Pub Date : 2025-05-15eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1177/02637758251334335
Anne-Marie Veillette
This essay examines the urban atmospheres of terror in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the perspective of women residents. Drawing on two ethnographic projects conducted in various favelas in 2016 and 2019, I argue that terror, as an urban atmosphere, is deeply rooted in a long history of racialized and gendered violence, and that its persistence in the contemporary urban landscape is a consequence of the coloniality of power. The analysis begins by exploring the layers, textures, and complexities of urban atmospheres of terror, providing a deeper understanding of their racialized and gendered nature. It further examines the transformative power of the body in reshaping these urban atmospheres, focusing on how favela women cultivate alternative affective atmospheres within their communities. Drawing on Afrodiasporic and decolonial feminist thinking, I show how Afrodescendant women in the favelas resist and transform these atmospheres, creating spaces that challenge the coloniality of power and its spatial manifestations, such as urban borders. I conclude that a key aspect of favela women's urban politics and resistance to coloniality is rooted in the body and the affective dimensions of urban life.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1177/02637758231208286
Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini
Recent literature on investment and African infrastructure have called for examining ‘Global China’s’ urban impacts. This article investigates these in the entrepôt city of Beira, Mozambique, offering an approach to urban investment that centers cities’ rural-urban, and historically entangled connections. Through what I term ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ aspects, I introduce an analytical and conceptual approach to attend to these temporal and spatial dynamics of not only city-making, but capitalist-oriented, extractivist place-making. Analyzing a set of historical and colonial hotels and special economic zones (SEZs), I demonstrate how, rather than being a Chinese model for implementation in various locales, new Mozambican-Chinese projects in Beira articulate with and create new spatial connections that are innately interlinked with European extractive practices and designs. I also de-center the city, demonstrating how urban space is reconfigured through its relationship with its outsides, rather than the other way around. By investigating Beira as a re-forming resource entrepôt, I challenge the above scholarship to take seriously deeper histories of infrastructure investment in Africa, and attend to the inextricable nature of especially city-hinterland regional ties. Ultimately, I examine temporal and spatial entanglements of capitalist extraction, entrepôt construction, and Southern African urbanism, through a historically situated and regional view.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1177/02637758231211425
Thembi Luckett
Marapong, “place of bones”, is situated in the shadow of the coal-fired Matimba Power Station and Grootegeluk coal mine in Lephalale, northern South Africa. Marapong was named after the bones of a local woman, Salaminah Moloantoa, which were found during the development of Grootegeluk in 1973. That same year her bones were buried on Naawontkomen farm where she had lived. Thirty-four years later with the construction of coal-fired Medupi Power Station, Moloantoa’s bones became the site of industrial construction again in this current iteration of extractivism. Working from two provocations that emerged during fieldwork – we are dead here and the mines turn our lives upside down – I relocate social death and its relation to different kinds of violence that constitute racial capitalism in this city of coal. In so doing, I engage with literature on Afropessimism, the black radical tradition, and land and ancestral struggles and argue for reconceptualising social death as grounded in place and time rather than a totalising ontological condition. Such a rereading emphasises relationality and the processes of contestation over land, life, and death, that open up futures beyond that of bones becoming coal for fossil fuel development.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1177/02637758231203822
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn
How did the arrival of growing numbers of refugees and migrants in a non-violent setting and high-income country like Norway become framed as a ‘humanitarian crisis’ and with what consequences? In this article, we examine the framing and responses to the influx of refugees and other migrants to Norway in 2015–16, in and around Oslo and in the Arctic region of Storskog, along the Russian border. Our analysis draws on two theoretical contributions: work on ‘crisis and chaos’ and the idea of ‘chaotic geographies’, and work on the ‘humanitarian arena’ . Taking a tripartite approach, we study how time, space and different levels of response (citizen volunteers, established humanitarian actors and the state) contributed to the framing of the situation as a humanitarian crisis, and the consequences of this. We show that Norway is a political and geographical outlier, and that the state’s response to this ‘humanitarian crisis’ and potentially chaotic situation was seen as both appropriate and legitimate. We argue this helped ‘de-escalate’ the chaotic geography.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1177/02637758231205958
Hilary Oliva Faxon, Courtney T Wittekind
Scams are endemic to digital capitalism, whether they manifest as bitcoin bubbles or bullshit jobs. Drawing on two years of digital ethnography in Myanmar’s Facebook land markets, this article explains what happens when the land scam migrates online. By unraveling warnings of trickery, interviewing wary participants, and inhabiting Facebook Live real estate tours, we argue that the scam is a vocation born of hope and desperation that targets land as the most-stable asset amidst crisis, one which operates through the networked and affective affordances of social media sites. Specifically, we highlight how Facebook enables brokers to ‘crowd’ transactions and amplify hype around sought-after plots, obscuring risk and responsibility while generating excitement and competition. Live video formats enable brokers to cultivate digital intimacy and authenticity from afar, creating a collective emotional investment in what we call the “virtual reality of land.” Bringing together critical geography and media studies, our analysis situates the scam in particular histories of inequality while explaining how these relations are reformulated through social media sites' sensory, affective, and connective affordances.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1177/02637758231204701
Jeffrey S Nesbit
The United States spaceport, and more importantly, its technical landscape, operate in the background for the technological and political progress in pursuit of the extraterrestrial. Throughout the construction of the launch complexes on the Florida coastline, earthmoving became standard practice to elevate rocket pads above sea level and protect against rocket blasts. However, a more extended history of earthmoving at Cape Canaveral is necessary. From Earth’s early geological formations and indigenous burial mounds to the modernization of rockets, Cape Canaveral presents itself as an evolution of terrestrial form. And still, earthmoving continues today. In 2016, an article advised the greatest threats to NASA's landscape are rising sea levels and hurricanes, causing substantial erosion to the beach, leaving active and historically significant launch facilities at risk. Cape Canaveral beaches are now preparing for additional dredging, importing new soil, and raising beach and dune elevations. This article reveals a critical history of place-based science on Cape Canaveral through an evolution of earthmoving practices, from cultural commemoration, extraterrestrial imagination, and contemporary environmental crises.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1177/02637758231206899
Aaron Mallory
Renisha McBride, who was killed by a white homeowner while seeking help after a car crash, made national headlines due to her murderer’s stand your ground defense failing to absolve him of manslaughter charges. This article argues that a key factor in McBride’s justice claims were the unknown characteristics of her encounter with the murderer that allowed family members to advocate on her behalf. Using the Black Feminist concept of unknowability, I look at how news media discourses about McBride’s unknown space and time prior to her encounter made her invisible while facilitating the continuous questioning of the events that night. Through an analysis of McBride’s negative portrayals in news media and court proceedings along with family members’ testimonies, I consider the ways unknowability affords Black women the ability to move from geographies of invisibility to visibility through a constant questioning of Black women’s relationship to space. I argue that unknowability allowed McBride to obtain some form of juridical justice.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1177/02637758231205105
David Bissell
Being affected in on-demand platform urbanism is a primary site of politics, not an aftereffect that happens once capitalism has had its way. To make this argument, this article begins by expanding automation from its conventional technical purview to better appreciate its overlooked embodied dimensions. Accordingly, through the examples of on-demand mobility and delivery platforms, I explain how automation can be understood as a specific structure of feeling immanent to on-demand platform urbanism that is transforming city life and creating distinctive subjectivities. This article takes as its empirical focus the unravelling of these embodied dimensions of automation, which has been exacerbated by the gradual rollback of COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne. My argument is that a felt sense of disaffection by both workers and consumers is effectively deautomating this form of on-demand platform capitalism. The article concludes that disaffection in this context has a potentially recuperative dimension, opening up alternative urban futures that were previously unthinkable.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1177/02637758231209656
Kendra Kintzi
This article examines the fragmented connections of Jordan’s smart grid, building on scholarship that questions how smart infrastructures reshape governance, sociospatial exclusion, and the fabric of urban life. Jordan’s ambitious smart energy program is often held up as a global model by investors, as it catalyzed over US$4 billion in private investment for new renewable and smart energy development. Yet smart energy transition is experienced in powerfully uneven ways, as distributed solar installations and smart grid technologies radically remake the spaces of urban life. Rooted in sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the vertical materialization of the smart grid from the ground up, from in-home smart meters through the evolving interconnections that they enact. I argue that (post)colonial property relations engender an archipelagic landscape of (dis)connectivity that redistributes the benefits and burdens of digitalization. Drawing from Glissant’s archipelagic thought, I examine (dis)connection and urban fragmentation as a form of relation that links enduring (post)colonial relations to contemporary projects of smart development. In the (post)colonial world, as smart infrastructures are built into the conduits of uneven property relations, they come to incorporate not only capitalist logics but also racialized logics and historically contingent relations of exclusion and differentiation.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1177/02637758231206621
Annie Morgan Elledge
This article argues that Durham, North Carolina configures itself as a place for weight loss through its dieting industry and its identity as the “Diet Capital of the World.” Building from archival data from the 1930s through the 1980s, I trace the historical development of Durham’s diet industry. Following work in crip studies this article theorizes weight loss as a “cure” that works to remove fatness from individual bodies and remove fat people from the future. Engaging with work in urban geography and critical geographies of fatness, this article analyzes how anti-fatness and place co-produce each other across scales in the city. The Rice Houses and Durham’s broader dieting landscape illustrate how places are created for spatial and temporal disciplining of fat bodies. Attending to these sites, this article understands how anti-fat cure constructs places to discipline fat people’s bodies and create futures without fatness.
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