Pub Date : 2023-08-13DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177062
Asa Roast
The stresses of the neoliberal academy relating to the precaritisation of labour and metricisation of research can often make it difficult in the present to envision a future of geographical thought and praxis which is capable of addressing the past and present epistemic injustices which human geography has inherited. Within the field of urban studies, the discourse of ‘urban futures’ has often been used to promise a more just and efficient future. This commentary takes the often-evoked notion of an urban future and considers how recent research in urban studies has sought to deconstruct the notion of the ‘urban’ in order to illustrate the complex and antagonistic present underlying such futures. Here urban studies has an analogous lesson for human geography more generally. Disaggregating the identity of ‘geographer’ from academic status and training can open up new practices for the co-production of knowledge beyond professional boundaries, which themselves can also aid in the creation of more just urban futures.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191763
A. Secor
This article argues for an understanding of material geographies as invested with an unconscious dimension. I put forward the notion of spacetimeunconscious not as an inverse, double, or ‘other’ to Karen Barad's concept of spacetimematter, but as a supplement. Manifesting the spacetimeunconscious through the technique of montage, I draw together a range of phenomena, from the icing of water and the flashing of lightning to the awakenings of traumatised and displaced subjects. Across these juxtaposed parts, I argue that the unfolding of space and time responds to the enigmatic, irreducible message of the unconscious in the real. Spacetimeunconscious arrives as the ambassador of an unknown knowledge remembered for – or in the place of – a forgetful substance: water, dreamer, or electron. In an echo of the analytic method, I use montage to create generative connections, discontinuities, and instabilities between events, poetry, literature, and film, in the interstices of which the spacetimeunconscious may make an appearance.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191731
Chi-Mao Wang, D. Maye, M. Woods
This paper proposes planetary rural geographies to counter the narrative of planetary urbanisation, which has contended that the whole planet has been urbanised and can be understood through urban theory without an outside. Whilst critics have challenged the metrophilia inherent to planetary urbanisation, advanced post-colonial critiques, and posited alternative models of ruralisation, we argue that these responses fall short of fully embracing the radical potential of a planetary perspective. We call for planetary rural geographies that examine rural places as sites of interaction between diverse more-than-human relations that extend above and below the Earth surface and contend that the configuration of human–environment interactions at the ‘rural’ end of urban–rural relations is critical to addressing planetary crises. We elaborate this argument by focusing on three geographies of planetary rurality: as a space of crisis, as a space of conflict, and as a space of hope, evidenced by examples drawn from the global rural literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189576
Weiqiang Lin, P. Adey, Tina Harris
The four generous commentaries to our article, Dispositions towards automation, have truly enriched and extended our thinking on ‘dispositions’ as a way of challenging binary readings of automation (i.e., either towards capitulation or adaptation). Two of our interlocutors have encouraged us to think more situationally about the way dispositions develop through user experience and encounter, while the other two welcome a further expansion of our ideas to include infrastructural and other non-human or environmental agencies. In this response, we clarify our original curiosities about capital's affective projects with respect to automation, as well as its attempts at steering dispositions in order to mitigate, precisely, the indeterminacy of labour and user ‘reactions’. At the same time, we discuss how the four provocations have inspired us to re-assemble these tendencies and sentiments more plurally, to incorporate a series of overlapping affects, capitalist plots, shifting design values, detours, exigencies, digital glitches, and material interjections. We are impressed by the holism of perspectives presented in this dialogue, and how the discussion has only reinforced ideas about the fragility of automation's relations.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191736
D. Potts
The relationship between the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ sectors has long been a topic of academic inquiry. Brandon Finn's paper which focuses on a case study of Zambia argues for a deeper historicisation of the formal/informal inquiry. In my reflections on Finn's paper I suggest that Zambia's lack of a pre-colonial urban tradition may create some limitations on the historicisation of ‘informality’ and the discussion might usefully be pushed beyond the historical boundaries of European colonialism to consideration of urban economic activities in pre-colonial and pre-capitalist states and their urban centres.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191738
Majed Akhter
This commentary flags three key themes related to Muslim geographies. The first is the diversity and interconnectedness of Islam across regions, and the way Muslim practice is formed through a sense of place. The second is the need to rethink the spatial categories of core and periphery across Muslim space. Lastly, the third suggests that the contextualized study of Muslim geographies should reshape geographical knowledge, especially with respect to world regional geography.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189579
K. Strauss
This commentary briefly develops Birch and Ward's argument that research on the ‘new asset geographies’ can make important contributions to understanding new and evolving geographies of social reproduction. I argue that processes and mechanisms of assetization connect not only to the making of markets but also of investor subjects, and are empirically and conceptually connected to multi-dimensional precarity in and beyond paid work. The latter signals the potential for more dialogue between researchers working to understand geographies of precarity and the new asset geographies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189575
Han Cheng, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente
Conjunctural analysis makes an important addition to the conceptual toolbox for understanding the contours of China's (capitalist) regional economies. In this commentary, we concur with Peck's suggestion that the conjunctural approach can animate economic geography's engagement with ‘thick’ theorization without foregoing context-rich inquiry. However, we also emphasize Stuart Hall's commitment to counter-hegemonic politics and his use of the conjunctural approach to explore – and ultimately facilitate – historical breaks in social structures of dominance. Through a brief exploration of ways of engaging the region in China area studies and Chinese geography, we discuss how the conjunctural approach can be mobilized to (re)politicize geographies of regional development.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/20438206231191737
P. Cobbinah
Informality has become central to urban sustainability and one of the most polemically debated topics in modern urban studies and human geography. Finn's analysis intends to bring critical geo-historical colonial research to this debate and remains an important contribution. In this essay, my main argument – which expands on Finn's work – is that informality in its current conception does not comprehend fully the colonial and neocolonial structures in Africa and fails to engage deeply enough to recognize informality's indispensability and alter existing notions and patterns of inequalities. I reflect on the embodiment of informality as Africa's urban culture and argue for its support to deliver sustainable outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1177/20438206231189581
X. Livermon
In this commentary on Andrew Tucker's ( 2023 ) article, ‘A Sexuality Pivot,’ I discuss both the exciting possibilities and some caveats to consider as we engage critically in solidarity-oriented research. In the main, I am interested in what kinds of considerations we as researchers must engage if we are to effectively pivot toward solidarity. Here, I engage the rich history of solidarity from Abolitionist and Black feminist traditions to think through how contributions from Black studies, expansively defined, might enrich the conversation on solidarity as a research method. In particular, I examine the fruitful possibilities drawn from D. Soyini Madison, Audre Lorde, and the strategy of witnessing (developed from Frederick Douglass by way of Dwight Conquergood) as a way of thinking through contemporary solidaristic scholarship on the geographies of sexuality.
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