Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103427
Jason Dittmer
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103481
Deirdre Conlon, Mia Bennett, Kate Coddington, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Christopher Lizotte, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier Walther
{"title":"Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry","authors":"Deirdre Conlon, Mia Bennett, Kate Coddington, Patricia Ehrkamp, Charis Enns, Christopher Lizotte, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Olivier Walther","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103481","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103481"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145924384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103423
Sara Smith , Angela Parker , Kaitlin Reed , Dylan M. Harris , Brittani R. Orona , Jen Rose Smith , Andrew Curley
{"title":"Reading Andrew Curley's Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press (2023). 217 pp ISBN 9780816539604","authors":"Sara Smith , Angela Parker , Kaitlin Reed , Dylan M. Harris , Brittani R. Orona , Jen Rose Smith , Andrew Curley","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103423"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440
Emanuel Deutschmann , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Alexandra Orlova , Niklas Harder , Ettore Recchi
Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany's system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent.
{"title":"A time penalty for the Global South? Inequalities in visa appointment wait times at German embassies and consulates worldwide","authors":"Emanuel Deutschmann , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Alexandra Orlova , Niklas Harder , Ettore Recchi","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany's system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103440"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-29DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103477
Ananda Siddhartha
A substantial body of critical scholarship has examined how conservation territories are expanded beyond protected area boundaries through territorialisation. This involves specific strategies such as regulating access, enforcing boundaries, and delineating spatial domains to secure control. More recently, wildlife corridors have emerged as a key mechanism for this expansion, justified by their role in maintaining connectivity between fragmented habitats. While much of the literature focuses on how conservation is prioritised over other land uses, an important question arises: what happens when a corridor is imposed on a landscape where ecotourism is already established? This article examines such a situation by analysing the case of the Sigur elephant corridor, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officially notified by the state administration and the judiciary in 2010. As part of this notification, resorts located within the corridor were ordered to close and their buildings demolished. This not only had an immediate impact on these establishments but also triggered a chain of effects on the lives and livelihoods of people living within the landscape, and further exacerbated contestations between the Forest Department and other actors. I demonstrate how the discursive power of the ecological idea of the corridor was used to territorialise this landscape, signalling a decisive governance turn whereby the political geography of the landscape is increasingly dominated by a conservation logic. This conclusion has important implications for how political ecology should understand the changing role of conservation in Indian society and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103482
Alejandro De Coss-Corzo
This paper analyses the role that bureaucrats play in processes of state-making at the infrastructural frontier. It does so through a close archival analysis of administrative contentions in the building of the Lerma System, an interbasin water transfer built in Central Mexico between 1942 and 1951 to supply Mexico City with fresh water. The Lerma is understood as part of a broader techno-political transition in post-revolutionary Mexico, where large infrastructures were simultaneously territorialising state power and materialising a push for modernisation, urbanisation and industrialisation. In critical dialogue with scholarship that theorises this transition as one of authoritarian centralisation, this paper shows that this process was riddled with contentions within the state apparatus, which shaped the way these infrastructures were built and had profound implications for the historical and contemporary techno-politics of hydraulic infrastructure in Mexico City. By focusing on bureaucrats and administrative practices, this paper contributes to scholarship that theorises the heterogeneity of the state and its effects by highlighting the constrained agency these state workers have in face of profound techno-political changes and political economic and ecological transitions.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-21DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103473
Sachin Tiwale
The paper advances scholarship on water appropriation by examining the appropriation process at the metropolitan scale, foregrounding inequities in intra-metropolitan water distribution, and applying the lens of technopolitics to deepen insight into the processes underpinning water appropriation. It illustrates how water is legitimately appropriated for the city of Mumbai, depriving other municipal corporations, councils, and industrial centres within the metropolitan region. The paper demonstrates how technical decisions—such as adopting a river basin development approach and framing the diversion of water originally reserved for irrigation to Mumbai as a temporary and emergency measure—were strategically employed to legitimise appropriation as a natural, depoliticised process. The river basin approach, typically perceived as promoting integrated planning, was used to carve out the Mumbai Hydrometric Area (MHA), following hydrological boundaries to gain control over water resources on the mainland. Meanwhile, framing water diversion as a technical and emergency measure assisted in avoiding potential criticism from farmers and civil society. The sense of urgency was crafted by overestimating water demand and exaggerating short-term water shortages, thereby limiting the scope for long-term solutions and presenting diversion as the only viable technical option. Through these technopolitical manoeuvres, Mumbai, geographically located on an island, legitimately secured control and selectively appropriated suitable water resources on the mainland.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103475
Anna Wojciuk , Tomasz Pawłuszko
Russia’s 2014 aggression against Ukraine generated a crisis of liberal security identities in Poland, producing a condition of geopolitical vertigo. Building on scholarship in geopolitics, popular geopolitics, populism, and right-wing worldviews, this article examines the revival of geopolitics as a grassroots phenomenon unfolding outside the control of traditional political, professional, and cultural elites, and enabled by digital communication. Drawing on qualitative analysis of leading grassroots geopoliticians’ content, elite interviews, audience engagement, and additional qualitative materials, we show how new discursive actors naturalize spatial understandings of international politics, recast friend/enemy distinctions, and articulate criticism of incumbent elites amid the crisis of the liberal security order. We also analyze how epistemic elites responded to their declining authority and how audiences embraced alternative geopolitical interpretations. Our findings demonstrate that grassroots geopolitics has become a significant channel for right-wing populist mobilization, that it moved beyond what any segment of the political elite could openly endorse, and that it amplified the divide between elites and “the people” over the foundations of foreign policy.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103474
Miguel Paradela López , Charles Larratt-Smith
Over the past decade, Tapachula, a peripheral city located on Mexico's southern border, has emerged as one of the most significant territorial bottlenecks for migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees traveling towards the United States. While officially framed as a humanitarian entry point to Mexico, the city functions as a site of bureaucratic containment where restrictive immigration policies and an overwhelmed asylum system render tens of thousands of migrants immobile. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Tapachula, this article examines how immigration control on Mexico's southern border is shaped by state policies that have constructed an extensive subnational infrastructure centered around documentation, surveillance, and spatial confinement, complementary strategies that have converted this urban space into a migratory chokepoint. There, a range of actors—public and private, national and local— have converged to capitalize on the migrant population's vulnerability, often in ways that exacerbate the widespread precarity in which migrants exist in this border city. Yet, we also find that migrants are not merely passive victims of this enforced immobility. Rather, they engage in chokepoint pragmatics, everyday strategies of adaptation, resistance, and negotiation, to navigate Tapachula's realities in the hopes of continuing their journeys northwards.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-12DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103472
Esther Tordjmann , Nicole T Cook
Animal rights activism has been criticised in settler-colonial states for overlooking human rights abuses and shielding colonial powers. However, the efforts of animal rights activists to expand their political alliances with subaltern and colonised others are laden with tensions, stemming from the oppression and violence of settler-colonial projects. The steps that progressive non-Indigenous activists can take to support alliances with colonised others are therefore unclear. In this article, we contend that Indigenous activists' perspectives offer critical insights into the development of alliances between Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists towards linked human and animal rights in settler-colonial states. Drawing on an ethnography with Indigenous activists in Occupied Palestine (pre-October 7), we show that the conditions for alliance-building exceed the rejection of racialised settler colonialism. They also require commitments by non-Indigenous activists towards Indigenous grassroots movements encompassing the diverse political agendas and heterogeneity of Indigenous societies. Beyond the hegemony of Israeli occupation, Palestinian activists seek alliances that centre community and youth development, and self-determination as key dimensions of linked animal and human rights. These priorities unsettle the Western strictures of animal rights anchored in veganism as the sole political concern of Palestinian activists. Questioning the efficacy of inflexible moral and ethical frameworks as platforms for alliance-building, we instead locate alliances for linked animal and human rights within a politics of listening anchored in settler-colonial discomfort, the labour of yielding to Indigenous priorities and remaining open to contingent, ‘on the ground’ politics. In so doing, we show that activist ethnography can reveal complex postcolonial engagements with the political, and the plural and hybrid human and animal activisms that these geographies give rise to.
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