Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103501
Kevin Grove
{"title":"Resilience targeting and the war on pluralist democracy","authors":"Kevin Grove","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103501","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103501","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amidst intensifying authoritarian attacks on public education and academic freedom within university sectors across the globe, this paper asks how political geographers might contribute to analyzing and intervening in the political geographies of higher education. Bridging work on geographies of education with research in international relations and geography on hybrid warfare and resilience targeting, this paper argues for approaching higher education as vital infrastructure of pluralist democracy. Using examples from right-wing assaults on public higher education in Florida, this paper examines how movements striving to re-segregate American public life target both the infrastructure of higher education and higher education as infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103501"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148958406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103513
Jenny E. Goldstein
{"title":"Digital marronage in the neoliberal university: Building a liberatory stack","authors":"Jenny E. Goldstein","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103513","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103513"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148958716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103476
Sarah Elwood
{"title":"Refuturing in the ruins: Higher education after resilience targeting","authors":"Sarah Elwood","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103476","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103476","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103476"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148958714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103480
Alexander Campolo
{"title":"Probabilistic spaces: Terrains of resilience targeting in an age of generative AI","authors":"Alexander Campolo","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103480","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103480"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148958715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-08-01Epub Date: 2026-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103469
Anna J. Secor
{"title":"2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump","authors":"Anna J. Secor","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103469","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103469","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to the White House in November 2024. This Plenary argues that Trump's re-mapping of the United States' global role is both cause and symptom of a broader phenomenon of dissociative geopolitics, in which the <em>geo-</em>is at once destroyed and preserved beyond its catastrophe. Drawing on the clinic of dissociation, I propose a way to unsettle two interlinked fantasies that structure this moment. The first is the fantasy of the world as a totalized whole – an object of mastery whose coherence can be produced through division and cutting. Yet climate breakdown, toxicity, genocide, and dehumanization cannot be contained or hived off. The second is the multiversal fantasy, in which infinite alternate realities promise escape from contradiction, turning crisis into consumable content. The article unfolds through three modes of splitting from reality – the unreal event, the de-realization of the world, and multiversal fantasy – each linked to dissociation as an unconscious process. Against fantasies of totality or endless substitution, the clinic of dissociation offers a politics of staying with fracture, insisting that what is at stake is not another world elsewhere but this one – our shared, unbearable, reality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 103469"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148641219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-08-01Epub Date: 2026-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103510
Rachael Squire
{"title":"Standing in the spaces","authors":"Rachael Squire","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 103510"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148641221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}