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Dialogues in Human Geography
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ISSN (Print) 2043-8206 - ISSN (Online) 2043-8214
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  • Thresholds of territory, time, and intimacy

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      Authors: Sara Smith
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-26T11:23:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231202687
       
  • Social reproduction, infrastructure, and the everyday

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      Authors: Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      One of the main preoccupations of contemporary (feminist) urban theory is to conceptualize social reproduction, infrastructures, and everyday as the constitutive elements of the processes of urbanization. In this commentary, I engage with McFadden's contribution to these efforts from the standpoint of the study of concept formation. This commentary dwells on McFadden's theoretical object of knowledge (i.e. ‘infrastructures of social reproduction') within the empirical context of ‘educational landscapes’ both in terms of the method of its construction and the political consequences of this method. I argue that while it is important to insist on the inseparability of social reproduction and infrastructures within the spatiotemporal unfolding of urbanization, our theoretical attempts must go beyond asserting this inseparability to be able to produce transformative social knowledge of the (non-)urban. A way in this direction, I suggest, is the method of recuperation of the specificities that produce social reproduction and infrastructures as both indivisible and individual under concrete socio-spatial histories, conditions, and principles.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-20T10:23:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231202820
       
  • Reconfiguring rurality

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      Authors: Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The concept of planetary rural geographies is an antithesis of planetary urbanization's erasure of the ‘rural’. Rather than push the compartmentalization of development spaces or processes, planetary rural geographies provide a framework of analyses that valorizes epistemic plurality, and which can help to better understand emerging complex problems in an ever-evolving world. The three rural space spectra of crisis, conflict, and hope, which are embedded within the geographies of rurality, serve as a new configuration and units of analyses for reestablishing the enduring nature of rurality itself. While the propositions in the thesis are plausible, some critiques are, however, offered to further shed light on the complexities and unique attributes of rural places.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-19T12:53:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231202826
       
  • Territory, affective intensities, and how alcohol comes to matter

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      Authors: Gordon Waitt, Anna De Jong
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In response to Jayne and Valentine's (2023) article, we build on their arguments that, like alcohol studies, many more-than-representational geographical accounts of alcohol consumption rely on a priori assumptions, ‘expressions’, and ‘facts’. To do so, we embrace their critique that our previous work fails to fully interrogate how alcohol consumption ‘transforms’, ‘shapes’, and ‘mediates’ emotions and effects. In revisiting our interpretation, we draw on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of territory to employ the interpretative strategies outlined by Jayne and Valentine of de-determination and how unfolding moments of socio-material relationships shape the affective capacity of bodies to act and sense. We illustrate how the concept of territory presents a productive analytical framework for alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-19T12:53:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231202818
       
  • Thinking conjuncturally, looking elsewhere

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      Authors: Colin Lorne, Matthew Thompson, Allan Cochrane
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Inspired by Jamie Peck’s recent article on conjunctural methodologies, we discuss how geographers might interpret these troubling times. We hope to keep the conversation going by suggesting that a strength of conjunctural analysis lies in trying to get to grips with multiple crises without always knowing precisely where to look. Another strength of this approach is to take seriously all the cultural and political work involved in the articulation of different struggles, tensions, and contradictions combining in complex, and sometimes surprising, ways. So, in addition to looking inward to economic geography, we suggest that thinking conjuncturally might also involve looking elsewhere to ask what's at stake in the present moment – in all its complexity – in order to bring other political possibilities into view.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-19T01:10:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231202825
       
  • Refusing spatiotemporal unfixity: A response to ‘Inhabiting the
           extensions’

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      Authors: Sharad Chari
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary on Simone et al.'s ( ) ‘Inhabiting the Extensions’ explores what exactly this phrase could mean, for whom it inspires bewilderment and why, and what it might mean to engage the geographical research drawn upon if they were to express something about collective refusal of widespread spatiotemporal unfixity.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-12T07:16:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231200706
       
  • Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion

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      Authors: Brian M. Napoletano, Pedro S. Urquijo, Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In our article, ‘Henri Lefebvre's Conception of Nature-Society in the Revolutionary Project of Autogestion’, we sought to open an important dialog on the relation of autogestion to the ecological struggle for metabolic restoration. The four insightful commentaries in this dialog have taken up this argument and moved it forward substantially. Here, we briefly reflect on a central problem raised by these four interventions and Lefebvre's theory of autogestion more generally: The agent of radical social transformation.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-12T06:10:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231200713
       
  • Putting the ‘public’ back into public schools in the US

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      Authors: Akira Drake Rodriguez
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Public schools serve as vital centers of urban life. However, the long history of these centers are racialized, classed, and produce disparate outcomes across space in the United States. This commentary outlines this history and puts forth the need to re-center the increasingly diversifying and high-need public in the production and maintenance of these critical infrastructures.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-11T05:16:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231200714
       
  • Observations on the future trajectories of postcolonial literary geography

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      Authors: Madhumita Roy
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I chart the future trajectories of postcolonial literary geography that would enable it to become an inquiry of literary and geographical knowledge of 21st century globalization replete with neo-imperial agendas and controls. In this context, I focus on three overlapping moments in critical thought – the spatial turn, affective turn, and environmental turn – that can revitalize postcolonial literary geography to analyze and contest contemporary crises in place-making and its reflection in literature.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-09-08T06:10:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231200708
       
  • A manifesto for Critical Muslim Geographies

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      Authors: James D. Sidaway
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In reflecting on the generous commentaries in this forum, I reconsider the prospects for emergent Critical Muslim Geographies. I frame my responses to the insights, challenges, thresholds, and research alliances they channel via ‘a manifesto for Critical Muslim Geographies’. The move I advocate draws on the corpus of critical geography, is informed by the developing field of Critical Muslim Studies, thinks with traditions of Islamic ilm (knowledge and learning), and strives for an adept, committed, and visible community of Muslim scholars in geography This enables approaches to the ‘decolonial’ from other sites. The commentators have noted my intent to both recharge and go beyond decolonial geographies, also pulling connections with other literatures.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-30T06:53:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231195668
       
  • Unsettling relatonality: Attachment after the ‘relational
           turn’

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      Authors: Ben Anderson
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this response, I place the concept of attachment in the context of debates about the ontological commitments and political-ethical value of relational thinking today. Reading the four commentaries in this forum as emerging from and enacting a fraying of the promise and hold of relational thinking, I explore how, together, they pose a series of questions to my account of attachments as trajectories that ‘bring closer’ a promissory ‘object’: how do some objects become promissory, what, if anything, is the outside of attachment, and what accompanies attachments' The terms through which the commentaries pose these questions and complement the concept of attachment – economies, desire, problem, detachment – revise and supplement my vocabulary and research agenda for a cultural geography of attachment. Simultaneously, they question and challenge relational thinking more broadly.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-25T04:17:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231195672
       
  • Of witnessing and healing, of ordinary im/mobilities, of spaces and
           (un)freedoms: An authors’ response

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      Authors: Madhumita Dutta, Madhushree Basu
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-21T05:28:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231195677
       
  • Theorising (with) urban China, across the border: Two sides of the same
           coin

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      Authors: Shaun S.K. Teo, Calvin King Lam Chung, Zheng Wang
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Responding to the culture of exceptionalism in urban China studies, our article ‘Theorising with urban China’ proposed different ways of leveraging urban China cases to develop a more global urban theory. Such an approach is ambitious and requires further clarification. The generous accounts of four commentators generated big questions and reflections on two fronts: first, on the relationship between theorising and theorising with urban China, and second, on the practicalities of cross-border collaboration in urban China research. This response argues that theorising urban China and theorising with urban China are two sides of the same coin; and that the complementarities between empiricism and theorisation can be fulfilled through collaborations across the Chinese border.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-21T05:28:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231195670
       
  • To whom does geography owe a future' Lessons from urban studies

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      Authors: Asa Roast
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The stresses of the neoliberal academy relating to the precaritisation of labour and metricisation of research can often make it difficult in the present to envision a future of geographical thought and praxis which is capable of addressing the past and present epistemic injustices which human geography has inherited. Within the field of urban studies, the discourse of ‘urban futures’ has often been used to promise a more just and efficient future. This commentary takes the often-evoked notion of an urban future and considers how recent research in urban studies has sought to deconstruct the notion of the ‘urban’ in order to illustrate the complex and antagonistic present underlying such futures. Here urban studies has an analogous lesson for human geography more generally. Disaggregating the identity of ‘geographer’ from academic status and training can open up new practices for the co-production of knowledge beyond professional boundaries, which themselves can also aid in the creation of more just urban futures.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-14T05:04:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177062
       
  • Spacetimeunconscious

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      Authors: Anna J. Secor
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This article argues for an understanding of material geographies as invested with an unconscious dimension. I put forward the notion of spacetimeunconscious not as an inverse, double, or ‘other’ to Karen Barad's concept of spacetimematter, but as a supplement. Manifesting the spacetimeunconscious through the technique of montage, I draw together a range of phenomena, from the icing of water and the flashing of lightning to the awakenings of traumatised and displaced subjects. Across these juxtaposed parts, I argue that the unfolding of space and time responds to the enigmatic, irreducible message of the unconscious in the real. Spacetimeunconscious arrives as the ambassador of an unknown knowledge remembered for – or in the place of – a forgetful substance: water, dreamer, or electron. In an echo of the analytic method, I use montage to create generative connections, discontinuities, and instabilities between events, poetry, literature, and film, in the interstices of which the spacetimeunconscious may make an appearance.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-01T06:22:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191763
       
  • Planetary rural geographies

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      Authors: Chi-Mao Wang, Damian Maye, Michael Woods
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This paper proposes planetary rural geographies to counter the narrative of planetary urbanisation, which has contended that the whole planet has been urbanised and can be understood through urban theory without an outside. Whilst critics have challenged the metrophilia inherent to planetary urbanisation, advanced post-colonial critiques, and posited alternative models of ruralisation, we argue that these responses fall short of fully embracing the radical potential of a planetary perspective. We call for planetary rural geographies that examine rural places as sites of interaction between diverse more-than-human relations that extend above and below the Earth surface and contend that the configuration of human–environment interactions at the ‘rural’ end of urban–rural relations is critical to addressing planetary crises. We elaborate this argument by focusing on three geographies of planetary rurality: as a space of crisis, as a space of conflict, and as a space of hope, evidenced by examples drawn from the global rural literature.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-08-01T06:21:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191731
       
  • Situating and expanding the scope of dispositions towards automation

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      Authors: Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The four generous commentaries to our article, Dispositions towards automation, have truly enriched and extended our thinking on ‘dispositions’ as a way of challenging binary readings of automation (i.e., either towards capitulation or adaptation). Two of our interlocutors have encouraged us to think more situationally about the way dispositions develop through user experience and encounter, while the other two welcome a further expansion of our ideas to include infrastructural and other non-human or environmental agencies. In this response, we clarify our original curiosities about capital's affective projects with respect to automation, as well as its attempts at steering dispositions in order to mitigate, precisely, the indeterminacy of labour and user ‘reactions’. At the same time, we discuss how the four provocations have inspired us to re-assemble these tendencies and sentiments more plurally, to incorporate a series of overlapping affects, capitalist plots, shifting design values, detours, exigencies, digital glitches, and material interjections. We are impressed by the holism of perspectives presented in this dialogue, and how the discussion has only reinforced ideas about the fragility of automation's relations.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-31T03:39:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189576
       
  • Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective

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      Authors: Majed Akhter
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary flags three key themes related to Muslim geographies. The first is the diversity and interconnectedness of Islam across regions, and the way Muslim practice is formed through a sense of place. The second is the need to rethink the spatial categories of core and periphery across Muslim space. Lastly, the third suggests that the contextualized study of Muslim geographies should reshape geographical knowledge, especially with respect to world regional geography.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-28T06:39:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191738
       
  • The oddity of desiring informality

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      Authors: Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Informality has become central to urban sustainability and one of the most polemically debated topics in modern urban studies and human geography. Finn's analysis intends to bring critical geo-historical colonial research to this debate and remains an important contribution. In this essay, my main argument – which expands on Finn's work – is that informality in its current conception does not comprehend fully the colonial and neocolonial structures in Africa and fails to engage deeply enough to recognize informality's indispensability and alter existing notions and patterns of inequalities. I reflect on the embodiment of informality as Africa's urban culture and argue for its support to deliver sustainable outcomes.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-28T06:39:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191737
       
  • Historicising the informal/formal dialectic: A reflection on the
           conceptualisation of informality versus the history of ‘informal’
           economic activities

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      Authors: Deborah Potts
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The relationship between the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ sectors has long been a topic of academic inquiry. Brandon Finn's paper which focuses on a case study of Zambia argues for a deeper historicisation of the formal/informal inquiry. In my reflections on Finn's paper I suggest that Zambia's lack of a pre-colonial urban tradition may create some limitations on the historicisation of ‘informality’ and the discussion might usefully be pushed beyond the historical boundaries of European colonialism to consideration of urban economic activities in pre-colonial and pre-capitalist states and their urban centres.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-28T06:38:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191736
       
  • Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset
           geographies’

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      Authors: Kendra Strauss
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary briefly develops Birch and Ward's argument that research on the ‘new asset geographies’ can make important contributions to understanding new and evolving geographies of social reproduction. I argue that processes and mechanisms of assetization connect not only to the making of markets but also of investor subjects, and are empirically and conceptually connected to multi-dimensional precarity in and beyond paid work. The latter signals the potential for more dialogue between researchers working to understand geographies of precarity and the new asset geographies.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-28T06:38:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189579
       
  • For conjunctural geography: From method to counter-hegemonic practice

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      Authors: Han Cheng, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Conjunctural analysis makes an important addition to the conceptual toolbox for understanding the contours of China's (capitalist) regional economies. In this commentary, we concur with Peck's suggestion that the conjunctural approach can animate economic geography's engagement with ‘thick’ theorization without foregoing context-rich inquiry. However, we also emphasize Stuart Hall's commitment to counter-hegemonic politics and his use of the conjunctural approach to explore – and ultimately facilitate – historical breaks in social structures of dominance. Through a brief exploration of ways of engaging the region in China area studies and Chinese geography, we discuss how the conjunctural approach can be mobilized to (re)politicize geographies of regional development.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-28T06:37:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189575
       
  • Pivoting toward solidarity: Black studies, Black feminism, and performance
           in geographical scholarship on sexuality

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      Authors: Xavier Livermon
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary on Andrew Tucker's ( ) article, ‘A Sexuality Pivot,’ I discuss both the exciting possibilities and some caveats to consider as we engage critically in solidarity-oriented research. In the main, I am interested in what kinds of considerations we as researchers must engage if we are to effectively pivot toward solidarity. Here, I engage the rich history of solidarity from Abolitionist and Black feminist traditions to think through how contributions from Black studies, expansively defined, might enrich the conversation on solidarity as a research method. In particular, I examine the fruitful possibilities drawn from D. Soyini Madison, Audre Lorde, and the strategy of witnessing (developed from Frederick Douglass by way of Dwight Conquergood) as a way of thinking through contemporary solidaristic scholarship on the geographies of sexuality.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-26T05:39:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189581
       
  • Struggling over new asset geographies

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      Authors: Kean Birch, Callum Ward
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this response, we address criticisms of our definition of assetization from an accounting perspective, its overlap with financialization, and the relationship between value and valuation it posits. We reflect on a future agenda around assetization emphasizing the political dimensions of externalizing future costs and the implications of rising inflation.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-26T05:38:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189580
       
  • Demographic anxieties and Indigenous futures in the Indian Himalaya;

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      Authors: Mabel Denzin Gergan
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-26T05:37:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189577
       
  • Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction' Finance,
           reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes

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      Authors: Dan Cohen
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary explores the dynamics of financialization in relation to educational infrastructures of social reproduction, an area McFadden identifies as a ‘generative avenue’ for future research. This exploration is accomplished through a discussion of how financialization is currently reshaping schooling in the US context in two ways: (a) through troubling the longstanding reproduction/resistance dialectic in education; and (b) through reorienting the built infrastructures of schooling into private revenue streams for investors. In doing so I argue that studying new modes of financial accumulation which directly touch upon the practices and infrastructures of schooling is critical to understanding the contemporary infrastructures of urban social reproduction that McFadden identifies.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-24T08:37:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189582
       
  • The future of digital space: Gaming, virtual reality, and metaversal
           thinking

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      Authors: Emma Fraser
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The accelerated post-Covid expansion of online worlds presents an unprecedented move of people into real-time interactive digital spaces. What does this change mean for the future of geography as a discipline' At this critical juncture, there is potential to rethink the position of the digital in geographical thought and praxis – to move beyond apparently common-sense categorizations of real and virtual, representation and reality. This commentary considers the implications of the contemporary push toward ‘metaversal’ thinking for geographical theory as well as the significance of virtual world-making for geographical theorizations of digital space and place. I suggest that key thinkers on space and media geographies must be re-evaluated and applied to this new wave of digital development. What is the significance of recent debates around emerging spaces like the metaverse, augmented reality, and virtual reality, understood not as happenings with distinct real and virtual counterparts, but as geographical – spatial – phenomena'
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-19T05:51:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189586
       
  • Reorienting Bodies

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      Authors: Sneha Krishnan
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-18T07:41:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231186909
       
  • Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance

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      Authors: Rita Dionisio, Kelly Dombroski, Amanda Yates
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this author response, we further reflect on pluriversal and prefigurative approaches to research, centred on Indigenous Māori knowledge, while opening space for cross-cultural perspectives and co-creation methods. We address the responses authored by Meg Parsons, Wendy Steele and Wendy Harcourt, starting by summarising what we took from each contribution. We discuss key questions raised by each of the authors in the context of the evolving research programme and broader developments on wellbeing governance in Aotearoa. Pluriversal and prefigurative experimental approaches are key to testing and iteratively advancing the research agenda in disruptive times.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-13T05:02:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177079
       
  • Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy

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      Authors: Rupak Shrestha
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-07-07T06:04:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231186907
       
  • ‘All organizing is science fiction’: Abolition in the
           Surrounds

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      Authors: Kelly Gillespie
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-06-07T02:44:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174632
       
  • Drawing, witnessing and healing in/with Mobile Girls Koottam: Working
           Women Speak

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      Authors: Ebru Ustundag
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-06-06T06:34:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178824
       
  • Geographies of the impossible

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      Authors: Lucas Pohl
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I trace the potential of ‘the impossible’ as a spatio-temporal category for geographical research. I proceed from the assumption that the impossible takes on an ever more prominent role in the contemporary zeitgeist, especially in light of current crisis dynamics, such as pandemics, climate change, or the threat of nuclear warfare. When the impossible ‘takes place’, it receives a geography, or means the end of geography. Geographies of the impossible suspend taken-for-granted facts, pave the way for new actors, function according to their own logic, and create spaces for extraordinary encounters. Studying these geographies encourages scholars to engage with dystopian and apocalyptic but also utopian and revolutionary spatialities as well as follow the desire to make possible tomorrow what is impossible today.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-06-06T06:30:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177069
       
  • Reimagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork

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      Authors: Johanne M. Bruun, Anna Guasco
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Fieldwork remains a cornerstone of geographical research. Echoing longstanding critiques, this brief intervention envisions a future of geographical thought and praxis where fieldwork is critically interrogated rather than assumed. Approaching the field as a spatial-analytical category, we point to the creative ways that geographers have engaged and connected with their varied fields of research. Through examining recent geographical works that question the presumed locations of the field, experiment with various creative methods, and bridge pedagogy-practice divides, this intervention asks where and how the future fields of fieldwork might be located, practiced, and extended.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-06-03T03:15:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178815
       
  • Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration

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      Authors: Jemima Nomunume Baada, Bipasha Baruah, Isaac Luginaah
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Climate change and human migration are two of the world's most pressing issues, as many populations rely on migration as an adaptation strategy to climatic stressors. Human experiences of, and responses to, climate stress are uneven and mediated by resource privilege. In many communities in the Global South, climate vulnerabilities are exacerbated by fragile ecological conditions due to geographical positioning, and many already marginalised groups shoulder a disproportionate burden of climate change effects, despite contributing the least to this problem. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, rapidly deteriorating climatic conditions imply that climate vulnerabilities may be reproduced in migration destination areas as well. Drawing on primary research conducted in Ghana, we illustrate how migration may present limitations and thus serve as an unsustainable adaptation strategy towards climate change for agrarian and structurally marginalised groups. We highlight the need for more discussions of sustainability in issues of climate migration in Ghana and similar contexts of the Global South, and the urgency of mitigating climate change globally. We conclude with calls for more nuanced understandings of the futures of climate migration as an adaptive strategy.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-06-02T06:37:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177071
       
  • Critical computation on a geographical register

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      Authors: Clancy Wilmott
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary lays out a framework for building on early critical cartographic and critical geographic information system work to develop a critical approach for the computational future of geographical thought and praxis. Computation – as a highly representational and structural form which combines speech and action – is a very particular way of building worlds. As computation becomes more prevalent in critiques of deep fakes, GeoAI, and platform geographies, geographers have also developed the foundations for a critical computational approach with an explicitly spatial or geographical focus that combines both theory and practice. Yet, while many of the technological affordances of spatial computation are relatively novel, the critiques raised by social, political, economic, and cultural geographers shadow debates that emerged two decades ago between cartographers and geospatial scientists about the power and praxis of mapping as it becomes translated into a digital era. This commentary argues that by returning to these debates, as well as critique by Black, queer, and Indigenous computing seen in other disciplines, geographers find themselves in a moment of opportunity to deeply influence the future of computation via a situated, critical geographical thought and praxis.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:10:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231179477
       
  • Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society

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      Authors: Bo Zhao
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I explore the potential future for GIScience to broaden its focus from technological advancements to examining the dynamic interactions between geographic information system (GIS) technology, its users, and the places where it is being utilized. Drawing on the postphenomenological perspectives of Don Ihde and his followers, this commentary reimagines GIScience by emphasizing its ability to shape and be shaped by human experiences and various creative forces across bodies and places. This reorientation decenters GIScience beyond the human body by also encompassing non-human entities such as animals, bots, and algorithms. In the face of a rapidly growing data-intensive society, this commentary underlines the importance of adopting a caring stance when it comes to the use and development of GIS. This perspective of care can enhance our understanding and empathy toward ourselves, the planet, and all other beings. This reorientation of GIScience plays a significant role in shaping future trajectories of GIScience and the discipline of geography, enabling us to effectively tackle the theoretical and practical challenges posed by a rapidly evolving data-intensive society.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:10:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231179230
       
  • Reflections on the (continued and future) importance of Indigenous
           geographies

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      Authors: Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Over a decade ago, RDK Herman wrote on the importance of Indigenous geographies and what made it distinct from the broader field of geography of which it is a part. In this commentary, I take up Herman's provocation by making the case that Indigenous geographies will continue to be a vital part of the field of geography as it moves forward into the future, especially in the ways that we think about, reimagine, and unsettle existing geographical thought and practices, particularly in the ways we relate to the physical and discursive spaces we move within.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:09:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231179229
       
  • Finding place in extremes

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      Authors: Rachael Squire
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary calls for a human geography that is more attentive to the complexities of making sense of place in extreme and troubling times. It explores how place is produced, navigated, and, importantly, enclosed in a time of climate crisis. It argues that, in particular contexts, very ordinary, mundane, even boring emotions and affective registers might animate this process, grounding future thinking within the present moment. It then turns to think through how such conditions are being produced and manufactured through extraordinary enclosures and analogue spaces.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:09:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231179228
       
  • Geographies of the Global South and the hemispheric scale

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      Authors: Sofia Zaragocin
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary engages with contemporary interpretations of the Global South in relation to the hemispheric scale in critical human geography. I am particularly interested in contributing to conversations on how the Global North/South divide can be untangled and challenged through a critical reimagining of the hemispheric scale within the Latin American context. With this in mind, I ask: how does the term ‘Global South’ relate to existing decolonial imaginations that go beyond the nation-state' And, more specifically, how does the ‘Global South’ enframe the world vis-a-vis the geographical imaginaries of Abya Yala and Améfrica Ladina, which have their roots in Indigenous and Black understandings of the Americas and are being used to directly question colonial understandings of this world region' I argue that the hemispheric scale in this context can be reimagined as a place from which continuous interconnections between existing decolonial imaginaries can occur.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:08:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231179227
       
  • Infrastructures of social reproduction: Schools, everyday urban life, and
           the built environment of education

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      Authors: Keavy McFadden
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing together the literature on social reproduction and infrastructure, this paper demonstrates how understanding education as an infrastructure of social reproduction enables scholars to evaluate the ways in which changing education landscapes affect other aspects of urban life for residents. Building from the empirical context of Chicago's schools, this paper demonstrates how racism characterizes the dispossession of social reproductive infrastructures and attendant transformations of urban life. In doing so, this article argues that theorizing education as an infrastructure of social reproduction allows for a more robust theorization of the relationship between social reproduction and the built environment as well as the everyday temporality of social reproduction. Theorizing education landscapes in this way facilitates sharper thinking around a contradiction at the heart of social reproduction theory: that social reproductive sites are increasingly key spaces of capital accumulation while simultaneously serving as important terrains to fight that process. This framework allows for close attention to how the frictions between the social reproductive needs of capital and the social reproductive needs of communities play out within urban infrastructures in Chicago.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:08:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178827
       
  • Seeds beneath the snow: Lefebvre, autogestion, and ecological questions

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      Authors: Francesco Biagi
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary engages with Napoletano et al.'s (2023) analysis of the relationship between society, nature, and ‘autogestion’ in the work of Henri Lefebvre. I present some reflections on what kind of relationship between humans and nature is envisioned with respect to political and social forms of governance after the advent of metabolic rift and, with Lefebvre, what kind of ‘autogestion’ regime can be imagined to begin to solve the ecological question.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:07:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178823
       
  • Economic geography for and by whom' Rethinking expertise and
           accountability

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      Authors: Emily Rosenman, Priti Narayan
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary builds on Doreen Massey's thinking on the economy and relationality to ask: who gets to produce economic knowledge and whose lives does research make visible as economic matters of concern' These questions have been thrown into sharp relief as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic has highlighted the need for better infrastructures of care, it has also demonstrated that the mission of ‘saving the economy’ from the ravages of COVID-19 has not centred the concerns of those who have experienced the crisis most acutely. Drawing inspiration from the various economic subjects who continue to make, re-make, and articulate the economy through regular shocks and crises – workers, caregivers, and people marginalized by identity or geography – this commentary makes a case for a public economic geography that rethinks who is taken seriously as an ‘expert’ on the economy, and to what publics the field speaks. This, at its heart, is a radical rethinking of accountability, calling on economic geographers to ask: what should research do for whom, and how'
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:07:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178818
       
  • Co-producing just geographies: Resourcing, bridging, and critical
           crossings in engaged scholarship

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      Authors: Suraya Scheba, Andreas Scheba
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, we argue for the continued importance of engaged scholarship to the futures of geographical thought and praxis. In drawing on our own situated research and teaching lives in Cape Town, we suggest three avenues to advance the future possibilities of this mode of work: ‘resourcing prefiguration’, ‘bridging incommensurability’, and ‘critical institutional praxis’. We offer these as our contribution to advancing scholarship committed to making knowledge more alive to the world and acting in support of socio-political struggle and emancipatory geographic futures.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:06:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178810
       
  • Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A
           conversation

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      Authors: Marianna Fernandes, Luisa Lupo, Asanda Benya, Saniye Dedeoğlu, Alessandra Mezzadri, Elisabeth Prügl
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This conversation brings together feminist scholars from various backgrounds and epistemological traditions around a central topic in feminist debates that is today more relevant than ever, social reproduction. It begins by examining social reproduction as a concept and its entanglements with the dynamics of global capitalism from human geography and feminist international political economy perspectives. We ask, what does the lens of social reproduction bring to light' We discuss how social reproduction is a fundamentally political concept that bridges classic labour struggles with demands around housing, service provision and the reproduction of life in general. As a concept, it makes visible the systems of life that support the labour process, both daily and intergenerationally, in sites of production along global supply chains, from the garment industry, to mining and agriculture. Nevertheless, there is a need to consider how gendered dichotomies of productive and reproductive that underpin its modern origin may or may not undermine this concept and to rethink how, ultimately, we organise around social reproductive struggles. The conversation took place in June 2022 and has been edited for clarity.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:05:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177072
       
  • ‘Organize, organize, organize’: The act of surrounding, one to
           another

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      Authors: AbdouMaliq Simone
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-29T07:12:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178826
       
  • Against critique, towards hope

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      Authors: Oli Mould
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this reply, I reflect on the ways in which the responses to my Seven Ethics Against Capitalism book have focussed on specific parts and sections of the book, and offer my thoughts on how their thoughtful interjections can be taken forward in collaboration, to proffer a new politics of ‘hope’ in an era where we find the world on palliative care.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-29T07:12:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178821
       
  • Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and
           theory from the Global South

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      Authors: Jessie Speer
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Millions of people across the world today live without access to safe, stable housing. Geography has contributed greatly to current understandings of homelessness and pushed the broader field of homelessness studies to challenge the unequal power relations embedded in our homes, institutions, and cities. This short reflection presents a brief overview of some key insights of geographical research on homelessness and argues that geography's contributions could be strengthened by taking a more global approach to the problem. Building on the concept of ‘worlding’, I argue that the discipline can move beyond its focus on European and North American dynamics, broaden its narrow conception of homelessness to include analysis of informality and housing precarity, and engage a more diverse repertoire of theoretical frameworks for understanding the problem.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-29T07:11:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178820
       
  • Decentring whiteness in engaging Muslim geographies

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      Authors: Aya Nassar
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I read Sidaway's ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’ as an invitation to engage in alternative cartographies and lateral engagements with what Islam (broadly and complexly conceived) might say to the discipline. In doing so, I build upon Sidaway's invitation to suggest a deeper engagement with the complexity of already existing Islamic geographical traditions and scholarship on Muslim spatialities by pulling out two themes that echo some of those raised in the main article: (1) Islamic traditions of mapping and cartography, and (2) scholarship on Islam and the city. The central aim of my response, however, is to push for different entry points when considering the decolonial possibilities of Muslim geographies rather than an entry point of dismissal from disciplinary geography. Only by decentring the whiteness of the discipline as the starting point, can Islamic traditions of geography be engaged on their own terms, as complex, evolving, contextual, and at times perhaps problematic.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-29T07:11:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178802
       
  • Autogestion, revolutionary spontaneity, and the trichotomy of
           body-mind-spirit

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      Authors: Nataly A. Díaz-Cruz
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Conceiving Lefebvre's theorization of autogestion as ‘revolutionary spontaneity’ involves present it in relation to the reappropriation of space in opposition to the domination that neoliberalism has brought over nature and people's everyday lives around the world. In this commentary, I elaborate on the aesthetic condition that is also required for the flourishing of this ‘revolutionary spontaneity’ as a path to socio-ecological sustainability by adding to the material-dialectical approach of nature-society the necessity of further re-evaluating the trichotomy of body-mind-spirit. In doing so, I argue that we need to consider siblinghood as a way to relate with creation (nature and people) to foster the achievement of global autogestion.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-29T07:10:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177450
       
  • Of elephants and discipline: For a recursive history of geography

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      Authors: Archie Davies
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary suggests that the history of geography can best contribute to the future of geography through an open and recursive approach to the history of ideas about space and nature. I argue that the history of geographical ideas should develop in dialectical relation with how contemporary geography changes. To support this argument, I sketch what a recursive and anti-disciplinary history of geography might look like, as each new geographical innovation opens new paths for the history of geographical ideas to tread, and new histories of thinking to scrutinise.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-29T07:10:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177064
       
  • Towards accountable digital geographies

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      Authors: Isaac Rivera
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The proliferation and everywhereness of digital materialities, operations, and mediations require attention to the ways that colonial knowledge assumes access to Indigenous lands. In this commentary, I consider what an agenda for accountable digital geographies might look like. With the turn to (re)imagine the futures of geographical praxis, I invite a collective inquiry on how digital practices can work toward geographies of accountability and restitution on Indigenous lands with the aim of honoring the places, spaces, and communities in which geographical knowledge emerges. I suggest that decolonial and anticolonial methods redirect digital practices toward Land Back, re-orienting geographical knowledge to the affirmation of Indigenous life.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-25T02:53:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177080
       
  • Beyond the decolonial' Decolonial and Muslim feminist perspectives

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      Authors: Patricia Noxolo, Safiya Hamis
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Sidaway's article is provocative in its agenda to go beyond the decolonial. In this commentary, we consider the implications of this move in relation to decolonial geographies and Muslim feminism. We conclude by considering questions of identity and reflexivity that arise from decolonial and feminist perspectives.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-25T02:52:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177068
       
  • Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the
           more-than-critical

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      Authors: Farhan Anshary
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I pose a question regarding how critical geographers will position themselves toward Islam as a different mode of decolonising (or something beyond it) that is fundamentally different from mainstream critical geography. To build this argument, I first expand on Sidaway's account of how one should understand Islam and its consequences. I then argue that critical geography is an extension of a secularisation project whose presuppositions negate the Islamic worldview. To conclude, I reflect on my engagement with critical geography as a Muslim and lay out some questions to be considered by critical geographers.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-25T02:50:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177067
       
  • Languages of din: Place, history, and paths

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      Authors: Timur Hammond
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I engage with James Sidaway's recent article, ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’. I respond to its contributions and provocations by asking two linked questions. First, what is the place of language in these critical Muslim geographies' I suggest that geographers should situate their engagement with key terms in their contexts, a project that complicates how terms like din are taken to be a core part of Muslim geographies. Second, I ask how we are to understand the ‘Muslim’ of Muslim geographies. Our answer to that question has consequences for how we understand our categories of practice and analysis.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-25T02:50:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177061
       
  • A Gramscian reading of Oli Mould's Seven Ethics Against Capitalism

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      Authors: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T07:24:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177083
       
  • Islam’s weight in global history: A response to Sidaway

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      Authors: Pol Llopart i Olivella, Till Mostowlansky
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, we discuss three major themes that Sidaway raises in his article, ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’: the problem of Muslims as ‘others’; the fraught role of religion as a universal category; and Muslim geographies as perceived in area studies and global history. Along these lines, we argue that Sidaway makes a number of important interventions aimed at changing the social science focus on Muslims in the West, highlighting the importance of Islamic concepts, and dislocating spaces of Islam from predefined geographical areas. After a critical discussion of the specific approaches presented in the article, we follow up on Sidaway's encouragement to think beyond the decolonial. We see this as an invitation to formulate our own vision of a new global history of Islam that takes into account traces of the influence of Muslims and of Islam more broadly speaking from Indigenous Australia to China to the Americas, and from everyday culture in Europe to extinct empires in Iberia, Sicily, and the Balkans. From this perspective, we argue, a more serious engagement with the multitude of global Islamic influences beyond Muslim communities might turn into a powerful force of decolonization.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T05:45:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177082
       
  • For ordinary kindness in human geography

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      Authors: Chris Lizotte
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I make a case for recognizing and encouraging in human geography a sort of mundane kindness that is unremarkable in its ambition, but potentially profound in its impacts. Although it is important to continue to analyze the conditions that have left so many of us in need of acts of kindness that compensate for the failures and violence of the neoliberal academy, I argue that alongside this critical scholarship we could continue to make room for ‘ordinary’ kindness that does not necessarily need to justify itself through critical reflection.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T05:45:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177077
       
  • The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a
           neoliberalizing academia

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      Authors: Arnisson Andre Ortega
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple issues we are confronting at the contemporary moment, geographers are faced with the critical task of finding ways to address and grapple with these concerns. This commentary advocates for community geography as an important praxis-oriented intervention that utilizes theory and methods for community issues. However, the practice of community geography is constrained by academia's neoliberalizing terrain, whereby a globalizing deployment of ‘publish-or-perish’ productivity has been reconfiguring what geographers can and ought to be doing. By going against the neoliberal grain and practicing community geography, the possibilities for theoretical innovation and political potentials open up towards a geography that is socially relevant and directly addresses issues affecting the lives of marginalized community members.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T05:44:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177076
       
  • Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply

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      Authors: Sango Mahanty, Sarah Milne, Keith Barney, Wolfram Dressler, Philip Hirsch, Phuc Xuan To
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In our article, ‘Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced, and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis,’ we advocated for contextually rich and critical understandings of environmental crises and their catalytic effects. This authors’ reply responds to four commentaries whose authors raise helpful questions and insights. We first review the spatial and temporal connections between specific rupture episodes and ongoing processes of extraction and exploitation. We then discuss how the impacts of rupture disproportionately fall to those with the smallest contribution to the crisis. Third, we clarify how our contextually rich view of rupture differs from planetary analytics such as the Anthropocene. In terms of rupture's effects, we agree with comments that rupture does not simply represent a politics of hope but can strengthen authoritarian interests. Finally, we clarify what it means to ‘put rupture to work.’
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T05:44:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177070
       
  • The geopolitics of queer solidarity

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      Authors: Gerry Kearns
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Responding to the parallel that Tucker draws between the divergent geopolitical accounts of the decline of British power from the late-nineteenth century and the focus he proposes for sexuality in accounts of the current decline of US power, this commentary reconsiders the geopolitics of the solidarities around sexuality that Tucker highlights. I find the geopolitics of aid too colonial in their intent and effects to be called a solidarity. I extend Tucker's focus on homonationalism to consider how conservative sexualities are complicit in the modern rise of autocracy and incipient fascism.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T05:57:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177449
       
  • Theory and explanation in geography revisited: Mid-range causal theories
           and explanatory conjuncturalism

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      Authors: Henry Wai-chung Yeung
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary takes on Jamie Peck’s conjunctural methodologies and reflects on the epistemological matter of theory and explanation in geography. Mapping onto several key elements of conjunctural analysis, I reframe its methodological examination in relation to mid-level concepts and theories (i.e. mid-range theory), the articulation of causality and causal co-determination (i.e. causal mechanisms), and situational analysis, historicisation, and thick theorisation as context-rich explanation (i.e. context-specificity). By way of a sympathetic critique, I focus on two potential ‘blind spots’ that might require further rethinking and perhaps remedies: the underdevelopment of practical adequacy and the role of normative theorising in conjunctural methodologies.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T05:57:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177074
       
  • The possibilities of internationalism: Producing traveling geographies in
           a time of trouble

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      Authors: Han Cheng
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This essay reflects on critical Chinese geographies in a fracturing world strongly shaped by the ‘new Cold War’ and post-pandemic politics. I argue that in any attempt to rethink geography for emerging global futures, the geopolitical entanglement of positionality and knowledge production must be a key element. After considering the limits to dialogue in a time of trouble, I map the possibilities of internationalism at different geographic scales and academic locations, all of which call for traveling geographies that cross physical, ontological, and epistemic borders.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T05:57:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177063
       
  • Futuring geography’s pluralist pedagogy

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      Authors: Michiel van Meeteren
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The future of geography has to accommodate a constraint: academia's intellectual responsibility for school geography. This constraint can be utilized creatively, as it invites definitions of geography that grasp the bigger picture and accommodate difference, while also integrating prior conceptions of the discipline. This essay imagines a future where the resulting synthesis of ‘geography as an open pluralist pedagogy’ has potential far beyond schools to carry the discipline forward.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T05:56:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177060
       
  • The public library and the futures of social infrastructure

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      Authors: Salene Schloffel-Armstrong
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The current abundance of geographical research on social infrastructure has drawn renewed attention to the enduring importance of a range of public services, including the public library. However, these works have not engaged at length with the infrastructural futures of such services, neither in their ongoing vulnerability, nor with what they may illuminate, or already contain of possible and more radical urban futures. This commentary considers the future of social infrastructure: the viability of the physical spaces themselves, and the need for the theoretical concept to engage more explicitly with questions of temporality.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-17T07:35:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177065
       
  • For a geography of difference and dialogues: Brazilian geography for the
           twenty-first century

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      Authors: Rodrigo Dutra Gomes
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The perspectives of Brazilian geography for the twenty-first century are guided by a conception of the world that highlights differences and a theoretical-methodological attitude that favors the dialogue and mixture of approaches, theories, and methods. In Brazilian geography, the highlighting of differences and dialogues informs geographical perspectives that value the space of the ‘insider's point of view’ as well as a theoretically and methodologically less unilateral and more multidimensional approach. Examples of these trends include (1) research on the production of space from the standpoint of people's everyday lives and critiquing the spaces of capitalism, racism, and sexism; (2) integrative approaches to landscape studies of environmental problems at the local scale; (3) autonomous socio-spatial practices in both rural and urban areas. A plural, mixtured, and creative geography with political, social, and environmental engagement will be one of the contributions of Brazilian geographical thought that will shape the geographies of the future.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-16T11:01:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174636
       
  • Glitches in the technonatural present

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      Authors: Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, Oscar Hartman Davies, Julia Poerting, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Jennifer Dodsworth, Henry Anderson-Elliott
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined elements of the ‘technonatural present’, which pose varied challenges and openings for the future of geographical thought and praxis beyond the delineated sub-disciplinary concerns of more-than-human and digital geographies. In this commentary, we draw attention to the inseparability, now and into the future, of geographical thought and praxis from digital mediation. This mediation is also central to forms of encounter, exploitation, and governance shaping human-nonhuman relations. Within this complex nexus of humans, nonhumans, environments, and technologies, it is crucial to critically examine how nature is made (mediated) and remade (remediated), by whom, for whom, and with whom. We call for research that affirmatively centres the potentials for progressive digitally-mediated environmentalisms, drawing from Agnieszka Leszczynski and Sarah Elwood's work on ‘glitch epistemologies’. To conclude, we point to a series of themes and questions that geographers might usefully engage with as they navigate digitally (re)mediated catastrophic times.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-15T06:16:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174633
       
  • On the intersection of geographical thought and artistic practice: DIY
           urbanism, flow, and imagining urban futures

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      Authors: Rachael Boswell
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I imagine a future for geographical thought and praxis lying partly in the interesting places where they overlap with artistic practice. I ground this thinking on the unstable surface found in the years immediately following the 2010–11 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was into a wasteland of post-earthquake demolition that ‘ordinary citizens’ started to insert creative interventions (known in the literature as do-it-yourself, or DIY, urbanism). I explore how an understanding of creative ‘flow’ helped me untangle what was particular and unique about the uprising of DIY urbanism in post-earthquake Christchurch. From the ‘doing’ of creative practitioners in the city during this time emerged a different and new energy: an imaginative, hopeful, open-ended feeling of the possibilities hidden behind the facade of grey rubble. In particular, I examine how existing work in the geohumanities around hope and temporalities resonates with DIY urbanism and consider what artistic practices may have to offer geographical thought and praxis.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-11T04:30:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174637
       
  • Urban life beyond capture: Movement, time and subaltern politics in
           Mumbai’s peripheries

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      Authors: Lalitha Kamath
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-11T03:40:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174631
       
  • Theorising urban development in China: ‘State
           entrepreneurialism’ from the ground up

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      Authors: Fulong Wu
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Instead of generating a grand theory from urban China, I have a rather modest aim – how we might use the political-economic perspective to better understand China's urban development politics. Rather than treating empirical materials and theoretical insights as discrete entities, describing China should itself be regarded as a process of theorisation, contributing to a more global Urban Studies. We illustrate how ‘state entrepreneurialism’, as a quite peculiar form of governance, is generated from the conjunctural development of global capitalism and its crises. Hence, the role of the state is not a starting point for theoretical enquiry but rather a historical and material development of China's political economy.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-10T04:54:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174638
       
  • Automation and environmental dispositions

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      Authors: James Ash
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      To think through the dispositions automated systems attempt to generate, it is key to understand how automated systems relate to the environments in which they operate. Developing Lin et al.’s important arguments around dispositions towards automation, this short response suggests the concept of disposition can be broadened to think about non-human dispositions more widely. To do this, the response forwards the notion of environmental disposition; a kind of fundamental state that all entities find themselves in, whereby entities are compelled to enter a more or less provisional position or grounding in an environment or milieu.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-10T04:53:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174635
       
  • Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative
           genealogy

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      Authors: Julian Brigstocke
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This speculative genealogy of trends in the written forms of geographical scholarship, 2020–2043, explores the dramatic transformations in the discipline that came with a ‘neo-formalist’ turn towards critical reflection on and experiment with the formal aspects of geographical writing, including structure, genre, voice, and style. At the start of the 2020s, the forms, genres, and styles of academic geographical writing in Anglophone research journals were still rather homogeneous in form. Experiments with form were mostly restricted to sub-disciplinary silos. Following a series of important scholarly interventions, the discipline started to reflect more earnestly on the different kinds of authority that are claimed through the use of particular written forms and authorial personas. Whereas in the early decades of the 21st century, authorial personas were mostly confident, self-assured, decisive, and expressing a ‘mastery’ of concepts, the turn towards greater critical analysis of geography's written forms led to a proliferation of authorial personas, often rejecting personas associated with ‘mastery’ and instead exploring hesitation, anxiety, indecision, passivity, improvisation, unreliability, plurality, failure, humour, and self-deprecation, as ways of claiming different, more egalitarian forms of epistemic authority. This genealogy concludes that despite the problem of eclecticism, this turn towards greater methodological reflection on geography's written forms has greatly enriched the discipline from the mid-2020s until today.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-10T04:53:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174634
       
  • Building decolonial climate justice movements: Four tensions

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      Authors: Michael Simpson, Alejandra Pizarro Choy
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Prevailing approaches to resolving the climate crisis further entrench and extend the same institutions of racial capitalism and colonial domination which have precipitated this crisis. The need to build transformative movements to fight for climate justice is dire. Yet, transformative movements are inevitably structured by many of the same dynamics they oppose. This presents a risk that such movements may reproduce colonial or otherwise unjust relations in the worlds they seek to bring about. We point to four areas of tension where we see this dilemma playing out within efforts to build decolonial climate justice movements, and briefly discuss some questions that arise for scholars committed to this work.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-09T05:19:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174629
       
  • Seven thoughts on seven ethics

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      Authors: Kimberley Peters
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-09T05:19:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171209
       
  • Inhabiting the extensions

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      Authors: AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Somda, Giulia Torino, Miya Irawati, Niranjana R., Nitin Bathla, Rodrigo Castriota, Simone Vegliò, Tanya Chandra
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Across the different vernaculars of the world's urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaffordable and they are either pushed out or strongly lured away from central locations. Work is increasingly temporary, if available at all, and there is often just too much labour involved to keep lives viably in place. Not only do they look for affordability and new opportunities at increasingly distant suburbs and hinterlands, but for orientations, for ways of reading where things are heading, increasingly hedging their bets across multiple locations and affiliations. Coming together to write this piece from our own multiple orientations, we are eight researchers who, over the past year, joined to consider how variegated trajectories of expansion unsettle the current logics of city-making. We have used the notion of extensions as a way of thinking about operating in the middle of things, as both a reflection of and a way of dealing with this unsettling. An unsettling that disrupts clear designations of points of departure and arrival, of movement and settlement, of centre and periphery, of time and space.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-09T05:18:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168896
       
  • Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought

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      Authors: Penelope Anthias
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon development in Southern Bolivia, where the forging of new spatial knowledges, practices, and relations – or countertopographies of extraction – played a critical role in disrupting fossil futures. I consider what geographers might learn from these women's example about the potentialities of space and materiality for unsettling liberal futurities and suggest how a focus on countertopographies might reorient the futures of geographical thought and praxis.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-05-08T04:07:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171202
       
  • Thinking ‘with’ China: Material and conceptual challenges

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      Authors: Max D. Woodworth
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Urban studies have been roiled by a lively debate over the roles of generalization and particularity in advancing theory about cities and urbanization. Also at stake are questions of epistemology, method, inclusion, representation, and power in knowledge production. Teo, Chung, and Wang have proposed a set of methodological propositions aimed at ‘building theory in and through urban China’ as a contribution to the larger ongoing discussion about urban theory and global urban studies. In this commentary, I present a critique of their methodological proposals by highlighting issues originating from within and outside the field of urban Chinese studies.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-28T05:09:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171214
       
  • The structure of informality: The Zambian copperbelt and the
           informal/formal dialectic

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      Authors: Brandon Marc Finn
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The study of urban informality has exploded since Keith Hart theorized the term the ‘informal sector.' This explosion has coincided with a growing interest among urban scholars who train their eyes toward the ‘Global South.' Informality is used as shorthand for any number of urban experiences and realities ranging from the economy to governance, housing, the state, agency, political resistance, the urban form, and poverty. Much scholarship carefully illustrates different versions and modes of ‘informality,' while equating the term's first use with the provenance of the practice itself. Despite the global heterogeneity of informality, its instantiation can be traced further back than the 1960s and 1970s. Nearly half a century since the advent of the term the ‘informal sector,' we are still left with a deceptively simple question. If the creation and practice of informality predate African independence, where does it come from' This paper argues that the Zambian Copperbelt's early 20th–century history of urbanization and migration produced the informal/formal dialectic, establishing the grounds for inequalities that proliferate in the present. The structure of ‘informality’ finds its roots in colonial spatial strategies central to the formation of global capitalism. Through this dialectic, urbanization became a key mode of colonialism.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-28T05:08:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168883
       
  • Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused

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      Authors: Kalpana Karunakaran
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T07:30:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171204
       
  • Centering the geographical imaginations of research participants in
           narrating speculative futures

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      Authors: Elizabeth Nelson
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I consider how geographers narrating speculative futures might risk disempowering their research participants. Reflecting on my work with community cultural organizations, I discuss the importance of centering participants and their geographical imaginations of their own futures in qualitative research projects. I then consider restructuring researcher-participant voice in the narration of speculative futures, and my use of future-focused questioning.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T05:55:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171207
       
  • Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual
           history

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      Authors: António Ferraz de Oliveira
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for reimagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond restating the infamy of some figures in this tradition, present-day opportunities lie in three growing orientations: (1) pluralizing our canon through the recovery of non-Western and radical progressive thinkers, (2) deepening our study through digital methods and interdisciplinary dialogue; and (3) rewriting the intellectual histories of geopolitics entwined with contemporary concerns such as climate change, racial injustice, democratic failure, and techno-optimism. Through these three orientations, we may give ourselves a powerful means to reimagine our future more humbly, critically, and creatively. A better appreciation of the past's latent possibilities, cautionary failures, and imperfect successes may yet inspire us to think and act more effectively in struggling towards better worlds. Futures past may then speak to futures present, summoning us to greater boldness and realism.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:01:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171213
       
  • Seeing voices, sharing stories: The ordinary im/mobilities of working
           women

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      Authors: Giada Peterle
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:00:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171208
       
  • On living outside of capitalist space and time

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      Authors: Rita Gayle
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:00:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168891
       
  • Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of
           geography

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      Authors: Federico Ferretti, Geronimo Barrera de la Torre
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      When it comes to the ‘History of Geography’, many still think of something descriptive and conservative, which has virtually no links with the ‘future’, a metaphorical place where ‘progress’ and ‘advancements’ are usually located. The existence of such feelings exposes how some lingering positivistic views still remain in parts of the discipline that claimed to have got rid of positivism. In this commentary, we contend that the history of geography can play an important role in reimagining the future of the discipline. First, drawing upon our own research experience and extending recent literature on ‘geographical futures’, we expose why the history of geography is making increasingly important contributions to key discussions in a plural and evolving discipline. We especially focus on the ongoing pluralistic and multilingual rediscovery of ‘other geographical traditions’ that is enriching critical, radical, and feminist approaches to geography. Next, we propose to enrich the field of geography and its prevailing ‘Western’ origin stories by engaging in pluriversal dialogues with Indigenous knowledge and practices, focusing on Latin America and on decolonial notions such as cosmohistory, which show that there are many histories of geography, and they all matter for the futures of the discipline.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-20T06:02:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171203
       
  • On the way to a more global urban study of China

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      Authors: Zhigang Li
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Teo et al.'s (2023) article effectively highlights that producing new narratives or imaginations is key to developing a deeper understanding of both Chinese cities and those of other contexts. However, certain ‘information cocoons’ still require closer consideration, such as the lack of attention given to narratives produced within the state territory of China, over-reliance on political economic analysis, and the impact of disciplinary boundaries.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-17T06:24:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168898
       
  • The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture (Theory in Forms)

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      Authors: Nipesh Palat Narayanan
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-17T06:23:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168890
       
  • Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations

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      Authors: Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Carolyn Prouse
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, we argue that geographical thought and praxis must engage with repressive biosecurity and biosurveillance systems and fight for alternatives. In doing so, geographers can contribute to an emerging anti-colonial and anti-racist interdisciplinary science. We suggest two counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations: working with those who have been cast out of biopolitical worlds and have long been fostering life for their communities; and working with practitioners of hegemonic science to re-direct biomedical efforts. Building these collaborations would orient biosecurity praxis to those biosecuritizations that already exist at the margins of violent security programs and foster communal and just care relations as the foundation for a liberatory and interdisciplinary science.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T04:59:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168886
       
  • Economies of attachment: Promissory objects, differentiation, and other
           futures'

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      Authors: Rebecca Coleman
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this response to Anderson's formulation of a theoretical framework for understanding attachments, I propose a third concept to join those of forms of attachment and scenes of attachment: economies of attachment. The concept of economies of attachment attends to how specific promissory objects become forms of attachment and how promissory objects compose ongoing and ordinary attachments as well as the fleeting and temporary moments suggested by scenes of attachment. It seeks to understand how particular promissory objects appeal to particular subjects; that is, how attachments emerge from and pattern social, economic, political, and affective economies. To explore this proposition, I return to Berlant’s discussion of ‘aspirational normalcy’ and consider normativity as a promissory object that might magnetise those who are unable to fit the normative ideal. I argue that as well as differentiating promissory objects, attachments also differentiate the subjects they appeal to. This is to explicate the significance of objects in theories of attachment and, more specifically, the futurity of promissory objects. While normativity as a promissory object involves the conservative differentiation of subjects, the empirical question remains of how promissory objects may be involved in the creation of alternative futures and presents.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T04:59:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168880
       
  • Social experiments and the praxis of geographical knowledge production:
           Emerging architectural practices in urban and regional China

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      Authors: Yanheng Lu, Junxi Qian
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      While knowledge production in geography is adept at providing critical perspectives that unravel the deficiencies in existing social, economic, and political systems, it has been less forthcoming in considering the means of constructing alternative worlds. One way to address this shortfall is to draw insights from social innovations produced in real-world contexts by a plurality of actors. In this commentary, we draw on the theoretical points underlying the existing literature on experiments in urban and regional contexts to illustrate the importance of architectural experiments in China. We also reflect on how such a research focus can enrich the analytical framework of social experiments by highlighting plural knowledge producers, diverse rationalities underlying experiments, and socio-economic relations beyond the market.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T04:58:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168876
       
  • Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam

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      Authors: Brooke Wilmsen, Sarah Rogers
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This provocative article by Sango Mahanty and co-authors proposes rupture as a temporally and spatially expansive view of change and one that encompasses intersections with other crises. In our commentary we put rupture to work as an analytic, thinking through the dynamics of China's massive Three Gorges Dam as a rupture episode with far-reaching disruption to everyday lives and hydrological and socio-economic systems. Through our consideration of the complex temporalities, spatial and material relationships, and generative sociopolitical potential of the Three Gorges Dam, we see value in the authors’ expansive view of change that looks well beyond the boundaries of ‘the project’. Practically speaking; however, we see the need to put some boundaries around our analysis, or the scope of rupture is potentially endless.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-11T05:08:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168882
       
  • Specifying elsewheres and middles

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      Authors: Julie Ren
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The approaches proffered by Teo et al. in ‘Theorizing with urban China’ are constructive ways forward that also provoke a number of questions about the qualitative distinctions between generalizing and universalizing when it comes to theory. While supportive of the gestures to think with elsewhere, to generate theory for the mid-range and to work with researchers who are embedded in the contexts of study, some specifications are desired: If not everywhere, then which specific elsewheres are relevant' How big is the middle of mid-range theorization' How deeply embedded should collaborators be'
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-04-10T03:45:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168884
       
  • Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a
           more global urban studies

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      Authors: Shaun SK Teo, Calvin King Lam Chung, Zheng Wang
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Despite global academic interest, the field of urban China continues to be dominated by exceptionalist theorising. Given that the unique properties of Chinese urbanisation present rich cases for an engaged pluralism in urban studies, we argue for theorising with urban China based on two methodological grounds: ‘thinking cities through elsewhere’ and conjunctural analysis. This opens space for mid-level theorisation, which has the potential to contribute to the revision of existing theoretical frameworks and/or create new starting points for analysis and conceptualisation between urban China and a wider range of contexts. We propose three tactics for mid-level conceptualisation with urban China cases: generating concepts through bespoke comparisons between cases in urban China and elsewhere; conceptualising from a single urban China case by placing two theoretical frameworks into conversation; and launching concepts developed from inductive research in urban China to develop novel analytical frameworks. We conclude by arguing that theorising with urban China can benefit from collaborative research across borders, with the need to include researchers who are deeply embedded in the field.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-14T09:01:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231156656
       
  • Practicing conjunctural methodologies: Engaging Chinese capitalism

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      Authors: Jamie Peck
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Conjunctural analysis is a rather enigmatic practice, observed mostly after the fact and in feats of exemplary execution, apparently somewhat resistant to codification, and maybe too modish for methodological rules. Predicated on the analysis of politically salient ‘situations’, conjunctural approaches combine reflexive theorizing with socially engaged inquiry and context-rich, historicized modes of analysis. Exploring the potential of conjunctural analysis in economic geography, the article moves first to tease out the methodological implications of this rather elusive approach, including: attention to complex states of causal codetermination, ‘in articulation’; an orientation to relational and ‘unbounded’ modes of inquiry; an emphasis on the stress-testing of received theory claims and conceptual categories, often in anomalous (as opposed to ‘typical’) situations; and a commitment to reflexivity, context-engaged analysis, and ‘thick’ theorization. Second, the article interrogates these methodological dispositions and propositions by placing them in dialogue, indicatively, with the case of Chinese capitalism. This is a case that routinely frustrates and confounds extant theoretical frameworks and conceptual categories, sometimes prompting theoretical defeatism. Although conjunctural analysis is not methodologically prescriptive, it implies distinctive criteria for problem formulation and research design; for ‘casing’, case selection, and specification; and for the exposition and (re)construction of contextualized theory claims.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-14T07:07:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231154346
       
  • Practising geography in/with technical worlds

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      Authors: Weiqiang Lin
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Over the past decade, geographical scholarship has grown steadily enamoured with all things technical. In some ways, such a focus is an outflow of the recent philosophical turn towards critical realism, which has encouraged a keener eye on more-than-human worlds. It demands careful delineations and understandings of the multi-stranded relationships between humans, technical objects, organisms, energies, and artificial intelligences that exceed anthropocentric epistemologies. This commentary seeks to address the challenges of studying the ‘technical’ in relation to the futures of geographical thought and praxis by proposing three strategies that might be developed in geographical research. These are, namely, the acquisition of a stronger grasp of technoscience expertise, care in following non-human things over time, and openness to interdisciplinary research. As more geographers enter into the fold of investigating ‘technical’ things, developing these skills would be invaluable to producing innovative spatial knowledge about these cryptic worlds.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T06:45:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231156901
       
  • So what is assetization' Filling some theoretical gaps

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      Authors: Eve Chiapello
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Birch and Ward (2022) propose the concept of assetization to frame a research agenda in Human Geography. This interesting proposal suffers from a rather imprecise definition of what an asset is, and that is a gap I intend to fill. I argue that assetization, for Birch and Ward, does not concern every type of asset, but only what can be described as ‘financialized assets’, including financial as well as intangible assets. I underline what financialized financial and intangible assets have in common and how that makes them relevant for analyzing contemporary capitalism. More precise specification of the assets created by Birch and Ward's assetization process clarifies the concept's true potential contribution.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-02T06:00:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231157913
       
  • Common problems or different questions: A critique of
           ‘assetisation’

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      Authors: Thomas F. Purcell
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary provides the contours of a Marxian critique of ‘assetisation’. In doing so, the paper identifies a subjective approach to valuation and value which ties together Birch's and Ward's appeal to theoretical pluralism. The argument highlights how a focus on future-orientated valuation practices elide the question of class and production and, therefore, the very basis of rent and value. A call is made for geographers to better interrogate the relationship between rent and interest in the flurry of research around rentiership.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-01T05:55:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231157885
       
  • Attachment: A question of how and a question of why

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      Authors: Mitch Rose
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Attachment has not been a central concern for cultural geographers for some time – a consequence, I have argued, of process ontologies that emphasise becoming over being. Ben Anderson's article proves me wrong by providing a compelling framework for how we might approach attachment from within these ontological terms. While I point out some areas of overlap and agreement, I also argue that process ontologies are limited in their capacity to understand why attachment happens: from whence – in a world of perpetual and dynamic unfolding – does the desire for attachment come from'
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-01T05:55:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231157878
       
  • Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of
           technology, labour, and capitalism

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      Authors: Emma Fraser
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary considers the complex theoretical discussion in dispositions towards automation, and considers future dialogues and directions the authors might take up. Specifically, the commentary engages with notions of labour, enchantment, and automation, and makes the case for further explorations of these conceptual domains.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-03-01T05:54:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231156658
       
  • Autogestion and ecological politics in the work of Henri Lefebvre

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      Authors: Chris Butler
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I discuss how Napoletano, Urquijo, Clark and Foster engage with the work of Henri Lefebvre through three interlinked themes: the dialectical method, the nature–society problematic, and the concept of autogestion. I outline each of these themes and consider the importance of Lefebvre's interpretation of autogestion for an ecological politics which can reconcile human emancipation with resistance to the socio-ecological crises of capitalism and its destructive effects on the non-human environment.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-22T05:56:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231157914
       
  • Defetishizing the asset form

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      Authors: Stefan Ouma
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In response to Birch and Ward's paper, this commentary makes a call for a more systematic attempt to politicize contemporary logics of property ownership, and the extractive financial schemes based upon them. Building on earlier critiques of commodity fetishism in geography, I argue that a geographical politics of the asset form can help us defetishize and (re-)politicize the DNA of the ‘global return society’. Innovative visual methodologies play a key role in making new asset geographies public and actionable for social change.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-21T05:20:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231157902
       
  • Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis
           in a post-truth age

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      Authors: Taylor Shelton
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in critical approaches to mapping and quantification within geography. Such works have embraced the potential of these methods to advance the cause of social and spatial justice in an increasingly data-driven world. But as more geographers are turning to these approaches, it seems that conventional sources of social data are less and less able to capture emerging forms of social and spatial inequality, or are made unavailable to researchers interested in uncovering and challenging these inequalities. This therefore opens up the question of how geographers interested in mobilizing maps and data for critical purposes can even study or make definitive claims about phenomena or processes for which there are no reliable or available sources of data' Together, these issues point to the fundamental challenge of opacity to the future of geographical thought and praxis, and the necessity for critical geographers to not simply abandon these methods because of such challenges, but rather embrace this fuzziness in new and productive ways.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-21T05:19:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231157891
       
  • Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India

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      Authors: Deepti Prasad, Tooran Alizadeh, Robyn Dowling
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked. Using the Indian case as a focus and drawing upon empirical studies in three cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Chennai, which are among the first 20 smart cities prioritised for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission, we show how informality challenges the understanding of the smart city. We analyse how this phenomenon is framed in smart city planning, focusing on the three domains of affordable housing, infrastructure services, and citizen engagement. We argue that using informality as a lens of critical analysis offers a new perspective on the ‘Southern theory’ of smart cities. In doing so, we highlight the disregard of informality at the cost of socio-spatial division – as a significant challenge for smart city development in India.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-20T05:53:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231156655
       
  • Dimensions of repair work

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      Authors: Stefania Barca
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Reflecting on the necessary, though risky path of overcoming dualistic thinking about repair and care work, I develop analytical distinctions between different kinds of repair work, reflecting gendered, racial, and spatial divisions of labour, as well as distinct forms of ecological consciousness and agency.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-20T05:51:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144827
       
  • Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the
           connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of
           decolonisation

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      Authors: Meg Parsons
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this dialogue, wellbeing-led approaches to governance are situated within broader conversations occurring between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars about decolonisation, climate change, and practices of cultural resurgence. I highlight how Indigenous peoples around the world are challenging the marginalisation of Indigenous ontologies, epistemologies and practices and seeking to reassert and enact care-filled, kin-centric, and reciprocal relationships with humans and more-than-humans through decolonising governance and management approaches.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-15T03:58:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144819
       
  • Whose geography, whose future' Queering geography’s disciplinary
           reproduction

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      Authors: Eden Kinkaid
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, responding to the prompt ‘reimagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis,’ I offer some provocations to queer this question of geography's future. I begin from moments of my queer experience in and of geography, from the recurring perception that I am ‘out of time’ in the discipline: that my ‘time’ and my ‘place’ in the discipline as a trans person have yet to come. Reflecting on the origins of this perception, I find that my present belonging in the discipline is foreclosed and deferred in part by the promise of a more progressive future. I refuse this discourse of the future – and the liberal progress narrative of geography upon which it relies – and instead approach the question of geography's future as a matter of disciplinary reproduction. Drawing on ideas of queer futurity, I situate the future as a site of queer potential in the present: an ever-present capacity for difference-making located in our embodied relations and practices. Doing so encourages us to transform our discipline by queering its reproduction in the here-and-now – by making a difference – rather than waiting for a progressive and inclusive future to come upon us.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-14T07:25:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144839
       
  • Ruptures of the Anthropocene: A crisis of justice

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      Authors: Ankit Kumar
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      The Anthropocene and associated sense of crises, most prominently climate change, have opened up an urgency versus justice dilemma. While an epochal thinking drives the urgency, it is essential to attend to the ruptures illustrated by historical events like colonisation that shape the fabric of the Anthropocene and its impacts. Historical patterns of extraction and racialisation that underline the Anthropocene and climate change fit neatly into the schema for contemporary and future energy transitions shaped by an apolitical discourse of urgency and emergency. Attending to the historical ruptures helps root universal and apolitical urgency in justice for/from particular places and peoples and reframe ideas like climate emergency and climate crisis as more accurate climate justice emergency and climate justice crisis.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-10T06:08:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231155704
       
  • Beyond moralising, disciplining and normalising discourses: Re-thinking
           geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness

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      Authors: Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Despite significant advances over the past few decades, geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness remain under-theorised and researched. Indeed, even when applying critical thinking, geographers have tended to unreflexively reproduce, rather than question ‘alcohol studies’ ontologies and epistemologies infused with moralising, disciplining, and normalising discourses. In response, we present three intertwined research trajectories, informed by broader human geography debates, which offer opportunities to engage with alcohol, drinking, drunkenness more carefully and critically through; relational, flat, and decolonising ontologies; de-determination and intensities of (non)human relations; and ethical and political imperatives of research that ask questions of ‘worth’ and ‘reason’. Specifically, this involves, firstly, reinvigorating theoretical challenges to dominant and long-entrenched political, policy, popular, and academic debates; secondly, pursuing focused empirical accounts of heterogeneous and complex knowledges, practices, materialities, emotions, embodiment, affective experiences, and performances; and thirdly, paying attention to topographies, qualities, forms, and intensities of relational time/spaces beyond alcohol consumption per se. Our conclusion reflects on the challenges and opportunities of re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness within and beyond the discipline.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-10T06:08:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144815
       
  • Repairing social connections; Dismantling carbon infrastructures with care

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      Authors: Chantel Carr
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this final commentary to close the forum, I engage with the responses to Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis. These rich analyses provide a basis from which to reflect on three developments since writing the first article: cascading disasters caused by intense weather events; a change of government that has shifted Australia's political relationship with climate change; and a year of fieldwork with metallurgical coal miners in a rapidly transforming energy landscape. Together, the responses offer a nuanced approach to the work of climate change that is more attentive to power and politics, diverse skills and knowledges, and the structures and systems that continue to marginalise those who are tasked with repair and care.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-02-08T05:16:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231155707
       
  • Imagining urban nature in the places we dwell

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      Authors: Wendy Steele
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      As part of a critical ‘dialogue’ around the ontological nature of more-than-human well-being in an ecological emergency, I am interested in putting Anna Yates, Kelly Dombroski, and Rita Dionisio's work into conversation with Matthew Gandy's book Natura Urbana. Whilst they are very different projects in their cultural focus and ambition, they lean into each other as part of a broader imaginary of ecological constellations and urban collectives.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-27T04:46:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144835
       
  • Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of
           nature-society crisis

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      Authors: Sango Mahanty, Sarah Milne, Keith Barney, Wolfram Dressler, Philip Hirsch, Phuc Xuan To
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an intense and adverse episode of nature-society disruption that ripples across scales, we elaborate four dimensions that account for rupture's sources and uncertain effects. The first two dimensions consider how rupture emerges in space and time from: (i) synergistic spatial, material, and socio-natural changes across scales; and (ii) the accumulation of slow violence that builds towards and is exposed by punctuated shifts and crisis moments. The second two dimensions consider the outcomes of rupture, namely: (iii) heightened uncertainty, insecurity, and socio-material deprivation, which are experienced in unequal and deeply affective ways; and (iv) the scope to catalyze diverse forms of agency that play out in uncertain ways. To illustrate our discussion, we draw from our long history of research on hydropower landscapes in the Mekong region.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-27T04:45:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221138057
       
  • Collective care and climate repair

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      Authors: Natalie Osborne
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This engagement with Chantel Carr's article, ‘Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis’, considers possible organising structures of care and climate repair, and the ways this labour can work to reproduce or to challenge settler-colonial capitalist states. Drawing on critical disability studies and crip theory, this essay considers alternative imaginaries of mutual aid and care that can inform how we conceive of and organise the work of climate repair without relying on ‘emergency’ and ‘crisis’ to propel us, and while, at all times, centring justice.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-25T05:55:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144828
       
  • Agrarian crisis, affect, and accumulation

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      Authors: Sarah Besky
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary responds to Mahanty et al.'s article, which offers ‘rupture’ as an alternative analytic to ‘the Anthropocene’. I apply this concept to fieldwork in Kalimpong, a district of the Indian state of West Bengal in the eastern Himalayas, to highlight the concept's utility for attending to the complexity of environmental crisis.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-24T06:07:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144834
       
  • What is generated through rupture'

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      Authors: Raven Cretney, Sylvia Nissen
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Our commentary explores the contested possibilities of rupture, disaster, and emergency, and reflects on growing fears around political extremism. Rupture as theorised by Mahanty et al. captures the generative potential that arises through the conditions of the Anthropocene. We emphasise the political ambiguity of these processes and their potential to spur progressive possibility as well as political change that leans towards oppression and violence. We discuss how rupture can be purposefully catalysed or co-opted as a political tool by actors with starkly different aims, underscoring the importance of understanding the types of ruptures being generated and for whom these processes of change serve.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-24T06:06:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144825
       
  • The politics of knowledge: Feminist strategies for transformation

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      Authors: Wendy Harcourt
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In my commentary I take up the challenge of finding an academically fuelled strategy to make the necessary deep inroads into the Sustainable Development Goals by looking at lessons learnt from the struggles of the transnational feminist movement involved in UN multilateral debates and the transformative work of feminist political ecology on the ethics of care and caring-with others, including more-than-human others. I propose these feminist strategies offer some insights in how to shift dominant knowledge systems.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-24T06:01:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144820
       
  • Recuperating labour's environmental potential

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      Authors: Julia Corwin
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In response to Carr's article, ‘Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis’, I explore how repair labour demonstrates the importance of skilled, hands-on labour for responding to times of breakdown and change. Like scholarship on apprenticeship and practical enskilment, repair work demonstrates how labour entails working with the material world and other workers, and hands-on engagement with complex and changing systems. Instead of approaching labour and environmental concerns as separate and often antagonistic, I believe attending to the embodied and relational nature of labour may provide insight on how to work towards a more just socio-environmental future.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-24T06:01:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144817
       
  • Emplacing the disposition toward automation

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      Authors: Bo Zhao
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, I emphasize the necessity of situating the disposition toward automation in a place where the in-process disposition takes shape. Using this place perspective, I can critically analyze the automation's positionality and disposition's underlying structure. The analytical results remind us that a particular disposition can support the labor force’s adaptation to automation while also rejecting it. Thus, this commentary offers a more holistic understanding of automation, its impact on shifting labor relations, and how it transforms the reproduction of capital.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-19T05:55:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231151422
       
  • ‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in
           Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project

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      Authors: Cláudio Smalley Soares Pereira
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      This commentary engages with Napoletano et al.'s analysis of the relationship between society and nature in the work of Henri Lefebvre. I present some reflections on the nexuses between the production of space, autogestion, and the appropriation of nature. I maintain that the politics of space is not separate from the politics of nature. Autogestion is fundamental to construct a revolutionary project to ‘change life’ that includes a new society–nature relationship in the context of the ‘revolution of space’.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-19T05:54:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231151421
       
  • Inconvenience, ambivalence, and abolition: A politics of attachment and
           detachment in geography

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      Authors: Daniel Cockayne, Derek Ruez
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      In this commentary, we explore the idea of detachment that we see as central to Anderson's notion of attachment but that nevertheless does not take centre stage in the paper. We situate detachment not as attachment's antithesis, opposite, or negative, but as its structural condition and as irretrievably interwoven with attachment. Through Berlant's recent writing, we foreground the notion of ambivalence as a way to think about the complexity of attachment–detachment and to foreground politics and differences in these processes. Then, we draw on abolitionist writers like Gilmore and Lewis to highlight the complicated intersection of structural and affective attachment and to consider the possible intellectual and political stakes of pursuing a geography of attachment.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-19T05:54:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231151415
       
  • Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments

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      Authors: Vickie Zhang
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Desire orients us to how attachments are dis/re/organised in lived time. This commentary responds to Anderson's article on attachments and promises by speculating on a version of attachment that starts from Berlant's writing on desire, supplementing the geography of promises that Anderson situates at the heart of attachment. By generating scrambled surfaces and mixed temporalities, attachment through desire emerges as something organised less by form and more by sensation, less by optimism and more by fantasy, less by endurance and more by excess. Desire unfolds heartlessly, without a centre. It doesn’t just recognise; it misrecognises. Subject to desire, attachments don’t always add up. Instead, desire leaves a gap – a gap that is also its promise.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-17T01:09:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231151424
       
  • Passages to the outside: A prelude to a geophilosophy of the future

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      Authors: Martin Savransky
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      What might it take to reimagine the futures of geographical thought on an Earth whose geological disjunctures and catastrophic dynamics have radically upended the progressive temporality that once made of ‘the future’ a modern article of faith and a matter of concern' What, in other words, is the future to those practices animated by the metamorphic forces of the Earth' Seeking to inhabit the problem-space these questions generate, this commentary suggests that at stake is nothing less than the challenge of learning to think of futurity immanently, as a problem of space. The challenge is to reimagine the future not as the promise of a yet-to-come but as a passage to the outside: to those immanent zones of indeterminacy, anarchy, and contingency composed in the interstices and outlaw edges of every territory, where impossible forms of sociality and speculative methodologies of life are improvised in the act of striding the movements and forces of an unstable and tumultuous earth, giving themselves over to the inchoate and the unformed, to a groundlessness that surrounds and subtends every ground, to a runaway metamorphosis which eludes finality and escapes totality. That, indeed, might be the task of a geophilosophy of the future.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-13T06:02:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231151426
       
  • Transforming dispositions towards automation

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      Authors: David Bissell
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      Speaking to debates on how digital automation is changing people's capacities, my commentary affirms the value of surveying the myriad dispositions to automation that are muffled by the force of dominant boosterist or dystopian narratives. However, rather than assuming strong ‘reactions’ to automated objects or interfaces, I speculate that interactions with automation might be better characterised as ‘non-encounters’ for many. I explain how the non-encounters of being lulled, cajoled, and swayed can be evaluated as politically troubling, but that responses to heighten awareness of automation's politics may not necessarily result in people caring more about it. My commentary proposes a more indeterminate understanding of how people immanently evaluate automation which invites a more transitional and low-intensity understanding of the dispositions involved.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-13T06:02:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206231151423
       
  • A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality,
           and a world in transition

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      Authors: Andrew Tucker
      Abstract: Dialogues in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
      While work on solidarities forms a core element within geographical scholarship, especially as related to forms of shared connection to address forms of inequality, few studies from the geographies of sexualities literature have directly engaged with the concept. This article argues that there are two complementary logics as to why scholars working on sexuality may want to consider more forcibly the concept of solidarity. One of these logics suggests that a focus on solidarities can further pre-existing key interests within the geographies of sexualities literature, especially in parts of the world that have historically received relatively limited research attention. A second logic suggests that a focus on sexuality-based solidarities can help enable sexualities scholars to further critical engagement regarding broader discourses, and offer alternative framings, regarding a world in transition. This article presents a series of examples, drawn from across sub-Saharan Africa, related to both logics together with a series of potential future directions for research. Taken collectively, this article, by drawing on earlier work on solidarity from within the discipline of geography, contends that there are a number of key benefits for sexualities scholars to undertake a ‘pivot’ or choice to explore solidarity more directly in the current moment.
      Citation: Dialogues in Human Geography
      PubDate: 2023-01-02T08:17:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144771
       
 
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