Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.009
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Marianna Dudley, Linda Ross, Hiroki Shin
Climate crisis has made the transition from carbon-rich to low-carbon energy systems an existential necessity for the future of our planet. This article sets out how greater attention to low-carbon energy history, currently a neglected component of modern energy development, should comprise an essential part of building a zero-carbon future. We argue for the usefulness of low-carbon as a capacious term that foregrounds the historic and ongoing relationality between low- and high-carbon energy, and set out the ways this has shaped energy infrastructures, practices, and imaginaries through the twentieth century to the present. We outline a range of analytics—materiality, scaling, community—around which critical understandings of low-carbon energy can be gained. And we show that decarbonization, while urgent, does not have to be speculative: the historical examples provided here offer valuable insights into the social and spatial impacts and temporal challenges of introducing new energy infrastructure and decommissioning old that can, and should, be paid more attention.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
Jacob Fairless Nicholson , Nathaniel Télémaque , Jasmine Roberts
Arguing for a 'public historical geography' and focusing on a collaborative research project conducted at Black Cultural Archives in London, England, this paper contributes to a body of geographical scholarship that has in recent years situated the archive as a subject of, rather than source for, geographical knowledge production. Past accounts have provided important evidence of the precarity and financial insecurity that Black archives face. In this paper we shift this focus on to the affordances and opportunities eked out by one Black archive as it negotiated struggles for survival creatively and sensitively, and challenged archiving's history as a Euro-American practice of violence. Providing insight on our participatory approach that involved producing research aids and organising a public event to engage public audiences with the Jacqueline Creft Memorial Collection pertaining to the Grenada Revolution 1979–1983, we situate archival research as a collaborative, affective, and exploratory practice that can impact public audiences in diverse ways.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.005
Orit Peleg-Barkat , Roy Marom , Gregg E. Gardner , Michael Chernin , Yoav Farhi , Saleh Kharanbeh
This study examines the transformation of rural settlement in the Shephelah region of Ottoman Palestine as a reflection of communal adaptation to changes in the political and security landscapes. Focusing on Khirbet Drūsye (Horvat Midras), we integrate archaeological evidence with Ottoman fiscal surveys and Sharia court registers to trace the site's transition from a prosperous Mamluk-era village to a seasonal habitation (ʿizbeh) by the 1550s. This spatial reconfiguration illustrates how rural communities modified their settlement patterns and economic strategies in response to the declining security environment during the Early Ottoman period. The study of Drūsye, alongside other cases in the southern Bilād al-Shām/Levant, highlights not only the diverse ways that settlement systems evolved in response to political and economic pressures but also reveals sophisticated settlement patterns that challenge our understanding of 'permanent' versus 'transient' occupation. More broadly, the case demonstrates the methodological value of combining archaeological and documentary sources to reconstruct historical geographies and understand local responses to imperial transition. Beyond its regional focus, the case of Drūsye demonstrates a more general lesson: rural communities under imperial regimes often developed flexible, hybrid strategies of land use that challenge simple distinctions between permanence and abandonment. Such adaptive patterns have relevance for comparative studies of frontier zones, resilience, and the archaeology of ‘decline’.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
Tomasz Spórna , Paweł Sudra , Tomasz Figlus , Łukasz Musiaka , Piotr Kryczka , Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka , Dominik Sikorski , Robert Szmytkie
This study examines the settlement units within the boundaries of contemporary Poland that relate their development to Howard's garden city concept. We explore diverse cartographic materials, plans, and scientific and popular literature to identify them. We identified their number and spatial and functional specificity by analysing the genesis and development of Poland's garden cities, garden suburbs, and garden estates from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s. We also presented their typology, considering the morphogenetic-functional, morphological, historical, toponymy (naming) and degree of realisation criteria. The results show that the first ‘garden cities’ occurred as early as the 1910s. They failed to meet many of Howard's original concept's spatial and functional assumptions. For example, in the morphological aspect, the identified concentric-radial type was realised in practice in less than 15 % of the surveyed units. We identified four pathways for the formation of garden cities and garden suburbs in Poland: the first related to the emergence of garden cities, the second related to the emergence of summer resorts and spas, the third related to the development of patronage settlements, and the fourth related to villa districts and garden suburbs emerging in the cities.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
Gaurav C. Garg
Land in capitalism is notoriously difficult to analyse. Treating it as real or fictitious capital/commodity can lead to a neglect of land's theoretical and economic significance, while treating it as distinct from capital/commodity can disproportionately limit focus to cases where land resists financialization/commodification. How, then, can we make sense of land's material placeness alongside the structural requirement to circulate it for accumulation in capitalism? This article argues that a productive way to wrestle with the challenge posed by land in capitalism is to use the analytic of ‘land mobilization.’ This can not only help us account for the difficulty and incompleteness of land's transformation into an asset, but it can also help to include factors such as differences in levels of financialization and strategic reasons for holding real-property that are often left out of scholarly analyses in the making of real estate markets and the historical geographies of capitalism. To demonstrate the fecundity of this approach, this article examines and compares how business and landed elites in late colonial and early postcolonial Calcutta and Bombay understood the real property market, acted on it, and its consequences. Through this comparison, this article suggests that localized struggles to (im)mobilize land have been central in the making of capitalism's historical geographies.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001
Viktor Pál
This study examines the rise and decline of Environmental Turanism as a counter-narrative to Western models of environmental modernization in interwar Hungary. Environmental Turanism emerged in the wake of the Treaty of Trianon (1920), which left deep social and political scars, and offered an alternative vision rooted in Eurasian cultural affinities and the steppe ecologies of the Pannonian Basin. It challenged the prevailing paradigm of large-scale landscape engineering—such as river regulation and land reclamation—which, despite their promise of development, often resulted in ecological degradation, including soil desiccation and vulnerability to drought. By blending romantic nationalism, traditional ecological knowledge, and holistic landscape science, Environmental Turanism articulated a symbiotic framework that resisted the dualism of humans versus nature dominant in Western discourse. Yet Environmental Turanism never established a firm institutional foothold in Hungary. After World War II, the onset of the Cold War socialist ideology in the Eastern Bloc left little room for alternative ecological frameworks, especially when linked to radical right-wing ideologies. The story of Environmental Turanism contributes to the better understanding of how political, social, and economic crises may contribute to the rise of environmental counter-narratives, which is a pressing issue in several contemporary societies globally.
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