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Transactions is a geography journal which publishes high-quality papers and interventions that make a substantial theoretical or empirical contribution to the discipline. Edited by Beth Greenhough, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @kbrickell.bsky.social.

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID-19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives....

New in TIBG:

'Pandemic geographies of home: Domestic thresholding in response to COVID-19' by Alison Blunt et al.

This paper introduces the concept of 'thresholding' to explore how internal & external thresholds are materialised through embodied practice.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

18.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Emma McRae (2026) entitled: 'Visualising the Urban Imaginary: Failure and Irresolution in an Urban Digital Twin' with a red banner at the top.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Emma McRae (2026) entitled: 'Visualising the Urban Imaginary: Failure and Irresolution in an Urban Digital Twin' with a red banner at the top.

New in TIBG:

'Visualising the urban imaginary: Failure and irresolution in an urban digital twin' by Emma McRae

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

16.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A promotional tile for the new collection in Transactions on Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. The graphic shows three images of the globe: a satellite image, an image with cities lit up, and a black outlined globe evocative of the world wide web symbol.

This collection was organised by Jessica McLean with Louise Read, Karen Lai, Markus Breines and Sneha Krishnan, with contributions from Margath Walker, Jamie Winders, Yung Au, Katarzyna Cieslik, Nikko Stevens and Jack Jen Gieseking.

The image has the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers logo and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) logo at the top.

A promotional tile for the new collection in Transactions on Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. The graphic shows three images of the globe: a satellite image, an image with cities lit up, and a black outlined globe evocative of the world wide web symbol. This collection was organised by Jessica McLean with Louise Read, Karen Lai, Markus Breines and Sneha Krishnan, with contributions from Margath Walker, Jamie Winders, Yung Au, Katarzyna Cieslik, Nikko Stevens and Jack Jen Gieseking. The image has the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers logo and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) logo at the top.

New in TIBG:

'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI' guest edited by Jess McLean et al.

This collection features four short pieces reflecting on questions of governance of and accountability for AI.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

10.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Nikko Stevens and Jack Jen Gieseking (2025) entitled: 'A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI: Lessons From Outer Space, Agriculture and Gay Hookup Apps' with a red banner at the top.

This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and environmental crises, while obscuring its colonial and racist infrastructures. Responding to interventions by Katarzyna Cieslik, Yung Au and Margath Walker with Jamie Winders, we trace the ways AI's supply chains span from agricultural megafarms to outer space, and we bring in another intimate geography of AI: the work of Trust & Safety professionals, particularly those working in dating and hookup apps. We argue that AI itself cannot serve as an agent of repair in the harms it causes. Instead, repair emerges through human networks of accountability and care, informed by feminist, Black, queer, trans and decolonial frameworks.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Nikko Stevens and Jack Jen Gieseking (2025) entitled: 'A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI: Lessons From Outer Space, Agriculture and Gay Hookup Apps' with a red banner at the top. This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and environmental crises, while obscuring its colonial and racist infrastructures. Responding to interventions by Katarzyna Cieslik, Yung Au and Margath Walker with Jamie Winders, we trace the ways AI's supply chains span from agricultural megafarms to outer space, and we bring in another intimate geography of AI: the work of Trust & Safety professionals, particularly those working in dating and hookup apps. We argue that AI itself cannot serve as an agent of repair in the harms it causes. Instead, repair emerges through human networks of accountability and care, informed by feminist, Black, queer, trans and decolonial frameworks.

In the collection's afterword, @drnikko.bsky.social & Jack Jen Gieseking examine AI as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises & resultant violences:

'A reply on responsibility and repair in AI: Lessons from outer space, agriculture and gay hookup apps'
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

12.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Katarzyna Cieslik (2025) entitled: 'The Dismal Harvest: The Uneven Landscapes of AI in Agriculture' with a red banner at the top.

In this intervention, I examine artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture through a political ecology lens, analysing how promises of productivity, efficiency, and sustainability take shape across uneven postcolonial landscapes. Building on feminist and critical agrarian perspectives, I focus on the material relations of farming to show that AI in agriculture, often portrayed as immaterial, relies on deeply material infrastructures—sensors, data centres, energy systems, and extractive supply chains. Tracing how AI-driven digital agriculture and smart agriculture reconfigure relations between farmers, land, and technology, I argue that care for agroecosystems is increasingly displaced by care for digital infrastructures, with dire consequences for the social and ecological relations that sustain rural labour, land, and livelihoods. Focusing on emergent applications of AI in agriculture in the Global South, I show how these technologies consolidate corporate power, erode agrarian knowledges, and reproduce postcolonial inequalities under neoliberal capitalism. I conceptualise AI as a socioecological fix, stressing the need to re-spatialise and historicise technological change in the context of agrarian change, by attending to its infrastructural and ecological entanglements. I situate this analysis within debates on economies of repair, arguing that understanding AI in agriculture requires attention not only to breakdown and failure but also to the everyday practices of repair—technical, ecological, and social—that sustain digital infrastructures and reveal the uneven burdens of maintaining them across agrarian worlds. This intervention contributes to the Themed Intervention, 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI'.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Katarzyna Cieslik (2025) entitled: 'The Dismal Harvest: The Uneven Landscapes of AI in Agriculture' with a red banner at the top. In this intervention, I examine artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture through a political ecology lens, analysing how promises of productivity, efficiency, and sustainability take shape across uneven postcolonial landscapes. Building on feminist and critical agrarian perspectives, I focus on the material relations of farming to show that AI in agriculture, often portrayed as immaterial, relies on deeply material infrastructures—sensors, data centres, energy systems, and extractive supply chains. Tracing how AI-driven digital agriculture and smart agriculture reconfigure relations between farmers, land, and technology, I argue that care for agroecosystems is increasingly displaced by care for digital infrastructures, with dire consequences for the social and ecological relations that sustain rural labour, land, and livelihoods. Focusing on emergent applications of AI in agriculture in the Global South, I show how these technologies consolidate corporate power, erode agrarian knowledges, and reproduce postcolonial inequalities under neoliberal capitalism. I conceptualise AI as a socioecological fix, stressing the need to re-spatialise and historicise technological change in the context of agrarian change, by attending to its infrastructural and ecological entanglements. I situate this analysis within debates on economies of repair, arguing that understanding AI in agriculture requires attention not only to breakdown and failure but also to the everyday practices of repair—technical, ecological, and social—that sustain digital infrastructures and reveal the uneven burdens of maintaining them across agrarian worlds. This intervention contributes to the Themed Intervention, 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI'.

In the third piece, Katarzyna Cieslik examines AI through a political ecology lens, focusing on farming and digital agriculture.

'The dismal harvest: The uneven landscapes of AI in agriculture'

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

11.02.2026 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Yung Au (2025) entitled: 'Computers in Our Cosmos: Intersections in Geographies of Care, Abolition Geographies and Worker Movements' with a red banner at the top.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Yung Au (2025) entitled: 'Computers in Our Cosmos: Intersections in Geographies of Care, Abolition Geographies and Worker Movements' with a red banner at the top.

In the second piece, Yung Au considers technological expansion into outer space through a lens of care and governance.

'Computers in our cosmos: Intersections in geographies of care, abolition geographies and worker movements'

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

11.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Margath Walker & Jamie Winders (2025) entitled: 'Artificial Intelligence and the Temporalities of Responsibility and Risk' with a red banner at the top.

As creators of artificial intelligence (AI) begin to express regret over their role in its development, some are suggesting the need to take responsibility for the technology‘s effects. As part of the TIBG Themed Intervention which asks, ‘What does it mean to take responsibility and enact care and repair in the realm of AI?’, we consider how responsibility is being mobilised in and through AI. We first track the spatio-temporal dimensions of responsibility in AI and, second, chart the connections and gaps between a language of responsibility and a language of risk in recent AI developments. Thinking through where, and when, responsibility surfaces in the genealogy of AI and how responsibility does, and does not, feed into conversations around AI, we suggest, is essential to better understanding the complicated spatio-temporalities of responsibility to, within, and of AI systems.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Margath Walker & Jamie Winders (2025) entitled: 'Artificial Intelligence and the Temporalities of Responsibility and Risk' with a red banner at the top. As creators of artificial intelligence (AI) begin to express regret over their role in its development, some are suggesting the need to take responsibility for the technology‘s effects. As part of the TIBG Themed Intervention which asks, ‘What does it mean to take responsibility and enact care and repair in the realm of AI?’, we consider how responsibility is being mobilised in and through AI. We first track the spatio-temporal dimensions of responsibility in AI and, second, chart the connections and gaps between a language of responsibility and a language of risk in recent AI developments. Thinking through where, and when, responsibility surfaces in the genealogy of AI and how responsibility does, and does not, feed into conversations around AI, we suggest, is essential to better understanding the complicated spatio-temporalities of responsibility to, within, and of AI systems.

In the first piece of the collection, Margath Walker & Jamie Winders think through where & when 'responsibility' surfaces in conversations around AI.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

10.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Jessica McLean, Louise Reid, Karen P. Y. Lai, Markus Roos Breines & Sneha Krishnan (2026) entitled: 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention' with a red banner at the top.

The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, care and repair in the mobilisation and impacts of AI. This Themed Intervention questions the genealogy of AI and its creators' duty of care towards the real-life impacts of its operationalisation, how AI might be (responsibly) governed to reduce these impacts and how responsibility is or should be devolved across different actors (e.g., individualistic or collective responsibilities). We acknowledge that despite its potential for positive ends, AI has already caused damage to people, societies, environments and therefore question whether repair (of the people–AI relation, of AI consequences) is possible, what form this can or should take as well as how the faults of AI can be corrected. By exploring care, the contributors share concern with caring for and of AI, including its current impacts and futures, with each contribution ruminating on how caring relations are configured. We argue that if we focus on dimensions of care and repair when critically evaluating the discursive and material realities of AI, issues relating to responsibility are impossible to ignore.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Jessica McLean, Louise Reid, Karen P. Y. Lai, Markus Roos Breines & Sneha Krishnan (2026) entitled: 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention' with a red banner at the top. The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, care and repair in the mobilisation and impacts of AI. This Themed Intervention questions the genealogy of AI and its creators' duty of care towards the real-life impacts of its operationalisation, how AI might be (responsibly) governed to reduce these impacts and how responsibility is or should be devolved across different actors (e.g., individualistic or collective responsibilities). We acknowledge that despite its potential for positive ends, AI has already caused damage to people, societies, environments and therefore question whether repair (of the people–AI relation, of AI consequences) is possible, what form this can or should take as well as how the faults of AI can be corrected. By exploring care, the contributors share concern with caring for and of AI, including its current impacts and futures, with each contribution ruminating on how caring relations are configured. We argue that if we focus on dimensions of care and repair when critically evaluating the discursive and material realities of AI, issues relating to responsibility are impossible to ignore.

In their introduction to the collection, Jess McLean, Louise Reid, @karenpylai.bsky.social, Markus Breines & @snehakrishnan.bsky.social reflect on the increasing presence of AI in everyday life.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

10.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A promotional tile for the new collection in Transactions on Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. The graphic shows three images of the globe: a satellite image, an image with cities lit up, and a black outlined globe evocative of the world wide web symbol.

This collection was organised by Jessica McLean with Louise Read, Karen Lai, Markus Breines and Sneha Krishnan, with contributions from Margath Walker, Jamie Winders, Yung Au, Katarzyna Cieslik, Nikko Stevens and Jack Jen Gieseking.

The image has the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers logo and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) logo at the top.

A promotional tile for the new collection in Transactions on Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. The graphic shows three images of the globe: a satellite image, an image with cities lit up, and a black outlined globe evocative of the world wide web symbol. This collection was organised by Jessica McLean with Louise Read, Karen Lai, Markus Breines and Sneha Krishnan, with contributions from Margath Walker, Jamie Winders, Yung Au, Katarzyna Cieslik, Nikko Stevens and Jack Jen Gieseking. The image has the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers logo and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) logo at the top.

New in TIBG:

'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI' guest edited by Jess McLean et al.

This collection features four short pieces reflecting on questions of governance of and accountability for AI.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

10.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy

03.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 16    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
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Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom

This piece has been covered in the Times Higher Education - read more here below ⬇️
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...

03.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top.

This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top. This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

New Intervention in TIBG:

'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

03.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I have published today in @tibg.bsky.social a critical response to the UK Government-commissioned "Sullivan Review" of sex and gender in data and research collection

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.02.2026 09:21 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Published today in TIBG ⬇️

03.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geograph....

New in TIBG:

'Digital disease ecologies: Encounter, datafication and the digital geographies of One Health' by @kirkham.bsky.social

This paper examines the use of the Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App in Kerala, India, through the lens of 'digital disease ecologies'.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

29.01.2026 11:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geograph...

New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.

23.01.2026 10:10 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

New papers - on events, with some wonderful collaborators!

22.01.2026 11:26 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top.

The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top. The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.

New in TIBG:

'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social

This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

22.01.2026 10:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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🚨*New publication alert*🚨

My new article is a true labour of love that grapples with the fugitive mobilities of migrants in Kenya. Through their stories, I think about escape, im/mobility, life-seeking, freedom and border abolitionism at the margins.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

20.12.2025 08:53 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hanno Brankamp (2025) entitled: 'Fugitive Junctures: Life-Seeking, Route-Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders' with a red banner at the top.

Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants. Their furtive movements in the shadows of modern border regimes echo enslaved people's historical lines of flight and enact similar spatial praxes through which they aim to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on qualitative research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers, this article critically intervenes in these debates by offering an analysis of ‘fugitive junctures’: decisional moments in time when individual flightpaths conjoin, are renegotiated and reworked by migrants on the run. Drawing on recent debates in Black geographies, critical migration studies and abolitionist scholarship, the article develops a detailed understanding of these junctures to give more texture to the notion of ‘fugitivity’ whose relative mutability has often limited its analytical value in migration research. While their locus may be shifting depending on context, fugitive junctures are nonetheless recognisable by the three existential pursuits that they mediate during migrant journeys: life-seeking, route-finding and the mobile ensemble. In examining what structures different stages of escape mobilities, this article ultimately sheds light on the building blocks of a living counter-cartography of freedom which lays bare the difficult and circuitous road to abolition.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hanno Brankamp (2025) entitled: 'Fugitive Junctures: Life-Seeking, Route-Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders' with a red banner at the top. Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants. Their furtive movements in the shadows of modern border regimes echo enslaved people's historical lines of flight and enact similar spatial praxes through which they aim to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on qualitative research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers, this article critically intervenes in these debates by offering an analysis of ‘fugitive junctures’: decisional moments in time when individual flightpaths conjoin, are renegotiated and reworked by migrants on the run. Drawing on recent debates in Black geographies, critical migration studies and abolitionist scholarship, the article develops a detailed understanding of these junctures to give more texture to the notion of ‘fugitivity’ whose relative mutability has often limited its analytical value in migration research. While their locus may be shifting depending on context, fugitive junctures are nonetheless recognisable by the three existential pursuits that they mediate during migrant journeys: life-seeking, route-finding and the mobile ensemble. In examining what structures different stages of escape mobilities, this article ultimately sheds light on the building blocks of a living counter-cartography of freedom which lays bare the difficult and circuitous road to abolition.

New in TIBG:

'Fugitive junctures: Life-seeking, route-finding and the mobile ensemble at Kenya's borders' by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

05.01.2026 14:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Final issue of the year - and so much great work! More next year : )

19.12.2025 13:18 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@austinread.bsky.social
@jonnydarling.bsky.social
@sazpaps.bsky.social
@sarahhughes90.bsky.social
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
@wendyrussell.bsky.social
@victoriajejones.bsky.social
@lillicrovara.bsky.social
@lstraughan.bsky.social
@ankitkumar.bsky.social
@harrietbulkeley.bsky.social

19.12.2025 12:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@deensharp.bsky.social
@ayanassar.bsky.social
@benandersongeog.bsky.social
@kbrickell.bsky.social
@termcern.bsky.social
@tylerb.bsky.social
@dcockayne.bsky.social
@davidjbissell.bsky.social
@vrsmirnova.bsky.social
@kayatbarry.bsky.social
@zuhrijames.bsky.social
@amyrobson.bsky.social

19.12.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles sharing 6 papers in a Themed Intervention and 3 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Han Cheng,  Deen Sharp

2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations
Aya Nassar

3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates
Vera Smirnova

4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh

5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography
Han Cheng

6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa
Maano Ramutsindela

7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities
Kaya Barry

8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis
Zuhri James

9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining
Yamini Narayanan

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles sharing 6 papers in a Themed Intervention and 3 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area Han Cheng, Deen Sharp 2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations Aya Nassar 3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates Vera Smirnova 4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh 5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography Han Cheng 6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa Maano Ramutsindela 7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities Kaya Barry 8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis Zuhri James 9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining Yamini Narayanan

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion
Amy Robson

2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers
Austin Read

3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast
Julian Clark

4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Jonathan Darling,  Andrew Burridge

5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading
Matteo Proto,  Francesco Buscemi

6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London
Saskia Papadakis

7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK
Sarah M. Hughes

8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics
Charlotte Veal

9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India
Thomas Cowan

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion Amy Robson 2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers Austin Read 3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast Julian Clark 4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge 5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi 6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London Saskia Papadakis 7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK Sarah M. Hughes 8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics Charlotte Veal 9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India Thomas Cowan

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with 4 standard articles, 1 commentary, and a Themed Intervention with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?
David McCollum

2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic
Alison Stenning,  Wendy Russell

3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough
Victoria J. E. Jones

4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home
David Bissell,  Elisabetta Crovara,  Andrew Gorman-Murray,  Elizabeth Straughan

5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention

6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis
Ankit Kumar,  Chandni Singh,  Lauren Hermanus,  Lalitha Kamath,  Wangui Kimari,  Mark Pelling,  Harriet Bulkeley

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with 4 standard articles, 1 commentary, and a Themed Intervention with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities? David McCollum 2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic Alison Stenning, Wendy Russell 3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough Victoria J. E. Jones 4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home David Bissell, Elisabetta Crovara, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Elizabeth Straughan 5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention 6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling, Harriet Bulkeley

📢December Issue of TIBG📢

Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series.

23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Leiboyu Xiang & Neil Lee (2025) entitled: 'Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites' with a red banner at the top.

This paper presents the first systematic city-level mapping of global scientific talent, analysing the top 200,000 star scientists across 3635 cities worldwide annually between 2019 and 2023. We use a novel Knowledge Generation Index (KGI) that combines researcher quantity with research impact to reveal extreme spatial concentration in knowledge production. Just four cities—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—host 12% of the world's star scientists, while much of the Global South remains virtually excluded from frontier research. Beijing's ascent into the global top 10 represents a rare challenge to established hierarchies. Our analysis uncovers striking disciplinary variations. Resource-intensive fields like clinical medicine cluster heavily, and traditionally dispersed disciplines are increasingly gravitating towards major hubs. Despite these differences, concentration is intensifying across most scientific fields. Even the pandemic's remote collaboration experiment failed to level the playing field. Established innovation centres continued strengthening their advantages while peripheral regions fell further behind. Overall, we find that geography remains destiny, with profound implications for innovation policy confronting widening spatial inequalities in global scientific capacity.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Leiboyu Xiang & Neil Lee (2025) entitled: 'Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites' with a red banner at the top. This paper presents the first systematic city-level mapping of global scientific talent, analysing the top 200,000 star scientists across 3635 cities worldwide annually between 2019 and 2023. We use a novel Knowledge Generation Index (KGI) that combines researcher quantity with research impact to reveal extreme spatial concentration in knowledge production. Just four cities—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—host 12% of the world's star scientists, while much of the Global South remains virtually excluded from frontier research. Beijing's ascent into the global top 10 represents a rare challenge to established hierarchies. Our analysis uncovers striking disciplinary variations. Resource-intensive fields like clinical medicine cluster heavily, and traditionally dispersed disciplines are increasingly gravitating towards major hubs. Despite these differences, concentration is intensifying across most scientific fields. Even the pandemic's remote collaboration experiment failed to level the playing field. Established innovation centres continued strengthening their advantages while peripheral regions fell further behind. Overall, we find that geography remains destiny, with profound implications for innovation policy confronting widening spatial inequalities in global scientific capacity.

New in TIBG:

'Finding stars: Mapping the geography of the world's scientific elites' by @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social et al.

This paper presents a systematic city-level mapping of global scientific talent, revealing clusters in New York, Boston, London & San Francisco.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by JoAnn McGregor, Mohamed Alikhan, George Masimba, Ahmed Omer & Michael Collyer (2025) entitled: 'Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities' with a red banner at the top.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by JoAnn McGregor, Mohamed Alikhan, George Masimba, Ahmed Omer & Michael Collyer (2025) entitled: 'Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities' with a red banner at the top.

New in TIBG!

'Evictability—A relational comparison: Fears, manoeuvres and regimes of housing insecurity in rapidly urbanising cities' by JoAnn McGregor et al.

This paper develops the concept of 'evictability' drawing on research in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe & Somaliland.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by JoAnn McGregor, Mohamed Alikhan, George Masimba, Ahmed Omer & Michael Collyer (2025) entitled: 'Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities' with a red banner at the top.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by JoAnn McGregor, Mohamed Alikhan, George Masimba, Ahmed Omer & Michael Collyer (2025) entitled: 'Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities' with a red banner at the top.

New in TIBG!

'Evictability—A relational comparison: Fears, manoeuvres and regimes of housing insecurity in rapidly urbanising cities' by JoAnn McGregor et al.

This paper develops the concept of 'evictability' drawing on research in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe & Somaliland.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu & Fangzhu Zhang (2025) entitled: 'Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China' with a red banner at the top.

This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals, while tactical mobilisation refers to the constrained manoeuvres employed by state agencies to mobilise external interests. In Chengdu, state actions strategically embedded market finance into the ecological project of political significance through large-scale state–capital coordination and tactically mobilised a pro-growth coalition for financialised housing development. The state politics differ markedly from the new urban politics that mainly serve global mobile capital. In this context, capitalist logic becomes secondary to the contextualised territorial logic underpinning China's ecological agendas. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial cities and state-led ecological spaces by foregrounding the intentional dimension of statecraft and advancing state entrepreneurialism as a conceptual and analytical framework.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu & Fangzhu Zhang (2025) entitled: 'Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China' with a red banner at the top. This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals, while tactical mobilisation refers to the constrained manoeuvres employed by state agencies to mobilise external interests. In Chengdu, state actions strategically embedded market finance into the ecological project of political significance through large-scale state–capital coordination and tactically mobilised a pro-growth coalition for financialised housing development. The state politics differ markedly from the new urban politics that mainly serve global mobile capital. In this context, capitalist logic becomes secondary to the contextualised territorial logic underpinning China's ecological agendas. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial cities and state-led ecological spaces by foregrounding the intentional dimension of statecraft and advancing state entrepreneurialism as a conceptual and analytical framework.

New in TIBG:

'Green space production as a state project in urban China' by Handuo Deng et al.

This paper explores the politics of Chengdu's greenway project in the context of Chinese state entrepreneurialism and territorial logics.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

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Screenshot of a paper in Transactions by Mark Griffiths (2025) entitled: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' with a red banner at the top.

While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth Povinelli and Kathryne Yusoff) that addresses the idea that political order and subjectivities grow from geological formations and life/non-life divisions. Following this work, I make an argument with obvious significance for geographers: the geos is a theoretically under-explored spatial unit that may predicate manifold spatial relations (e.g., the practices and politics that produce ‘land’ or ‘territory’). The second section considers historical accounts of early Zionist and Israeli settlement to show how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as alternatively life-sustaining or life-threatening in ways that predicate the sequester of land and territorial claims. The stakes are not merely historical or theoretical: the third section focuses on three contemporary sites—(i) the war-affected soils of Gaza, (ii) the cultivation of olive trees in the West Bank (iii) and practices of agri-resistance in Bethlehem—to explicate how geopower and geos remain central to ongoing colonial control and struggles in Palestine.

Screenshot of a paper in Transactions by Mark Griffiths (2025) entitled: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' with a red banner at the top. While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth Povinelli and Kathryne Yusoff) that addresses the idea that political order and subjectivities grow from geological formations and life/non-life divisions. Following this work, I make an argument with obvious significance for geographers: the geos is a theoretically under-explored spatial unit that may predicate manifold spatial relations (e.g., the practices and politics that produce ‘land’ or ‘territory’). The second section considers historical accounts of early Zionist and Israeli settlement to show how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as alternatively life-sustaining or life-threatening in ways that predicate the sequester of land and territorial claims. The stakes are not merely historical or theoretical: the third section focuses on three contemporary sites—(i) the war-affected soils of Gaza, (ii) the cultivation of olive trees in the West Bank (iii) and practices of agri-resistance in Bethlehem—to explicate how geopower and geos remain central to ongoing colonial control and struggles in Palestine.

New in TIBG:

'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social

This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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