A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Foregrounds the constitutive role that various forms of cultural expression play in shaping the relationship between the social and the spatial. Provides a critical platform for investigating the nature of power, difference and oppression – how they are imagined and performed, opposed and subverted.
This volume groups sixteen papers written by Argentinean researchers from geography, as well as history, anthropology, literature, and art history. All the authors try to answer, from various points of view and using different examples, questions such as: What is the relationship between space, territory and their various forms of representation? How do these representations persuade, teach, argue, and even deceive?
The book’s subject matter is Western classical music in historical Palestine. Beckles Willson is not so much interested in musical pieces themselves; her focus is on musical projects, or what she rightly calls, musical missions—projects aimed at researching music, teaching music, setting up orchestras, and opening conservatories.
In this optimistic collection of essays, written over twenty years, Michael E. Gardiner sets out to “rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism” (page 2). In so doing, he provides an engaging re-reading of key writers and traditions able to help us deepen our understanding of utopian social theory and its relationship to the everyday.
This article explores the tiny house movement as a contemporary example of alternative housing practices. Within the stories women tell about their tiny house journeys, we uncover diverse prefigurative practices and politics, which in turn invoke an expanded sense of fairness and agency in and through housing.
This article invites critical geographers to reconsider the conceptual offerings of Austrian-British object-relations psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960), whose metapsychology has had a significant but largely unacknowledged contemporary influence on the field via theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant.
This paper explores the potential of prepper awakening narratives – the moment preppers ‘wake up' to the reality of crisis – to contribute to explorations of detachment and denial in the Anthropocene.
Focusing on three new administrative capitals in Southeast Asia – Putrajaya (in Malaysia), Naypyidaw (in Myanmar) and Nusantara (in Indonesia) – we show how places have been mobilized as points of persuasion, or what sociologist Thomas Gieryn has termed “truth spots”.
Here, we undertake an analysis of human-bed bug relations in order to both better understand this contemporary resurgence and critically examine the concept of “companion species.”