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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 ⬇️

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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
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
areajournal.bsky.social
'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.

Read here⬇️
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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
asapjournal.bsky.social
Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”

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Haunting Time and Space in All of Us Strangers - ASAP/Review
Two haunted buildings organize Andrew Haigh’s 2023 film All of Us Strangers: the first is a nearly empty tower block on the edge of London; the other, a suburban home in Sanderstead, Croydon. The form...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
robkitchin.bsky.social
Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
sfb1265.bsky.social
New Special Issue out now in Historical Social Research (HSR) @gesis.org! 📄📖
"Varieties of Refiguration - On Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the Economy" offers a distinctive spatial and refigurative perspective to the sociology of economics and its multiple spatial arrangements.⬇️
gesis.org GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 22d
Out now: #HSR 50.4 - Varieties of #Refiguration I
On Multiple #Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the #Economy. (Nina Baur, Elettra Griesi, Lara Espeter, Florence Eyok, Elmar Kulke & Lynn Sibert)
The contributions in this HSR Special Issue analyze multiple spatialities in three key areas:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
gesis.org
Out now: #HSR 50.4 - Varieties of #Refiguration I
On Multiple #Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the #Economy. (Nina Baur, Elettra Griesi, Lara Espeter, Florence Eyok, Elmar Kulke & Lynn Sibert)
The contributions in this HSR Special Issue analyze multiple spatialities in three key areas:
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November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
sfb1265.bsky.social
Some impressions from our exhibition “Investigating Refiguration.”

Drawing on "Spacetimes Matter" (Jovis) and new collaborations, we explored how multiple temporalities and spatialities can be empirically mapped through experimental methodologies.

For more see: sfb1265.de/en/media-cen...
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
geocritbot.uk
Unsure why the Endowment of Ill-Gotten Colonial Gains committee chose our project 'New spaces of spatialities? Locating post-humanism for political geographies' over so many deserving others
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
areajournal.bsky.social
New in Area:

'The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy & the British secret state' by Ben Gowland

This paper provides a historical geographic analysis of the UK Foreign Office's IRD, contributing to intelligence & diplomacy geographies
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Ben Gowland (2025) entitled: 'The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy and the British secret state' with a black banner at the top. This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s. To date, there has been no geographical study of IRD and through this paper's critical study of the organisation I highlight where contributions can be made to existing scholarship on the geographies of intelligence and diplomacy. In examining IRD, I highlight strategies to be applied and spatialities to be investigated in relation to other organs of the British secret state. Through investigating the networks of communication, distribution and personal relations that animated IRD operations and geographers are well positioned to trace the contours of the secret state and its operations. Similarly, through interrogating IRD's relationship with the Diplomatic Service I suggest studies of the cultures and practices of diplomacy can be enriched by highlighting the role of state secrecy and subversion in these contexts. I suggest studying IRD can open up a more holistic examination of the geographies of the British secret state beyond a focus on particular figures or the impact of specific theories. Within British Geography there has been extensive study of the role that geography as a discipline and geographers as practitioners have played in the furtherance of British imperialism and militarism with covert actions and agencies central here. However, what this paper evidences and what I am proposing is the need for a determined and critical geographical analysis of the British secret state and its activities tout court.
October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
lmesseri.bsky.social
i'm much madder at Big Tech than i was when i first submitted this article. I offer my tracked changes revision as evidence of entering the no holds bar stage of my career.
And yet, both of these corporate futures have far more in common than in distinction. Especially as spatial computing has, like the metaverse, failed to garner the enthusiasm corporate overloads had anticipated, it is important to understand these terms in the context of the larger computing visions they seek to proffer. This vision wants users to be permanently and inescapably immersed in a world of digital overlays, such that the corporate product, in whatever technical form (headset, glasses), is the mediating screen through which we always and only experience the physical world. This is a vision we ought to refuse, and this article offers an admittedly modest strategy for refusal. I do so by offering a reading of the technological fictions that convey the spatialities and socialities of spatial computing
October 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
ejmccann.bsky.social
Introduces the term “moving ideas” as a framing with two connotations: 1) the political efficacy of ideas is related to their spatialities—how & with what effects they move from place to place & are embedded in places; ... 3/6
September 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
ejmccann.bsky.social
Introduces the term “moving ideas” as a framing with two connotations: 1) the political efficacy of ideas is related to their spatialities—how & with what effects they move from place to place & are embedded in places; ... 3/6
September 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📢 New publication by former USF International Fellow Harsh Mittal
“Topological spatialities of policy mobility: the varied power plays governing Indian smart urbanism in a quieter register”
Published in Space and Polity
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#UrbanStudies #PolicyMobility #SmartUrbanism #India
Flyer with USF logo for the paper "Topological spatialities of policy mobility" on Photo: nhadatvideo via Flickr. It includes the cover and the quote: "“...It brings out instances of armslength manipulation of an administration reluctant to engage with mobile experts, seduction of bureaucratic leadership through topological proximity with global-metropolitan professional networks, and inducements emanating from the smart cities event industry practices, towards prioritizing performance in the global urban-policy circuit. “ Flyer with USF logo for the paper "Topological spatialities of policy mobility" on Photo: nhadatvideo via Flickr. It includes the cover and the quote: "“...It brings out instances of armslength manipulation of an administration reluctant to engage with mobile experts, seduction of bureaucratic leadership through topological proximity with global-metropolitan professional networks, and inducements emanating from the smart cities event industry practices, towards prioritizing performance in the global urban-policy circuit. “
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
geocritbot.uk
Gratified to share our latest paper: 'Postcolonial spatialities, non-human decolonialism: The affective experience of infracaptialism', available as an Early Online article in that journal that rejected your paper
September 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
tibg.bsky.social
New in Transactions:

'The spatiality of encounters: Contesting planning decisions in Tehran' by Mojgan Taheri Tafti

This paper examines resistance to top-down urban planning and governance in Tehran's middle-class neighbourhoods.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Mojgan Taheri Tafti (2025) entitled 'The spatiality of encounters: Contesting planning decisions in Tehran' with a red banner at the top. How do urban activists and the state organise their encounters under constrained conditions for dissent? What spatialities do these encounters involve, and how do they mediate power relations? This paper examines these questions, focusing on eight instances of contestation in Tehran's middle-class neighbourhoods, centred on resistance to top-down urban planning and governance. Drawing on Deleuzian thought, particularly his interpretation of Spinoza's concept of encounter, the paper focuses on the spatiality of encounter as a critical site of analysis. It argues that space mediates and conditions the fragmented encounters between residents and the state by reconfiguring their power to act. The spatialities of these encounters, in turn, reflect and reproduce both the political character of urban governance and the forms of resistance it provokes.
September 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
albertlloret.bsky.social
Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....
Cover of volume 140, number 2, from 2025 of journal MLN. Features a photo, SON RAVAL, by Consuelo Batista..
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
crmethodsjnl.bsky.social
Loving the theme of this year’s #RGS2025!
If you are using creative methods for geography research we are the journal for you!

Learn more about us bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
Geographies of creativity/creative geographies. "Whether it’s the capacity to create new places out of old, or new spatial relations where none existed before, or to create beautiful things – artworks, writing, architecture, music, dance – in places and across spaces, creativity seems almost too fundamental to focus on. But what are the spatialities of creativity? The geographies of creative practice – how artwork sustains globalised flows of money for example, or how music reshapes buildings and bodies, or how creative writing nurtures geopolitics – are sometimes hard to theorise and bear witness to. Yet creative practice is crucial both to physical processes and to human experiences: we need to understand it. More fundamentally, if there sometimes seems to be too little creativity in our habitually over-consuming world, how do geographers become more creative? Is 21st-century geography a truly creative discipline? At a time when our world really needs a creative vision, to deal with new challenges in new ways, this conference theme asks for nothing less than a creative re-visioning of our discipline." Patricia Noxolo, University of Birmingham, UK.
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
rachelbayer.bsky.social
I’ll be joining a fabulous panel of presenters to share some of my PhD data surrounding the spatialities of outness & disclosure - exploring participants' ambivalent & conflicted feelings navigating the liminalities ace (in)visibility. Full session/panel details in the conference programme!
August 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
katrinanavickas.bsky.social
This is very good by Nicholas Blomley on the spatialities of police roadblocks in 1984-85
The Rights, Struggle Thick Blue Line: Movement, and the for Nottinghamshire The miners strike saw the most massive exercise in policing by exclusion . .. ever experienced. Sarah McCabe & Peter WalLington (1988, p. 141) What is ideology without a space to which it refers, a space which it describes, whose vocabulary and links it makes use of, and whose code it embodies?. . .. Ideology per se might well be said to consist primarily in na discourse upon social space --Henri Lefebvre (1991, p. 44) TERRORISTS, THUGS, AND BULLIES: The MiNeRS STRikE OF 1984-85 Early on the morning of October 12, 1984, an Irish Republican Arny IRA) bomb exploded in a fifth-floor room of the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England. Asleep in the hotel at the time were the elite of the ruling Conservative party, including the prime minister, in attendance at the annual party conference. Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped death; three others were not SO lucky Twelve hours after the blast, Thatcher , It elected, The the SenSIV temocrs mke W camali me mlimimg he 4 d mater mel Law space geographies of power
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
dstoltenberg.bsky.social
First, in a chapter together with B. Pfetsch, @zozanbaran.bsky.social and @anniewald.bsky.social, we conceptualize how lines of both conflict and solidarity in contemporary climate justice (and really, most other types of) social movements are spatially structured.

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Screenshot reading: ABSTRACT Climate change exemplifies the complex spatial patterns of contemporary social issues. It spans across scales from global to local, is inequitably distributed regarding responsibilities and impacts, and connects heterogeneous actors. The notion of climate justice highlights these uneven spatialities. This chapter reflects on the spatial dimension of climate justice conflicts and solidarities. It argues, first, that local climate justice conflicts can be interpreted as spatial conflicts arising from the tensions between different spatial figures, namely, territory, place, trajectory, and network. Second, the chapter identifies spatial dimensions of solidarity and conflict in climate justice movements: between center and periphery, between local and translocal, and across scales. These considerations are brought together in a conceptual model of the actor and issue spaces of climate justice movements. Key aspects are illustrated using observations from two field trips to the coal-mining area of western Germany and to the oil- and gas-drilling region in North Dakota, USA.
August 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
pdbalisboa.bsky.social
10 weeks to go! 🎉🎉🎉
We are reaching the end of our 2024-25 programme, Digital Spatialities! Follow us on this journey through our programme highlights!

Digital Spatialities International Panel Session
at Goethe-Institut Portugal, 12/04/2025

Photos: Paulina Seuling
Funded by: DGARTES
July 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
blackbirdrook.bsky.social
“Sick of engaging in a dialectical interrogation of post-material spatialities, while deconstructing the liminality of ontological semiotic tension through recursive, hyper-mediated praxes?” Read my thoughts on press releases in Plaster Magazine.
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#ContemporaryArt
July 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
jamiegorrod.bsky.social
Because of this inaccessibility, the benthos, Jimmy says, is realm ‘known foremost through the imagination’. This imaginative appeal owes much to the ‘apparently confounding spatialities, temporalities, and ontologies’ of the seabed, a space so far out of human reach
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
somabasu.com
📢 #CFP: Digital Mediation & Urban Spatialities in Contemporary India (Full description attached)
🗓 Abstracts (≤300w) due: July 15, 2025
📘 To be published in a peer-reviewed South Asia journal by Brill
📩 Submit: digitalmediationindia@gmail.com

#UrbanStudies #DigitalIndia #SouthAsia
Call for paper - full description
July 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
geocritbot.uk
Humbled to share our latest paper: 'Resetting molecular geographies of atmospheric spatialities in China', available as an Early Online article in that journal - you know the one
June 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM