NEW - Hijacking legality: Corruption and property creation in Brazil's frontiers, by Joachim Stassart, Flavia Mendes de Almeida Collaço, Dário Cardoso, and Renato Morgado www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RGS Political Geography Plenary - The appeals of communism: Extracting confessions from the communist subject in the Vietnam war, by Oliver Belcher www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PAPER - When “conflict free” minerals go to war, by Kali Rubaii, Mohamed El-Shewy, and Mark Griffiths www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS -The visual conquering of the Portuguese sea, by Pedro Figueiredo Neto www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power, by Jamie Peck www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The introduction to the special issue on Durable governance assemblages at the margins, edited by Matthew Richmond and Frank Müller, is now available in Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New guest editorial - Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash, by Ed Atkins www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PG editorial - Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographic Society and Political Geography are seeking nominations for the fifth PolGRG/PG Book Award for books published from June 2023 up to and including June 2025.

Book Award - The Political Geography Research Group of the @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social in coordination with Political Geography is seeking nominations for the fifth Book Award for books published since June 2023

Towards a global perspective on interrelated green hydrogen transitions: The case of Colombia, by Kristina Dietz, Felix Malte Dorn and Etienne Schneider www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Residual urbanism: sanitary infrastructures and the governance of waste in Rio de Janeiro, by Mariana Cavalcanti and Maria Raquel Passos Lima www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - Domains of dominance: Political territorial control and conflict-related violence in postwar Abidjan, by Sebastian van Baalen and Thao-Nguyen Ha www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor, by Andreas Malm, Kristoffer Ekberg, Christina Englund, Johanne Tagmose Grønkjær, Martin Charlier, Olivia Medin and Ståle Holgersen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor, by Andreas Malm, Kristoffer Ekberg, Christina Englund, Johanne Tagmose Grønkjær, Martin Charlier, Olivia Medin and Ståle Holgersen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea, by Emily Benton Hite, Sarah Posner and Jerry K. Jacka www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seizing the means of innovation: On the relationship between Marxism and ecomodernism, by Govand Khalid Azeez and Jonathan Symons www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PAPER - Urbanisation, democracy, and political regime transformations, by Nick Dorward, Sean Fox and Kristian Hoelscher www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences, by David M. Willumsen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - Precarious work and local governance through the lens of informality and caring for place, by Valeria Guarneros-Meza www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - Durable instabilities of home: Rain, terrain, and governance assemblages in Medellín, Colombia, by Frank I. Müller www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks for attending our plenary at the RGS Annual International Conference yesterday! The PG lecture was given by Professor Anna Secor and organized by Mia Bennett and Filippo Menga

NEW PAPER - From derisking to green extractivism: The Rioni Valley Movement and the coloniality of renewable infrastructure in Post-Soviet Georgia, by Lela Rekhviashvili and Aleksandra Aroshvili www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rural identity and welfare anxieties are not mere subplots but central to the changing Dutch politics. As Veenhof, Halleck Vega & van Leeuwen show in @politicalgeography.bsky.social the deepening fractures in the #Netherlands are a symptom of neglected places & fading #trust. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

NEW - Durable instabilities of home: Rain, terrain, and governance assemblages in Medellín, Colombia, by Frank I. Müller www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS -The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands, by Michelle Irengbam and Christopher Sneddon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - Devolution and democratic engagement in England, by Nicholas P. Sweeney www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open Access - The rural consolidation state: A critical examination of municipal consolidation strategies in Bavaria, Germany, by Andreas Kallert and Simon Dudek www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India, by Debasish Hazarika and Ngamjahao Kipgen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New editorial - Pastoralism is facing existential threat in West Africa, by Olivier Walther, Lacey Harris-Coble, Leif Brottem, Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk, Cletus F. Nwankwo, Adegbola T. Adesogan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JOB - Political Geography is seeking to appoint a Managing Editor to support the editorial workflow and help streamline journal operations. This role is ideal for early-career researchers with a strong interest in academic publishing and an ambition to develop professionally within the field.

Geographies of anti-political establishment parties in the Netherlands: The role of broader welfare and local representation, by Rienje Veenhof, Sol Maria Halleck Vega and Eveline van Leeuwen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - Where do regimes rally their supporters? The geographical distribution of pro-war mobilization in Russia (2022), by @kpaula.bsky.social and @tanzformation.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, by Melissa Johnston and Jayanthi T. Lingham www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open Access - Perceptions of regional neglect: Deepening the deviant Dutch case, by Bram van Vulpen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies, by Samuel N. Chambers and Gabriella Soto, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - The colonial migration state, by @fionaadamson.bsky.social and Hélène Thiollet, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PAPER - How Narcos work together: Debt, trust and community governance in Bolivia's cocaine supply chain, by Thomas Grisaffi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new issue is now available! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poli...

Political practices between internal colonialism and global inequality: Energy infrastructures in Tunisia and Costa Rica, by Alke Jenss and Alessandra Bonci www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📑Political geographies of everyday life and agency in camps, by Kara E. Dempsey and Pablo S. Bose www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change, by Diana Suhardiman, Wengki Ariando, Dedi Adhuri Supriadi and Terry Indrabudi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - Governing the unstable: Colonial atmospheres, ‘weathering’ Indigenous, and the colonisation of polar air in the Soviet Arctic, by Nadezhda Mamontova www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PAPER - Toponyms and political control in divided cities: The case of Jerusalem's neighborhood names, by Ofir Hadad and Oren Barak www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW in PG - Spatialities of slow resistance in Congo-Brazzaville, by Charden Pouo Moutsouka www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - Re-thinking the Russian World construct: Historical roots, conceptual tenets, and contemporary typology, by Tomáš Mareš and Petr Sosna www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Review article - Beyond apartheid and genocide: A broader framework for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by Yaniv Reingewertz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🥳 The making of H2-scapes in the Global South: Political geography perspectives on an emergent field of research, by Eric Cezne and Kei Otsuki www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OPEN ACCESS - The German scramble for green hydrogen in Namibia: Colonial legacies revisited? By Johanna Tunn, Franziska Müller, Jesko Hennig, Jenny Simon and @tobiaskalt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...