coalmine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, the UK's commitment to 'consign coal to history', and what it reveals about the challenges of climate action more broadly. Drawing on 47 in-depth interviews and detailed field observations, we explain how the proposed coalmine invoked, and was inseparable from, many other issues including austerity, old and new extractivisms, environmental degradation, nuclear development, socio-spatial disparities, planning system deficiencies, and a widespread sense of being left behind. This shows how attempts towards climate action are inextricably embedded in broader problem-complexes that evade established policy domains and agendas (e.g. energy security, net zero). Other (often peripheral) problems which may or may not become policy problems nevertheless structure opportunities and/or obstacles for ambitious climate action, challenging the compartmentalization of climate policy problems and solutions.","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"43 7","pages":"1350-1368"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13086291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From embracement to attachment: Registering people on the move and the couplings of noncitizenship and territory. 从拥抱到依附：流动人口的登记和非公民身份与领土的结合。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2025-02-24 eCollection Date: 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/23996544251322768

Paul Trauttmansdorff, Annalisa Pelizza

{"title":"From embracement to attachment: Registering people on the move and the couplings of noncitizenship and territory.","authors":"Paul Trauttmansdorff, Annalisa Pelizza","doi":"10.1177/23996544251322768","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23996544251322768","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes how people on the move encounter registration infrastructures on their journey to Europe. Through the lens of three empirical cases-registration in the Eurodac system, registration in the framework of the European temporary protection directive, and national registration of migrants on Hellenic islands-we explore what we term \"noncitizenship-territory couplings.\" The article develops the concept of \"registration as attachment\" to describe how sociotechnical procedures establish relationships between noncitizen subjects, mobility rights, and territorial space. We therefore ask how registration infrastructures couple territory and noncitizenship in Europe in different ways-that is, how such couplings shape the movement of people, enact territories, and endow spatial rights or restrictions. We argue that new and partial couplings of noncitizenship and territory are produced-the \"containment coupling,\" the \"facilitation coupling,\" and the \"detainment coupling.\" Each follows specific registration dynamics, enacts different territorial patterns, and simultaneously shapes migrant mobility and their rights. By situating the article at the intersection of science and technology studies, human geography, and citizenship studies, we wish to contribute to the growing literature on the performative effects of infrastructures in border and migration governance. At the same time, our intervention encourages further analysis of the varied spatialities of states and sovereign power that move beyond current discussions about denationalization and deterritorialization.","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"43 7","pages":"1294-1313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13086290/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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'They want to get rid of us by all means': A critical analysis of policy and governance responses and their implications for street traders' access to urban space in Harare, Zimbabwe. “他们想尽一切办法要赶走我们”：对津巴布韦哈拉雷的政策和治理反应及其对街头商贩进入城市空间的影响的批判性分析。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2024-11-06 eCollection Date: 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/23996544241298414

Elmond Bandauko, Godwin Arku

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The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC 反对后真相政治的斗争始终与白人至上主义有关：从 SNCC 的信息实践中汲取的教训

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/23996544241286631

Joshua FJ Inwood, Derek H Alderman

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Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability” 超越流离失所：房地产估价在塑造城市可迁移性中的作用"

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Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/23996544241285595

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Exploring commoning in the anthropocene. Introducing the concept of the election commons as a response to socio-ecological crisis. The case of Skouries, Greece 探索 "人类世 "中的共有。引入选举公地的概念，以应对社会生态危机。希腊斯库瑞斯案例

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/23996544241282844

Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, Nikolaos Kapitsinis

{"title":"Exploring commoning in the anthropocene. Introducing the concept of the election commons as a response to socio-ecological crisis. The case of Skouries, Greece","authors":"Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, Nikolaos Kapitsinis","doi":"10.1177/23996544241282844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241282844","url":null,"abstract":"The Anthropocene epoch challenges our planet’s ecological sustainability and its relationship with democratic processes. The prioritization of economic growth and capital accumulation within most democratic organizations and institutions encourages limitless economic expansion while ignoring or disregarding the earth’s ecological vulnerability in multiple crises (economic, social, ecological). Commoning presents an alternative political strategy to respond to these crises, particularly when it is based on transformative practices of collective care. In this paper, we investigate how an anti-mining community in Skouries, Greece, opposes the imposition of a large-scale mining project by forming a commons initiative. We introduce the concept of election commons, which was designed to allow the anti-mining community to claim institutional power at a local level. This concept is argued to provide valuable insights into how collective care sets the foundations for the renewal of democracy, allowing an alternative relation to the environment and playing a strategic role in connecting different geographical scales of politics. We claim that commoning can enable a more fitting political strategy for the Anthropocene while highlighting the case of decision-making at a national and international level benefiting from local politics.","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182219","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}

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Communities of exposure, community as exposure: Thinking collective life in the police abolitionist movement 暴露的社区，作为暴露的社区：思考废警运动中的集体生活

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/23996544241281248

Liz Calhoun

{"title":"Communities of exposure, community as exposure: Thinking collective life in the police abolitionist movement","authors":"Liz Calhoun","doi":"10.1177/23996544241281248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241281248","url":null,"abstract":"The growing police abolitionist movement in the United States invokes the figure of community to bind various political claims, from shifting the arena of justice to fiscal restructuring. Geographic scholarship on community has yet to conceptualize its usage in this movement, and existing literature tends to critique conceptualizations of community-as-political-resistance by demonstrating a given community’s exclusionary practices and reasserting a liberal politics of inclusion. This article combines analysis of activist literatures from the liberatory harm reduction and transformative justice movements with elements of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy to offer an understanding of community as a shifting and provisional spectrum of relations at once structural and intimate, thus challenging its prevailing figuration as a form of enclosure mediated by the terms of inclusion and exclusion. Drawing on archival work into informally circulated, praxis-based ephemera from movements under the umbrella of police abolition, I conceptualize an abolitionist understanding of community at the juncture of ‘communities of exposure,’ formed along a structurally-produced spectrum of exposure to the harms of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and cis-heteropatriarchy, and ‘community as exposure,’ the condition of relationality that resists enclosure and, in understanding our essential vulnerability to one another as a resource for care, refuses the notion that police could sanitize community of its risks.","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182220","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}

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