Lindsay Naylor

Small waterfalls and an old bridge surrounded by fall deciduous trees in golds and yellows

Some east coast foliage for y’all:

"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality"
bell hooks

In anticipation of the release of “All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: creating a care-full academy” I am going to post the epigraphs that lead each section of the book over the next few weeks.

So, starting today, from the front matter of the book:

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey Philadelphia area friends, I will be at the Towne Book Center and Cafe on Wednesday, October 8th at 6:30 pm! Come get your books and stuff signed! Be awesome! I have stickers!

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gentle Geographies', and an editorial. The papers are: 1) Areas of opportunity Jeremy J. Schmidt, Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Darling, Eli D. Lazarus 2) Editorial: Towards more gentle geographies: Narrating a virtue turn, and possibilities for multi-tonal politics of activism and academic labour Matt Finn, Jayne M. Jeffries 3) The quiet politics and gentle literary activism behind the battle for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument Laura Smith 4) Power in numbers/Power and numbers: Gentle data activism as strategic collaboration Jonathan Cinnamon 5) For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING-BUT-GENTLE academy John Horton 6) Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach Laura Pottinger 7) CoPSE: A methodological intervention towards gentle more-than-human relations Suzanne Hocknell

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) ‘What is visible… and what isn't’: A public art intervention for re-imagining the food system Ekaterina Gladkova, Naho Matsuda 2) Reimagining the streetscapes of Varanasi city: Public art, urban regeneration and smart city practices Iman Banerjee, Amrita Bajaj, Apala Saha 3) It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers Maria Thulemark, Susanna Heldt-Cassel, Tara Duncan 4) Right-sizing the smart city in Southeast Asia Prerona Das, Orlando Woods, Lily Kong 5) The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Simon M. Hutchinson, Lynda Yorke, Lesley C. Batty, M. Jane Bunting, Dan Swanton, Derek A. McDougall, Daniel R. Parsons 6) Is the spatial persistence of deprivation dependent on neighbouring areas? Stephen D. Clark, Fran Pontin, Paul Norman 7) ‘Backward geographies’: Contested lives and livelihoods in the tea plantation enclaves of South Asia Suranjan Majumder 8) On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests Kathryn Cassidy, Gill Davidson 9) Navigating inequalities and shaping aspirations: The role of supplementary education in low-income immigrant youth's transition to selective secondary school Lara Landolt

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Open Access Book Publishing: A Forum for Debate' and three 'Ethics in/of Geographical Research' papers. The papers are: 1) ‘The city is not for us’: Ethics, everyday sexism, and negotiating unwanted encounters during fieldwork Morag Rose 2) Participation, inclusion and reflexivity in multi-step (focus) group discussions Marina Korzenevica, Engdasew Feleke Lemma, Catherine Fallon Grasham, Khonker Taskin Anmol, Daniel Ekai Esukuku, Fahreen Hossain, Mercy Mbithe Musyoka, Saskia Nowicki, Dalmas Ochieng Omia, Salome A. Bukachi 3) The ‘creative thesis’ in the academic ‘anxiety machine’ Angela Last 4) Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing Simon P. J. Batterbury, Andrea E. Pia, Gerda Wielander, Nicholas Loubere 5) Uneven geographies of power in UK higher education's conjunctural crisis: A response to Gandy Julie Cupples 6) Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture Clancy Wilmott 7) Gandy & 'Books under threat': A response Frank Houghton 8) Challenges and opportunities for open access book publishing: A perspective from a society publisher in the geosciences Jenny Lunn, Kate Lajtha 9) Ex Libris: Books, creativity and academic freedom Matthew Gandy

📢September Issue of Area📢

Our latest issue features an editorial from our new team, a Special Section on 'Gentle Geographies', and a discussion forum on #OpenAccess book publishing.

Available to read here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

Book cover with open book and quill sculpture on a college campus.

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

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Resilience, Critique and the Limits of Geographic Thought in the Anthropocene As resilience has become an increasingly influential governance principle, geographers have been among the most ardent critics of the concept and its …

Weekend reading!! by @kgrove80.bsky.social
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"... salvage geographies refer to practices of geographic knowledge production that are organized around desires to secure the promise of modernist futurity in the Anthropocene..."
#geogchat #geosky

Hey students 👀 We have three awards recognizing those who are studying quantitative/computational geography and spatial studies. Whether you’re an undergraduate, a master’s student, or a PhD candidate, there’s at least one award given to these students annually. Learn more and apply by October 15! 👇

Where is my Kermit
Where is my swamp song
Where is my happy ending
Where have all the Muppets gone

New paper! On the precarious labor at the end of the solar commodity chain, and the production of value from solar waste in India.

Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India.
☀️🔌💡 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpUo7tZ6a...

So excited about your work!

Graphic promoting AAG's Awards Cycle.

Awards season is in swing! The September nomination deadline for Honors and Fellows closes on September 30. AAG Fellows are recognized for their significant contributions to advancing geography and will be celebrated at a reception at the 2026 Annual Meeting. buff.ly/qp2lvXN

San Francisco townhouses with dark blue fade and text overlay: "Organize field visits and workshops."

Get involved in planning #AAG2026 offerings! If you're looking for a change of pace, field visits and workshops can get attendees out of the traditional meeting room and provide a memorable learning experience in a low-risk setting to try out new techniques.

Plan the program: buff.ly/XZKrnlx

Geography/Geosciences 2025-2026 Wiki page for Academic Jobs in Geography/Geosciences advertised during the 2025-2026 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2026. Last year's page: Geography/Geosciences 2024-2025 Please a...

Some years back the job wiki was a really great crowd-sourced resource for folks on the academic job market. Looks super quiet this year so I encourage job seekers in academic fields to check it out and populate it, share what you know!
geography/geosciences:
academicjobs.fandom.com/wiki/Geograp...

All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers Although care is a critical component of human life, it has remained on the margins of higher education and theory, heightening unequal relations along gender, race, and class lines. In All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, Lindsay Naylor argues for a feminist approach in geography that is both world-dismantling and worldmaking, pushing back against a neoliberal academy.

🌍 All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, says @lbnaylor.bsky.social. Naylor argues for care-centred, feminist approaches to geography, challenging the neoliberal academy and reimagining how we “write the earth.” ✊♀️

Find it here: bit.ly/4m1j79X
@ugapress.bsky.social

Human geography in Bangladesh | UDaily UD doctoral candidate amplifies the voice of a vulnerable community in Chittagong City

Celebrating this excellent coverage by the University of Delaware Community Engagement Initiative in UDaily about the fieldwork and research contributions of #Geography graduate student & @embodimentlab.bsky.social member Naznin Sultana

Read here!

www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/...

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

group photo of department under 100 years of geography banner.

Come work with us!!
The Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (GEOG) is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair at the rank of full professor with tenure--human geography specialization.
#geosky #geogchat

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Hive mind: recommendations for short readings useful for a student interested in historicizing “the natural” and/or “nature” in a US context?

Early career flier!

Just want to re-up this fantastic opportunity with the PGSG of @geographers.bsky.social for early career researchers/writers!
#geosky #geogchat

Yes to this--100%
Also, I would add, read something that you find is well written and/or organized and think about what makes it work for you as a reader 🙂

@nusrattm.bsky.social

Very happy graduate student posing with a celebratory glass of champagne!!

Congratulations to @embodimentlab.bsky.social member Mehrnaz Haghdadi on a successful proposal defense!! ABD in the house!!!

Calling all aspiring chairs who are human geographers--we are hiring in the Dept. of Geography & Spatial Sciences. I am on this committee and am available to answer any questions!!!
#geography #geogchat #geosky

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Copies of my new book are here! Pre-order yours so you don't forget 👉 www.amazon.com/Olivers-Grea...