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The future’s impossible disciplines Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Keyvan Allahyari
In this commentary, I want to stay with three questions: where exactly are we talking about when we are talking about the geographies of the impossible? Is speculative method necessarily transformative? What happens when we base our vision for future research on seeking new territory rather than examining regimes of production of our own geographical knowledge?
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Extending dialogues on the urban Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Somda, Giulia Torino, Miya Irawati, Niranjana Ramesh, Nitin Bathla, Rodrigo Castriota, Simone Vegliò, Tanya Chandra
Across the different vernaculars of the world's urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaffordable and they are either pushed out or strongly lured away from central locations. Work is increasingly temporary, if available at all, and there is often just too much labour involved to keep lives viably
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Articulating conjunctural analysis Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Jamie Peck
In dialogue with responses to my article on the emergent practice of conjunctural methodologies, I pick up the question of collaboration and the shared challenges of developing, in a deliberative and reflexive manner, this demanding approach to problem specification, research design, and contextual theorizing. Although explicit engagement with conjunctural methodologies is a relatively recent phenomenon
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For granular geographies: Conceptual spaces of anatropism and land reclamation in Singapore Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 John Lowe
The call for granular geographies represents an interesting intervention in the nexus between old and new materialisms in human geography. While there is a need to look beyond reclamation as volumetric expansion of territory, this commentary discusses how we can think about locating granular geographies in the complex nexus between the conceptual spaces of the ‘tropics’ and ‘temperate.’ This is in
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Speculative geographies: Fictions and futures Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Kafui Attoh, Craig Dalton, Emma Fraser, Jim Thatcher, Jeremy Crampton
Speculative thinking has made its mark in several disciplines and literary genres, including continental philosophy, predictive analytics, and science (or speculative) fiction. What might speculation look like through a geographical lens? And how would such thinking in a distinctly geographical register build on and possibly place into a wider context work on utopias, alternative communities, game
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Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Debangana Bose
In this commentary, I reflect on a ‘nascent temporal turn’ in geography and its future possibilities. I draw on and extend Kitchin's (2023) concept of ‘a progressive sense of time’ by juxtaposing it with other temporal frameworks such as ‘thick time’ (Datta, 2022) as well as practices of temporal politics such as ‘relational remembering’ (Hunfeld, 2022) and ‘anticipatory action’ (Anderson, 2010). I
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Book Review Forum on The World as Abyss by David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh (2023) Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Barbara Gfoellner
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Book review forum “The World as Abyss” Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Lucas Pohl
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Sociology better have my money Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Marcus Anthony Hunter
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Working through ‘working through’ Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Nick Clarke
This commentary provides a summary of Shawn Bodden's intervention, before raising three questions prompted by the article. What is the relationship between a more ordinary critical geography and interpretivism? How is ‘ordinariness’ being used by geographers as a category of geographical analysis? And what might a more ordinary critical geography resemble in practice?
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Terrestrial territories: From the Globe to Gaia, a new ground for territory Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Alexis Gonin, Jeanne Etelain, Patrice Maniglier, Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Territory is a central tool for analysing the politics, primarily between nation-states, of the division of a world based on the figure of the Globe. However, with the Anthropocene, the ground of territories has somehow changed, shifting from ‘the Globe’ of the globalisation age, to the Anthropocene, where Gaia, or the earth-system, ‘irrupts’ onto the political scene. Yet, both sovereign territories
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Moving beyond ‘smart’: Uncovering traditional knowledge in informality Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Deepti Prasad
In response to a variety of open questions and concerns raised by the set of commentaries on Prasad et al., this response offers clarifications and a way forward about, first, the need to re-conceptualise informality with smart urbanism and, second, the implications of understanding the interrelationship between informality and smart urbanism through traditional knowledge in the broader field of urban
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Human geography: Not ending but worlding the modern subject in new ways Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jonathan Pugh
This commentary engages Bodden's (2023) ‘Working through our differences’ to draw out how contemporary frameworks of reasoning in human geography extend the limits of ‘thinkability’, expanding the world, of the modern subject. In response, I offer ‘Abyssal Geography’, critiquing how the discipline is not ending but worlding the modern subject in new ways.
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Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory? Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Daniel A. de Azevedo
Criticism about the role of ontologies in geographical research has gained strength in recent years, especially following the work of Clive Barnett. Bodden's intervention aims to contribute to this debate through the philosophy of language. In this commentary, I reflect on the relationship between theory and practice within democratic theory, and present some reflections for taking this debate forward
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Matter(’)s (of) unconscious(ing): Re-membering/reconfiguring(,) the logics/structure of supplementarity Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Karen Barad
Engaging Derrida's logics of supplementarity, I bring forward the fact that spacetimemattering always already engages in all matter of re-memberings, and is always already inhabited by unconscious(ing), both of which are processes constitutive of spacetimemattering.
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To be called forth by a speck of dust Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Aya Nassar
Less a response, this commentary is a conversation with Anna Secor's ‘Spacetimeunconscious’, riffing off its offering. I trace one of the playful characters in Secor's article, the speck of dust that shapeshifts across the paper's 18 pages, folding and dispersing geographies and temporalities. I am wrestling with how to make sense of geographies that I care about, exactly at the same moment when these
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Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’ Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Claire Dunning
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An abyssal thought for the Anthropocene Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Andrew Baldwin
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Moralization as class war Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Zachary Levenson
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Informality at the heart of sustainable development Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Brandon Marc Finn
As a term, the ‘structure of informality’ aims to elucidate how informality is produced, and why it persists. I argue that informality is engendered through the informal/formal dialectic, which constitutes a multiscalar process that creates global inequalities across time and space. We can better understand informality by studying colonial socio-spatial inequalities created through urbanization. Taking
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The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jane Wills
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Towards new knowledge complexes for critical geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine
This response engages with the commentaries of Gordon Waitt, Anna De Jong, Samantha Wilkinson, Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina van Hoven, and Harng Luh Sin on our challenge for geographers to work ‘beyond moralizing, disciplining, and normalizing discourses’. We show how, when read together, these authors articulate progressive geographic imaginations and repeat orthodoxies and impasses that constitute
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Glitches in the technonatural present Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, Oscar Hartman Davies, Julia Poerting, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Jennifer Dodsworth, Henry Anderson-Elliott
Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined elements of the ‘technonatural present’, which pose varied challenges and openings for the future of geog...
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On the intersection of geographical thought and artistic practice: DIY urbanism, flow, and imagining urban futures Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Rachael Boswell
In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I...
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Building decolonial climate justice movements: Four tensions Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Michael Simpson, Alejandra Pizarro Choy
Prevailing approaches to resolving the climate crisis further entrench and extend the same institutions of racial capitalism and colonial domination which have precipitated this crisis. The need to...
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Inhabiting the extensions Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Somda, Giulia Torino, Miya Irawati, Niranjana R., Nitin Bathla, Rodrigo Castriota, Simone Vegliò, Tanya Chandra
Across the different vernaculars of the world's urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaff...
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Automation and environmental dispositions Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 James Ash
To think through the dispositions automated systems attempt to generate, it is key to understand how automated systems relate to the environments in which they operate. Developing Lin et al.’s impo...
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Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy * Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Julian Brigstocke
This speculative genealogy of trends in the written forms of geographical scholarship, 2020–2043, explores the dramatic transformations in the discipline that came with a ‘neo-formalist’ turn towar...
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Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Penelope Anthias
In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon devel...
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The structure of informality: The Zambian copperbelt and the informal/formal dialectic Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Brandon Marc Finn
The study of urban informality has exploded since Keith Hart theorized the term the ‘informal sector.' This explosion has coincided with a growing interest among urban scholars who train their eyes...
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Centering the geographical imaginations of research participants in narrating speculative futures Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Elizabeth Nelson
In this commentary, I consider how geographers narrating speculative futures might risk disempowering their research participants. Reflecting on my work with community cultural organizations, I dis...
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Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual history Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 António Ferraz de Oliveira
Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for reimagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond rest...
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Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Federico Ferretti, Geronimo Barrera de la Torre
When it comes to the ‘History of Geography’, many still think of something descriptive and conservative, which has virtually no links with the ‘future’, a metaphorical place where ‘progress’ and ‘a...
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Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Carolyn Prouse
In this commentary, we argue that geographical thought and praxis must engage with repressive biosecurity and biosurveillance systems and fight for alternatives. In doing so, geographers can contri...
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Economies of attachment: Promissory objects, differentiation, and other futures? Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Rebecca Coleman
In this response to Anderson's formulation of a theoretical framework for understanding attachments, I propose a third concept to join those of forms of attachment and scenes of attachment: economi...
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Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Brooke Wilmsen, Sarah Rogers
This provocative article by Sango Mahanty and co-authors proposes rupture as a temporally and spatially expansive view of change and one that encompasses intersections with other crises. In our com...
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Practising geography in/with technical worlds Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Weiqiang Lin
Over the past decade, geographical scholarship has grown steadily enamoured with all things technical. In some ways, such a focus is an outflow of the recent philosophical turn towards critical rea...
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So what is assetization? Filling some theoretical gaps Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Eve Chiapello
Birch and Ward (2022) propose the concept of assetization to frame a research agenda in Human Geography. This interesting proposal suffers from a rather imprecise definition of what an asset is, an...
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Attachment: A question of how and a question of why Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Mitch Rose
Attachment has not been a central concern for cultural geographers for some time – a consequence, I have argued, of process ontologies that emphasise becoming over being. Ben Anderson's article pro...
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Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Emma Fraser
This commentary considers the complex theoretical discussion in dispositions towards automation, and considers future dialogues and directions the authors might take up. Specifically, the commentar...
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Affective infrastructures and political organisation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Rodrigo Nunes
In this commentary on Kai Bosworth's ‘What Is “Affective Infrastructure”?’, I seek to address some of the issues that he raises about the notion by fleshing it out in relation to the problem of pol...
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Autogestion and ecological politics in the work of Henri Lefebvre Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Chris Butler
In this commentary, I discuss how Napoletano, Urquijo, Clark and Foster engage with the work of Henri Lefebvre through three interlinked themes: the dialectical method, the nature–society problemat...
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Defetishizing the asset form Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Stefan Ouma
In response to Birch and Ward's paper, this commentary makes a call for a more systematic attempt to politicize contemporary logics of property ownership, and the extractive financial schemes based...
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Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Taylor Shelton
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in critical approaches to mapping and quantification within geography. Such works have embraced the potential of these methods to advance the cause o...
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Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Deepti Prasad, Tooran Alizadeh, Robyn Dowling
Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked...
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Coming to terms with affective infrastructure Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Helen F. Wilson
Affective infrastructure has become an unremarkable feature of geographical research. By examining how ‘affective infrastructure’ has been mobilised within geography and political theory, and chart...
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Dimensions of repair work Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Stefania Barca
Reflecting on the necessary, though risky path of overcoming dualistic thinking about repair and care work, I develop analytical distinctions between different kinds of repair work, reflecting gend...
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Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Meg Parsons
In this dialogue, wellbeing-led approaches to governance are situated within broader conversations occurring between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars about decolonisation, climate change, and...
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Whose geography, whose future? Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Eden Kinkaid
In this commentary, responding to the prompt ‘reimagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis,’ I offer some provocations to queer this question of geography's future. I begin from momen...
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Beyond moralising, disciplining and normalising discourses: Re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine
Despite significant advances over the past few decades, geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness remain under-theorised and researched. Indeed, even when applying critical thinking, geographer...
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Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Callum Sutherland
In this paper, I outline the spatial imaginaries of the late radical thinker Mark Fisher (1968–2017). I begin by explaining Fisher's focus on culture and desire as forces that must be addressed if ...
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Ruptures of the Anthropocene: A crisis of justice Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Ankit Kumar
The Anthropocene and associated sense of crises, most prominently climate change, have opened up an urgency versus justice dilemma. While an epochal thinking drives the urgency, it is essential to ...
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Repairing social connections; Dismantling carbon infrastructures with care Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Chantel Carr
In this final commentary to close the forum, I engage with the responses to Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis. These rich analyses provide a basis from which to reflect on three ...
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Space, abandonment, closure, and performance: Writing about the relationship between law and war Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Alex Jeffrey, Craig Jones
This author’s response responds to the reviews for The Edge of Law and The War Lawyers. This response focuses on four themes that are both present in the reviews and constituted central themes of t...
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March of the kitten herders Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Keith Woodward
Everything is affective; everything is infrastructural. Or: (1) affectivity is the relational force of materiality and (2) a thing is the convergence of a range of relations and is itself a composi...
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Imagining urban nature in the places we dwell Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Wendy Steele
As part of a critical ‘dialogue’ around the ontological nature of more-than-human well-being in an ecological emergency, I am interested in putting Anna Yates, Kelly Dombroski, and Rita Dionisio's ...
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What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Hannah Hickman
As fields equally concerned with the production of space and place, geographers and planners are engaged in understanding the compact city both as a concept and as a built and lived reality. In res...
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Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Sango Mahanty, Sarah Milne, Keith Barney, Wolfram Dressler, Philip Hirsch, Phuc Xuan To
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Ruptu...
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Collective care and climate repair Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Natalie Osborne
This engagement with Chantel Carr's article, ‘Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis’, considers possible organising structures of care and climate repair, and the ways this labour ca...
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Agrarian crisis, affect, and accumulation Dialogues in Human Geography (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Sarah Besky
This commentary responds to Mahanty et al.'s article, which offers ‘rupture’ as an alternative analytic to ‘the Anthropocene’. I apply this concept to fieldwork in Kalimpong, a district of the Indi...