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Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103308

Mia M. Bennett, Kate Coddington, Deirdre Conlon, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier J. Walther

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103078

Sun Zhijian

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Reparative infrastructures: Debt, water shutoffs, and the state

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103265

Nate Millington

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Water shutoffs, social reproduction, and the carceral state: Policing life's work through the weaponization of water 停水、社会再生产和监狱国家：通过水的武器化来管理生活工作

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103087

Katie Meehan

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Psychoanalytic political ecology

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103297

Pieter de Vries , Ilan Kapoor

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Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103298

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel

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Multispecies imaginaries for river justice: Mobilising in defence of the Piatúa River, Ecuador

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103296

Carlota Houart , Jaime Hoogesteger , Rutgerd Boelens

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Speculative connections: Port authorities, littoral territories and the assembling of the green hydrogen frontier

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103271

William Monteith , Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar

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The making of H2-scapes in the Global South: Political geography perspectives on an emergent field of research

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103294

Eric Cezne , Kei Otsuki

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The German scramble for green hydrogen in Namibia: Colonial legacies revisited?

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Political Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103293

Johanna Tunn , Franziska Müller , Jesko Hennig , Jenny Simon , Tobias Kalt

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