Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/20438206231179230
Bo Zhao
In this commentary, I explore the potential future for GIScience to broaden its focus from technological advancements to examining the dynamic interactions between geographic information system (GIS) technology, its users, and the places where it is being utilized. Drawing on the postphenomenological perspectives of Don Ihde and his followers, this commentary reimagines GIScience by emphasizing its ability to shape and be shaped by human experiences and various creative forces across bodies and places. This reorientation decenters GIScience beyond the human body by also encompassing non-human entities such as animals, bots, and algorithms. In the face of a rapidly growing data-intensive society, this commentary underlines the importance of adopting a caring stance when it comes to the use and development of GIS. This perspective of care can enhance our understanding and empathy toward ourselves, the planet, and all other beings. This reorientation of GIScience plays a significant role in shaping future trajectories of GIScience and the discipline of geography, enabling us to effectively tackle the theoretical and practical challenges posed by a rapidly evolving data-intensive society.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177450
Nataly A. Díaz-Cruz
Conceiving Lefebvre's theorization of autogestion as ‘revolutionary spontaneity’ involves present it in relation to the reappropriation of space in opposition to the domination that neoliberalism has brought over nature and people's everyday lives around the world. In this commentary, I elaborate on the aesthetic condition that is also required for the flourishing of this ‘revolutionary spontaneity’ as a path to socio-ecological sustainability by adding to the material-dialectical approach of nature-society the necessity of further re-evaluating the trichotomy of body-mind-spirit. In doing so, I argue that we need to consider siblinghood as a way to relate with creation (nature and people) to foster the achievement of global autogestion.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178802
Aya Nassar
In this commentary, I read Sidaway's ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’ as an invitation to engage in alternative cartographies and lateral engagements with what Islam (broadly and complexly conceived) might say to the discipline. In doing so, I build upon Sidaway's invitation to suggest a deeper engagement with the complexity of already existing Islamic geographical traditions and scholarship on Muslim spatialities by pulling out two themes that echo some of those raised in the main article: (1) Islamic traditions of mapping and cartography, and (2) scholarship on Islam and the city. The central aim of my response, however, is to push for different entry points when considering the decolonial possibilities of Muslim geographies rather than an entry point of dismissal from disciplinary geography. Only by decentring the whiteness of the discipline as the starting point, can Islamic traditions of geography be engaged on their own terms, as complex, evolving, contextual, and at times perhaps problematic.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177064
Archie Davies
This commentary suggests that the history of geography can best contribute to the future of geography through an open and recursive approach to the history of ideas about space and nature. I argue that the history of geographical ideas should develop in dialectical relation with how contemporary geography changes. To support this argument, I sketch what a recursive and anti-disciplinary history of geography might look like, as each new geographical innovation opens new paths for the history of geographical ideas to tread, and new histories of thinking to scrutinise.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178820
J. Speer
Millions of people across the world today live without access to safe, stable housing. Geography has contributed greatly to current understandings of homelessness and pushed the broader field of homelessness studies to challenge the unequal power relations embedded in our homes, institutions, and cities. This short reflection presents a brief overview of some key insights of geographical research on homelessness and argues that geography's contributions could be strengthened by taking a more global approach to the problem. Building on the concept of ‘worlding’, I argue that the discipline can move beyond its focus on European and North American dynamics, broaden its narrow conception of homelessness to include analysis of informality and housing precarity, and engage a more diverse repertoire of theoretical frameworks for understanding the problem.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178826
AbdouMaliq Simone
It has been an honour to have such wonderful scholars, whose work I really respect, put in the work to read and say something about this book. Many salient questions are asked, and points raised in the commentaries. Narayanan Palat invokes the once again controversial notion of ‘the field’ as a medium in which researchers both are surrounded by particular conundrums and surround the everyday practices of those with whom a certain distance is constituted through a practice called ‘research’. What is the surrounds here, they ask, and what are the ethics and politics of a ‘figure’ that both belongs and is detached from a situation, or where neither belonging or detachment is an adequate term for the positionality entailed. Who surrounds who, and where this is not a question that can be attributed to a specific designation or geography? While Lalitha Kamath views the surrounds as an atmospheric condition for a subaltern politics – something to which I might only partially subscribe, they nevertheless, point out the almost intractable dilemmas entailed in apprehending the resourcefulness of the working poor who continue to reinvent the conditions of endurance – but barely. And certainly not in terms that are just or sufficient. Kamath is attentive to the multiple archives of itineraries evident in the working poor peripheries of Mumbai, itineraries that reflect a constant sense of movement; that things don’t stand still; that one is fully captured by a specific position, even as possibilities are intensely gendered and subject to sweeping ‘counterinsurgencies’ by various forms of state power. Here the questions about the extent to which autonomy can be materialized by being left to one’s own devices and the concessions to be made by being ‘taken care of’ through the reciprocal responsibilities of state and citizen are not easily reconciled, and must ‘taken on’ as a matter of a constant re-arrangement of their mutual relations as surrounds. Additionally it is important to emphasize the conceivable ways in which researchers are both imbricated and co-producers of surrounds, the south, and the metropolis, and how these are in an always oscillating relationship with each other. And as they are repeated in some kind of integral relationship – meaning that that the south might surround the metropolis, as the metropolis surrounds the south – as well as researchers being surrounded by often impossible positions from which they nevertheless try to do something – that the surrounds becomes the term for shifting relations of encompassment and detachment, of reciprocity and rupture. This is not just a matter of the perspective of researchers but a structural condition. A structuring that always entails a multiplicity of conceivable conjunctions, of what might be. Even if metropolis and south are limiting terms, their very repetition points to the possibilities of something else besides what we know and assume, that might have been present all along. One can begin
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/20438206231178821
O. Mould
In this reply, I reflect on the ways in which the responses to my Seven Ethics Against Capitalism book have focussed on specific parts and sections of the book, and offer my thoughts on how their thoughtful interjections can be taken forward in collaboration, to proffer a new politics of ‘hope’ in an era where we find the world on palliative care.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177083
R. Bandyopadhyay
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177061
Timur Hammond
In this commentary, I engage with James Sidaway's recent article, ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’. I respond to its contributions and provocations by asking two linked questions. First, what is the place of language in these critical Muslim geographies? I suggest that geographers should situate their engagement with key terms in their contexts, a project that complicates how terms like din are taken to be a core part of Muslim geographies. Second, I ask how we are to understand the ‘Muslim’ of Muslim geographies. Our answer to that question has consequences for how we understand our categories of practice and analysis.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177080
Isaac Rivera
The proliferation and everywhereness of digital materialities, operations, and mediations require attention to the ways that colonial knowledge assumes access to Indigenous lands. In this commentary, I consider what an agenda for accountable digital geographies might look like. With the turn to (re)imagine the futures of geographical praxis, I invite a collective inquiry on how digital practices can work toward geographies of accountability and restitution on Indigenous lands with the aim of honoring the places, spaces, and communities in which geographical knowledge emerges. I suggest that decolonial and anticolonial methods redirect digital practices toward Land Back, re-orienting geographical knowledge to the affirmation of Indigenous life.
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