Political GeographyPub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103481
Deirdre Conlon, Mia Bennett, Kate Coddington, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Christopher Lizotte, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier Walther
{"title":"Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry","authors":"Deirdre Conlon, Mia Bennett, Kate Coddington, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Christopher Lizotte, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier Walther","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103481","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103481"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145924384","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103442
Twan Huijsmans , Jaap van Slageren
{"title":"Political socialization across places: differential effects on multiculturalist attitudes in urban and rural areas?","authors":"Twan Huijsmans , Jaap van Slageren","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extensive literature shows that inhabitants from urbanized areas tend to have more multicultural attitudes than those from rural areas, and these differences seem especially pronounced among younger generations. To explore why, we study ‘the formative years of adolescence’ and focus on an often-overlooked mechanism in the literature: political socialization through discussing politics with various actors such as parents, peers, and teachers. We argue that political socialization differently affects multicultural attitudes in urban and rural areas, and test our hypotheses by using the Dutch Adolescent Panel on Democratic Values (DAPDV) dataset, a representative panel study among adolescents in the Netherlands between ages 11 and 16. This allows us to not only analyze whether the associations between political discussion and multicultural attitudes differ between urban and rural areas, but to also disentangle influence from selection effects. We find that political socialization through parents and peers is related to multicultural attitudes differently in urban and rural contexts. It is associated with more multiculturalism in urban areas but not in rural areas. These associations are fully the result of selection mechanisms, and no support for the direct influence of political socialization on multicultural attitudes is found. Overall, our findings stress the importance of further studying the role of political socialization in adolescence to help us understand increasing geographic political polarization across many democratic societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103442"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520307","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103447
Lafazani Olga
{"title":"Camp studies trapped in the camp? Re-articulating recent Greek history through the camp as a productive device","authors":"Lafazani Olga","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper critically examines dominant approaches in camp studies, by shifting the analytical focus away from the camp as a self-contained site. Drawing on over two decades of research and political engagement with migration, borders, and camps in Greece, this paper is an attempt to articulate Greece's recent history through the analytical lens of the camp—not as an isolated space, but as a productive device embedded within broader sociopolitical, economic, and spatial transformations. Tracing the evolving materialities, functions, governance practices, and struggles in and around camps from the early 1990s to the post-2015 period, the paper outlines how various camp phases have been shaped by—and have actively shaped—shifting regimes of border control, labor exploitation, crisis management, statecraft, and social antagonisms. Emphasizing multiscalar and relational understandings of camps—as assemblages always in the making—it calls for camp studies to move beyond conceptual and empirical confinement, and to engage more deeply with the complex histories and geographies of power and resistance at play that camps both reflect and produce.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103447"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520308","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103448
Nicholas Nikola García Johnson
{"title":"“Playing the Good Samaritan”: Rethinking securitization and care work through a politics of conviviality in Santiago, Chile","authors":"Nicholas Nikola García Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how care work becomes politicized as a practice of resistance within Chile's <em>Estallido Social</em> (2019–2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on ethnographic research in Santiago's <em>ollas comunes</em> (community protest kitchens), it analyzes three cases from <em>población</em> Lo Hermida, where police dispersed <em>ollas</em> in public parks and infiltrated them under counter-insurgency operations. Authorities framed these kitchens as unlawful protests and criminal activity masquerading as humanitarian aid, revealing how state actors recast care work as a security threat. I argue that securitization in this context relied on a double dehumanization: it targeted communities as threatening “Others” while stripping security forces of their own social embeddedness. Yet this logic of separation—<em>us/them, protector/subject, order/chaos</em>—could not hold within the affective density of everyday life. Counterinsurgency sought to map relational ties through circuits of threat, but these persisted as affective attachments—the very texture of convivial life that securitization cannot contain or comprehend. The <em>ollas</em> thus exemplified a politics of <em>convivencia</em> (conviviality): a mode of coexistence that neither dissolves inequality nor succumbs to enmity. By tracing how politicized care work unsettled securitization in practice, the article examines a pedagogical space in which participants reimagined the rights and responsibilities of democratic life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103448"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145569913","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103435
Sue Jackson , Erin O'Donnell , Matthew Currell
{"title":"River grabbing from the source: groundwater extraction and the self-perpetuating colonial practices of dispossession in Australia's Northern Territory","authors":"Sue Jackson , Erin O'Donnell , Matthew Currell","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103435","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indigenous people of the Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) have strong legal rights to most of the land through which the river flows, including its bed and banks. Yet the settler-colonial state asserts control over its waters, whether flowing across or under the surface of the land. We show that the Northern Territory government has applied lessons from its colonial history of land grabbing to thwart Indigenous claims to water, including those established via the Aboriginal Water Reserve, a mechanism of settler water law. Our focus is on regulatory procedures in the Mataranka region, where groundwater extraction is occurring on a scale that puts at stake the very existence of the Roper River and its complex of sacred springs and wetlands and threatens to undermine vital socio-cultural practices. A river grabbing frame centres the river as a living, socially unifying, and hydrologically interconnected entity. It moves the focus of justice struggles from water conceived as a disembedded, divisible resource to the relations that underlie settler-colonial state domination. Here, river grabbing is materialised through rampant water hoarding, speculation and over-extraction, which are legitimised by a racialized system of water governance that entrenches and protects non-Indigenous water use. We contribute to literature on the political contingencies of dispossession by showing how the administrative exercise of state power in water planning and allocation processes perpetuates a colonial mode of extraction that denies Indigenous peoples' legitimate expectations for water rights and real power to make decisions over the region's future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103435"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145468584","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103423
Sara Smith , Angela Parker , Kaitlin Reed , Dylan M. Harris , Brittani R. Orona , Jen Rose Smith , Andrew Curley
{"title":"Reading Andrew Curley's Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press (2023). 217 pp ISBN 9780816539604","authors":"Sara Smith , Angela Parker , Kaitlin Reed , Dylan M. Harris , Brittani R. Orona , Jen Rose Smith , Andrew Curley","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103423"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022450","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103443
Keisha Corantin
{"title":"Settling on their ground: The shifting land politics of armed actors in the urban margins of Medellín","authors":"Keisha Corantin","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How do armed groups shape land orders in the urban margins? While the power dynamics of non-state armed actors over land resources have been extensively studied in rural contexts, urban settings have received far less attention. In response to the growing influence of criminal organizations in the informal land markets of Latin American cities, this article offers a historical perspective on the involvement of armed actors in Medellín’s political economy of urban land. From guerrilla movements in the 1970s to contemporary criminal gangs, we trace how different groups have exercised land control in informal settlements. Building on this historical perspective, we argue that, while control over land access has long been a tool of territorialization for non-state armed actors, the contemporary criminal land market reflects a shift compared to earlier periods, as these actors seek to monopolize land control and extend their regulatory power over local populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103443"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145569911","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103436
Tomasz Rawski , Zuzanna Bogumił , Katarzyna Roman-Rawska
{"title":"Reclaiming sovereignty over the body: Post-2022 Russian migration between bio-, thanato- and necropolitics","authors":"Tomasz Rawski , Zuzanna Bogumił , Katarzyna Roman-Rawska","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103436","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the lived migratory experience of Russian citizens who have left their country after Vladimir Putin's announcement of the partial mobilisation of military reservists on September 21, 2022. By using the ‘assemblage approach’ to migration, and the concept of ‘aleatory sovereignty,’ both embedded in Michel Foucault's reflection on bio-/thanato-politics and Achille Mbembe's reflection on necropolitics, this article discusses post-2022 Russian migration as a process of migrants reclaiming sovereignty over their own bodies. More precisely, we reconstruct three main dimensions of this migratory experience. We scrutinize how they resisted and challenged the Russian bio-/thanato-political regime, sliding into necropolitics, by taking the decision to leave; we analyse how they regained sovereign power over their bodies by starting their migration route and remaining on it for some time; we examine how they renegotiated their aleatory sovereignty in various new settings by examining their ways of adaptation in different host countries, i.e. new biopolitical regimes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103436"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145468583","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440
Emanuel Deutschmann , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Alexandra Orlova , Niklas Harder , Ettore Recchi
{"title":"A time penalty for the Global South? Inequalities in visa appointment wait times at German embassies and consulates worldwide","authors":"Emanuel Deutschmann , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Alexandra Orlova , Niklas Harder , Ettore Recchi","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany's system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103440"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022454","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}