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New in Area: 'Reimagining the politics of citation through critical curation' by James Esson et al. This piece brings together insights from art curation and geography, outlining 6 curatorial principles for reorienting approaches to citation in academic publishing. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryBringing together insights from art curation and geography, this paper reimagines academic citation as a form of critical curation that fosters more deliberate, generous and grounded citational pract...doi.org

New in Area: 'The spatial constitution of domestic energy advice: Opportunities and challenges for place-based net zero' by Neil Simcock et al. doi.org/10.1111/area...

New in Area: 'Between boundaries: Reflexivity of discomfort with "significant other"' by Abdullah Al Zubaer Evan This paper presents a reflexive ethnography of a Bengali researcher researching Bihari minorities in Bangladesh. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryWalking through such narrow lanes of the Bihari camp meant walking through histories that were neither fully theirs nor fully mine. Each step carried an inherited tension and an uneasy proximity of t...doi.org

New in Area: 'Ponte en la Cola: Queuing as an ethnographic method to study food insecurity' by Vikki Oriane de Jong This paper draws on fieldwork in Havana, Cuba, to explore queuing as a means of collective sense-making of food insecurity and public space. doi.org/10.1111/area...

New in Area: 'Circulating blood and Qi: Leisure, ageing-in-place, and the internal bodily mobilities of older Hong Kongers' by Po Sheung Yu et al. This paper argues that successful ageing-in-place strategies must recognise culturally specific notions of wellbeing & place. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryWe emphasise the importance of internal bodily mobilities to older people, the related role of place and the culturally specific forms of leisure performed by older people to facilitate such mobiliti....doi.org

New in Area: 'A chronicle of disrupted flows—Bordering of the amphibious Bengal Delta' by Madhurima Majumder et al. This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Atmospheric Borders'. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThe Sundarbans is often framed as a climate crisis hotspot, a perspective that risks naturalising a historically produced condition. This paper argues that present vulnerabilities are rooted in colon...doi.org

Check out @juliandobson.bsky.social's recent Area paper on civic geographies of care, featured in last month's RGS-IBG Journals highlights ⬇️

New in Area: 'Blocking the extractive order: Political mobilisations and infrastructure disruptions in Sudan and Morocco' by Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert & Mohamed Salah Abdelrahman This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on roadblocks in extractivist landscapes. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis article examines how blockades targeting extractive infrastructure function as political tools in authoritarian contexts, based on case studies from Sudan and Morocco. It argues that such practi....doi.org

New in Area: 'Civic geographies of care: Mapping the scope and scales of universities' civic action' by @juliandobson.bsky.social This paper explores where 'civic geographies' emerge and how they are enacted, drawing on an environmental initiative in South Yorkshire. doi.org/10.1111/area...

New in Area: 'Re-thinking the imposter participant: Online research methods, ethics, AI & trust' by @sophiecranston.bsky.social et al. This paper argues that the potential of imposter participants in online research raises questions around wider structural inequalities. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Find out more about our Area Prize winner @maddiejoyce.bsky.social's research here ⬇️

New in Area: 'Blocking Route 52: Mining, landscape and protest in Jujuy Province (Argentina, 2023)' by Diego Ortúzar This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on roadblocks in extractivist landscapes. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

New in Area: 'Night vision: Navigating walking interviews in the dark' by Georgia MacMillan et al. This paper uses data collected in a dark sky park in Ireland, exploring the use of darkness as a research method & sensory and therapeutic landscape. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis paper contributes to the discourse on mobile research methodologies by presenting a case for the use of darkness both as a research method and as a sensory and therapeutic landscape in a rural c...doi.org

New in Area: 'Roadblock geographies: A typology of extraction, circulation, and authority in conflict' by Peer Schouten This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on roadblocks in extractivist landscapes. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

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New in Area: 'Can you see us now? Negotiating Indigenous citizenship at a road blockade in Argentinean Chaco' by Alberto Preci This paper is part on an ongoing Special Section on roadblocks in extractivist landscapes. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis paper explores the spatial dimension of Indigenous citizenship by examining how it is experienced, negotiated and enacted during a road blockade in the Argentinean Chaco. Stressing the political....doi.org

New in Area: 'Intimate juxtaposition: Bounded coexistence and the making of multispecies home in Guangzhou' by Duo Yin This paper explore more-than-human cohabitation in urban Guangzhou, drawing on interviews with reptile, amphibian & arthropod keepers. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis article develops the concept of ‘intimate juxtaposition’ to theorise how urban residents in Guangzhou, China, cultivate connections with autonomous nature through the deliberate creation of tran...doi.org

🏆Area Prize Announcement!🏆 This year's Area Prize for the best paper written by an ECR has been awarded to 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 for her paper 'Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @maddiejoyce.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social

New in Area: 'Weaving through crises: Longitudinal looks at post-COVID life and livelihoods in Eastern Indonesia' by Jessica Clendenning & Elisabeth Dinan This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Rural-Urban Lifeways Post-Pandemic: Views from Southeast Asia'. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online LibraryUsing the market closures and mobility restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore how those living in remote areas managed the longer term social and economic effects of the coronavirus ‘crisi...doi.org

New in Area: 'Assessment and combatting of crime and violence in urban public spaces in Southeast Algeria' by Hocine Boumaraf & Amara Hima doi.org/10.1111/area...