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This paper argues for the importance of centring mothers in the design and conceptualisation of ‘care-full’ and compassionate cities and communities. Focusing primarily on the experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood - particularly in relation to babies and toddlers - it reviews and unites literature on motherhood on the move and ‘caringscapes’, including caring and care-full cities and compassionate communities. While existing literature on compassionate communities has largely focused on the frail, elderly, and those with disabilities or life-limiting conditions, this paper highlights the need to also address the specific needs of mothers. It emphasises maternal physical, emotional, and mental health as key considerations in designing care-full urban environments. The paper advocates for mobility designs that prioritise mothers - whether they are travelling with or without their young children - within the framework of care-full cities and compassionate communities, aiming to create more mother-friendly cities that possess distinct qualities beyond those of child-friendly cities.

The Circular Economy (CE) has been identified as a promising tool for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 on responsible production and consumption. Instead of making things, using them, and then throwing them away, CE advocates for efficient use and reuse of materials and resources to reduce waste. While CE has gained prominence over the past decade, its discourse has been largely shaped by Western perspectives, often overlooking non-Western perspectives. To achieve SDG 12 by 2030, CE must move beyond its Global North-centric framing and incorporate diverse socio-cultural contexts, particularly those of the Global South. A key pathway to addressing this gap is the development of inclusive theoretical frameworks that foster broader, more inclusive discussions around CE. Although previous studies have attempted to address this dearth in research, they have largely overlooked the overlapping social, economic, cultural and political dimensions shaping Global South CE. This critical review introduces a new theoretical lens for understanding CE in a Global South context. It presents the Circular Economy Framework for Inclusive and Embedded Sustainability (CEFIES) - an innovative framework that draws on Indigenous Standpoint Theory, Social and Solidarity Economy, and Political Ecology to offer a more inclusive perspective on CE. CEFIES addresses the gaps in research by adopting a decolonial approach that effectively embeds considerations of social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions from the Global South in CE conceptualisation. By broadening the scope and applicability of CE, CEFIES enhances its inclusivity and effectiveness as a sustainability model.

Gig platforms mediating domestic services related to social reproduction are increasingly acknowledged as urban infrastructures. While critical scholars have discussed the related working conditions, profitmaking, and problems resulting from digital mediation extensively, there is no broader debate about the reorganization of reproductive work due to platform-mediated services. As a possible (techno-)fix for the crises of social reproduction and care, platforms seemingly offer a convenient way to deal with domestic care work. The crises, though, are not discussed as a structural phenomenon, but are shifted to individual households. Applying a feminist perspective combining materialist and poststructural approaches, this paper understands urban platforms mediating food delivery (groceries and meals) as commodified domestic service labor and takes such platforms as point of departure to discuss the reorganization of social reproductive activities in the face of both people's precariousness and precarity. Challenging the straightforward distinction between “convenient clients” and “precarious platform workers”, we claim that food delivery platforms rest upon the human need for care (precariousness), which they transform into precarity for the ones carrying out platform-mediated gigs. As a result, food delivery as commodified social reproductive labor manifests long-lasting characteristics of such work in capitalism, for example feminization, racialization, and invisibility. Therefore, we claim that food delivery platforms, far from merely pertaining to the sphere of exchange or to labor exploitation, they are also immanent to the expropriation of SR, by shifting it to expropriable “others”. Following up on this claim, and acknowledging the scarcity of studies on the clients' side regarding food delivery in Continental Europe, we conclude by suggesting further research areas connecting food delivery platforms and the reorganization of social reproduction.

The object of this paper is to offer a theorisation of experimentation in public policy, building upon insights from the study of policy mobilities. Drawing on the recent attention to time and temporalities in this academic literature, the paper argues that experimentation is an integral component of public policymaking, shaping the framing, learning, mediation and translation of public policies. The paper introduces four mid-level framings—experiments as: (i) situated; (ii) power-laden constructs; (iii) learning sites; and (iv) translation instances. These illustrate how experimentation can generatively advance the processual, relational, and socio-constructivist nature of policy mobilities studies. The paper concludes by highlighting how experimentation and policy mobilities are mutually generative lenses for theorising the making-up of public policymaking in the twenty-first century.

This article employs a legal animal geographies lens to redefine dogs as more-than-property, focusing on the UK’s legislative shift from the Theft Act 1968 to the Pet Abduction Act 2024, recognising their sentience. We explore how evolving societal values reshape legal frameworks, emphasising dogs’ emotional and social significance in human-dog relations. The study examines three legislative approaches - controlling out-of-place animals, regulating animal materiality, and protecting against harm - revealing their spatial and political dimensions. By analysing geographies of UK dog theft, we highlight patterns, victim experiences, and the property-companion divide. This shift challenges anthropocentric and speciesist legal systems, offering a model for multispecies justice with global policy impact. We envision future research, including non-western and indigenous perspectives, to advance ethical human-animal governance. Bridging animal and legal geographies, this study provides critical insights for students, researchers, and policymakers to understand and reform human-animal relations worldwide, advocating for ethical, evidence-based policies.

People who flee areas of armed conflict and other forms of violence do not automatically find peace upon leaving. Their lived experiences often involve continued violence across different stages and locations of forced migration, challenging conventional notions of what peace entails. Traditionally, peace is conceptualized in relation to armed violence and specific geographic areas within nation-states where such violence occurs. This article draws on geographic scholarship to reconceptualize peace within a transnational framework, challenging the state-centric perspectives that still prevail in peace research. The article is structured as follows: the first section explores how peace can be understood through the lived experiences of migrants in Europe, foregrounding their perspectives as a lens for rethinking conventional peace narratives. The second section examines key developments in peace and conflict research that provide a foundation for conceptualizing peace in transnational settings. The five shorter sections that follow introduce core arguments for conceptualizing peace in transnational settings: that violence does not necessarily end when war does; that peace, as a dynamic and ongoing process, must also be considered in contexts of so-called non-war violence; that peacebuilding goes beyond nation-building; that peace is an embodied experience; and that, in addition to the well-established spatial turn, peace studies would benefit from a temporal turn. The main contribution this article makes is that it reconceptualizes peace—through the transnational experiences of violence by migrants—as a dynamic, spatially and temporally entangled experience. It introduces temporal complexity, highlighting forms of violence that disrupt linear understandings of time.

This article examines urban–rural linkages from a growth-critical perspective to identify their diverse powers for ensuring sustainable futures. While urban–rural linkages are a well-established object of study and have been considered from various perspectives, they have historically been viewed through a growth-oriented lens, reinforcing binary thinking regarding the economy and society. We propose that a growth-critical perspective on the economy can provide valuable insight into the societal impacts of economic activities induced by urban–rural linkages. To this end, we draw on Gibson-Graham's (1997) and Lee's (2006) conceptualisations of the economy to critically engage with the literature on urban–rural linkages. We suggest three avenues for future research on urban–rural linkages: (1) discourses as drivers of change, (2) the integration of society and economy, and (3) power relations. Through this approach, we aim to bridge the gap between growth-critical perspectives on the economy and research on urban–rural linkages, paving the way for future studies in the field.

How much did the Great Recession change U.S. municipal budgetary and fiscal governance? According to an academic literature that subsequently emerged, the period saw a combination of both change and continuity. The work offered two distinct ways to explain and understand the emerging context: austerity urbanism and pragmatic municipalism. This paper reviews these explanations with the goal of showing how and why they developed contrasting conceptualizations. We argue differing epistemological approaches underpin the two competing approaches. Understanding these differences is, we argue, critical for moving forward. The COVID 19 pandemic saw another round of changes to U.S. municipal budgetary and fiscal governance, thus stimulating, we argue, the need for another round of conceptual development. However, an under-appreciation of the distinctions between austerity urbanism and pragmatic municipalism threatens to stymie this on-going, post-COVID 19 pandemic conceptualization. We review recent developments in the broader U.S. municipal fiscal governance literature to generate a set of guideposts for this much-needed work.