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.
"The Quantocks" portrays not only in words but also through numerous clear diagrams (by the author) and superb photographs (by his daughter Jackie) the major features that have contributed to the landscape palimpsest and make the region both distinctive and interesting. To do that Peter has mastered the extant sources—including much ‘grey literature’—and woven together material from a wide range of disciplinary specialisms.
"Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra" is almost too many things -- a memoir, a biography, an ethnography of experimental jazz in Ghana. Through the lens of acoustemology -- “the agency of knowing the world through sound” (page 49) -- it traverses questions of art, class, nationhood, and cosmopolitan citizenship.
Mitchell’s “small” book "Heidegger Among the Sculptors" is like an Aleph, or a Monad, that within its few pages manages to open out onto the work of Heidegger in most original and unsuspecting ways. Mitchell’s book not only opens up Heidegger’s work, in as much as he illustrates how we can and should read him backwards, from the post-Turn work towards the early work, but opens up Heidegger’s work on worldhood, spatiality, embodiment and temporality.
Drawing together themes from "Bubbles", "Globes" (Globen) and the final volume "Foam" (Schäume), Sloterdijk offered, in presentation and text alike, a litany of spheres, of enclosures, domes, atmospheres, and dwellings, which in his conclusion he claimed as nothing less than an extension of Heidegger’s "Being and Time", worked over as "Being and Space". In this reflection we discuss several important themes emerging from his presentation.
Catherine constructs a story of social policy’s silence in this regard, partly through reflecting on her own researching career, one marked by substantial policy reports and multiple other contributions in this field. Depicting the multi-disciplinary fields of homelessness research as largely positivist and empirical endeavours (with notable exceptions), the key call here is for an epistemological rewriting of homelessness as felt.
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.”