Pub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104161
Karina Raña Villacura
Housing instability is closely related to housing precarity and inequality. Households experiencing housing instability change residences frequently, facing difficulties in staying put, which has been proven detrimental for families. This study explores the geographical outcomes of housing instability showing how this phenomenon distributes in Malmö, Sweden, creating different spatial and temporal patterns. The paper relies on registered-based data aggregated to geographical coordinates to identify places of transience and uses k-nearest neighbour for measuring the intensity of unstable moves in spatial terms. Furthermore, the mapping of housing instability across four distinct time frames spanning from 1990 to 2020 illustrates the temporal unfolding of these patterns. The findings indicate a progression of housing instability spreading from specific spatial points to a more widespread dispersion of transience. This suggests an overall change in the city which may be linked to transformations in housing politics and policies.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104156
Diego Astorga de Ita
In this paper I explore the relation between music, (enviro)materiality, and coloniality by examining son Jarocho, the music of the Mexican region of Sotavento in southeast Mexico. This essay brings together geography, blue humanities, and ecomusicology, using notions of hydropoetics and hydrocolonialism, building upon the material turn in music geographies. I approach the phenomenological confluence of Sotaventine cedar chordophones and ships using and critiquing Foucauldian theoretics, alongside Hofmeyr’s hydrocolonialism and Gilroy’s circumpelagic theories. I survey the regional histories of luthiery, shipyards and timber trade and their connections, counterpointing these histories with the poetics of son Jarocho and with materials gathered through interviews and music-making alongside musicians and luthiers in Sotavento. From this I propose that musical aesthetics emerge from navigations that are topophilic and imperial. I counterpoint the Sotaventine case with the history of violins and their link to pau-brasil exploitation in Brazil, following ecomusicological works. Surveying histories of cedar and pau-brasil I argue that exploitation and exploration are a univocal aspect of the hydrocolonial project that entangles the biological, geographical, military, and mercantile into the endeavour of the exploração and that this informs musical materialities, poetics, and aesthetics to this day. Lastly, I briefly consider the implications of the hydrocolonial history of musical matters in the context of the Anthropocene. Una versión en español de este texto está disponible en los materiales suplementarios.
在本文中，我通过研究墨西哥东南部索塔文托地区的音乐--son Jarocho，探讨了音乐、（环境）物质性和殖民性之间的关系。本文以音乐地理学的物质转向为基础，运用水生态学和水殖民主义的概念，将地理学、蓝色人文学科和电子音乐学结合在一起。我利用福柯尔德的理论，结合霍夫迈尔的水殖民主义和吉尔罗伊的环太平洋理论，对索塔文廷雪松弦乐器和船只的现象学汇合进行了研究和批判。我调查了该地区的制琴行、造船厂和木材贸易的历史及其联系，将这些历史与 SON JAROCHO 的诗学以及通过与索塔文托的音乐家和制琴师的访谈和音乐创作收集到的材料对立起来。由此，我提出，音乐美学产生于对地形和帝国的探索。我将索塔文托的情况与小提琴的历史及其与巴西杉木开采的联系对立起来，并遵循生态音乐学著作。通过回顾西洋杉和巴西杉的历史，我认为开采和勘探是水殖民计划的一个统一方面，它将生物、地理、军事和商业与探索活动联系在一起，并影响了音乐的物质性、诗学和美学至今。最后，我简要探讨了水殖民历史对人类世音乐的影响。本文的西班牙文版本可在补充材料中查阅。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104158
Yarong Zhan , Tengfei Wang , Xuecheng Bi
This paper aims to explore the impact of digital technology on the spatial organization of emerging creative industries. Using data related to China’s digital game industry, it analyzes the characteristics of the network structure of the digital game industry and its formation and evolution mechanisms. The findings indicate that a few large cities dominate the network structure of China’s digital game industry and that the significance of local administrative centers within the network is increasing. Even though firms can work remotely to finish a game, their production activities are still closely connected to the major game production centers through the digital platform. Moreover, it is non-geographic factors such as social relations and virtual proximity rather than geographical proximity that determine the network structure, and the role of geography is decreasing with the widespread use of digital technology. The evolving online labour and online distribution based on digital platforms have also influenced the construction of digital game industry networks.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160
Janine Natalya Clark
Volume and verticality are concepts that have become increasingly important in disciplines such as human, political and cultural geography. In contrast, they have received little (explicit) attention in resilience research. Building on the idea that resilience is a multi-systemic process, this article directly engages with volume and verticality as a novel multi-systemic approach to resilience and it analyses height-depth dynamics through a focus on the underground. It makes two important and original contributions to resilience scholarship. First, it demonstrates that volume and verticality offer a more holistic and 3D way of thinking about some of the shocks and stressors that individuals and communities face – and how they deal with them. Second, the article uses volume and verticality to complexify some of the critical discussions about resilience and power. It maintains that giving attention to volume and verticality illuminates neglected expressions of power, and it explores this using the three key concepts of scale, resistance and agency. This is a mainly conceptual piece of work that further develops its arguments by applying the lenses of volume and verticality to three case studies – the gold mining settlement of La Rinconada in Peru, ‘basement tenants’ in Beijing, China, and a community of homeless people living underground in Bucharest, Romania.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104159
Chenxi Li , Shenjing He
China has recently witnessed the rise of long-term rental apartments (LRAs) developed by institutional investors, following various state interventions to promote the institutionalization and financialization of the rental housing sector. As many LRAs are converted and renovated from underused properties, such as industrial buildings, they have become an integral part of the ongoing urban renewal yet remain insufficiently explored. Through the conceptual lens of spatio-temporal fix and state entrepreneurialism, and drawing on a field investigation in Beijing, this study presents three key findings. First, the renovation and conversion of diverse property stocks into LRAs exemplify a spatial fix strategy to defer the crisis resulting from excessive capital accumulation in the housing sales market over the past two decades. Second, financialization, as an effective political-economic instrument to promote LRA development, provides a temporary fix for the mounting capitalist crisis but may generate new crises if not properly regulated. Third, market practices of renovation and financialization are closely intertwined with and deeply influenced by state initiatives. This paper not only reveals a novel practice of urban renewal through the development of LRAs, but also advances the theoretical understanding of spatio-temporal fix under state entrepreneurialism. In the Chinese context, it goes beyond neoliberal endeavors addressing the capital accumulation crisis in the housing sector to mitigate the growing housing affordability crisis and maintain social stability through active state intervention.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104125
Tarryn N.K. Paquet
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Pub Date : 2024-11-02DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104149
Sammie L. Powers , Andrew J. Mowen , Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers
Feeling unwelcome in parks can serve as a constraint to visitation, and unjust historical and contemporary events occurring on park lands (e.g., segregation, redlining, racial violence) can perpetuate a legacy of exclusion, undermining the ability for diverse visitors to feel a sense of belonging. However, there has been limited quantitative assessment or comparison of welcomeness or belonging in different park contexts. We compared welcomeness and belonging at community and state parks by race/ethnicity; examined the relationships between welcomeness, belonging, and park visitation; and explored ways to increase welcomeness. Data were collected via Qualtrics panel surveys. We found significant racial/ethnic differences in welcomeness and belonging at state parks, but not community parks. Welcomeness and belonging were positive predictors of state park visitation, with belonging also a positive predictor of community park visitation. We discuss management implications for increasing welcomeness and belonging in state parks and other wildland recreation contexts.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-02DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104146
Hidefumi Nishiyama
Drawing from Charles Mills’ concept of “white ignorance,” this paper aims to conceptualise and analyse what may be called “mainland ignorance,” which continues to underpin contemporary imperial geopolitical structures. Islands across the world remain colonised and used for political and military interests of metropolitan states.Yet, mainland narratives often ignore such hierarchical and unequal relations and refuse to acknowledge islands’ colonial histories. Departing from existing accounts on the politics of ignorance concerning islands, the paper explores the production of ignorance about Okinawa in Japanese historical narratives. It focuses on the construction of colonial amnesia concerning the so-called Okinawan “mass suicides.” As the Ministry of Education’s censorship of relevant passages in school textbooks in 2007 illustrates, the government officials attempt to conceal the role of the Japanese military, and thus, the state’s complicity in the Okinawan civilian deaths. The analysis extends to how this form of colonial unknowing is rationalised in the face of criticism. Mainland officials do not necessarily deny the occurrences of these events, which would allow for counter-facts. Instead, they rely on uncertainty, which appears to be more effective in imposing ignorance. The article then proceeds to discuss how ignoring the historical event is closely tied to the broader colonial unknowing of Okinawan collective suffering that continues to this day. Main materials to be analysed are debates and discussions at the Diet as well as political statements against the censorship by Okinawan activists and scholars. The article suggests that for understanding the operation of mainland ignorance, and ultimately decolonising it, it is important not only to identify where ignorance concerning colonial islands is made but also to unpack know how ignorance claims are enacted and maintained and implications of ignoring the colonial past to the present. It is hoped that the present study promotes further critical examination of mainland ignorance across different island settings.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104147
Harry M. Quealy , Kavindra Paranage
While the uneven consequences of mega water-development projects are well documented, less is known about how their legacies continue to evolve over time. This paper offers new theoretical and empirical insights into water governance through a critical analysis of the afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Mahaweli Development Project (MDP). Drawing on critical development studies, hydrosocial literature, and research on infrastructure politics, we illustrate how the living legacies of the MDP continue to evolve, emerge, and influence change well beyond the project’s life-cycle and intended scope. Based on qualitative research conducted between 2017 and 2023, our study reveals how the afterlives of the MDP have become intertwined with present-day socio-ecological challenges, water governance, and climate politics in Sri Lanka. We develop a longitudinal analysis showing how the MDP has produced an evolving series of socio-ecological issues that are difficult to detect, as they manifest intergenerationally. Additionally, we demonstrate how contemporary water, development, and climate interventions in Sri Lanka are shaped by a socio-ecological and political-institutional landscape still heavily influenced by the MDP’s afterlife. We conclude by stressing the need for greater attention to how the afterlives of mega water-development projects continue to evolve, particularly as they increasingly intersect with the effects and politics of climate change, both in Sri Lanka and globally.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104138
Kristian Ruming, Sha Liu
Drawing on cases from Australia, we argue that property for universities has emerged as an asset class that appeals to a range of investor/owner types, including listed Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), unlisted direct property funds, and private developers. The emergence of property for universities as an asset class is driven by, on the one hand, universities looking to finance development in the context of reduced state funding and the marketisation of tertiary education, and, on the other hand, private sector capital looking for new investment opportunities. Established research has explored the logics and strategies of universities in engaging in land and property transactions, often in partnership with private sector investors or developers; however, less attention has been placed on the objectives and actions of private sector stakeholders. Drawing on interviews with investors, developers, and senior university staff, we address this gap in three ways. First, we examine how, within the context of COVID-19, private sector stakeholders mobilised to position property as a solution to the financial tumult facing universities, simultaneously seeking to create new spaces for investment. Second, drawing on several developments undertaken for Western Sydney University, we reveal a diverse set of property, ownership, and financing arrangements that mediate property for universities as an investment asset. Third, we explore the appeal of property for universities as an asset, revealing a series of benefits for investor and developer owners that coalesce around three themes: rent, risk, and reputation.
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