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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Dec 19
📢December Issue of Area📢

This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️

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A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gender and Rewilding'. The papers are: 1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section Nadia Bartolini 2) Rewilding: An emotional nature Sophie Wynne-Jones 3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate Ffion Jones 4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley Nadia Bartolini, Bárbara Carvalho, Sarah May 5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg Olga Petri 6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens Sherilyn MacGregor 7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’ Kim Ward A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Unravelling uneven livelihood transformations in China's multi-ethnic Southeast Asian borderland: Perspectives from spatial interactions Xiaobo Hua, Renshan Luo 2) Milk from the farm, the factory and the future: An ecofeminist reflection on Aotearoa New Zealand's dairy sector Milena Bojovic 3) Research methods for legal geography Francesco Chiodelli 4) Changing jobs, changing landscapes: Do land use patterns reflect occupational shifts? Armina Aktara, Manash Jyoti Bhuyan 5) Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music George Burdon 6) What does geography look like? Robert Shaw 7) Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic Tsering Bum, Shuling Cheng 8) A mixed-methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana Katherine V. Gough, Ben M. Roberts, Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa, Karim Abdullah, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Ronald Reagan Gyimah, Raymond Kasei, Kevin J. Lomas, Frederick Wireko Manu, Peter Mensah, Eftychia Spentzou, Robert L. Wilby 9) Climate change sensing across work and home: A research diary experiment Febe De Geest, Carolina Contreras, Todd Denham, Patrick Bonney, Ashleigh Stokes, Blanche Verlie, Oluwadunsin Ajulo, Lauren Rickards A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Participatory historical geographies'. The papers are: 1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction Ruth Slatter, Edward Brookes 2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography Ruth Slatter 3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Caitlin Nunn, Jennifer Cromwell 4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies Lucy Thompson 5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26 Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Sukhmandeep Dhillon 6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street Aled Singleton, Edward Brookes, Ruth Slatter 7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement Hannah Worthen, Claire Weatherall 8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories Juliette Desportes A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with the names three commentaries and two 'Ethics in/or geographical research' papers. The papers are: 1) ‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts-led research offer? Agatha Herman, Liz Roberts 2) Reflecting on the restless volumetric place (re)naming race Sergei Basik 3) The architecture of whiteness Rhianna Garrett 4) Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork Sandra Hiari, Maiss Razem 5) Questions of power and ethics: Doing feminist research in methodological contexts that let the body lead Gabriel Baker
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So pleased to be a part of this, and what a fabulous set of papers!

Look out for the cfp from @stephenlegg11.bsky.social at the end - would highly recommend all geographers (and others!) engage with these collections and see what comes out as a result! 🗺️
kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 2d
What happens when you put experts, prescient topics, engaged audiences, and #maps together? A Map Room Conversation!

Our Area special section is now available #openaccess

#geography #skystorians 🗃️
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February 9, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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What happens when you put experts, prescient topics, engaged audiences, and #maps together? A Map Room Conversation!

Our Area special section is now available #openaccess

#geography #skystorians 🗃️
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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New in Area:

'Blurring migrant solidarity: Navigating the troubled regime of "helping others" from the urban ground of Palermo' by Francesca Guarino

This paper explores migrant solidarity in Sicily in the aftermath of the so-called 'migration crisis' in 2015.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Francesca Guarino (2026) entitled: 'Blurring Migrant Solidarity: Navigating the Troubled Regime of ‘Helping Others’ From the Urban Ground of Palermo' with a black banner at the top. This paper explores migrant solidarity in the aftermath of the 2015 so-called ‘migration crisis’ from the ground of the Southern Italian ‘solidarity city’ of Palermo, building on ethnographic material collected across 2022/2023. It argues that migrant solidarity both resists and reproduces racialised borders, as it is never entirely and clearly detached from the border regime, but is deeply entangled within it. Although this argument is not new per se, this paper adds empirical depth to it following two strands. First, presenting solidarity in Palermo as embedded within the city's political economy, the paper reflects on how, within a persisting unequal and racialised access to rights, solidarity can allow for multiple extractions to be operated against migrants, while simultaneously providing a ‘safer space’ for existence. Second, drawing on the experiences of migrants who have—at least from a surface level outside perspective—comparatively better positions within the city, the paper defies their portrayals as mere recipients of help, and explores the complex ways in which they navigate the restricted opportunities opened up by solidarity alongside ubiquitous borders. The paper thus shows (1) how in Palermo solidarity has produced several outcomes—moral recognition abroad, local economies, opportunities for a vast array of people involved with migration—in the overall permanence of local shortages and everyday structural racism; (2) how the local solidarity network fills the gaps of a local retreating social care and of the state's repressive politics; (3) how this network is strategically navigated by racialised migrants to carve out opportunities, social ties and space for political development.
February 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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New in Area:

'More than a course, more than a method: Study circles as a pedagogical and research method working with asylum seekers across language barriers and differences' by @zsluijs.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Zinaïda Sluijs (2026) entitled: 'More Than a Course, More Than a Method: Study Circles as a Pedagogical and Research Method Working With Asylum Seekers Across Language Barriers and Differences' with a black banner at the top. Participatory research with people in the asylum process faces limits and challenges. Building on ethnographic research on study circles for and with asylum seekers in Sweden, I discuss two methods (collage workshops and card-based discussions) which were introduced to deal with the challenges of conducting participatory research and to foster the inclusion of participants in the asylum process. While collage workshops allowed for conversations on emotional and embodied experiences across language barriers, card-based discussions created space for dialogue and discussion on different experiences of participating in study circles. I argue that these methods were both inspired by the study circle method and participatory methodologies and, therefore, are an example of how research' epistemology and methodology can be aligned to participating organisations' knowledge and practices. Consequently, the contribution of the paper is two-fold: Collage workshops and card-based discussions not only allowed for new participants and perspectives to be included but also enabled the research to intervene in and contribute to the study circle practice.
February 5, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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New in Area:

'Teaching a geography of hope' by Mariasole Pepa

This paper explores the spaces within higher education where hope can be cultivated, inside and outside of the classroom.

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This paper reflects on the pedagogical possibilities of cultivating a ‘geography of hope’.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Congratulations to @georgeburdon.bsky.social for his wonderful paper 'Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad’s drone music' which has been highly commended as part of the Cultural Geography Study Groups annual paper prize award! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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This paper turns to the work of Henri Bergson to offer a distinctly geographic perspective on debates around attention by emphasising the intimate links between attention and the material environment....
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January 22, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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The paper I published in @areajournal.bsky.social last year has very kindly been 'highly commended' by @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social as part of their annual paper prize for early career researchers. Do consider following the study group if you are a cultural geographer in Australia!
January 28, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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New in Area:

'Research positionality and relational power: Playing with "researching up" and "researching down" in critical reflexivity' by @jlangill.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Jennifer Langill (2026) entitled: 'Researcher Positionality and Relational Power: Playing With ‘Researching Up’ and ‘Researching Down’ in Critical Reflexivity' with a black banner at the top. Critical development scholars and feminist geographers call for reflexivity on the relationships between researchers and the subjects of their research. This includes questioning the power dynamics that shape knowledge generation, while recognising the partiality of these insights and the subjectivity of knowledge production. To advance these debates, I draw on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, sometimes used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ and ‘power under’ interlocutors. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Hmong village in northern Thailand, I reflect on the relationality between myself and research participants, including moments of entering into more or less relational power. I suggest that by mobilising the heuristic of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’ as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our own positionalities, and subsequently, the social difference, relationality and power dynamics within the populations we learn from. This approach helps to reject homogenising narratives of ‘vulnerable subjects’ to better unravel shifting power dimensions and affect within positional spaces.
January 27, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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New in Area:

'Everyday geographies of night-time fear: (Re)negotiating fear of crime, gender and safety' by Subham Roy

This paper explores the geographies of crime and fear in a Global South context, drawing on research conducted in Siliguri, India.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Subham Roy (2026) entitled: 'Everyday Geographies of Night-Time Fear: (Re)Negotiating Fear of Crime, Gender and Safety' with a black banner at the top. Grounded in qualitative research in Siliguri, a rapidly expanding city in eastern India, this paper examined how low-income residents perceive and negotiate fear of crime after dark. Based on immersive, night-time ethnographic methods—including narrative interviews, walk-alongs and sensory observations—this study examines the lived geographies of crime and fear in the everyday urban margins. While extensive literature on fear of crime exists in Western contexts, Global South research remains uneven, with limited attention to how fear is shaped by infrastructural neglect and marginality. In developing countries like India, such place-based, embodied studies remain limited, especially in low-income residential contexts. Findings reveal that night-time fear is deeply gendered, relational, and amplified by territorial stigma and infrastructural neglect. Women deploy everyday tactics—rerouted paths, bodily discipline, walking in groups—to manage insecurity. The paper contributes to scholarship on crime, marginality and emotional geographies by showing how fear is not only a response to threats but a force that reshapes urban life. It calls for a more grounded, context-sensitive understanding of urban safety and affirms the right to move, dwell and be visible in the city after dark. By situating fear as a spatial force that (re)organises urban life after dark, this paper contributes to debates on emotional geographies, urban marginality and the nocturnal geographies of fear of crime in the Global South.
January 26, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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New in Area:

'Witnessing health and place: Sebastião Salgado and the photographic legacy of polio eradication' by @wstaylor87.bsky.social

This paper situates the photographic work of Salgado on polio vaccination within debates on humanitarian visual culture.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Stephen Taylor (2026) entitled: 'Witnessing Health and Place: Sebastião Salgado and the Photographic Legacy of Polio Eradication' with a black banner at the top. The death of Brazilian photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado in May 2025 invites renewed reflection on photography's role in shaping global health narratives. Celebrated for his evocative black-and-white images that document human suffering and resilience, Salgado's work has addressed international issues, such as labour, migration, indigeneity and environmental degradation. Among an extensive portfolio, his documentation of global polio eradication efforts stands out as a significant yet often overlooked contribution, providing vital insights into the spatial dynamics of a global health campaign. This paper situates Salgado's polio photographs within the context of health geography and visual geography, arguing that these images function not only as humanitarian testimony but also as a visual cartography of care. By analysing the spatial, embodied and ethical dimensions of this work, I examine how visual methodologies can enhance geographies of health, vulnerability and intervention. Salgado's archive of polio photographs constructs a powerful visual grammar of place-based inequality and collective resilience, while also raising questions about power dynamics in image production, institutional commissioning and the ethics of witnessing. The paper offers geographers a critical lens through which to understand global health as a situated, contested and relational phenomenon.
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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New, by me, on the ethical and political dimensions of global health photography, situating Sebastião Salgado's polio eradication work within debates on representation, witnessing and power in humanitarian visual culture.

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Sebastião Salgado's photographic series ‘The End of Polio’ offers a critical lens on global health by depicting the spatial and infrastructural realities of polio eradication campaigns. Through an an...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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New in Area:

'Bringing nuance to real estate financialisation: Insights from Brazil' by Stefano Pagin & Daniel Sanfelici

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Stefano Pagin & Daniel Sanfelici (2026) entitled: 'Bringing Nuance to Real Estate Financialisation: Insights From Brazil' with a black banner at the top. Real estate has re-emerged as an object of inquiry in geography and urban studies in recent years, particularly through the lens of the financialisation debate. The literature on financialisation has extensively documented how finance has reshaped real estate markets, often prioritising short-term rent extraction in ways that can undermine long-term planning goals and pose risks to fundamental rights such as housing and access to urban space. However, by placing emphasis on the diffusion of financial market logics and interests, much of this literature has overlooked the institutionally specific ways in which real estate markets are shaped, mediated or contested across diverse contexts. This article builds on existing literature on Brazil to offer a more nuanced perspective on the analysis of real estate markets and their financialisation. While recognising the growing influence of financial motives and actors in shaping real estate production, we argue that this process unfolds unevenly, is refracted through local institutional and political dynamics, and coexists with inherited financial infrastructures and alternative forms of real estate provision. We conclude that an institutionally grounded perspective is essential to capture the complex and context-dependent nature of real estate market transformations in the Global South and beyond.
January 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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New in Area:

'The politics and poetics of waiting: Residents' waiting for (not) being relocated in China's urban regeneration' by Ran Wei

This paper explores how residents in Anyang, China, strategically deploy waiting as a form of resistance.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Ran Wei (2026) entitled: 'The Politics and Poetics of Waiting: Residents' Waiting for (Not) Being Relocated in China's Urban Regeneration' with a black banner at the top.
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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New in Area!

'For a caring geography: Situated solidarities and feminist care ethics during and beyond crisis' by @matinakapsali.bsky.social

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Matina Kapsali (2025) entitled: 'For a caring geography: Situated solidarities and feminist care ethics during and beyond crisis' with a black banner at the top. This paper calls for a caring geography that centres care and solidarity as interrelated, embodied practices rather than abstract concepts. Drawing on feminist ethics of care and scholarship on geographies of solidarity, I argue that care becomes politically transformative when coupled with solidarity, understood as negotiated mutuality across difference. Using an auto-ethnographic approach, I reflect on fieldwork conducted in Greece and the UK during intersecting crises of austerity and social reproduction. Through two vignettes—building trust in a women's migrant organisation and navigating the politics of compensating participants—I explore how everyday practices of care and solidarity emerge, are challenged, and can work upwards to reconfigure extractive research relationships. I situate research as a political process that generates new solidarities between researchers and participants under conditions of shared precarity. The paper contributes to debates on feminist methodologies and participatory research by showing how small, situated acts of care can become the groundwork for broader institutional and political transformation.
January 14, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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clementinecttn.bsky.social
Fascinating demonstration of the importance of language in scientific literature reviews (in geography in particular).

The authors ask "what similarities and differences are revealed in systematic literature reviews of sources in different languages?" (1/3)
areajournal.bsky.social Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Jan 9
New in Area:

'What difference does language make? Comparing systematic evidence reviews of Vietnamese and English language literatures on climate change and the health of outdoor workers' by Anh Ngoc Vu et al.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Anh Ngoc Vu, Jonathan Rigg, Felicity Kersting, Ekaterina Tarnovskaya & Loc Duc Nguyen (2025) entitled: 'What Difference Does Language Make? Comparing Systematic Evidence Reviews of Vietnamese and English Language Literatures on Climate Change and the Health of Outdoor Workers' with a black banner at the top. The dominance of English-language scholarship in global research has led to a significant knowledge divide, often marginalising research from non-English-speaking regions, particularly in the Global South. This paper presents a comparative analysis of two systematic literature reviews (SLRs) on the health impacts of climate change on outdoor workers in urban Asia, focusing on English- and Vietnamese-language literature. By comparing these two bodies of scholarship, the study uncovers key thematic convergences and divergences, reflecting broader disparities in knowledge production, research norms and priorities. The English-language literature emphasises macro-level analyses, theoretical frameworks, and long-term policy interventions, while the Vietnamese-language literature offers more localised, context-specific insights, highlighting immediate coping strategies and health risks faced by outdoor workers. We argue that the systematic exclusion of non-English sources risks reinforcing existing epistemic hierarchies, narrowing debate on global health and climate change research. By integrating Southern-language perspectives, research can better and more equitably address the diverse vulnerabilities of outdoor workers and develop more effective and locally attuned interventions. The study emphasises the need to cast our linguistic net more widely to enrich global understanding and help achieve epistemic justice.
January 12, 2026 at 11:46 AM
areajournal.bsky.social
New in Area:

'What difference does language make? Comparing systematic evidence reviews of Vietnamese and English language literatures on climate change and the health of outdoor workers' by Anh Ngoc Vu et al.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Anh Ngoc Vu, Jonathan Rigg, Felicity Kersting, Ekaterina Tarnovskaya & Loc Duc Nguyen (2025) entitled: 'What Difference Does Language Make? Comparing Systematic Evidence Reviews of Vietnamese and English Language Literatures on Climate Change and the Health of Outdoor Workers' with a black banner at the top. The dominance of English-language scholarship in global research has led to a significant knowledge divide, often marginalising research from non-English-speaking regions, particularly in the Global South. This paper presents a comparative analysis of two systematic literature reviews (SLRs) on the health impacts of climate change on outdoor workers in urban Asia, focusing on English- and Vietnamese-language literature. By comparing these two bodies of scholarship, the study uncovers key thematic convergences and divergences, reflecting broader disparities in knowledge production, research norms and priorities. The English-language literature emphasises macro-level analyses, theoretical frameworks, and long-term policy interventions, while the Vietnamese-language literature offers more localised, context-specific insights, highlighting immediate coping strategies and health risks faced by outdoor workers. We argue that the systematic exclusion of non-English sources risks reinforcing existing epistemic hierarchies, narrowing debate on global health and climate change research. By integrating Southern-language perspectives, research can better and more equitably address the diverse vulnerabilities of outdoor workers and develop more effective and locally attuned interventions. The study emphasises the need to cast our linguistic net more widely to enrich global understanding and help achieve epistemic justice.
January 9, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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New in Area:

'Writing the field: Situational strategies in multi-sited research' by Chris Gibson & Andrew Warren

This paper outlines a methodological approach to open-ended, multi-sited research that foregrounds 'situations' as anchors for reflexive inquiry.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Chris Gibson & Andrew Warren (2025) entitled: 'Writing the field: Situational strategies in multi-sited research' with a black banner at the top.
January 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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New in Area:

'Steps to sustainability: Dance as a learning pathway to enhance engagement with sustainability' by Laura Tuckey & Daniel Bos

This paper highlights the value of dance as a communicative and pedagogical tool, focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals.

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The paper highlights the value of dance as a communicative and pedagogical tool, demonstrating its ability to humanise sustainability challenges, with a specific focus on the Sustainable Development ...
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January 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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My new article 'Crayons × Code' @areajournal.bsky.social explores the use of #multimodal #AI in analysing children's drawings, develops the idea dynamic ethics and AI voice, and reveals child perceptions statistically vary in gender, age and physical activity diversity.

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December 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
How can sharing real-world experiences from geographers help us better understand how qualitative analysis actually happens? 🌎

Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) reflects on a recent Area Special Section on 'Digging into Data' in this new Geography Directions blog post 👇
https://bit.ly/49ia5lH
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December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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📢December Issue of Area📢

This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gender and Rewilding'. The papers are: 1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section Nadia Bartolini 2) Rewilding: An emotional nature Sophie Wynne-Jones 3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate Ffion Jones 4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley Nadia Bartolini, Bárbara Carvalho, Sarah May 5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg Olga Petri 6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens Sherilyn MacGregor 7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’ Kim Ward A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Unravelling uneven livelihood transformations in China's multi-ethnic Southeast Asian borderland: Perspectives from spatial interactions Xiaobo Hua, Renshan Luo 2) Milk from the farm, the factory and the future: An ecofeminist reflection on Aotearoa New Zealand's dairy sector Milena Bojovic 3) Research methods for legal geography Francesco Chiodelli 4) Changing jobs, changing landscapes: Do land use patterns reflect occupational shifts? Armina Aktara, Manash Jyoti Bhuyan 5) Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music George Burdon 6) What does geography look like? Robert Shaw 7) Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic Tsering Bum, Shuling Cheng 8) A mixed-methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana Katherine V. Gough, Ben M. Roberts, Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa, Karim Abdullah, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Ronald Reagan Gyimah, Raymond Kasei, Kevin J. Lomas, Frederick Wireko Manu, Peter Mensah, Eftychia Spentzou, Robert L. Wilby 9) Climate change sensing across work and home: A research diary experiment Febe De Geest, Carolina Contreras, Todd Denham, Patrick Bonney, Ashleigh Stokes, Blanche Verlie, Oluwadunsin Ajulo, Lauren Rickards A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Participatory historical geographies'. The papers are: 1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction Ruth Slatter, Edward Brookes 2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography Ruth Slatter 3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Caitlin Nunn, Jennifer Cromwell 4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies Lucy Thompson 5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26 Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Sukhmandeep Dhillon 6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street Aled Singleton, Edward Brookes, Ruth Slatter 7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement Hannah Worthen, Claire Weatherall 8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories Juliette Desportes A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with the names three commentaries and two 'Ethics in/or geographical research' papers. The papers are: 1) ‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts-led research offer? Agatha Herman, Liz Roberts 2) Reflecting on the restless volumetric place (re)naming race Sergei Basik 3) The architecture of whiteness Rhianna Garrett 4) Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork Sandra Hiari, Maiss Razem 5) Questions of power and ethics: Doing feminist research in methodological contexts that let the body lead Gabriel Baker
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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New Special Section in Area:

'Gender and Rewilding' guest edited by Nadia Bartolini

Featuring contributions from @kimjward.bsky.social, @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, @sarahmay1.bsky.social & others

Read the full #OpenAccess collection here ⬇️
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A graphic publicising a new Special Section in Area called 'Gender and Rewilding'. There are seven tiles with the names of papers and authors as follows: 1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section Nadia Bartolini 2) Rewilding: An emotional nature Sophie Wynne-Jones 3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate Ffion Jones 4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley Nadia Bartolini, Bárbara Carvalho, Sarah May 5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg Olga Petri 6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens Sherilyn MacGregor 7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’ Kim Ward A black tile publicising the new 'Gender and Rewilding' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Nadia Bartolini's (2025) introduction. It reads: "Moving forward, it is critical that future research embed feminist approaches that help to evidence the relationship between gender and 'nature' and investigate the wider geographies and populations affected by rewilding".
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area!

This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography.

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A graphic publicising a new Special Section in Area called 'Participatory Historical Geographies'. There are eight tiles with the names of papers and authors as follows: 1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction Ruth Slatter, Edward Brookes 2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography Ruth Slatter 3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Caitlin Nunn, Jennifer Cromwell 4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies Lucy Thompson 5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26 Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Sukhmandeep Dhillon 6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street Aled Singleton, Edward Brookes, Ruth Slatter 7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement Hannah Worthen, Claire Weatherall 8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories Juliette Desportes A black tile publicising the new 'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Ruth Slatter & Ed Brookes' (2025) introduction. It reads: "The production of participatory historical knowledge is contingent on a wide variety of skills and labour, including communities themselves that often go unacknowledged. The challenge of navigating these pitfalls and barriers serve to highlight the many reasons why researchers, practitioners or members of the public may be reluctant to engage in participatory historical research".
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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'Crayons × Code: Re-exploring children's drawings with multimodal AI and dynamic ethics' by Chen Qu

This paper explores the potential and limitations of using AI in understanding children's environmental perceptions.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Chen Qu (2025) entitled: 'Crayons × Code: Re-Exploring Children's Drawings With Multimodal AI and Dynamic Ethics' with a black banner at the top. Children's drawings are used to study their environmental perception, but AI-powered analysis of these visual materials remains underexplored. This paper re-explores the use of children's drawings as a tool for understanding their perceptions of the environment, leveraging multimodal AI for analysis. The study revisits a dataset of 188 drawings created by 94 children, comparing AI-based analysis with human interpretations to examine the strengths and limitations of AI in visual research. It focuses on the ability of multimodal AI to detect and classify the visual elements of children's drawings, whilst also investigating potential links between these elements and various health or demographic factors, including physical activity, gender and age, through a combination of quantitative statistical analyses. The research highlights the potential and challenges of AI in interpreting the complexity of children's drawings. The paper, based on ethical reflections, also addresses the ethical implications of using AI in sensitive contexts, proposing dynamic ethics to ensure responsible use of technology in research involving children. This study offers new insights into the intersection of AI, ethics and visual research.
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM