{"title":"‘Male, Pale and Stale’? For More Curious, Diverse and Heterodox Economic Geographies","authors":"Sarah Marie Hall, Laura Pottinger","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a ‘male, pale and stale’ subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require open-mindedness, diversity and curiosity. To develop this argument, we draw on scholarship across feminist economic geographies and feminist studies more broadly, presenting new directions and possibilities for overlap. More specifically, inspired by McDowell (2016), we outline three areas offering exciting possibilities for further exploration of the who, what and how of economic geographical research: (i) intersectionality, (ii) diverse economies, and (iii) embodied and sensory geographies. While having already piqued the interest of some economic geographers, these research areas hold great potential for exciting intra- and interdisciplinary conversations. With our conclusions we note the timeliness of this agenda for the real-world application of economic geographies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144220384","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":"De-Pale the Ale: Preserving Black Brewing Culture Through Beer Festivals","authors":"Joshua Z. Merced, Samuel Scarborough","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Black beer festivals in the United States are dynamic sites where geography, culture, and economy converge to challenge exclusion and reimagine representation in the craft beer industry. This paper explores how these festivals operate as culturally significant and economically generative spaces that reframe the dominant narrative of craft beer as a white, male-dominated field. Drawing on concepts of cultural capital, tourism geography, and urban economic development, the paper positions Black beer festivals as platforms for reclaiming brewing heritage, fostering community, and advancing racial equity within cultural economies. Beginning with a historical overview of Black American brewing traditions and their suppression through colonialism, Prohibition, and systemic racism, the paper traces a lineage of cultural erasure and resistance that informs the present-day significance of festivals like Blacktoberfest in Atlanta. Through this case study, the analysis reveals how Blacktoberfest embodies localized place-making and global cultural expression, serving both as a space of celebration and as a catalyst for economic participation and social inclusion. Ultimately, the paper argues that Black beer festivals are not merely leisure events but geographies of empowerment, where the cultural, spatial, and economic dimensions of Black life are made visible, valued, and central to rethinking the contours of American craft beer culture.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144220385","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}
Tarun, Benjamin Cooke, Mittul Vahanvati, Darryn McEvoy
{"title":"Rethinking Climate Extreme Events and (Im)mobility From a Place-Based Perspective","authors":"Tarun, Benjamin Cooke, Mittul Vahanvati, Darryn McEvoy","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The frequency and intensity of climate extreme events (both slow and rapid onset) are projected to increase due to human-induced climate change. Thus, as a response, people's decisions of whether to move (mobility) or stay (immobility) from the face of climate extreme events will become increasingly important. To date, literature has established that these (im)mobilities are not linear responses to climate extreme events, and instead is a dynamic response that is also influenced by social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, and historical factors. While the theoretical understanding of climate mobilities has gained significant traction in geographical research over the past few years, gaps remain, especially in relation to the Global South. In addition, a narrative assessment of the existing knowledge on the intersection of climate extreme events and (im)mobility in the Global South is also limited. Responding to this gap in knowledge, this review paper first introduces the concept of climate mobility. Then, it examines the concept's strands (mobility and immobility) in the context of the Global South. It argues that a theoretical framing of climate mobilities underpinned by a co-constitutive understanding of place and mobility can help to capture the plurality of climate mobility outcomes. The findings of the paper highlight how sensitivity to place offers a valuable framework for better understanding the plurality of climate mobilities in the Global South in relation to a changing climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197335","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}
Franz van Beusekom, Gill Rutherford, Christina Ergler
{"title":"Autism, Disability, and Being Well in Place: Towards a Relational and Intersectional Understanding of Autistic Wellbeing","authors":"Franz van Beusekom, Gill Rutherford, Christina Ergler","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Neighbourhood environments are increasingly being recognised as settings within which people experience well- or ill-being. However, Autistic people are seldom considered in wellbeing research, which often centres on neurotypical experiences of places. Autistic people's encounters within places, and the effects of these encounters on their wellbeing, are therefore under-researched and under-theorised. This paper considers how a relational conceptualisation of wellbeing, in conjunction with an intersectional understanding of Autistic identities, might bring together insights from critical autism studies and geographies of wellbeing to map out the relationship between autism, place, and wellbeing. Recognising that neuro-normative social landscapes often disable Autistic individuals, we argue for a relational and intersectional approach to understanding and enhancing Autistic wellbeing. We advocate for designing inclusive spaces that actively support the wellbeing of Autistic people, highlighting the vital role we, as geographers, can play in transforming socio-spatial structures to address diverse needs and foster a more equitable environment for everyone.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197334","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}
Miriam Williams, Justine Lloyd, Harriet Narwal, Donna Houston, Nerida Carter, Kate Lloyd, Bronwyn Rennex
{"title":"Sustaining Care-Full Public Spaces","authors":"Miriam Williams, Justine Lloyd, Harriet Narwal, Donna Houston, Nerida Carter, Kate Lloyd, Bronwyn Rennex","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper develops a multidimensional framework for sustaining care-full public spaces. We open by engaging with key understandings of the affective and relational dimensions of both public spaces and urban care scholarship. We then set out the elements of a framework for conceptualising the possibility of care-full public spaces. Writing from feminist and decolonial standpoints, we review emerging and foundational research to delineate three key components of such an approach: (1) governance, (2) materialities and design, and (3) performing public spaces. We then apply the framework, grounding our analysis of care in public spaces in a case study of caring for and as Country in Sydney, Australia. Throughout the paper we emphasise the generative possibility of care as an evaluative frame and central practice that sustains public spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148262","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":"Critical Geopolitics 2.0: Geopolitics in the Web of Life","authors":"Gerry Kearns","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70029","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In his <i>Oceans Rise, Empires Fall</i>, Gerard Toal reformulates Critical Geopolitics in order to better address our planetary ecological crisis. A renewed attention to some of the classic texts of geopolitics, particularly those of Halford Mackinder, recuperates themes somewhat neglected in readings that focus upon the racist and imperialist framings of those works. This comment suggests that Marx rather than Mackinder might be the better point of departure for considering the themes of culture, geo-ecology and geopolitical strategy that Toal excavates from Mackinder.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135809","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":"Emerging Currents in the Political Ecology of Water","authors":"Samuel B. Feldblum","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The ravages and disruptions of anthropogenic climate change have sparked renewed interest in water and its social worlds. This review paper examines four key emerging directions in political ecologies of water: legal geographies of water, Indigenous scholarship considering water as a relational agent, geographies of everyday and infrastructural water practices, and the growing literature on hydrosocial territories and waterscapes. This work builds on earlier attention in the field to themes of privatization, urbanization, and infrastructure, but broadens its analysis to water's articulations into the manifold hydrosocial worlds through which it flows. Recent political ecological research has thus shifted from the relationship between the state and capital to diffuse its focus throughout the networks through which water comes to be known, produced, enacted, and consumed. I close by suggesting fruitful future avenues for research: namely, theorizing the political ecology of water across Global North-Global South and urban-rural divides, and investigating the ways that both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic strategies of water governance travel between hydrosocial contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135570","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":"Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance","authors":"Daniel Cockayne, Jessa Loomis","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individuals, households, and communities. In this critical synthesis we bring together research in economic geography on everyday life and financial and monetary technologies (fintech) to show the centrality of these technologies to daily life, and to suggest ways that research on the geographies of fintech could be deepened through attention to everyday life. We show how a focus on everyday life highlights the impact on fintech end-users, such as consumers and debtors, and their relationship to the (re)privatization of social reproduction, across a range of practices, spaces, and actors. We also show how financial technologies and digital platforms contribute to the construction and production of the mundane and habitual routines of daily life and connect up often-thought distinct sites and scales of activity. To demonstrate the value of our critical synthesis, we then analyze two examples, “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) and “Earned Wage Access” (EWA). These examples show how fintech products reconfigure the everyday life of payments, wages, and debt management, especially for cash-constrained consumers from whom these products are specifically designed to profit. Critically, we build the literature on everyday life and fintech in economic geography to argue that a synthesis of these literatures—the everyday life of fintech—provides a fruitful avenue to pursue new research at the intersection of the geographies of money and finance, platforms, and the digital economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143892923","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":"The Global Greenhouse Boom: Emerging Geographies of Agri-Food Intensification in the Plantationocene","authors":"Karl S. Zimmerer, Martha G. Bell","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70027","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The global greenhouse boom is central to the accelerating intensification of agri-food systems. Perspectives and principles of critical agrarian studies, the Plantationocene, and environment-society geography are used to offer a novel approach to the global greenhouse boom. Case studies of leading greenhouse countries (Spain, China, Morocco, Mexico) illustrate distinctive dynamics that have developed during recent decades. The perspectives and case studies are used to suggest insights and themes for future research. These center on the volumetric enclosures of the greenhouse boom, sociotechnical assemblages linked to long-distance market chains through transportation networks and new infrastructure, agrarian transformations of rural depopulation and national-international labor migration, spatial clustering fueled by land and water rushes that concentrate on the periurban territory of extended urbanization, and the marginalized food systems and precarity of greenhouse workers. Insights from the global greenhouse boom suggest the disruption of prevailing ideas of the geographic trajectories of global land-use intensification. The emergent new geographies of the global greenhouse boom abound with timely opportunities and well-suited challenges for future geographic research that is engaged with sustainability and justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818398","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":"Understanding Social Structural Change: Change Agency, Mediated Dualism and Fragmented Habitus","authors":"Jue Peng, Robert Hassink","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agency plays a crucial role in social and economic change, especially in regional transition processes. Interpreting the influence of context on agency reflects the spatial ontology of economic geography. However, culture, as one dimension of context, is still profoundly limitedly understood within economic geography. For instance, it is often constrained to tangible cultural heritage or formal institutions. Moreover, individual-level agency has remained understudied, especially how individuals develop their capacity to act, since it is challenging to distinguish individual and their position within in/formal organizations. Here, we suggest addressing these limitations by integrating Bourdieu's notion of habitus, which contributes to transcending the dichotomies between materials and culture and between structuralism and individualism. Hence, the primary objectives of this paper are as follows: (1) to undertake a comprehensive review of habitus from broader social sciences, in particular to explain the mediated dualism of habitus; (2) to respond to the criticism that habitus is a static concept, and to explain the potential to investigate change; (3) to explicate how agency interacts with habitus. Finally, we recommend economic geographers to integrate fragmented habitus with agency to study social structural change, thereby enriching the discipline's comprehension of context.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143769975","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}