Human Geography

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Human Geography 19.2 has been published! Please take a look at the table of contents and follow the links to access the articles.
Substantive Articles:
Xu, F., & Lawson, J. (2026). Eldercare and re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Capital switching and bundled commodities in recent trends. Human Geography, 19(2), 217-231. https://t.co/5t5EwntY6E
Wu, J. (2026). Transforming Guizhou: Urbanization in an ethnic region in southwest China. Human Geography, 19(2), 232-245. https://t.co/TQ70zY9Nvr
Walker, A. (2026). Neither chains nor networks: Modeling ambivalence in the US automotive sector. Human Geography, 19(2), 246-260. https://t.co/gA89IoVAGP
Williams, J. (2026). Nature, rent and the persistence of inequality: A Georgist political ecology. Human Geography, 19(2), 261-273. https://t.co/oEzVGcii5i
Roy, S. (2026). Claiming the night: Fear, exclusion, and the right to urban nocturnality. Human Geography, 19(2), 274-292. https://t.co/xhQofNtn1o
Kirk, R. (2026). Financialization and the reorganization of U.S. public housing. Human Geography, 19(2), 293-303. https://t.co/3E1hbOLdLi
Mikati, M. (2026). Agrarian futures and normative practices: A case study of small-scale ecological farming. Human Geography, 19(2), 304-316. https://t.co/OUZerjcuVK
Majumder, S. (2026). Diversifying ‘out of necessity, not choice’: The gender paradox of household headship in livelihood diversification of an indigenous South Asian community. Human Geography, 19(2), 317-338. https://t.co/cUsjIcYbTB
Envall, F., & Andersson, J. D. (2026). Forging green frontiers: The agonistic potential of energy communities. Human Geography, 19(2), 339-354. https://t.co/8lU0JrmfCC
Tedeschi, M., Gkouskos, D., & Resmini, A. (2026). Data justice made tangible, spatial and actionable: An exploration of everyday data fairness through game making. Human Geography, 19(2), 355-371. https://t.co/TgCXdnx4Qj
Rasodi, R., ka Canham, H., Radebe, D., & Naidoo, S. (2026). Interspecies relations in Johannesburg’s outdoors ecologies. Human Geography, 19(2), 372-384. https://t.co/5NbtfVwQa1
Gangoiti, X., & Najarro Echaniz, X. (2026). New municipalism and the right to the city: A Lefebvrean re-examination and lessons from Barcelona. Human Geography, 19(2), 385-398. https://t.co/doSJMN7YHH

Contentions:
Pateman, J. (2026). Imperialist racism, the highest stage of racism. Human Geography, 19(2), 399-403. https://t.co/6rGupyzkmi
Little, C., & John, T. J. (2026). Contemporary anti-racist struggle and Lenin’s thought: The enduring bond between racism and imperialism. Human Geography, 19(2), 404-409. https://t.co/14dlQI2XQ8
Cezne, E. (2026). A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit: Critical reflections. Human Geography, 19(2), 410-419. https://t.co/V97X3DCxmT
Liu, N., & Xi, K. (2026). Uighurs of China: Examining facts and debunking propaganda. Human Geography, 19(2), 420-429. https://t.co/SELNDB6Gfr
Ceddia, M., & Bergamo, J. (2026). Changing social relations of production is essential to advance a sustainability transformation. Human Geography, 19(2), 430-439. https://t.co/5tmXuCPhJJ
Peerzada, R. A., Sharma, A., & Kannan, S. (2026). The jurisprudence of digital blackouts: Law and its exceptions in Jammu and Kashmir. Human Geography, 19(2), 440-446. https://t.co/jpfHlKG1xL

Reviews:
Maalsen, S. (2026). Digital activism in housing struggles: Countering algorithmic violence with algorithmic care. Human Geography, 19(2), 447-457. https://t.co/9IS62sna5b
Du, Y. (2026). Black Geographies unveiled: A critical review. Human Geography, 19(2), 458-471. https://t.co/bAHxbdi1ia

Visual Intervention:
Rosati, C., & Voss, S. (2026). Burial at the data plantation: Public memory and the terrain of abolition in “the internet capital of the world”. Human Geography, 19(2), 472-484. https://t.co/59BGrQure5

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OnlineFirst and Open access: Shipping costs: Precarity, race and migrant truck drivers in Canadian long-haul freight transportation - Émile Baril, 2026

"In advanced capitalist countries, the seamless circulation of goods depends more than ever on the labour of migrant truck drivers. The trucking industry has undergone significant transformations in recent decades, including deregulation, fragmentation, platformization and periods of freight recession. Through the lens of racial capitalism and critical logistics studies, this paper examines how the Canadian logistics and long-haul transportation sector increasingly relies on racialized migrant truck drivers to sustain itself during economic downturns."
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OnlineFirst: Turkey's geocultural soft power spheres centred on historical–cultural heritage - Mürşide Coşkun, Bayram Çetin, 2026
"The study is an analysis of Turkey's initiatives to construct geocultural spheres of influence within the framework of its soft power policies. It constitutes a geographical and spatial examination of the activities of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), the institutional principal actor of Turkey's constructivist, neoliberal utilitarian, and proactive foreign policies since 2002."
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OnlineFirst: Reinventing human geography - Kevin R. Cox, 2026
"Harvey provided a geographic dimension to Marx's totality of relations hitherto lacking. As a result, he has had major impacts on the thinking of Marxists in other fields. Particular attention is paid to his work on the idea of totality, geography as an aspect of it, so that other aspects are impossible not only to conceive without it but also how the totality of capitalist social relations, always in a process of becoming has given capitalist geographies a very particular form. There is then his impact on the field. Despite his recognition, this could have been better. On the one hand, there are those clearly influenced by him in a highly sympathetic way."
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OnlineFirst and open access: The myth of the good landlord: Neoliberal urban governance and the politics of racialized class-monopoly rent in Syracuse, NY - Natalie McLaughlin, 2026
"Critical urban researchers have long sought to understand the dynamics of exploitation in low-income rental markets, especially since the 2008 financial crisis which expanded renting in U.S. cities. However, scholars have paid less attention to how landlords advance their class interests and shape urban governance within neoliberal contexts. Drawing on interviews and participant observation of landlords in Syracuse, NY, this study shows how landlords in high-poverty rental markets leverage free-market logics to construct a positive image of themselves and advocate for deregulation. As the City of Syracuse pursues revitalization through public–private partnerships and targeted redevelopment, landlords invoke anxieties of postindustrial decline and position themselves as drivers of economic development and service providers to vulnerable tenants."
https://t.co/3TlOgkftZ5

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OnlineFirst: “New York City has reached its capacity”: Asylum-seekers, housing, and the conjuring of an asylum crisis - Michael Samers, 2026
"Building on the migration studies literature, I explain this failure through two “critical diagnostics”—what I call “quasi-Malthusian fiscality” and “intersectionalized emergency politics.” Together, these conjured (“constructed”) and governed the “asylum crisis.”...
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Onlinefirst: Heortotopias: Festive geographies of embodied resistance - Mara Zacharaki, 2026 https://t.co/GdCW5DqaAf
“This article introduces heortotopia as a contemporary form of spatial otherness: an ephemeral, embodied and conflictual spatiality produced through festive collective practices mobilized in protest and political struggle. It asks how other spaces might be understood as practices of collective becoming. The concept is developed through a critical engagement with Foucault’s heterotopia, reworked through the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari and Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque.”

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Onlinefirst and open access: Where will this violent force appear next? Military veterans of the Middle East and the racialized policing of migration in the American midwest - Andrew Brooks, Mark Griffiths, 2026 https://t.co/1hltdS7o0V
“Against a backdrop of anti-immigration state violence in the American Midwest (e.g., in Chicago and Minneapolis), this article examines the transfer of racialized violence from sites of war to internal policing. The growing recruitment of military veterans into federal law enforcement—particularly The U.S. Department for Homeland Security (DHS) forces: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—facilitates the spread of practices and ideologies from war zones to the civilian policing of US cities.”

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Onlinefirst: ‘Social movement theories’ in solidarity or simply as legitimization, pacification and counterinsurgent narratives? - Josephine Becker, 2026 https://t.co/fkjidOeqoN
“By reviewing the current trajectories of social movement theory (SMT) and scholarship, this piece exposes three specific dangers that exist by theorizing (progressive) social movements. The first recognizes how SMT can produce legitimizing narratives that sanitize contentious politics, reinforce liberal assumptions of ‘legitimate’ protest and render dissent legible through neat analytical categories. Second, it examines ‘scholar-activism’ within academia, considering the repercussions of professionalization of activism and the institutional incentives that reward production of movement knowledge. Third, it reviews how social movement research risks producing and enriching surveillance, open-source intelligence and counterinsurgency from state and corporate geographies, undermining movements and exposing them to (increasing) repression”

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Online first: Abolition means attack! Towards an insurrectionary theory of prison abolition1 - Ryan Fatica, Hannah Kass, Enrique Olivares-Pelayo, 2026 https://t.co/twg0hKBvIo
“We argue that transformative change arises not merely from top-down legislative reforms and grassroots consciousness-raising but also from sustained, collective resistance generated from within carceral spaces. This analysis is grounded in 20 years of support and political collaboration with prisoners and detainees across the United States, the authors’ own experiences of incarceration, as well as careful observation of prisoner and detainee resistance.”

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Onlinefirst and open access: The politics of place in energy transformations: Contesting green extractivism through indigenous governance in Union Hidalgo, Mexico - Aisha Valenzuela Basurto, Astrid Krisch, 2026 https://t.co/vAwI2okWBA
“We argue that Indigenous resistance to green extractivism in the form of wind energy development is not merely oppositional but generative, producing alternative socio-technical and social-ecological imaginaries, as well as governance models through transformative strategies grounded in land-based autonomy.”

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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Marianna Pavlovskaya of Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center as a member of our editorial board!
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Onlinefirst: State, imperialism, and the national question in Pakistan - Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, 2026 https://t.co/VbJJTx0YwF

“Chinese development assistance, while distinct from US imperialism's decidedly more militaristic role in Pakistan, has nevertheless engendered significant disaffection within peripheral regions such as Balochistan. In varying degrees, the US and China continue to buttress the militarised state apparatus while deepening Pakistan's external dependency. By critically analysing the histories and geographies of imperialism and the national question in Pakistan, this paper interrogates current articulations of Marxism and ethnic-nationalism; while anti-imperialist popular fronts comprising Marxists and ethnic-nationalists were highly influential during the Cold War, the present conjuncture is characterised by growing fragmentation.”

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Onlinefirst and open access: Repairing harm: Desalination in copper mining and claims for responsibility in Chile's Atacama Desert - Anna Heikkinen, 2026 https://t.co/nLQUrkTQVf
“Recently, copper demand related to the global clean energy transition has further intensified extraction. To secure water access for extractive operations, Chile's mining industry is increasingly turning to desalinated seawater, which it also frames as a practice of responsibility. This study explores how local communities experience mining-related harm on water supplies and claim responsibility in their daily lives in the Atacama Desert, and how these experiences are shaped by corporate discourses and practices of environmental repair.”

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Onlinefirst: Wasted land, wasted lives: Environmental injustice and the making of a metropolitan backyard in Athens, Greece - Giorgos Velegrakis, Artemis Koumparelou, Florian Sattler, 2026 https://t.co/Fi22v2ASCt
“This article examines West Attica, Greece, as a politically produced sacrificial “backyard” for the city of Athens, offering a critical environmental justice analysis of the region's transformation into the metropolitan capital's primary waste sink.”

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Onlinefirst: Eco-City dream: Urban realities of environmental injustice in Austin and Dallas - Suraj Sharma, Ipsita Chatterjee, 2026 https://t.co/IChhM7gL97
“ This article critically examines Green city policies in Austin and Dallas revealing, firstly, the gaps between sustainability policy discourses and the actual lived experiences, and secondly, the class-based and racially unjust nature of green urbanism thus, strengthening environmental justice literature. Employing discourse analysis of city policy documents and semi-structured interviews with residents from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, the study explores disparities in the distribution of environmental amenities.”

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Onlinefirst: Burial at the data plantation: Public memory and the terrain of abolition in “the internet capital of the world” - Clayton Rosati, Stephen Voss, 2026 https://t.co/ru8AXyZpG6
“The series shows how data centers, a key infrastructure of the “AI” economy, impinge on aspects of life in that region of the country. Particularly, it explores occurrences of data center development disturbing Black cemeteries and displacing features of Black life more generally on the landscape.”

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Onlinefirst: Resisting mining in Ireland: The social engineering and colonial logics of green extractivism - V’cenza Cirefice, 2026 https://t.co/GF50TmUwu5
“I explore the resistance movement to a gold mining proposal for the Sperrin Mountains, North of Ireland, building on feminist and decolonial scholarship which has conceptually widened extractivism from a physical removal of resources to be understood as a logic, worldview, a way of relating in the world rooted in coloniality and specific power relations.”

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Online First and Open Access: The Russian–Ukraine war and a polyphonic geopolitics - Paul Richardson, 2026 https://t.co/IETC2JsMdO
“The war takes place in a world in flux where modernist territorial structures and norms collide with imperial spatialities, a territorial taboo shifts from Washington to Moscow, multiple versions of sovereignty confound authoritarian modes of governance, marginalised voices signal the end of empire, drones reformat warfare, NATO sustains Putin's legitimacy and East-West binaries unravel while axes of global inequality persist. These contradictions are part of a reconfiguration of world politics as dramatic as the end of the Cold War, and this Contention advocates for a more polyphonic reading of geopolitics to understand it.”