Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177067
Farhan Anshary
In this commentary, I pose a question regarding how critical geographers will position themselves toward Islam as a different mode of decolonising (or something beyond it) that is fundamentally different from mainstream critical geography. To build this argument, I first expand on Sidaway's account of how one should understand Islam and its consequences. I then argue that critical geography is an extension of a secularisation project whose presuppositions negate the Islamic worldview. To conclude, I reflect on my engagement with critical geography as a Muslim and lay out some questions to be considered by critical geographers.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177068
Patricia Noxolo, Safiya Hamis
Sidaway's article is provocative in its agenda to go beyond the decolonial. In this commentary, we consider the implications of this move in relation to decolonial geographies and Muslim feminism. We conclude by considering questions of identity and reflexivity that arise from decolonial and feminist perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177070
S. Mahanty, S. Milne, K. Barney, W. Dressler, P. Hirsch, P. To
In our article, ‘Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced, and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis’, we advocated for contextually rich and critical understandings of environmental crises and their catalytic effects. This authors’ reply responds to four commentaries whose authors raise helpful questions and insights. We first review the spatial and temporal connections between specific rupture episodes and ongoing processes of extraction and exploitation. We then discuss how the impacts of rupture disproportionately fall to those with the smallest contribution to the crisis. Third, we clarify how our contextually rich view of rupture differs from planetary analytics such as the Anthropocene. In terms of rupture's effects, we agree with comments that rupture does not simply represent a politics of hope but can strengthen authoritarian interests. Finally, we clarify what it means to ‘put rupture to work’.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177077
Christopher Lizotte
In this commentary, I make a case for recognizing and encouraging in human geography a sort of mundane kindness that is unremarkable in its ambition, but potentially profound in its impacts. Although it is important to continue to analyze the conditions that have left so many of us in need of acts of kindness that compensate for the failures and violence of the neoliberal academy, I argue that alongside this critical scholarship we could continue to make room for ‘ordinary’ kindness that does not necessarily need to justify itself through critical reflection.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177076
A. A. Ortega
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple issues we are confronting at the contemporary moment, geographers are faced with the critical task of finding ways to address and grapple with these concerns. This commentary advocates for community geography as an important praxis-oriented intervention that utilizes theory and methods for community issues. However, the practice of community geography is constrained by academia's neoliberalizing terrain, whereby a globalizing deployment of ‘publish-or-perish’ productivity has been reconfiguring what geographers can and ought to be doing. By going against the neoliberal grain and practicing community geography, the possibilities for theoretical innovation and political potentials open up towards a geography that is socially relevant and directly addresses issues affecting the lives of marginalized community members.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177063
Han Cheng
This essay reflects on critical Chinese geographies in a fracturing world strongly shaped by the ‘new Cold War’ and post-pandemic politics. I argue that in any attempt to rethink geography for emerging global futures, the geopolitical entanglement of positionality and knowledge production must be a key element. After considering the limits to dialogue in a time of trouble, I map the possibilities of internationalism at different geographic scales and academic locations, all of which call for traveling geographies that cross physical, ontological, and epistemic borders.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177060
Michiel van Meeteren
The future of geography has to accommodate a constraint: academia's intellectual responsibility for school geography. This constraint can be utilized creatively, as it invites definitions of geography that grasp the bigger picture and accommodate difference, while also integrating prior conceptions of the discipline. This essay imagines a future where the resulting synthesis of ‘geography as an open pluralist pedagogy’ has potential far beyond schools to carry the discipline forward.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177074
H. Yeung
This commentary takes on Jamie Peck’s conjunctural methodologies and reflects on the epistemological matter of theory and explanation in geography. Mapping onto several key elements of conjunctural analysis, I reframe its methodological examination in relation to mid-level concepts and theories (i.e. mid-range theory), the articulation of causality and causal co-determination (i.e. causal mechanisms), and situational analysis, historicisation, and thick theorisation as context-rich explanation (i.e. context-specificity). By way of a sympathetic critique, I focus on two potential ‘blind spots’ that might require further rethinking and perhaps remedies: the underdevelopment of practical adequacy and the role of normative theorising in conjunctural methodologies.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177449
G. Kearns
Responding to the parallel that Tucker draws between the divergent geopolitical accounts of the decline of British power from the late-nineteenth century and the focus he proposes for sexuality in accounts of the current decline of US power, this commentary reconsiders the geopolitics of the solidarities around sexuality that Tucker highlights. I find the geopolitics of aid too colonial in their intent and effects to be called a solidarity. I extend Tucker's focus on homonationalism to consider how conservative sexualities are complicit in the modern rise of autocracy and incipient fascism.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1177/20438206231177065
Salene Schloffel‐Armstrong
The current abundance of geographical research on social infrastructure has drawn renewed attention to the enduring importance of a range of public services, including the public library. However, these works have not engaged at length with the infrastructural futures of such services, neither in their ongoing vulnerability, nor with what they may illuminate, or already contain of possible and more radical urban futures. This commentary considers the future of social infrastructure: the viability of the physical spaces themselves, and the need for the theoretical concept to engage more explicitly with questions of temporality.
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