{"title":"Re-bordering during COVID-19: Women and children as tools for immigration control at the USA-Mexico border.","authors":"Valentina Glockner, Elaine Chase","doi":"10.1177/23996544261471290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544261471290","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through qualitative ethnographic work at the US-Mexican border, this article analyzes three main impacts of 'crisis' migration governance on migrant women with children during the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates how a combination of migration and public health-related policies employed during this time, and presented as measures for the public good and the wellbeing of migrant communities, generated chaos and resulted in additional forms of mistreatment and violence. These included summary deportations of women and children; the denial of fundamental rights to asylum and to privacy; the threat of removal of children in order to control, restrict and undermine women's agency and autonomy; and direct harms to unaccompanied migrant children. The paper argues that while the invocation of migration policies during the pandemic were shrouded in euphemisms of child protection and humanitarianism, the ensuing chaos of these measures imposed by US immigration authorities with the compliance of INM (Instituto Nacional de Migración) in Mexico and child-protection authorities, enabled the subjectification of women and children to further control and punishment as irregularized migrants through processes of re-bordering (Aradau and Tazzioli 2021).</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"44 6","pages":"1030-1046"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13568471/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148956501","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}
{"title":"Holding space open: Wor(l)ding the ruins of Gaza.","authors":"Mikko Joronen, Khalid Dader","doi":"10.1177/23996544261466065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544261466065","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Witnessing the erasure of spaces and landscapes in Gaza reveals as much the ethical and ontological necessity to narrate as it does the limits of writing. In this commentary on Lubna Abu Sitta's intervention, we grasp this tension by thinking with her how embodied writing can narrate what seems impossible for words to capture. Abu Sitta's writing in-place and through lived ruination voices affects, attachments, vulnerabilities, losses, and exposures that circumnavigate bodies, while importantly holding space open for memory and life in a way that resist immense spatial erasure. This urges us to think embodied displacement geographically, bringing attention to ways of inhabiting the ruins and destruction with makeshift infrastructures, memories, and narrations of survival. These ways and the losses they carry might not lend themselves easily to academic narration, but they are nevertheless carved into bodies, memories, affects, atmospheres, materialities and landscapes-to spaces and bodies that are worlding the impossible in the ruins of Gaza.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"44 6","pages":"1007-1012"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13568474/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148956532","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}
{"title":"Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut.","authors":"Tiina Järvi, Mikko Joronen","doi":"10.1177/23996544251394575","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23996544251394575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the atmospheric materialisation of failure in the context of Lebanon's electricity infrastructure. Thinking through the rise in pollution levels in Beirut - which has been connected to the increased reliance to diesel-powered generators - the paper argues that the dysfunctional electricity sector and the polluting materiality it generates should be approached atmospherically. The paper shows, firstly, how the chronic state neglect of the electricity infrastructure - the entanglements of corruption, geopolitics, wasta networks, and multiple crises - remains 'in the air' as generators emit dangerous amounts of carcinogenic particles, enveloping Beirut into a toxic atmosphere. Secondly, the paper foregrounds the body's immersion in its aerial environments through breathing. We argue that such immersion constitutes pollution as a form of embodied atmospheric failure, stemming from the state's materialised (in)actions. By elaborating how this neglect permeates daily life - not only through affective entanglements, social inequalities and daily rhythms of power outages, but crucially through immersion in material atmospheres - the paper shows how air is embodied and existential, but also political, constituting a medium that allows pollution to encircle those dwelling in the city. Thirdly, the paper invites us to reconsider infrastructural failure and state neglect by examining how atmospheric pollution becomes an embodied part of city life. This, we argue, raises further questions about the allochronic temporalities of moving air and the challenging political terrain revealed by the aerialisation of infrastructural failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"44 3","pages":"550-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13099086/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785707","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}
{"title":"Arctic circles: Transprofessional networking and international governance.","authors":"Merje Kuus","doi":"10.1177/23996544251360540","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23996544251360540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Arctic-focused networking events are gaining prominence as sites of transnational and transprofessional governance. Central among such events is the Arctic Circle Assembly, an annual conference that takes place in Reykjavik in October. This paper uses Arctic conferences in general and the Arctic Circle Assembly in particular to examine transnational and transprofessional knowledge-creation, a process that requires regular interaction across national and professional boundaries. Conceptually, the paper draws on political geography, international relations, and anthropology to investigate interaction, socialization, and sociability in international governance. Empirically and methodologically, it combines participant observation at eight major Arctic meetings in 2022-25 with over thirty in-person interviews with those who organize and attend such events. My principal focus is not on the big picture of the meetings' goals but on the small details of their social milieu. I seek to give a 'peopled' or ethnographic account of the events to foreground the social workings of transprofessional interaction. The question to ask is not only how Arctic networks work and how they matter but also how the Arctic networking events work and how they matter. Beyond the Arctic, the paper advances our understanding of the spaces and practices of international governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"44 1","pages":"176-191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13086293/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724507","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}
{"title":"'A bureaucracy within a bureaucracy': The Department of Fisheries and Oceans and relationships under the Maa-nulth Treaty.","authors":"Onyx Sloan Morgan, Heather Castleden","doi":"10.1177/23996544251334524","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23996544251334524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the acknowledgement of the importance of relations with the ocean for nuučaan̓uł ways of being, relationships between Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and nuučaan̓uł Nations remain rife with power inequities. The existence, form, and right for nuučaan̓uł to practice fishing, including commercial fishing, is one such flashpoint where relationships with DFO and thus Canada's policy and general orientation to First Nations are strained. Even for huuʕiiʔatḥ, one of the five First Nations signatories to the Maa-nulth Treaty, coming to the table as equal treaty partners has been difficult due to DFO's orientation to nuučaan̓uł fishing rights, the hierarchy of scientific knowledges, and lack of recognitions of legal authorities through hawiłpatak hawiih. Based on our 10 years of research into the implementation of the Maa-nulth Treaty, in this paper we explore the relationship between Huu-ay-aht First Nations and DFO. To do so, we begin by overviewing the process of reserve creation across nuučaan̓uł ḥaḥuułi and how colonial understandings and creations of 'fisheries' played a key role in dispossession. We then turn to our interviews with Maa-nulth First Nations negotiation and implementation teams to explore how reconciliation and fishing rights have emerged through the Maa-nulth Treaty, and how nuučaan̓uł knowledges have been disregarded by the DFO. We conclude by profiling the tensions, strengths, and challenges huuʕiiʔatḥ have experienced in exercising their treaty rights, inclusive of hawiłpatak hawiih, through the Maa-nulth Treaty and specifically with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"43 7","pages":"1426-1446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13086292/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724458","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}
{"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":"<p><p>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 <i>problem-complexes</i> 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"43 7","pages":"1350-1368"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"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}
{"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":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"43 7","pages":"1294-1313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"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}
{"title":"'<i>They want to get rid of us by all means</i>': A critical analysis of policy and governance responses and their implications for street traders' access to urban space in Harare, Zimbabwe.","authors":"Elmond Bandauko, Godwin Arku","doi":"10.1177/23996544241298414","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23996544241298414","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines how urban authorities in Harare respond to street trading and the implications of these interventions on street traders' access to urban space. Drawing from focus groups, in-depth interviews with street traders and urban governance actors, we argue that as urban authorities in Harare become obsessed with defending modernity, they implement aggressive urban policies aimed at eradicating street traders' livelihoods. These violent measures are often differentially experienced with 'street vending mothers', the elderly and those with disabilities bearing the brunt of Harare's authoritarian spatial governance. Alternatively, the city has also experimented with what we call governing through 'spatial containment', aimed at 'taming' street traders and transforming them into formalized entities. We demonstrate that despite its noble intentions, such a policy approach has unintended outcomes for street traders since it undermines the organic attributes of their trade: operational flexibility, spatial mobility and proximity to customers. Despite the negative implications of policy interventions, street traders' associations struggle to champion the collective voice of informal traders due to their organisational fragmentation, unfavourable political environment and existing structural constraints. This study contributes to the broader scholarly debate on urban informality, governance, and socio-economic justice in developing country contexts. Based on our findings, we call for a paradigm shift in policy and governance approaches, advocating for inclusive urban planning, dialogue, and recognition of the socio-economic contributions of street traders.</p>","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"43 5","pages":"917-936"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13086289/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724438","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}
{"title":"The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC","authors":"Joshua FJ Inwood, Derek H Alderman","doi":"10.1177/23996544241286631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241286631","url":null,"abstract":"Exacerbated but by no means invented by President Donald Trump, post-truth politics are defined as a disregard for facts in political discourse and policymaking. The post-truth era is dominated by two forms of informational praxis: misinformation and disinformation. Through the archival record of civil rights organizations, we argue we should not see the present era of post-truth politics as new but instead see it as part of a more prolonged struggle over white supremacy and the broader effort to contain challenges to the US economic and racial order. By contextualizing the geography of post-truth politics, the strategies and tactics civil rights groups use to counter white supremacist lies are important to understand, especially in an era where social media can spread lies and disinformation at lightning-quick speed. Thus, we also explore how civil rights organizations challenged disinformation and the control and suppression of information perpetuated by those in power.","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142259747","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":"Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability”","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/23996544241285595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241285595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48108,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269304","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}