Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1177/19427786231188346
Ananya Roy
In this tribute to Mike Davis, I engage with his concept of the “slum” to analyze the present conjuncture of the First World slum, notably mass homelessness in Los Angeles. While Davis honed his attention on global neoliberalism, I draw upon his incisive LA essays to uncover the violence of liberal governance, specifically what he calls “community capitalism.” Drawing on my work with insurgent research collectives, I argue that the LA intifada is alive and well in the marginalized spaces of the city where community defenders repeatedly assert collective power in the face of social death.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1177/03091325231188375
D. McNeill
This Progress Report reviews recent literature that rethinks the spatiality of the university. First, it discusses the growing body of work that identifies the agency of universities in producing and shaping urban space, including their role in contributing to social injustice in cities. Second, it reviews understandings of universities as sites of relational knowledge production, linking this to the proliferation of studies of student (im)mobility. Third, it considers how the university works to spatially sort and place bodies – students, staff and non-humans.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1177/19427786231180850
K. Cox
Despite its significance for social research, the territorial structure of the state remains a lacuna. States can vary quite significantly, but this is not something attracting attention. Understanding this variation depends first on a recognition of the capitalist form of the state. The result is that class conflicts have to enter into their division into sub-units and the powers and responsibilities accorded to them. These conflicts are never indifferent to questions of uneven development. Accordingly, the local or regional nature of class interests has to enter into struggles around the state's territorial structure. On the other hand, geohistory matters. Contemporary struggles unfold in conditions relayed from a pre-capitalist past or from the early years of capitalist development, and these conditions can vary very considerably from one country to another. These claims are illustrated by a comparison of the American and British cases.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1177/03091325231186810
John Lauermann, Khouloud Mallak
Many cities have a two-tiered system for governing land: one set of rules for most people, and a different set for elite investors, large developers, and others who can bend, circumvent, or lobby against the rules. This reflects elite capture of urban institutions, as institutions are subverted to benefit special interests. We argue elite capture plays a systemic role in 21st century urban political economy. We review recent scholarship on four kinds of elite capture practices—rent seeking, opportunity hoarding, exploiting loopholes, and co-opting participatory planning—and illustrate them with a discussion of recent gentrification research.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/19427786231168092
F. Manning
This article presents an overview of ground rent theories from a historical and political vantage, analyzing chronological continuities and discontinuities, and hypothesizing about the historicopolitical motivations which spur certain approaches to ground rent. I begin with “Classical Marxist” approaches to ground rent theory in the decades after Marx’s death, followed by an analysis of ground rent theory from the 1970s to 2020s. While critical of some contemporary trends in ground rent scholarship, I note several important contributions the literature makes to our understanding of the world and argue that ground rent-based analyses yield a unique and essential interpretation of class relations, state–capital relations, and the complexity of embodied categories of capitalist social relations. I conclude by considering Demonic Ground/Rent in which the analysis of ground rent may lead us toward ascertaining how to most deeply and fundamentally challenge, refuse, abolish, the current state of things—if we allow ourselves to follow it there.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1177/03091325231177278
G. Waitt, R. Gordon, T. Harada, L. Gurrieri, G. Reith, Joseph Cioriari
This paper reviews the progress of geographical research on the gambling industry and presents a framework to comprehend the role of space in gambling consumption and harm. It covers two themes: the casino’s place in urban governance and the agency of gamblers, and how space impacts gambling consumption and harm. The paper introduces a conceptual framework of orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy to better comprehend how gambling practices can increase or decrease risk. Finally, the paper suggests that this framework can help to better understand online sports gambling consumption and harm in the context of market growth.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/19427786231176787
A. A. Ortega
This paper reviews critical demography, revisiting its initial invocation as a paradigm focusing on the interweaving of power relations and demographic outcomes. Building on earlier critiques about demography's proclivity to positivist epistemology, I contribute to the initial proposition by framing demography as a power-knowledge, exposing the politics of demographic knowledge production. While critical demography remains marginal in demography, interdisciplinary demographers from allied fields have provided important contributions. Given the contemporary moment characterized by social and ecological upheavals, I argue for a recalibration—Critical Demography 2.0—which seriously reflects on the “critical” and works toward emancipatory politics, addressing issues of social justice and plight of marginalized populations. In moving forward, I argue for the need to think of praxis (demography for marginalized populations), epistemological diversity (mixed methods, critical quantification, and interdisciplinarity), and sustained engagement on critical themes. Critical geographers can offer an important role in recalibrating critical demography, by our emphasis on spatial politics and spatial justice, critical quantification, and community-engaged countermapping.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/03091325231178029
Nick Lally
Sound is always present in exercises of police power, whether produced through sonic weaponry, routinized interventions into social life, or contributions to everyday soundscapes. The use of sound is productive of how police produce, govern, and intervene in space. Scholars in geography and adjacent fields have grappled with sound in ways that engage with or have the potential to inform the study of police within the discipline. Attention to sound adds texture to understandings of state power as expressed through the contested sonic politics of policing. This article explores sound and policing through their territorial, affective, atmospheric, and political effects.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/19427786231176789
Daniel Manzione Giavarotti, Ana Carolina Gonçalves Leite, Clara Lemme Ribeiro
The present paper discusses the relation between population dynamics and accumulation of capital, with special emphasis on a critical dialogue with the theory of accumulation by dispossession as presented by Marxist geographer David Harvey. We depart from a discussion on the so-called primitive accumulation as conceptualized by Karl Marx, in order to identify the fundamental meaning of the said historical process: the formation of capitalism, rooted in the separation between owners of means of production, on the one hand, and owners of the workforce commodity, on the other. From there on, we present a critical appraisal of the land grabbing scholarship, in which we spotlight similarities between land grabbing's expulsive and expropriating effects and the so-called accumulation by dispossession and its supposed capacity to resolve capital's crises. However, we problematize such an interpretation in light of the fundamental crisis of capital, that is, capital's tendency to absorb less and less workers into productive processes, due to capitalist competition and technological development, that in turn undermines capital accumulation itself. Lastly, we explore how contemporary expulsion processes, in a multiscalar register, go hand in hand with distinct confinement strategies as forms of surplus population management, typical of the barbarism provoked by the collapse of capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1177/03091325231170328
Luke Temple
The sub-discipline of electoral geography contains research threads that draw on different theoretical, philosophical, and methodological traditions. I link these threads to the ‘digital turn’ that is occurring in the electoral landscape and in the discipline of geography itself. The use of digital technology is increasingly shaping electioneering and data regimes, providing new conceptual challenges concerning the spatial mediation and subsequent knowledge politics of voting and campaigning. Responding to these challenges requires not only building on the subfield’s tradition of interdisciplinarity but also on strengthening intra-disciplinary dialogue, in particular working across the quantitative–qualitative divide.
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