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{"title":"Can You See Us Now? Negotiating Indigenous Citizenship at a Road Blockade in Argentinean Chaco","authors":"Alberto Preci","doi":"10.1111/area.70114","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.70114","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the spatial dimension of Indigenous citizenship by examining how it is experienced, negotiated and enacted during a road blockade in the Argentinean Chaco. It investigates the ways in which citizenship is claimed and reshaped by analysing a road blockade as an ‘act of citizenship’. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018, including on-the-ground observations and interviews, the paper highlights the blockade as a critical site and moment for observing the dynamic framing and reframing of Indigenous citizenship in relation to shifting power relations. The analysis situates the blockade within broader debates about the political dimension of infrastructure and the way in which these can influence the shaping of Indigenous citizenship in South American frontiers. The Argentine context is particularly relevant due to the State's ongoing reluctance to fully recognise Indigenous difference and rights. Through a detailed account of the Provincial Road 54 blockade in Salta province, organised by Indigenous fishermen, the paper demonstrates how such mobilisations contribute to the ongoing redefinition of Indigenous citizenship. The findings underscore the importance of attending to local meanings and claims, rather than imposing external categories, in understanding the evolving relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. More broadly, the paper highlights the importance of considering the spatial dimension in analysing the sociopolitical processes underway in Indigenous lands.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roadblock Geographies: A Typology of Extraction, Circulation, and Authority in Conflict","authors":"Peer Schouten","doi":"10.1111/area.70113","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Roadblocks and checkpoints have become ubiquitous features of conflict-affected borderlands, yet their political and economic significance remains unevenly theorised. While existing scholarship has documented their role in financing armed actors and shaping everyday mobility, less attention has been paid to how roadblocks relate to the underlying transport geographies within which they operate. This article advances debates on extractivism, circulation and conflict by conceptualising roadblocks as micro-sites of extractive power embedded in broader logistical landscapes. Building on transport geography and literature on the politics of circulation, it argues that variations in transport infrastructure—ranging from informal paths to paved corridors and global logistics hubs—systematically shape who can extract rents from movement, where, and with what distributive effects. The article develops a typology of roadblock geographies based on two dimensions: the number of checkpoint-wielding actors and the types of routes on which they operate. Drawing on comparative evidence from multiple conflict settings, it identifies five ideal-typical configurations: gatekeeper states, intra-route competition, green/grey divisions of power, diffuse authority, and inter-route competition. Rather than mutually exclusive, these configurations are complementary, scalable and often coexist within the same conflict landscape. By foregrounding the interaction between transport infrastructure and extractive practices, the typology offers a heuristic for mapping patterns of authority, rent distribution and political power in conflict-affected borderlands, and contributes to politicising transport geography as a key site of contemporary extractive governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intimate Juxtaposition: Bounded Coexistence and the Making of Multispecies Home in Guangzhou","authors":"Duo Yin","doi":"10.1111/area.70115","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper develops the concept of ‘intimate juxtaposition’ to theorise how urban residents cultivate connections with autonomous nature through distinctive spatial strategies. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations with 19 reptile, amphibian and arthropod keepers in Guangzhou, I conceptualise intimate juxtaposition as the deliberate creation of a viewing interface that reconfigures domestic space. This spatial arrangement facilitates bounded multispecies coexistence—a relational mode operating along a continuum from observational intimacy to carefully managed situated interactions. I argue that this practice transforms the home into a negotiating arena where core socio-ecological tensions—between wildness and domesticity, connection and separation—are worked out through daily material and ethical engagements. Illuminating this micro-scale tactic, the study re-conceptualises the domestic sphere as a vital site for the ethical renegotiation of nature–culture relations, contributing to geographical debates on more-than-human cohabitation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Weaving Through Crises: Longitudinal Looks at Post-COVID Life and Livelihoods in Eastern Indonesia","authors":"Jessica N. Clendenning,&nbsp;Elisabeth Hendrika Dinan","doi":"10.1111/area.70111","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.70111","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the meaning of ‘crisis’ from the perspective of rural smallholders on Flores Island in East Indonesia. Using the market closures and mobility restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore how those living in remote areas managed the longer term social and economic consequences of the coronavirus ‘crisis’. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered through household surveys and in-depth interviews between 2017 and 2023, we analyse how smallholders managed care for their families, land and migration from pre- to post-pandemic. Our findings show that more smallholders feel that post-COVID life is just as challenging, if not more, than during the pandemic. Their sentiments illustrate how serious constraints continue to affect their ways of living and farming in Flores. Although the coronavirus crisis did indeed cause livelihood difficulties, such as fluctuating commodity prices, closed markets and the loss of jobs in cities, their life circumstances (in 2023)—including failed harvests, crop disease and rising daily costs—make present times feel just as challenging. We discuss what these findings add to recent analytical framings of ‘crisis’ when viewed from smallholders' lives and rural regions such as Flores Island.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147682884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment and Combatting of Crime and Violence in Urban Public Spaces in Southeast Algeria","authors":"Hocine Boumaraf,&nbsp;Amara Hima","doi":"10.1111/area.70108","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.70108","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The primary objective of this article is to examine the relationship between violence and the sense of insecurity in urban public spaces, using the Algerian city of Biskra as a case study. Two contrasting types of public spaces are analysed: Martyrs' Square in the historic downtown and Independence Square in a newer suburban district. The article proposes and further develops the concept of Personal Risk Assessment (PRA), defined as the socially embedded and dynamic process through which individuals interpret environmental cues, social interactions and available support networks in order to evaluate potential threats and mobilise coping strategies. Unlike the narrower notion of perceived risk, PRA emphasises the assemblage of built environments, gendered interactions, collective imaginaries and socio-cultural narratives of danger. Methodologically, the study is grounded in 51 semi-structured interviews and is complemented by field observations, photographic documentation and local statistical data. The findings demonstrate that insecurity is shaped not only by actual incidents of violence but also by social stigma, anticipation, rumour and ambiguity. They further highlight how everyday strategies of avoidance, reliance on commercial infrastructures and gendered experiences reflect broader dynamics of socio-spatial inequality. By situating Biskra within its postcolonial, socio-economic, climatic and geopolitical context, the article contributes both conceptually and empirically to critical debates on urban insecurity in the Global South.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147682909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Talking about analysing our research material: Let's dig into data","authors":"Lauren Wagner,&nbsp;Alan Latham","doi":"10.1111/area.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Between the collection of empirical material and the production of final project outputs lies a mysterious and murky process of ‘getting to know’ the piles of research material. This introduction to the Special Section, ‘Digging into data: Learning together from analysis experiences’, reflects on how human geographers talk about this process of qualitative empirical analysis. It argues for the possibilities of collective learning that might arise from talking more openly about the detail of how this analysis is undertaken. It then introduces the six contributions to the Special Section.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two orders of wall-to-wall geographic data","authors":"Pete Bettinger,&nbsp;Krista Merry,&nbsp;Roger C. Lowe III","doi":"10.1111/area.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From personal observations of recent published works, the term “wall-to-wall” has been rather loosely employed to describe geographically extensive data. Therefore, an assessment of peer-reviewed literature was conducted to help classify how the term has been used in remote sensing and geographical analyses. A bibliographic search located 394 published works that referenced wall-to-wall data. These works were reviewed for key items such as the date and location of the studies, the mode of use, and the type of information related directly to the term. Prior to 2000, the term was used sparingly in the literature; its use has increased considerably since the year 2010. The main finding from our assessment is that the term has been used in several different ways to describe a set of geographically extensive data. A substantial percentage of the published works that referenced wall-to-wall data associated the term with airborne LiDAR (ALS) and other remotely sensed data subsequently used as input for geographical analyses. The works reviewed also commonly associated the term with products of geographical analyses such as databases describing aboveground biomass. Wall-to-wall data were found to be bound geographically by both the edges of regular shapes and the edges of highly irregular shapes. In some published works, wall-to-wall data also referred to discontiguous pieces of land. As a result of this investigation, two orders of wall-to-wall data are offered: (1) <i>wall-to-wall data provides spatially complete, extensive, and continuous or discontinuous information within the normal geographic dimension of a remotely sensed product</i>, and (2) <i>wall-to-wall data provides spatially complete (or nearly complete) knowledge for land (or water) areas that may be discontiguous, and whose boundary or edge is irregularly shaped, having been delineated manually or by an automated process</i>. Using these orders as a guide, the communication of science findings can be made more precise by providing a clear understanding of how data used within a geographical analysis can be considered ‘wall-to-wall’.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identity formation through cultural expression: Exploring Chinese spaces of ethnic consumption in Sydney, Australia","authors":"Yingfei Wang,&nbsp;Weijie Hu","doi":"10.1111/area.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globalisation has driven the emergence of suburban ethnic enclaves, where immigrant identity is actively shaped by both cultural tradition and contemporary market demands. This paper explores Hurstville, Sydney's largest Chinese ethnoburb, to illustrate how commercial spaces function as vital arenas for identity formation among Chinese immigrants. Drawing on a mixed-methods design that integrates urban spatial analysis, field observations, and semi-structured interviews with 40 business owners and 15 consumers, the study reveals the multifaceted ways in which bilingual signage, symbolic décor, and digital practices like WeChat Pay and Taobao transactions reflect and reinforce cultural ties. Entrepreneurial strategies—ranging from place-specific naming to the use of neon façades—demonstrate how material expressions of identity coexist with intangible, transnational links that connect Australia to China. While these practices foster a sense of belonging and nostalgic resonance, they also provoke debates over cultural authenticity and potential stereotyping. By situating Hurstville within broader discussions on ethnoburbs and ethnic consumption, the paper demonstrates how local businesses negotiate tradition and modernity, economic aspirations, and social integration. The findings highlight the role of suburban commercial spaces in shaping immigrant identity, offering insights for policy-makers, urban planners, and scholars interested in the evolving dynamics of multicultural urban life.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring capital with spatial media: How online popularity on Instagram shapes land value patterns in Seoul","authors":"Dasom Hong,&nbsp;Sumin Han,&nbsp;Youngjun Park,&nbsp;Jisun An,&nbsp;Dongman Lee","doi":"10.1111/area.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The recent proliferation of locative mobile devices and location-based services has sparked geographers' interest in how such ‘spatial media’ reshape individual's mobility, spatial experiences, and perceptions. Notably, the urban and digital geography literature has highlighted the relationship between spatial media, gentrification, and urban redevelopment processes, suggesting the potential of spatial media to generate new capitalist opportunities and increase the profitability of urban spaces. In this context, this study examines how spatial media reconfigure urban land value patterns, which have been primarily explained through urban forms. To this end, we employ the spatial capital model, a regression model that predicts property value patterns using variables associated with urban forms. We demonstrate that models incorporating both offline spatial configurations and online popularity outperform the spatial capital model relying solely on physical urban layouts, thereby underscoring the role of spatial media in reshaping the spatial arrangements of capital in urban centres. Using a machine learning algorithm, we construct and compare spatial capital models and regression models with variables reflecting online popularity on Instagram to estimate land prices in three neighbourhoods in Seoul: Yeonnam-dong, Seongsu-dong, and Gyeongridan-gil. These regions have experienced a surge in property values following heightened visibility on Instagram since the mid-2010s. Our findings indicate that the performance of models incorporating Instagram data exhibit superior predictive performance relative to traditional spatial capital models. Instagram-related variables also demonstrates greater explanatory power than conventional variables related to urban forms in predicting land price change rates. Additionally, the influence of online popularity on Instagram varies across time and space, closely aligned with the phase of development in online popularity within each area. In conclusion, spatial media have increasingly shaped urban land value patterns, while the dynamics between spatial media, urban forms, and property values can vary alongside the development of online popularity in specific regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone","authors":"Madelaine A. Joyce","doi":"10.1111/area.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Korean Demilitarised Zone's (DMZ) status as the world's most hermetically sealed border inevitably creates a set of methodological difficulties to those researching it. How does one go about investigating a space that, through its restrictions and inaccessibility, eschews and refuses traditional methods of enquiry? In this paper, I demonstrate that novel and creative ‘atmospheric methods’ not only provide us with a means of overcoming difficulties around access to border spaces, but more importantly afford us new insights into how atmospherically attuned things and the materialities of weather become entangled with and produce border atmospheres. Utilising my own experiments in the production of radio-generated weather data at the Korean DMZ together with (auto)ethnographic perceptions, I posit that the meteorological atmosphere becomes a medium through which we can sense and understand borders, both conceptually and empirically. Exploring the interplay between the atmosphere and the inter-Korean border, I consider how borders become extended vertically into the skies above them, alongside the implications of traversing these airy territories. I then reflect on the ways that the atmospheres of the shifting political climate of the region are in turn projected into and onto the layers of the atmosphere, in ways that continue to shape how the border is secured.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}