{"title":"Political geographies of everyday life and agency in camps","authors":"Kara E. Dempsey , Pablo S. Bose","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103316","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Millions of displaced people currently live in various camps throughout the world. Asylum and refugee camps – both formal and informal – are growing in size and scope, becoming more permanent features on their respective landscapes. Our attention in this article is focused on the space of the camp itself, which has long been marked by profoundly unequal relations of power. A common theme that characterizes camps, whether operated by the UNHCR or any other group, is that of control exercised over the inhabitants’ daily lives, routines, and mobilities. In this article, we consider what the reality of camp life looks like for those within them, drawing on the voices of the (multiple) dispossessed and how they experience everyday life in these places. Our argument is not that camps represent spaces of control; that much is both self-evident and confirmed by much scholarship through the years. Drawing on interviews with camp residents –both refugees and asylum seekers–across different regions and displaced by different contexts, we look at some of the key features that characterize life within the camp, that illustrate what forms control might take, and also indicate the ways in which camp residents seek to actively resist and transform those regimes of control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103316"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143628167","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}
Aiko Ikemura Amaral , Mara Nogueira , Gareth A. Jones
{"title":"Re-framing popular governance in Brazil: Re-insurgent and entrepreneurial arrangements in the urban peripheries","authors":"Aiko Ikemura Amaral , Mara Nogueira , Gareth A. Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the <em>periferias</em> of Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the role of local actors to organise and manage networks, resources and discourses to support and advance residents’ demands. In this article, we argue that the pandemic gave visibility to emerging arrangements which remain under-theorised and under-analysed. Specifically, we examine how these arrangements reveal what we label re-insurgent and entrepreneurial forms of popular governance. Drawing upon fieldwork in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo, we examine how trajectories of autoconstruction and urban consolidation contribute to differently outline, legitimise and tend to local claims and demands. We show they rely and build on distinct networks of influence and resources, and encompass alternate combinations of state, private, and civil society actors, to both reinforce and challenge the urban inequalities and power asymmetries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103307"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143610707","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}
{"title":"Housing movements: From solidaristic discourse to solidaristic fields","authors":"Greta Weston Werner","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article considers interview data from a study on social housing in Vienna with reference to scholarship on solidarity and field theory to contribute to the conceptual development of ‘people power strategies’ (Tattersall & Iveson, 2021) related to housing. It takes up Madden and Marcuse's (2016) call for a focus on people and politics and offers a case study of Viennese housing to show an example where such a focus has found success. It argues that Vienna's high percentage of socially housed households was developed and is maintained through deliberate and constant work by actors in the social housing field. It shows the types of ‘social skill’ (Fligstein, 2001) that contribute to a strong social housing sector in Vienna. The paper develops the concept of <em>solidaristic social skill</em> as a ‘people power strategy’ (Tattersall & Iveson, 2021). Solidaristic discourse works against the stigmatisation which so often divides nascent housing movements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103088"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140469157","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}
{"title":"Intersecting housing crises and the future of the welfare state","authors":"Sarah Knuth","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103263"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592497","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}
{"title":"Creating the anti-sexist city: The potential of the local state in combatting sexual harassment","authors":"Kate Boyer , Lucy Such","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103290","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103290","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article we advance theory by developing a conceptualisation of the local state as an active player in the promotion of anti-sexist urbanism. While recent theory has explored ways in which the local state has promoted socially progressive goals under neoliberalism, this work has focused almost entirely on economic-rather than social-goals. We extend this work by developing a concept of the local state in the promotion of social and gender-justice agendas. We do this by bringing scholarships on the local state; feminist urbanism and arts-led feminist activism to bear on a case study of Bristol, UK. Through an analysis of the ways Bristol has activated urban space to challenge sexual harassment through collaborations with artists and third-sector partners, we extend understanding of how the local state can re-script urban space as spaces of resistance, through which more emancipatory forms of urban life might be possible. We argue that the local state has an important role to play in combatting sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence and drawing forth the anti-sexist city. We advance theory in and beyond Geography about what local states can be and do, and submit that the forms of urban innovation seen in Bristol constitute a model of how the local state can promote anti-sexist place-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103290"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143519538","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}
{"title":"Towards a new “Black political” in Colombia: A decolonial perspective, or “Blackness elsewhere”","authors":"Ulrich Oslender, Carlos Agudelo","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103253"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592496","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}
{"title":"Working with, against and beyond the state: A response to Katie Meehan's ‘Water Shutoffs, Social Reproduction, and the Carceral State’","authors":"Alejandro De Coss-Corzo","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This response builds on Katie Meehan's 2023 <em>Political Geography</em> RGS plenary address on “Water Shutoffs, Social Reproduction, and the Carceral State”. Thinking with the case of Mexico City, I consider what other racial divisions of nature might be created through the exclusionary and violent logics of state infrastructural power. I focus particularly on the labour that sustains these forms of violence, and ask how we can depart from labour to think about political ecologies otherwise.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103264"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592498","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}
Mia M. Bennett, Kate Coddington, Deirdre Conlon, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier J. Walther
{"title":"Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]","authors":"Mia M. Bennett, Kate Coddington, Deirdre Conlon, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier J. Walther","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103308","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103308","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, <span><span>http://10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>. The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn.</div><div>The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at <span><span>https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103308"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592500","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}
{"title":"Reparative infrastructures: Debt, water shutoffs, and the state","authors":"Nate Millington","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103265"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592499","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}