In solidarity with abolition and anti-racist movements, the following EPD: Society and Space articles on racism, racialization, and policing are free to access through September 2020. We will continue to use our resources to support critical scholarship on these topics.

During the unprecedented crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, the editorial collective at Society & Space has made the decision to 'press pause' on our normal working practices. We believe that to continue as usual right now would be untenable and unethical.

In a time where higher education and academic scholarship have become increasingly inaccessible, the site’s aim is to create a forum for scholarly and activist writing that is free and publicly accessible in both content and form.

To start this new year, we have some Society and Space editorial team changes to announce.

Thanks to all those who contributed, shared and read contributions to this site last year.

This paper reflects on and challenges existing paradigms around movement and mobilisation in and with the city.

We are delighted to announce that Mimi Sheller, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University, will give the Society and Space lecture at the 2018 AAG meeting in New Orleans.

Thanks to all those who contributed, shared and read contributions to this site this year. Here are our top ten most read pieces of 2017:

We present an analysis of Tlingipino Bingo, which is the latest iteration of our on-going experiment to work with performance as a means of translating and transforming scholarly work to generate more informed and nuanced public debate about migrant labour.

The third book in the Society and Space book series is out now! Marcus Doel’s Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, Killing Time.

Over the past several years, former Society and Space Editor Stuart Elden has been working with Sage on a Society and Space book series, which is linked to the journal. There are several books under contract or in discussion, with the first two volumes due to be published very soon. The series description is as follows:

Welcome to the new Society & Space! This site replaces societyandspace.com, which was founded in 2011 by the editors of the international and interdisciplinary academic journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space as an open access companion to the print publication.

Professor Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley) delivered the Society and Space plenary lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting on March 31, 2016. Below is a video of her talk, titled “Secularism, Sovereignty, and Religious Difference: A Global Genealogy?”

Some months ago, we announced the departure of Stuart Elden and the arrival of Alexander Vasudevan and Darshan Vigneswaran as Editors of Society and Space. We now have many more changes in our team to announce, including changes in Editors, Review Editors, and Editorial Board members.

Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, will give the Society and Space lecture at the 2016 AAG meeting in San Francisco.

In June, we announced the sad Society and Space news that long-time editor of the journal, Stuart Elden, had stepped down. Today, we have happier news as two new editors join our editorial collective: Alexander Vasudevan and Darshan Vigneswaran.

Stuart Elden became Editor of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space with the first issue of its 25th volume. Now, 8 and ½ years later, he is stepping down.

We are delighted to announce that Lauren Berlant will give the 2015 Society and Space Lecture at the AAG in Chicago.

We are delighted to announce that Eyal Weizman will give the Society and Space 30th anniversary lecture at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference at the University of Edinburgh on 3rd July 2012 (conference details here). The talk will appear in the journal later in the year.