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Privilege forged in space: Student experiences in transitioning to Zurich’s highly selective public secondary schools
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104219
Lara Landolt , Carlotta Reh
Recent debates within geographies of education and related fields stress the increasing importance of selective public secondary schools for privilege and elite reproduction in urban school landscapes and frame these processes as inherently spatial. This paper aims to contribute to these debates by exploring the social production of privileged school spaces at selective public secondary schools—a school type whose spatiality in elite reproduction remains understudied—and its impact on students’ self-understandings. It draws on ethnographic research with six students aged 11–15 during their transition to selective public secondary schools, called Gymnasia, in the City of Zurich, Switzerland. We analyzed the data using an approach informed by Henri Lefebvre’s theories of social space in The Production of Space. The analysis revealed that the Gymnasia drew on a variety of spatial practices and their material spaces to position themselves as educational spaces of distinction that encourage their students’ spatial independence. Students translated this into subjective lived spaces of privilege and an understanding of themselves as particularly responsible, independent and deservingly privileged students. We argue that that such interpretations may contribute to a social hierarchization of the student body in the region, with the Gymnasium students feeling socially superior. Finally, we argue that our findings underpin the analytical value of a Lefebvrian spatial lens to examine school spaces and how these shape students’ views of themselves and others in broader society.
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Digitalising rural lifestyles: Online platforms and everyday life in Chinese villages
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104206
Xinhui Wu , Chen Liu
This article moves beyond the agriculture-centred perspective of researching digital lives in rural areas and the view of the urban–rural digital divide to focus on the daily interactions between rural practices and digital platforms in Chinese villages. Based on an analysis of qualitative data collected from two wider projects on rural development and poverty alleviation in China, the key findings of this article argue that rural residents are active prosumers of digital platforms who sustain their rural lifestyles through embedding new cross-platform practices into their familiar rural activities. These findings have confirmed the contradictions of the digital divide between rural and urban China. The contribution of this article offers a practice-oriented and cross-platform approach that can deepen digital and rural geographies’ understanding of the human-technology assemblage of the embodied, practised, and experienced rurality in everyday contexts.
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Spaces of cinema in rural Cyprus: Cinemagoing and the Turkish Cypriot audience in the Karpas region, 1960–1974
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104176
Barçın Boğaç , Jonathan Stubbs
This article examines the historical spaces of cinemagoing among the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus’ rural Karpas region during a period of significant political upheaval and economic isolation. Drawing on oral histories from sixty-six former cinemagoers and cinema operators, the study recovers previously undocumented aspects of rural film culture between 1960 and 1974, when the majority of Turkish Cypriots lived in militarised enclaves. The findings reveal how cinema culture not only survived but flourished in these adverse conditions. Local entrepreneurs established sophisticated distribution networks between urban centers and isolated villages, while adapting exhibition practices to local economic conditions through traditional bartering systems. The study examines how cinema architecture reflected both practical constraints and community security concerns, with cinema buildings serving multiple social functions beyond film exhibition. Of particular significance is the transformation of cinema spaces into vital community hubs, hosting weddings and other cultural events in the absence of other civic infrastructure. Rather than acting as a modernising force, cinema in Karpas operated within and adapted to traditional social and economic structures. This research contributes to broader debates about rural cinema culture by demonstrating how film exhibition could thrive even in conditions of extreme political and economic isolation, while suggesting that modernization was not a prerequisite for the emergence of a successful cinema culture.
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Conflicts over periurban green infrastructure: Unresolved social problems with nature-based urban solutions
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104212
Jeroen Warner , Richard Meissner
Why do green infrastructure interventions rarely meet with broad public enthusiasm despite their fundamental environmental and economic soundness? Illustrated by two periurban cases, from South Africa and the United Kingdom, we argue that unease with green infrastructure runs deeper than “not-in-my-backyardism”, touching on problems with both process and outcome legitimacy in the context of green territorialization. Despite the existence of legislation institutionalising public participation, our findings suggest considerable scope for more inclusive and perhaps less eco-centric practices, and suggest a need for a fundamental dialogue on what is the problem around urban climate adaptation to open political space for dissent and expression of legitimate interests.
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Domestic campus expansion in France as a practice of regional dissociation: Advancing reflections on the socio-spatial fragmentation of higher education ‘at home’
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104189
Alice Bobée
Little is known about how internationalization dynamics have reconfigured the national geography of higher education beyond the much-studied phenomena of transnational higher education and international branch campuses. This study addresses this gap by zooming in on two domestic spatial expansion strategies through which several French Grandes Écoles, mainly business schools, have sought to boost financial resources and raise international visibility in the last years: mergers and branch campuses in Paris. Drawing on interviews with key decision-makers of French higher education institutions, I show how these strategies are particularly relevant to institutions from outside Paris which – already occupying the backseat in the French arena – have seen themselves relegated to the margins of international university spaces. Originating from the so-called province, these institutions mobilize their domestic multi-local campus structure as a dissociation strategy: they use mergers and a campus in Paris to create a ‘purposeful ambiguity’ regarding where they are from or conceal regional origins perceived as detrimental in a globalizing marketplace. By showing how these strategies are strategically and discursively related to transnational expansion beyond national borders, the study advances a novel conceptual grammar of domestic spatial expansion as a crystallization point of the reconfigured regional geography of the university through wider transnational dynamics. In particular, the study highlights how domestic spatial expansion is driven by a perceived spatial stigma associated with institutional origins in more peripheral regions. From there, the study opens the door to taking the notion of the periphery seriously when analyzing the shifting geography of the university.
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What does it mean to nurture ‘good intentions between city and country’? Performances of rural–urban relations in community-supported agriculture
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104211
Julia Spanier
As community-supported agriculture (CSA) comprises a direct relationship between food producers and consumers, scholars and activists have pointed out its potential to improve rural–urban relations. This paper explores this potential. It complements insights from critical agri-food studies on a ‘rural–urban divide’ with perspectives on the rural and urban as evolving, multiple discursive–material performances. It thus conceptualises CSA as a rural–urban interface in which various performances of the rural and urban enact various different rural–urban relations. Exploring four CSA initiatives in Germany, the paper finds that CSAs can indeed nurture relations of material solidarity between rural producers and urban consumers, and may foster deeper understanding and care between the two. At the same time, the paper finds that CSAs may also (re)produce hierarchical relations between the urban and the rural, and even deepen processes of alienation. The paper thereby emphasises the relevance of stretching investigations of rural–urban relations beyond questions of producer–consumer relations, and beyond questions of ‘relations’. Investigations of rural–urban relations must also consider the kinds of rural and urban identities performed in these relations. It becomes worthwhile asking whether CSA may not only foster rural–urban material solidarity but also create opportunities for rural–urban encounters that transcend the sphere of food; whether CSA may even contribute to the forging of progressive rural–urban alliances that struggle for post-capitalist futures while fighting reactionary political trends.
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From real estate financialization to decentralization: A comparative review of REITs and blockchain-based tokenization
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104193
Ang Liu , Cheng Chen
Blockchain-based tokenization represents a transformative force in the real estate sector, offering a compelling alternative to the well-established model of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). As the real estate industry evolves from financialization to decentralization, driven by technological advancements, these two models offer distinct approaches to democratizing real estate investment. REITs have long been a cornerstone of real estate financialization, allowing individual investors to participate in large-scale real estate ventures through fractional ownership of diversified property portfolios, thus advancing financial supply and share of the housing market. However, the advent of blockchain technology and decentralized finance (DeFi) introduces a new paradigm where real estate ownership can be fractionalized into digital tokens, enhancing liquidity, transparency, and accessibility through global 24/7 trading platforms. The findings suggest that while REITs have successfully broadened the investor base and improved market liquidity, blockchain-based tokenization has the potential to advance these achievements further by lowering entry barriers, reducing transaction costs, and decentralizing market operations. However, the adoption of blockchain technology in real estate also presents challenges, including regulatory uncertainties, technological risks, and the need for robust governance frameworks. As the lines between finance and technology continue to blur, this research underscores the necessity of adapting regulatory frameworks and investment strategies to navigate the evolving landscape of real estate investment. The critical review concludes by discussing the future implications of these trends, highlighting the need for continued research and regulatory innovation to fully realize the potential of decentralized real estate markets, particularly in examining housing inequality and affordability, as housing is not only an important investment vehicle but also as a fundamental shelter for people to live.
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Navigating change, maintaining breadth: The future of Geoforum
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104181
Julie MacLeavy, Sarah Hall
In our first year as co-editors-in-chief, we reflect on Geoforum’s rich history and its pivotal role in advancing human geography. While the academic publishing landscape has evolved significantly, we remain committed to Geoforum’s core mission: publishing high-quality, interdisciplinary research spanning the breadth of human geography. We are mindful of the challenges confronting academic journals, such as increased competition and reviewer shortages. Nonetheless, by fostering a vibrant community, supporting early-career scholars through the Community Support Fund, and encouraging diverse perspectives, we aim to solidify Geoforum’s position as a leading platform for geographical scholarship.
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‘Doubly exploited’: Migration, activism and the generative geographies of labour agency
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104190
Sarah Peck
Scholarship on the connections between migration and labour agency has considered the strategies, practices and grammars adopted by migrant and migrantised workers in their efforts to improve their working and living conditions, particularly in the context of precarious and insecure work. Using empirical material from the Indian Workers Association Great Britain (IWAGB), this paper explores the labour agency produced by an organisation of migrantised workers and the practices the organisation enacted to improve conditions within the sphere of production. The paper focuses on how the IWAGB’s labour organising was shaped by understandings of the intersections between race and class and in particular the principle of ‘double exploitation’, situating these understandings within the experiences, memories and legacies of migration and mobility. Using the 1967/68 Coneygre Foundry dispute as an example, the paper concludes that the discourses and practices enacted by the IWAGB in this dispute are expressions of the migratory geographies and political subjectivities of members of the group, with mobile experiences, memories and connections crucial for understanding the formation of migrantised worker labour agency and resistance.
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Revolutionary countryside: A feminist counter-topography of war in Myanmar
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104164
Hilary Oliva Faxon , Jenny Hedström , Nicole T. Venker , Zin Mar Phyo , Mi Mi
In the image below, Mi Mi ties together her experiences of seeing the Myanmar military burn homes, cooking by candlelight, and struggling to grow crops and make ends meet during a period of climate and economic crisis, all with her baby on her back. Her story raises broader questions about how we understand the intersections of gender, land and revolution in Myanmar and other militarized landscapes. In this paper, we employ collaborative and mixed methodologies to map violence and resistance on the land and in the body, starting from Mi Mi’s story to advance a feminist counter-topography of war. We borrow the notion of counter-topography from geographer Cindy Katz, who poses counter-topography as an analytical and political project that examines the intersecting effects and material consequences of large-scale processes in a particular place. Our analysis brings together diverse datasets to illustrate how Myanmar’s contemporary conflict is shaped by spatial patterns and intergenerational histories of violence and endured through embodied relations to land and kin.
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