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In the summer of 2013, the Bow River in Southern Alberta, Canada, experienced a significant high-water event caused by a large rainstorm, which had widespread impacts on infrastructure throughout its watershed. However, viewed through an other-than-human lens, these moments of infrastructural disruption caused by the high waters can be interpreted as generative acts. Using this flood as a case study, this paper introduces the concept of other-than-human refusal, suggesting that the infrastructural disruptions caused by the agency of the waters of the Bow Valley can be interpreted as a rejection of settler colonial infrastructure. Not only did the flooding cause discontinuities to the infrastructure of the settler state, but it also fostered emergent ecological futures and instigated productive interspecies discourses and collaborations. Bringing together frameworks from Indigenous studies and posthumanism, this paper seeks to broaden understandings of infrastructure and refusal, calling for a reimagining of landscapes that embrace other-than-human agency.

This article examines the relations between the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) and the urban economy of Atlantis, South Africa, with particular attention to the Witsand neighbourhood. Drawing on Milton Santos' theory of the two circuits of the urban economy, the study explores how the upper circuit of greentech industries within the ASEZ interacts with the lower circuit of less capitalised commercial and service activities in Witsand. Methodologically, the research combines historical analysis, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observation to capture the contradictions shaping urban space. The findings suggest that, while the ASEZ promotes technological modernisation and attracts global investment, it coexists with long-standing racialised inequalities that continue to shape everyday life in Atlantis. In this context, Black populations living in precarious conditions remain marginalised, even as the zone projects an image of green and inclusive development. Initiatives intended to link the two circuits—such as training programmes and local partnerships—have proved insufficient to transform these structural patterns. By situating Atlantis within these dynamics, the article contributes to broader debates on industrialisation, racial capitalism and urban inequality in the South African context.

This article examines how authoritarian governance, in Egypt, is being recalibrated through infrastructural technologies that embed regulation into everyday life. It argues that, in the current phase of neoliberal financialisation, authoritarian governance must, by necessity, harness citizens' capacities for self-regulation to achieve the neoliberal objective of making the population creditworthy. Focusing the analysis on the recent nationwide rollout of prepaid electricity meters, the article traces a gradual shift from direct police coercion to technopolitical control, where mundane devices are used to discipline consumption and enforce financial compliance. Using digital ethnography, the study investigates citizens' responses to the new technologies of governance. The analysis shows that, in their engagement with these technologies, citizens articulate a normative critique that challenges the inequity and exclusion embedded in them, forging a distinct idiom of contestation and opposition.

Recent social policy in Brazil has centred on a vision for financial inclusion that claims to alleviate poverty through credit-based consumption. We argue that, contrary to these claims, Brazil's consumer credit boom has entrenched a financialised macroeconomic model in which debt and rentierism have become motors of the national economy. Financial inclusion discourse obscures how the periphery has been the new frontier for this shift, via the institutionalisation of debt as a mechanism for everyday survival. Taking our cue from residents of Peixinhos (the periphery of Olinda, Northeast Brazil), we argue for the imperative to “name the wolves” driving these processes. We thus demonstrate how recent financial legislation has stimulated mass expansion of small-scale moneylending, formalising a prototype of credit provision which takes the ambiguous practice of loan sharking as its model. Brazilian financialisation is achieved, we argue, through this interplay between financial market innovation, state complicity, and ongoing struggle on the periphery.

This article advances debates on racial capitalism by reconceptualising it as globally connected yet regionally uneven, and as negotiated and resisted through unequal migrations. Drawing on interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, it explores how participants and their families use EU mobility rights to navigate nationally distinctive but transnationally connected racialised capitalist dynamics. Findings demonstrate the connections between exploitation, racism and ‘integration’ in Italy, and their influence on participants' motivations for emigration. They further highlight how Italy's citizenship legislation stratifies access to intra-EU mobility, producing legal and economic inequalities between and within families, and how intersecting inequalities and Brexit expose more vulnerable participants to the sharp end of Britain's racial capitalism, challenging imaginaries of a more inclusive Northern society. The article argues that centring racialised minorities' geographical imaginaries and unequal migrations allows for mapping varieties of racial capitalism, while also capturing their transnational effects and intersectional experience.

In this paper, I sit with the different modes of relation that Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous women have to community, to each other, and to land and sea. In particular, I demonstrate the ways in which Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous women contend, refuse, and negotiate racialised identifiers on their own terms, extending beyond Mexico's rubrics of inclusion and exclusion. I ask: How does one insist on existence, and do so on your and your community's own terms? What does it mean to be inseparable from the land and water that your community inhabits? I weave together Black and Indigenous feminist thought, with an analysis of language use, to unsettle hegemonic mestizo understandings of place, racial and state formation in the land known as Mexico and beyond.

This paper investigates the infrastructures that support migrant workers in pursuing fairer and more just employment experiences, despite structures that reproduce exploitative working conditions and keep them at the margins of society. Intervening at the intersection of infrastructural and labour geographies, I bring together the conceptual lenses of “infrastructures of solidarity” and the “urban periphery” to examine the production of spaces of praxis and political possibility for migrant workers across Taiwan's urban peripheries. Drawing on ethnographic research across Taoyuan, the city with the largest population of migrant workers, I show how such infrastructures consist of (counter)spaces and practices that facilitate the dissemination of (counter)knowledge through employment consultations, critical labour education efforts, and relationships grounded in solidarity. This paper also highlights the political potential of the urban periphery, marked by marginalisation but also a site where infrastructures of migrant labour solidarity challenge the temporary migration regime and fight for a more just migration landscape.

Facial recognition and other surveillance systems are increasingly being deployed in low-income housing across the United States, adding new scopic regimes into an already carceral propertied landscape. While there are numerous harms associated with facial recognition, for instance the reproduction of racial bias, the imposition of new landlord technologies also impels disciplinary and biopolitical control, abetting the reproduction of racial capitalist market logics and carceral geographies. In this article, we focus on this entwinement of biopolitical, capitalist, and carceral imperatives undergirding surveillance, drawing upon tenant stories conducted with Landlord Tech Watch. We assess the mechanisms through which landlord technologies are used to catch tenants for lease violations and automate evictions, while also impelling the production of the “good tenant”. In examining reformist efforts to curb facial recognition abuse, we argue that as long as property functions as a technology of control, reformism falls short. Instead, we engage a broader abolitionist call against property, one that disavows the enactment of goodness and that embraces performing the “bad tenant”.

This paper examines the 2023–2025 naval blockade imposed by Yemen in the Red Sea. It argues that the blockade's success in disrupting global trade stemmed from the potent confluence of asymmetric military tactics and the structural vulnerabilities inherent within global maritime logistics capitalism. The pursuit of efficiency through carrier consolidation, vessel gigantism, and just-in-time scheduling has created a brittle, hyper-concentrated system with minimal slack, concentrating risk at infrastructural chokepoints such as deepwater ports and mega-hubs. By examining the interplay between Yemen's blockade against the genocide in Gaza and its targeting of these logistical frailties, this paper contributes to critical geographies of infrastructure and logistics. It demonstrates how the very architecture of global capital circulation can become a terrain of effective struggle for non-state actors, revealing the central contradiction between capital's drive for logistical efficiency and its systemic vulnerability to disruption.

Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) has long been an energy extractive periphery, continuously remade through cycles of dispossession and accumulation. Here we examine the changing dynamics of private property in these cycles and its central role in the latest phase of extraction—unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD). Drawing from literature on extractive dispossessions and rent circulation, we argue that UOGD has resulted in the “hardening and hollowing out” of property rights in SWPA. Unlike past extractive phases, landowners profit from UOGD primarily by renting their land, which hardens formal aspects of property rights. Yet, the environmental degradation of UOGD has left many feeling they have lost the landscape they knew, hollowing out communities. Residents' experiences, gathered through focus groups and interviews, demonstrate how geographies of planetary extraction are experienced in SWPA as contradictory processes of rentiership and dispossession.