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Geography in the Public Interest: The GJ publishes original research in human and physical geography which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Sep 26
📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...
A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state–capital nexus' by Shenjing He 2) 'Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China' by Rong Cai, Lirong Hu & Shenjing He 3) 'The market formation of private sector, purpose built student accommodation in Sheffield 2000–2019' by Carl Lee 4) 'Evaporation losses from residential swimming pools and water features under climate variability and change' by Alicia Cumberland & Robert Wilby 5) 'Forecasting urban shifts post-earthquake: LULC change analysis in Elazığ, Turkey using ANN and Markov models' by Fatih Sunbul, Enes Karadeniz, Mustafa Taner Sengun & Muhammed Kocaoglu 6) 'Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments' by Mark Holton 7) 'How do you like your rivers? Portraying public perception and preference for urban rivers in China via a combined visual and textual analysis' by Yixin Cao, Wendy Yan Chen & Karl Matthias Wantzen 8) 'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni, Justin van Dijk & Paul Longley 9) 'Gender difference in space–time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing' by Hongbo Chai, Patrick Witte, Stan Geertman & Dick Ettema A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with commentaries and RGS-IBG Regulars, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis 2) 'From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures' by Sarah Klosterkamp & Alex Jeffrey 3) 'Everyone's talking about climate change actions, but can we learn from Wales’ approach?' by Lynda Yorke, Athanasios Dimitriou, Sonya Hanna, Corinna Patterson, Sara Parry & Georgina Smith 4) 'Presidential address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2025' by Dame Jane Francis 5) 'Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2025' by Jane Francis, Murray Gray, Børge Ousland, Gillian Rose, Susan Smith & Dariusz Wójcik
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📢New Editor sought📢

We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.

🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026

For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editor role available at Society journal
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November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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📢New Editor sought📢

We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.

🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026

For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editor role available at Society journal
Advert for a new Physical Geography Editor for the Geographical Journal.
www.rgs.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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📢New Editor sought📢

We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.

🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026

For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editor role available at Society journal
Advert for a new Physical Geography Editor for the Geographical Journal.
www.rgs.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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New in The GJ:

'A reparative paradigm for thinking with disasters' by Gregory L. Simon et al.

This commentary argues for a paradigm shift in disaster research drawing from debates on reparations and reparative thought.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Gregory L. Simon, Nathaniel O'Grady, Kevin Grove, Christine Eriksen, Ksenia Chmutina, Rony Emmenegger, Emmanuel Raju, Deniz Ay, Samuel Lüthi, Timothy Prior, Kathleen Uyttewaal & Filippo Zeffiri (2025) entitled: 'A reparative paradigm for thinking with disasters' with a blue banner at the top.
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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We are very sad to share the news of Jo Bullard, one of our editors, who passed away last month.

Jo's rich contribution to the discipline is evident in this obituary published by the RGS: www.rgs.org/about-us/our.... She will be greatly missed.
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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New in The GJ:

'Universities as spaces of possibility: Towards more creative, caring academic labour' by @geogbmore.bsky.social & Zoe Pearson

This commentary shares insights and provides discussion questions for reading the book 'Higher Expectations' by Hawkins & Kern.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
Graphical abstract for a commentary published in The Geographical Journal by Emily Billo & Zoe Pearson. It shows the cover of a book entitled 'Higher Expectations: How to survive academia, make it better for others, and transform the university' by Roberta Hawkins & Leslie Kern.
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Migration, circular mobility and food security in Nicaragua: An analytical framework based on food sourcing and farm household multi-localisation' by Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh & Geneviève Cortès

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh & Geneviève Cortès entitled: 'Migration, circular mobility and food security in Nicaragua: An analytical framework based on food sourcing and farm household multi-localisation' with a blue banner at the top. This article explores the links between agriculture, circular mobility, migration and food security in the Global South. It focuses on farm households in Nicaragua which, for generations, have engaged in diversified livelihood strategies including mobility and migration. The article proposes an original framework, based on the concept of multi-localised family food systems, to link household socio-spatial practices with food security. Multifactorial and cross-sectional analysis shows that household food security is the result of complex strategies combining agricultural practices, pluri-activity, economic diversification and the circulation of resources linked to migrant remittances and donations from networks and public policies. Although the links between migration, circular mobility and food security are neither linear nor systematic, our findings reveal that not only the maintenance of family farming but also the multi-localisation of households, circular mobility practices and migration play key roles in food supply and security. These findings suggest that public policies and the interventions of development agencies should take a better approach to support the food coping strategies of these multi-localised households, taking greater consideration of off-farm diversification, mobility and migration.
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social

This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
A photograph of Little Petra with tourist shops - dark spaces set into brown-yellow rocky cliffs with racks of scarves outside them and stairs cut into the rock leading up to the shops.
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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If you are interested in rural policy or mission-led government, our new Commentary is out in The Geographical Journal 👇
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thegj.bsky.social The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Oct 29
New in The GJ:

'Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance' by @jayneglass.bsky.social & @markshucksmith.bsky.social

This commentary argues that mission-led policies risk perpetuating inequalities, using rural policy as a case in point.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Jayne Glass & Mark Shucksmith (2025) entitled: 'Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance' with a blue banner at the top.
October 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance' by @jayneglass.bsky.social & @markshucksmith.bsky.social

This commentary argues that mission-led policies risk perpetuating inequalities, using rural policy as a case in point.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Jayne Glass & Mark Shucksmith (2025) entitled: 'Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance' with a blue banner at the top.
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Obstacles to the touristification of historical borders' by Petr Marek.

This paper draws on the boundary between the historical Czech lands of Bohemia & Moravia to investigate how residents conceptualise and engage with the border.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Petr Marek (2025) entitled 'Obstacles to the touristification of historical borders' with a blue banner at the top.
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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One of our recent authors, Rory Coulter, has written a short blog based on his research published in The GJ. Have a read here ⬇️

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
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Who is most at risk from overcrowding in the UK?

Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social) explores the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post.

Check it out here👇
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/09/understanding-social-and-spatial-patterns-of-overcrowding-in-england-and-wales/
Understanding social and spatial patterns of overcrowding in England and Wales
By Rory Coulter, University College London One of the few things that Britain’s political parties agree is that the country faces a housing crisis. One sign of this is overcrowding, where people li…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Comparative peripheries and decarbonising the uneven geographies of academia' by Todd Denham et al.

This commentary reflects on international conference travel, drawing on attendee experiences of the hybrid 2023 RGS-IBG Annual Conference.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Todd Denham, Wangui Kimari, Pia Treichel & Rachel Walters (2025) entitled: 'Comparative peripheries and decarbonising the uneven geographies of academia' with a blue banner at the top. International travel is a key source of academic greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, is a priority for the sector's decarbonisation efforts. However, legacies of colonisation and carbon-intensive development mean that the global geography of knowledge production and exchange is highly concentrated in Europe and North America, notwithstanding increased access through decarbonisation initiatives such as conference hubs. This commentary draws on attendee experiences of two remote conference hubs, held in Nairobi, Kenya and Melbourne, Australia, in parallel with the hybrid 2023 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) conference, for which the in-person event was held in London. The varied experiences of these Nairobi and Melbourne RGS hubs highlight the plurality of peripheries, and how one's location within a continuum of peripheralisation shapes how academics from these sites are engaged in and can respond to academic decarbonisation efforts. We argue that the reproduction of Europe and North America as the centres of knowledge necessitates increased cognisance of the potentially conflicted aims of inclusion and the decarbonisation of academia, especially on academic peripheries. Ultimately, our argument is not against the decarbonisation of academia, which we view as critical against climate breakdown, but, rather, for greater attention to the decentring of knowledge production and its methods of transfer in decarbonisation efforts.
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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New in The GJ:

'What's coming out of those chimneys? Energy-from-waste incineration in Teesside, UK' by Jay Sinclair

This commentary examines how Teesside's role in UK Net Zero Strategy facilitates ongoing industrial pollution through 'green' industrial projects.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Jay Sinclair (2025) entitled 'What's coming out of those chimneys? Energy-from-waste incineration in Teesside, UK' with a blue banner at the top. Once an industrial powerhouse, Teesside is positioned as a key player in the UK's Net Zero Strategy, with plans to revitalise its deindustrialised industrial clusters through decarbonisation and green energy projects. Using a series of proposed energy-from-waste incinerators in Teesside as a lens, I examine how the UK's green industrial strategy legitimises ongoing pollution under the guise of sustainability, enabled by regulatory frameworks that define harm within narrow, scientifically provable parameters. This limited framing fails to capture the full scope of harm, allowing chemical toxicity to disproportionately impact marginalised communities. In this piece, I advocate for epistemic justice that expands how harm is recognised beyond measurable metrics and takes seriously community knowledges of the lived and embodied experience of industrial pollution in Teesside. This approach supports the development of an affective politics of resistance that draws from a collective awareness of how environmental harm reshapes bodily capacities and subjectivities to catalyse new forms of political action.
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Ethnic disparities in overcrowding across England and Wales: Postracial patterns or persistent inequalities?' by Rory Coulter

This paper reveals the persistence of stark ethnic disparities in overcrowding, & explores how these are ignored in housing policy.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Rory Coulter (2025) entitled: 'Ethnic disparities in overcrowding across England and Wales: Postracial patterns or persistent inequalities?' with a blue banner at the top. In Britain, ethnic minorities have long been disproportionately likely to live in overcrowded homes and to experience other forms of housing disadvantage. However, in recent years, housing policy across Great Britain has retreated away from acknowledging and seeking to address these ethnic disparities. This study critically assesses the evidence for this policy shift by examining the contemporary magnitude and geography of ethnic disparities in overcrowding across England and Wales. This is achieved by analysing 2021 Census microdata using multilevel logistic regressions. The results show that even after controlling for differences in the demographic and socio-economic attributes of ethnic groups, almost all ethnic minorities have a substantially higher propensity to live in overcrowded homes than comparable White Britons. In addition, while overcrowding is generally more common in places where housing constraints are more acute, ethnic disparities in overcrowding vary geographically in more complex and group-specific ways. Taken together, these findings indicate that longstanding patterns of ethnic housing disparity have not faded away. Greater recognition of these persistent inequalities and renewed efforts to address them thus need to be built back into local and national housing policies.
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...
A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state–capital nexus' by Shenjing He 2) 'Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China' by Rong Cai, Lirong Hu & Shenjing He 3) 'The market formation of private sector, purpose built student accommodation in Sheffield 2000–2019' by Carl Lee 4) 'Evaporation losses from residential swimming pools and water features under climate variability and change' by Alicia Cumberland & Robert Wilby 5) 'Forecasting urban shifts post-earthquake: LULC change analysis in Elazığ, Turkey using ANN and Markov models' by Fatih Sunbul, Enes Karadeniz, Mustafa Taner Sengun & Muhammed Kocaoglu 6) 'Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments' by Mark Holton 7) 'How do you like your rivers? Portraying public perception and preference for urban rivers in China via a combined visual and textual analysis' by Yixin Cao, Wendy Yan Chen & Karl Matthias Wantzen 8) 'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni, Justin van Dijk & Paul Longley 9) 'Gender difference in space–time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing' by Hongbo Chai, Patrick Witte, Stan Geertman & Dick Ettema A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with commentaries and RGS-IBG Regulars, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis 2) 'From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures' by Sarah Klosterkamp & Alex Jeffrey 3) 'Everyone's talking about climate change actions, but can we learn from Wales’ approach?' by Lynda Yorke, Athanasios Dimitriou, Sonya Hanna, Corinna Patterson, Sara Parry & Georgina Smith 4) 'Presidential address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2025' by Dame Jane Francis 5) 'Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2025' by Jane Francis, Murray Gray, Børge Ousland, Gillian Rose, Susan Smith & Dariusz Wójcik
September 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This special section, edited by @smhall.bsky.social and @sanvanlan.bsky.social, looks like essential reading:
thegj.bsky.social The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Sep 25
Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten". A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy
September 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...
A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state–capital nexus' by Shenjing He 2) 'Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China' by Rong Cai, Lirong Hu & Shenjing He 3) 'The market formation of private sector, purpose built student accommodation in Sheffield 2000–2019' by Carl Lee 4) 'Evaporation losses from residential swimming pools and water features under climate variability and change' by Alicia Cumberland & Robert Wilby 5) 'Forecasting urban shifts post-earthquake: LULC change analysis in Elazığ, Turkey using ANN and Markov models' by Fatih Sunbul, Enes Karadeniz, Mustafa Taner Sengun & Muhammed Kocaoglu 6) 'Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments' by Mark Holton 7) 'How do you like your rivers? Portraying public perception and preference for urban rivers in China via a combined visual and textual analysis' by Yixin Cao, Wendy Yan Chen & Karl Matthias Wantzen 8) 'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni, Justin van Dijk & Paul Longley 9) 'Gender difference in space–time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing' by Hongbo Chai, Patrick Witte, Stan Geertman & Dick Ettema A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with commentaries and RGS-IBG Regulars, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis 2) 'From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures' by Sarah Klosterkamp & Alex Jeffrey 3) 'Everyone's talking about climate change actions, but can we learn from Wales’ approach?' by Lynda Yorke, Athanasios Dimitriou, Sonya Hanna, Corinna Patterson, Sara Parry & Georgina Smith 4) 'Presidential address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2025' by Dame Jane Francis 5) 'Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2025' by Jane Francis, Murray Gray, Børge Ousland, Gillian Rose, Susan Smith & Dariusz Wójcik
September 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Quantifying a decadal driver of ecological environment in Jamuna River basin using geospatial techniques' by Md. Naimur Rahman et al.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Md. Naimur Rahman, Md. Rakib Hasan Rony & Kevin Lo (2025) entitled: 'Quantifying a decadal driver of ecological environment in Jamuna River basin using geospatial techniques' with a blue banner at the top. This study investigates the ecological environment quality within Bangladesh's Jamuna River Basin from 2003 to 2023, using Landsat imagery analysed through Google Earth Engine (GEE) to create the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) for the districts of Kurigram, Sirajganj and Tangail. The analysis reveals significant spatial and temporal variations in ecological health, driven by both anthropogenic and natural factors. The findings show that whilst Kurigram's ecological quality fluctuates between good and moderate states, Sirajganj has experienced a continuous decline, and Tangail shows marked ecological degradation, especially in urban areas. The study demonstrates that the integration of RSEI with spatial autocorrelation techniques, such as Moran's I and Local Indicator of Spatial Autocorrelation (LISA), effectively captures spatial clustering of ecological quality. The clustering patterns indicate that ecological degradation is unevenly distributed, influenced by both human activities and natural processes. These results emphasise the importance of sustainable land management practices to mitigate further ecological decline and provide a foundation for targeted conservation efforts. The study's use of geospatial tools offers a scalable approach for assessing ecological health in other river basins and regions facing environmental pressures. This research underscores the critical role of monitoring long-term ecological changes to inform policy interventions and promote sustainable development in vulnerable ecosystems.
September 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

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A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten". A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao

This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.

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This is a graphical abstract for this paper in The Geographical Journal. It is a photograph of three 'lifestyle migrants' in China celebrating a dog's birthday with seven large dogs gathered around them.
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context' by @catrineds.bsky.social & Rhys Dafydd Jones

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Language and Migration'

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Catrin Wyn Edwards & Rhys Dafydd Jones (2025) entitled 'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context' with a blue banner at the top. This paper explores the rescaling of sanctuary to the national scale, distinct from the state scale. While scholarship has largely focussed on how sanctuary, hospitality and citizenship are provided at city scales, we analyse how substate nations respond to people seeking sanctuary by focussing on the case of Wales, an officially bilingual nation (multilingual in practice) within a plurinational state. By unpacking different meanings of Nation of Sanctuary (NoS)/Cenedl Noddfa (CN) in English and Welsh, we demonstrate the importance of adopting a ‘national gaze’ for complex, nuanced and heterogeneous understandings, rather than singular and homogenous assumptions (often associated with national perspectives). In interrogating etymology and meanings of sanctuary and delving into the (subtly) different meanings of lloches and noddfa, we illustrate the nuances and complexities of sanctuary politics and practices in a bilingual nation. This highlights the significance of considering the presence of competing, contrasting or complementary understandings of sanctuary in multilingual nations along with the various histories, cultures and ideas of belonging that shape sanctuary practices, rather than leaving translation as an afterthought. In uncovering the complexities and different meanings of NoS/CN, we develop a novel perspective on understandings of host/guest relations and provide an alternative way of understanding this dyadic distinction central to extant hospitality scholarship.
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Regional variations in aerosol-temperature coupling over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India: A vector autoregression analysis (2005–2023)' by Mansi Janmaijaya & Pankaj Kumar

This paper is part of a Special Section on 'Climate Change & Variability'.

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This study explores the temporal link between absorbing aerosols and maximum surface temperature over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India during the pre-monsoon season (2005–2023). Using UVAI ...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Everywhere Islamophobia' by @kawtarnajib.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kawtar Najib (2025) entitled: 'Everywhere Islamophobia' with a blue banner at the top. The multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia highlights how it spares no spatial scale (from the globe to the body). However, Islamophobia is also a multi-dimensional nature that affects all places and sectors of our societies (whether political, institutional, educational, etc.). This article aims to reinforce this dual nature by using the notion of ‘Everywhere Islamophobia’, in light of theories showing that racism is everywhere. The everywhereness of Islamophobia even within the discipline of geography has been recognised late, compared to its everydayness, and this contribution shows precisely that Islamophobia is everywhere but manifests itself differently in each locality.
September 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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New commentary in The GJ:

'The digitization of economic geography's infrastructure: Implications of the information overload' by José Luis Sánchez-Hernández

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by José Luis Sánchez-Hernández (2025) entitled 'The digitization of economic geography's infrastructure: Implications of the information overload' with a blue banner at the top. During the last two decades, digitization has deeply transformed the ‘infrastructure’ of economic geography: the quantity and variety of available data, the techniques for retrieving and the tools for processing such data, and the practices of academic research. This commentary argues that the digitization process burdens economic geographers with an information overload, which is commonly addressed through various scholarly practices: coordinated research projects, direct technique-based research design, and increasing participation in multidisciplinary research networks. However, both information overload and adaptive practices include a risk of fragmentation of the research community, since only large and/or well-funded universities and research groups may adapt to the new research context depicted by the digitization of the ‘infrastructure’ of economic geography. Mixed methods and methodological polyglossia emerge, then, as a potential fix for pushing research ahead in economic geography.
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM