Society and space

Issue 3 of the 2016 volume of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is now up online. The essay by Lauren Berlant stems from the Society and Space lecture that she gave at the American Association of Geographers meeting in April 2015. It is free to access until mid-June 2016. Readers may also wish to take a look at the interview with Prof. Berlant conducted by David Seitz on this site.

Essay
The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times Lauren Berlant 393-419

Articles
The spaces in between: Mobile policy and the topographies and topologies of the technocracy Russell Prince 420-437
The surface and the abyss/ Rethinking topology Iulian Barba Lata and Claudio Minca 438-455
Entrepreneurial affect: Attachment to work practice in San Francisco’s digital media sector Daniel G Cockayne 456-473
A political ecology of home: Attachment to nature and political subjectivity Patricia Burke Wood and Julie EE Young 474-491
Settler colonialism, George Grey and the politics of ethnography Alan Lester 492-507
The contingency of change in the Anthropocene: More-than-real negotiation of power relations in climate change institutional transformation in Australia Jessica Emma McLean 508-527
Judaism’s other geographies: Franz Rosenzweig and the state of exile Jessica Dubow 528-544
Rock, water, air, and fire: Foregrounding the elements in the Gibraltar-Spain dispute Rachael Squire 545-563
“The Sheikh of Araby rides a Cadillac”: Popular geoeconomic imaginations, positional anxiety and nouveau riche territories Benjamin Smith 564-580

The April Issue of the 2016 Environment and Planning D: Society and Space volume is out now. Access requires subscription. See the contents of Volume 34, Issue 2 below:

The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin 191-208

Indignation and inclusion: Activism, difference, and emergent urban politics in postcrash Madrid Sophie Gonick 209-226

Building and blurring the intimate boundaries of nation, race and geopolitics in a suburb neighbouring a UK immigration removal centre Charles Leddy-Owen 227-244

The rugged border: Surveillance, policing and the dynamic materiality of the US/Mexico frontier Geoffrey A Boyce 245-262

Exotic endurance: Tourism, fitness and the Marathon des Sables Debbie Lisle 263-281

Working to appear: The plural and uneven geographies of race, sexuality, and the local state in Sydney, Australia Derek Ruez 282-300

Counting the countless: Statistics on homelessness and the spatial ontology of political numbers Nadine Marquardt 301-318

No place to hide? The ethics and analytics of tracking mobility using mobile phone data Linnet Taylor 319-336

Diagram of a love for plants gone bad Erin Despard 337-354

Fish-hood: Environmental assessment, critical Indigenous studies, and posthumanism at Fish Lake (Teztan Biny), Tsilhqot’in territory Dawn Hoogeveen 355-370

Listening space: Lessons from artists with and without learning disabilities Hannah Macpherson, Alice Fox, Susan Street, John Cull, Tina Jenner, Des Lake, Martyn Lake, and Shirley Hart 371-389

The first issue of the 2016 volume of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (volume 34, number 1) is now online. It includes an excellent theme issue edited by Marieke de Goede, Anna Leander and Gavin Sullivan on ‘The politics of the list’, as well as two fascinating stand-alone articles – one by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos on the ontology of atmosphere, the other by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini on the politics of human shielding.

The guest editors’ introduction to the theme issue is free to access for the next month. The remaining contents require subscription to access, but see a freely available photo essay by Gordon and Perugini as a supplement to their article here.

The politics of the list: Law, security, technology theme issue
Guest editorial: The politics of the list Marieke de Goede, Anna Leander, Gavin Sullivan 3-13
Indexing – The politics of invisibility Urs Stäheli 14-29
Letting the right ones in: Whitelists, jurisdictional reputation, and the racial dynamis of online gambling regulation Kate Bedford 30-47
The politics of whitelisting: Regulatory work and topologies in commercial security Anna Leander 48-66
The politics of security lists Marieke de Goede and Gavin Sullivan 67-88
The cross-colonization of finance and security through lists: Banking policing in the UK and India Anthony Amicelle and Elida KU Jacobsen 89-106
Keep adding: On kill lists, drone warfare and the politics of databases Jutta Weber 107-125
Global governance through the pairing of list and algorithm Fleur Johns 126-149

Withdrawing from atmosphere: An ontology of air partitioning and affective engineering Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 150-167
The politics of human shielding: On the resignification of space and the constitution of civilians as shields in liberal wars Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini 168-187

The December issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is already up online. With this last issue in the 2015 volume, now is a good time to say THANK YOU to all of the reviewers and authors who help our editorial team realize our aim to publish empirically informed work that pushes the boundaries of theoretical debate and keeps the political and social justice imperatives of research and theory firmly in view.

Here are the contents of volume 33, issue 6, which can be accessed by subscription:

Spatial big data and anxieties of control Agnieszka Leszczynski 965-984
The affect of Jugaad: Frugal innovation and postcolonial practice in India’s mobile phone ecology Amit S Rai 985-1002
Between the metropole and the postcolony: On the dynamics of rights’ machinery from the northwestern tribal belt to the “mainland” Pakistan Muhammad Ali Nasir 1003-1021
Capitalist pigs: Governmentality, subjectivities, and the regulation of pig farming in colonial Hong Kong, 1950-1970 Kin Wing Chang and Byron Miller 1022-1042
Imagining society: Logics of visualization in images of immigrant integration Sanne Boersma and Willem Schinkel 1043-1062
Terminal experimentation: The transformation of experiences, events and escapes at global airports Anthony Elliott and David Radford 1063-1079
Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading Christian Borch, Kristian Bondo Hansen, and Ann-Christina Lange 1080-1097
Animal performativity: Exploring the lives of donkeys in Botswana Martha Geiger and Alice J Hovorka 1098-1117
Opposing the opposition? Binarity and complexity in political resistance Leonie Ansems de Vries and Doerthe Rosenow 1118-1134
Anxiety and phantasy in the field: The position of the unconscious in ethnographic research Jesse Proudfoot 1135-1152

This issue is free to access for a limited time as part of a free trial period with SAGE, the new publisher of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space [November 1, 2015 update – the free to access trial period is now over].

It begins with a provocative commentary on European queer of colour politics (Bacchetta, El-Tayeb, and Haritaworn), then moves into articles that offer critical analyses on the following topics: race and gender violence in Vancouver, Canada (Collard); the politics of nuclear remediation in the United States (Cram); informal labour in a Soweto garbage dump (Samson); spatial history in literary representations of border landscapes (Morton); the biopolitics of planning in Halifax, Canada (Rutland); the mapping of Bangkok’s Rattanakosin historic district (Rugkhapan); satellites as the extraterrestrial footprints of global capitalism (Damjanov); geoengineering and Transition Towns (Martindale); indigeneity and participatory cartographies in Perija, Venezuela (Sletto); and, prison transfers in Britain as spatio-temporal regimes (Follis).

Commentary:
Queer of colour formations and translocal spaces in Europe Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, and Jin Haritaworn 769-778

Articles:
Into the archive: Vancouver’s Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Juliane Collard 779-795
Becoming Jane: The making and unmaking of Hanford’s nuclear body Shannon Cram 796-812
Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dump Melanie Samson 813-830
The warp of the world: Geographies of space and time in the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Adam David Morton 831-849
Enjoyable life: Planning, amenity and the contested terrain of urban biopolitics Ted Rutland 850-868
Mapping the historic city: Mapmaking, preservation zoning, and violence Napong Tao Rugkhapan 869-888
The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics Katarina Damjanov 889-906
Understanding humans in the Anthropocene: Finding answers in geoengineering and Transition Towns Leigh Martindale 907-924
Inclusions, erasures and emergences in an indigenous landscape: Participatory cartographies and the makings of affective place in the Sierra de Perija, Venezuela Bjørn Sletto 924-944
Power in motion: Tracking time, space, and movement in the British Penal Estate Luca Follis 945-962

Here is the table of contents of the current issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Living absence: the strange geographies of missing people 191 – 208 Hester Parr, Olivia Stevenson, Nick Fyfe, Penny Woolnough
The state of exception and the imperial way of life in the United States–Mexico borderlands 209 – 228 Juanita Sundberg
Cross-border marriage, transgovernmental friction, and waiting 229 – 246 Juan Zhang, Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Brenda S A Yeoh
Wet ontologies, fluid spaces: giving depth to volume through oceanic thinking 247 – 264 Philip Steinberg, Kimberley Peters
Environmental research from here and there: numerical modelling labs as heterotopias 265 – 280 Sarah Laborde
Neoliberal Niagara? Examining the political history of fish consumption advisories in New York State 281 – 295 Jordan Fox Besek
Of lobsters, laboratories, and war: animal studies and the temporality of more-than-human encounters 296 – 313 Elizabeth R Johnson
Encountering Occupy London: boundary making and the territoriality of urban activism 314 – 330 Sam Halvorsen
Towards a global genealogy of biopolitics: race, colonialism, and biometrics beyond Europe 331 – 346 Hidefumi Nishiyama
Anarchism, geohistory, and the Annales: rethinking Elisée Reclus’s influence on Lucien Febvre 347 – 365 Federico Ferretti
Violent geographical abstractions 366 – 381 Alex Loftus

Review essay: Empire on trial: the forensic appearance of truth 382 – 388 Gastón Gordillo

Brief synopses of the papers by Parr et al, Sundberg, Zhang et al, Steinberg and Peters, Fox Besek, Johnson, and Halvorsen are available here.

Regarding the remaining papers: Laborde draws on ethnographic work with fishermen and computer modellers to examine the production of local and remote knowledge about the flows of Italy’s Lake Como; Nishiyama interrogates Foucault’s articulation of racism as a biopolitical strategy through an examination of the production of racial knowledge during Japanese colonialism; Ferretti contributes to understanding of the discipline of geography’s history as well as to current debates on anarchist geographies with his paper on the influence of the work of geographer and anarchist Elisée Reclus on Lucien Febvre, founder of the French Annales School; and, Loftus follow’s Marx’s Grundrisse to trace the emergence of geographical abstractions as a central feature of modern capitalist society.

Rounding out the issue is Gordillo’s review essay on Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth, a compilation that includes work by architects, artists, filmmakers, lawyers, and theorists on contemporary forensic practices and aims to “produce new kinds of evidence for use by international prosecutorial teams, political organizations, NGOs, and the UN.”

The first issue of the 2015 volume of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is now online (access requires subscription)

Referees 1 – 3

Living with omega-3: new materialism and enduring concerns 4 – 19 Sebastian Abrahamsson, Filippo Bertoni, Annemarie Mol, Rebeca Ibáñez Martín
Performing expertise in human–animal relationships: performative instability and the role of counterperformance 20 – 34 Nora Schuurman, Alex Franklin
The biopolitical production of the city: urban political ecology in the age of immaterial labour 35 – 51 Martín Arboleda
Cultural activism, hegemony, and the search for urban autonomy in the city of Puebla, Mexico 52 – 66 Eduardo González Castillo, Patricia M Martin
From toxic wreck to crunchy chic: environmental gentrification through the body 67 – 83 Leslie Kern
Borders, one-dimensionality, and illusion in the war on drugs 84 – 100 Margath A Walker
The emergence of iBorder: bordering bodies, networks, and machines 101 – 118 Holger Pötzsch
The diaspora within: Himalayan youth, education-driven migration, and future aspirations in India 119 – 135 Sara H Smith, Mabel Gergan
Governing through civil society? The making of a post-Soviet political subject in Ukraine 136 – 153 Alexander Vorbrugg
The bunker and the camp: inside West Germany’s nuclear tomb 154 – 168 Ian Klinke
Militarized spaces and open range: Piñon Canyon and (counter)cartographies of rural resistance 169 – 184 David G Havlick, Eric Perramond

Review essay: From hinterland to the global: new books on historical and political understandings of territory 185 – 190 Stuart Elden

The last issue of the 2014 volume of Society and Space is now online (access requires subscription).

Badiou’s biopolitics: the human animal and the body of truth 951 – 967 Sergei Prozorov
From things to events: Whitehead and the materiality of process 968 – 983 Tom Roberts
Counterinsurgency ecotourism in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 984 – 1001 Jennifer Devine
Environmental protection as market pathology?: carbon trading and the dialectics of the ‘double movement’ 1002 – 1018 Wim Carton
Securing tar sands circulation: risk, affect, and anticipating the Line 9 reversal 1019 – 1035 Sonia Grant
Internal colonisation and Indigenous resource sovereignty: wind power developments on traditional Saami lands 1036 – 1053 Rebecca Lawrence
Media practices and urban politics: conceptualizing the powers of the media–urban nexus 1054 – 1070 Scott Rodgers, Clive Barnett, Allan Cochrane
On the peripheries of planetary urbanization: globalizing Manaus and its expanding impact 1071 – 1087 Juan Miguel Kanai
Splintering skylines in a fractured city: high-rise geographies in Jerusalem 1088 – 1101 Igal Charney, Gillad Rosen
Capital fixity and mobility in response to the 2008–09 crisis: variegated neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey 1102 – 1119 Hepzibah Munoz Martinez, Thomas Marois
Enacting logistical geographies 1120 – 1134 Kate Hepworth

Issue 5 of Society and Space is now online.

Theme issue: Insecure states, Guest editor: Chris Philo
Guest editorial, State security and the ‘hostile acres’ 753 – 761 Chris Philo
Governing vitalities and the security state 762 – 778 Gerry Kearns
Spaces of benevolent abandonment: the German Air Security decision of 2006 779 – 794 Matthew G Hannah
States of (in)security: corporeal geographies and the elsewhere war 795 – 814 Jennifer L Fluri
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The biopolitical border in practice: surveillance and death at the Greece–Turkey borderzones 815 – 833 Özgün E Topak
Security atmospheres or the crystallisation of worlds 834 – 851 Peter Adey
The possibilities of tolerance: intercultural dialogue in a multicultural Europe 852 – 868 Helen F Wilson
Michel Foucault and the smart city: power dynamics inherent in contemporary governing through code 869 – 885 Francisco Klauser, Till Paasche, Ola Söderström
Rancière, politics, and the Occupy movement 886 – 901 Keith Bassett
Theorizing violence and the dialectics of landscape memorialization: a case study of Greensboro, North Carolina 902 – 914 James A Tyner, Joshua F J Inwood, Derek H Alderman [currently open access, also see the authors’ commentary on this open site, Remembering the real violence in Ferguson]
Bio-geo-graphy: landscape, dwelling, and the political ecology of human–elephant relations 915 – 934 Maan Barua
Intensive mobilities: figurations of the nomad in contemporary theory 935 – 950 Thomas Sutherland