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Platformizing structural policy instruments? Fostering (infrastructural) power in the context of Digital Free Trade Zones

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104218

Sina Hardaker

Digital platforms are revolutionizing various sectors by altering existing framework conditions and reshaping the geography of economic activities. This study investigates the role of digital platforms in the establishment and operationalization of Digital Free Trade Zones (DFTZs) in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Malaysia. By conceptualizing DFTZs as an innovative evolution of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the paper explores how digital platforms like Alibaba extend their infrastructural power through the strategic integration of digital and physical infrastructures. It examines how the platform partners with governments to create ecosystems that facilitate cross-border e-commerce, potentially support SMEs, and mediate global supply chains. Drawing on expert interviews, the study uncovers the dual role of digital platforms as technological enablers and geopolitical actors, shaping trade policies and regional development. This paper advances theoretical discourse on platformization and infrastructural power, providing insights into how digital platforms redefine governance and economic dependencies in the global digital economy.

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Framing the flames: Addressing public disengagement through fear framings in Australian bushfire preparedness campaign videos

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104215

Deniz Yildiz, Chloe Lucas, Aidan Davison

As bushfire seasons lengthen and intensify due to climate change, Australian fire agencies express concern about widespread public complacency and unpreparedness for bushfire. Agencies address this problem through public communication, relying particularly on short-form video campaigns in doing so. Building on previous quantitative analysis of Australian bushfire preparedness video campaigns, we present an in-depth qualitative examination of four videos that headlined fire agencies’ public communication campaigns between 2015 and 2022. We identify a dominant survivalist frame which assumes that public fear of bushfire is a precondition to rational preparation for bushfire risk informed by agency expertise. Preparedness is presented as a survivalist response to imminent threats to life and private property. This frame privileges individualistic, privatised and reactive forms of bushfire preparedness. In contrast, the most recent of the videos we study, coming after the 2019–20 Black Summer fires, indicates the presence of a collectivist frame. This frame presents collaborative forms of proactive, on-going preparation in the face of shared dangers as empowerment, with bushfire understood as a normal part of Australian life. In the context of research showing that fear appeals may entrench the disengagement they are designed to puncture, our analysis suggests that a dominant survivalist framing of preparedness aligns with institutional logics within fire agencies to weaken the effectiveness of public bushfire communication. These logics do so by privileging technical expertise that undervalues social diversity and social context and reduces complex dynamics of information and emotion to a critique of complacency. The presence of a counter-frame emphasising collectivist modes of preparedness raises important questions about opportunities to reduce reliance on fear-based bushfire communication.

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Lively gifts and exclusive commodities: Rethinking encounter value in orangutan conservation

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104213

Hannah Fair , Viola Schreer

Orangutans serve as popular flagships for international conservation campaigns, which increasingly draw on digital communication and engagement technologies to mobilise support. Building on scholarship concerning the commodification of nature and digitalisation of conservation, this paper asks how orangutans produce value, for whom and to what end? It unpacks the frictions and tensions in how orangutans accumulate encounter value or fail to do so across diverse conservation contexts. Drawing upon interviews with orangutan conservation supporters in the United Kingdom and ethnographic research conducted at a rehabilitation centre and release sites in Indonesia, it reveals how orangutans become lively gifts, exclusive commodities, and entangled in unwanted encounters. By illuminating the varying, contrasting ways in which different audiences engage with one popular conservation species, our paper expands the concept of “encounter value”, troubling some of its underlying assumptions, particularly its commodity logics and intimate character. As the paper shows, encounter value is never fixed or prescribed, but contingent and, at times, even contested.

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‘Wall disease’: Unpacking the emotive geographies of post-conflict Nicosia

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104217

Amy Reid

Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided by the ‘Green Line’, separating the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities into the north and south of the island respectively. This paper focuses on the capital city of Nicosia, which is often referred to as ‘Europe’s last divided capital’. Despite the cessation of violence, flags, checkpoints, commemorative sites, watchtowers, and evidence of the conflict continue to permeate the urban fabric of present-day Nicosia. Thus, whilst Cyprus could be considered as being ‘post-violence’ politically, the conflict arguably continues to manifest itself throughout the urban environment. A significant body of research has explored the Cyprus conflict; however, rather less attention has been paid to the emotional impacts of living in a divided city. Therefore, this paper makes three original contributions. The first is to apply Tuan’s (1979) theory of landscapes of fear to a reading of Nicosia. The second is to advance our knowledge on the emotional geographies of Nicosia, focusing on how emotions and experiences are shaped and spatially manifested by this post-conflict landscape. This approach seeks to add depth to the understanding of the complex relationship between place, emotion, and conflict. The final contribution of this article is to highlight the role that qualitative research can play in moving studies of emotional geographies forward.

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Walking with water: Reframing drained waterways in Melbourne

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104216

Ana Cristina Lara Heyns

This paper examines the transformation of Melbourne’s waterways through urbanisation and colonisation, drawing on Indigenous paradigms of relationality to propose alternative frameworks for understanding and managing water. It challenges modernist water management practices that separate natural and urban systems, advocating for approaches that respect water as a relational and agentic entity. The study incorporates Indigenous methodologies and decolonial practices such as deep listening, walking, and yarning to explore the historical and cultural narratives of buried waterways. Using the Rippon Lea Estate as a case study, the research demonstrates how relational design, and augmented reality can reconnect urban communities with hidden waterways. The paper introduces three perspectives: water as a relational entity, the agency of water, and the reframing of drained waterways as active, though shadowed, contributors to the urban environment. These perspectives foster a holistic understanding of water that integrates Indigenous knowledge, promoting equity, sustainability, and a co-becoming relationship with water in urban landscapes. By engaging with water’s cultural, spiritual, and ecological dimensions, the study reimagines urban design and water governance for a future shaped by reciprocity and care.

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Transformations and eco-territorial governance innovations: The case of the Chaparri Nature Reserve, Peru

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104178

Vera Flores-Fernandez , Pieter Van den Broeck , Elke Hermans , Constanza Parra

Over the past two decades, the expansion of Peru’s agro-export sector has driven agricultural frontiers into the Lambayeque region, leading to the criminalization of local peasant communities that advocate for nature conservation. In this paper, we examine the Chaparri Nature Reserve, the first private protected area created by a peasant community in Peru. We develop the concept of “eco-territorial governance innovations” to analyze how Chaparri’s collective action restores dry forest ecosystems and provides new socio-economic and socio-ecological development venues for peasant communities facing criminalization. Our findings show that eco-territorial governance innovations play a crucial role in reconstructing nature-culture relations and addressing socio-political gaps related to nature conservation and other socio-environmental causes. Through their governance innovations, the historically oppressed Chaparri community is developing alternatives to counteract adverse conditions, recover from marginalization, reaffirm their identities, and strengthen both local and trans-local ties.

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Beyond presentism in border externalization studies: Upcycled spatio-cultural geographies of imperial times

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104197

Sebastian Cobarrubias , Martin Lemberg-Pedersen

This Special Issue Introduction signals how post, decolonial and historical gazes enhance studies of border externalization efforts by European Union (EU) institutions and Member States in African countries. Research has only begun to acknowledge how economic, political and social geographies of extraterritorial migration management stretch back in time connecting to longer histories of empire. Predominantly, externalization studies have remained thoroughly embedded in a Eurocentric post-Cold War time frame where externalization was conceptualized as the spatial outgrowth of the European Union yielding a de-historicized spatiality, epistemology and narratives. This SI highlights the “methodological presentism” hitherto at work in border externalization research, and poses ways of challenging the associated epistemological boundaries. This introduction, and the themed articles therein, de-centre dominant spatio-temporal assumptions in border externalization research by applying a historical gaze on border practices through postcolonial and decolonial theory. We argue that future research on externalisation, and on the role of borders more broadly, would benefit from this approach, situating what seems an innovative spatial and political practice in a longer, and more instructive, timeframe.

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Assembling mountains through food. Typical cheese and politics of mountainness in the Italian Alps

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104210

Giacomo Pettenati , Emanuele Amo , Michael Woods

The role of typical products in rural regions has sparked scholarly debate, with a great variety of approaches and perspectives employed to investigate agri-food goods with unique territorial characteristics. This paper delves into the complexities surrounding the identification and codification of such products, particularly focusing on the cheese industry within mountain regions. Through the assemblage theory, it explores the multifaceted elements contributing to the production of typical cheese, including geographical indications, local practices and knowledge. Using Castelmagno cheese as a case study, the research investigates the intricate dynamics of its recognition and production, shedding light on important issues such re-localization, economic strategies, and conflicts within the local community. By defining and analyzing the politics of mountainness inherent in the designation of typical products, this study uncovers the diverse perspectives and negotiations shaping rural economies and landscapes. The research elucidates the intricate relationship between the qualification of Castelmagno cheese as a typical product and the relational fabrication of the mountain, both as a tangible geographical entity and as a conceptual construct. Through qualitative methods such as interviews, observations, and literature analysis, it provides insights into the interplay between food production, cultural heritage, and the negotiation of territorial identities in mountainous regions, thus proposing an unconventional understanding of the relationships between food-making and place-making.

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On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience’: A pragmatist approach to justice-based climate change governance

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104163

Nathaniel O’Grady

Scholars have afforded much attention to environmental justice issues amid the recent global surge in climate resilience efforts. And yet our analysis of these issues frequently falls back on reductionist modes of critique that presume to know resilience’s implications for justice before actual inquiry. Ontological claims abound about resilience being neoliberalism or neo-colonialism incarnate and as such always-already complicit in the production of myriad injustices. This paper takes up geography’s recent revival in interest with pragmatist and conjunctural methodologies to offer a more nuanced account of resilience and justice. In so doing, it introduces the notion of ‘just resilience’ to foreground and explore the influence of state-based conceptualizations of justice in structuring major interventions carried out to adapt to and mitigate climate change. I compartmentalize just resilience into three related heuristically informed concepts to analyze its emergence in our shared present, evaluate how it shapes government intervention and highlight some of its consequences. Topological composition addresses how particular understandings of justice have been constructed through dialogue between government actors and communities disproportionately affected by environmental harm. Through translational logistics, I elaborate on how these conceptualizations of justice orient the uneven movement of resilience projects across different communities. Finally, relational conceptualizations of scale considers the effects that prevail where multiple different resilience projects are undertaken in the same local site simultaneously. Contrasting with mainstream critiques, a pragmatist-conjunctural approach emphasizes the possibility that resilience can operate as a vessel for the pursuit of environmental justice. Nevertheless, it also raises substantial concerns about: the extent to which the meaning communities invest into justice translates into governmental practice, the asymmetries in political agency that just resilience affords different people and the tendency of resilience projects to produce effects that compromise the very forms of justice that putatively structure their enactment. The paper substantiates its argument through research into the Justice40 initiative that continues to structure some ongoing climate resilience programs in the United States.

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Ambivalent temporalities of mega-infrastructures in Lamu, Kenya

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Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104199

Gediminas Lesutis

This article, analysing politics of Lamu Port in Kenya, explores the ambivalent temporalities of mega-infrastructures as they unfold at different intersections of state politics, megaprojects, and everyday life. Although at its inception Lamu Port was central to state development strategies and local contestations that ensued as a response, with faltering project development goals, this infrastructure has gradually receded into a material, symbolic, and affective background of contestations and everyday life. Fishermen displaced by the new port construction precariously adapt to new material conditions. The port itself, once deemed threatening to local livelihoods or an anticipatory possibility of “development”, is overshadowed by changing state politics, leadership, and political dramas that ensue. In this context, some actors start to question whether the project will materialise at all, perceiving the lack of infrastructure development as more threatening than the new port itself. Centering these dynamics, the article foregrounds the analytical and methodological value of studying infrastructure over time, specifically how ambivalent temporalities of megaprojects demonstrate that infrastructure––once spectacular, disruptive, or anticipatory––gradually recedes into the backdrop, becoming one nebulous node within multiple layers of state-society relations, contestations, and everyday life.

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