Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.2034581
K. P. Kallio, Derek Ruez
Special issues are an important publication format, especially in social sciences where research is as much about presenting empirical results as it is about discussing the approaches, methodologies, theories, philosophies, ethics, epistemologies, and ontologies of the research. Offering an interdisciplinary platform for such collections, Space and Polity has always published special issues along with regular issues, totalling over 20 thematic guest edited issues since the establishment of the journal in 1997. Such special issues can provide a productive platform for bringing into dialogue a range of perspectives on a specific place—as in our recent special issue on Mostar, where a diverse set of work on the city is brought together to raise critical questions about how ‘ethnically divided cities’ are studied (Carabelli et al., 2019). They can also be a site where a new theoretical approach or longstanding conceptual debates are given space to develop across a broad range of empirical contexts—as in a past special issue on neo-liberalism and crisis (Featherstone et al., 2015). They can, as well, chart a relational and comparative course across important phenomena that raise pressing theoretical and political questions, as in recent special issues on youth politics in Asia (Lam-Knott & Cheng, 2020) or the pedagogies of peace and citizenship (Staeheli, 2017). Through special issues a journal can also encourage the development of new scholarly fields, such as political geographies of childhood and youth (Kallio & Häkli, 2013; Lam-Knott & Cheng, 2020; Philo & Smith, 2003). Many special issues are based on a conference session or a thematic seminar—a combination that offers opportunities for early career scholars to learn some of the key elements of academic work, in their roles as event organizers and guest editors, or as presenters and authors. Further, while submitting a paper for peer review is always a learning experience, the crucial role of expert and engaged guest editors in special issues can, when processes work well, allow for especially focused and constructive editorial feedback for authors. There are also reasons to think that special issue papers are more likely to be read and cited, and they can set out productive research agendas for others to build on. Thus, through special issues, journals contribute to international research training and mentoring, while taking forward scholarship in important ways. Because of these important contributions, we are excited to launch a new option for special issues that, we hope, can carry forward many of the potential benefits of the format, while also responding to some of the challenges it can pose. In doing so, we have sought to learn from what other journals are doing. Recent years have seen innovative use of virtual special issue concepts across fields. While there are variations across publishers and journals, these virtual special issues often curate already published papers addressing an urg
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1991785
S. Rice, J. Tyner
ABSTRACT The natural world is responding to anthropogenic change through novel pathogens, antibiotic-resistant microbes, and pest infestations. This resurgence is part of a non-human reappropriation and transformation of human-altered environments. In this commentary, we argue that this ‘revanchism’ has prompted two new forms of genocide: the pre-emptive mass slaughter of non-human animals, and the annihilation of humans as expressed through COVID-19 and other pandemics; forms that will become exemplars for mass murder in the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2022.2045931
R. Recio, J. Gomez, Hanh Minh Thai, P. Nguyen
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted governments to resort to or allow quasi-formal means to provide basic goods and services to communities that were forced into quarantine. We analyze how grassroots self-help strategies interact with the adaptation mechanisms of formal governance under crisis conditions. Drawing on empirical insights in Manila (Philippines) and Hanoi (Vietnam), we examine the practices that have enabled street vendors in the two metropolises to earn a living and to provide needed services to city residents. We explain how some lessons on co-production practices might inform post-pandemic recovery strategies and future policy-making processes in global South cities.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-07DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1963223
H. Kallin
British cities have only ever come close to alleviating permanent housing crisis through the large-scale, often astonishingly ambitious involvement of the state. Even in Edinburgh (where I write th...
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985853
Casey R. Lynch
ABSTRACT This article examines Artificial Emotion Intelligence (AEI) and its application in social robots. It argues that AEI and social robotics intensify practices of data-capture and algorithmic governance by extending the spatial reach of digital surveillance deeper into intimate spaces and individual psyches, with the goal of manipulating human emotional and behavioural responses. The analysis demonstrates the need to more thoroughly engage the multiplicity of theoretical and applied approaches to building artificial intelligence, to question assumptions as to the kinds of intelligence being created, and to consider how a diversity of AI systems infiltrate and reshape the spaces of everyday life.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985852
Luis F. Alvarez León
ABSTRACT The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fuelled concerns ranging from ‘existential risk for humanity’, framed as evolutionary competition with machines, to predictions of the ‘end of work’ via widespread substitution of humans by robots. Yet these extreme scenarios tend to operate at the intractable scale of ‘humanity' and lack a geographically nuanced conceptual scaffolding. This article proposes such a scaffolding, starting with a conceptual dyad that is core to the geographical tradition: place and space. This perspective is intended to inform and situate debates about the role of AI in the construction and transformation of the capitalist space economy.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985856
M. Samers
ABSTRACT This article examines the debate concerning the employment implications of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (FIR) or the increasing presence of artificial intelligence and robotics in workplaces. I analyze three ‘genres’ associated with this debate (academic studies including neo-classical and heterodox/post-human approaches, the ‘gray literature’, and popular media) and I argue that together they represent ‘futurological fodder’ or discourses and knowledges that ‘perform’ the FIR and its purported consequences. I contend further that these genres involve a complex mix of ethics and politics, and I conclude with a reflection on the political implications of the FIR debate.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985868
Margath A. Walker, Jamie Winders, E. Boamah
ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes our lives, yet a geographic approach to AI has not solidified. This article maps the genealogy of AI across the discipline of geography. Building on claims that AI produces and is bound up with different kinds of geographies, we examine key intersections between AI and human geography’s engagement with territories, borders, and the political geographies of war. In the process, we interrogate how and where these new technologies bump up against the larger onto-epistemological landscape of the complicated articulation of space and politics. The goal is to identify a research agenda for engaging AI geographically.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985855
K. Attoh, Declan Cullen, Katie J. Wells
ABSTRACT In this article, we identify what appear to be two separate approaches to questions of automation within the discipline of Geography. One approach, which we call ‘Automated Geography', examines how automation and technological change impact the discipline itself – everything from how we conduct research to how we relate to institutional power. The second approach, which we deem ‘Geographies of Automation', examines automation’s impact on the world that geographers study. We argue that defining Geography in an age of automation requires bringing these approaches together and embracing dialectical thinking. The article draws on three parables to flesh out this dialectical approach.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985869
Margath A. Walker, Jamie Winders
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly influential in our daily lives, shaping the social structures, economies, and political systems in which we live. From autonomous vehicles to algorithmically powered legal decisions, AI-driven technologies have the potential to offer nearly $16 trillion to the global economy in the next 10 years. Advances in AI are likely to fundamentally alter a range of industries and economic activities, while also ushering in a period of rapid innovation across scales. Yet the development and application of AI often unfold with only limited input from those outside computational fields. Within geography, important scholarship on AI has started to emerge from digital geographies (e.g. Dodge, 2019) and geospatial science (e.g. Janowicz et al., 2020), as well as subfields including political geography (e.g. Amoore, 2019), social geography (e.g. Del Casino et al., 2020; Wigley & Rose, 2020), and environmental geography (e.g. Machen & Nost, 2021), but less attention has been given to AI’s potentialities and ramifications in relation to place, space, and other foundational concepts in human geography. In addition, the role of qualitative research within the larger onto-epistemological landscape of AI remains largely overlooked. The articles included in this special issue offer a broad, yet critical, conversation about the geographies, ethics, and practices of AI. Spanning themes from the future of work and workers to the intimacies of care, from borders and wargames to science fiction and economic modelling, they engage what Casey Lynch (this issue) describes as ‘AI’s evolving spatiality’. They do so by historicizing AI vis-à-vis previous technologies and paradigms in geography, by synthesizing across diverse AI literatures within and beyond academia, by offering in-depth case studies on particular applications of AI, and by theorizing AI itself alongside capitalism, science fiction, and other themes. Together, authors ask, given geography’s long history of analytical and operational insights with other technologies, including GIS (e.g. Barnes, 2008; O’Sullivan, 2006, 2008), what does growing interest in AI mean for geography?What can geographers contribute to these emerging technologies and fields, and how does a geographic perspective help us understand the application and implications of AI systems? In thinking through these questions, the contributions in this special issue critically interrogate foundational questions and topics in human geography through the lens of AI: the politics of AI in different spatial contexts or spheres, AI’s impacts on the
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