ABSTRACT Tourism remains comparatively peripheral within theorisations of rural transformation in rural geography, while rural tourism is often defined in sectoral and locational terms, as tourism activity merely occurring in rural areas. This framing, common in applied and policy‐facing strands of rural tourism research, risks limiting explanatory power by treating tourism as a dependent variable linearly shaped by a pre‐given rurality. Drawing on emerging relational thinking in rural geography, this paper argues for a re‐conceptualisation of rural tourism as socio‐spatial mediation, that is, a patterned set of classificatory, regulatory, and representational practices through which rural places are assembled as destinations and rendered legible, investable, governable, and comparable across different places and contexts. The paper makes two linked contributions. First, it offers a diagnostic intervention by specifying how sectoral and locational logics constrain the analytical and explanatory value of tourism within the rural transformation debates. Second, it offers a translational intervention by showing that rural tourism has far‐reaching implications beyond the sector per se, and that rural change is mediated by destination‐making practices, including land and membership arrangements, administrative and governance routines, and evaluation and representation infrastructures. Using rural China as an analytically generative field, the paper demonstrates the analytical value of this framework by showing how destination‐making organises a multiplicity of social, economic, and political operations and renders them empirically visible, enabling scholars to probe the logics of governance and mobilisation for development in rural China. The paper concludes by outlining an agenda for future research centred on explaining how destinations are made across sites and scales and on strengthening the interface between rural studies and tourism studies.
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, hydrogen development has become part of Latin America's decarbonization landscape, positioning the region as a potential exporter of green energy, yet revealing deep territorial inequalities. This paper explores the geography of hydrogen in Latin America, where projects cluster along coastal corridors and reproduce long‐standing patterns of uneven development. Based on a review of recent academic literature and policy documents, we analyze how fragmented governance, competing claims on water and land, and limited local participation interact with this emerging geography. Hydrogen transitions involve much more than technological shifts. As hydrogen development evolves in Latin America, it produces the socio‐spatial reconfiguration of territories, resource use, and environment‐society relations. We propose potential pathways, including participatory governance, redistributive infrastructure, and recognitional planning, to embed energy justice and inclusion in the emerging geographies of hydrogen. The Latin American case shows how emerging hydrogen geographies are shaped by the interaction between global decarbonization agendas and histories of extraction, inequality, and environmental change.
ABSTRACT How are economic relations made apprehensible, valued, and consequential, and for whom? Work in critical human geography, economic sociology, and science and technology studies shows that “the economy” is not a pre‐given domain but an effect of material, institutional, and representational practices that render some relations legible as economic while marginalizing others. Interventions such as the diverse economies framework have been central to this rethinking, particularly through the widely circulated “iceberg,” which foregrounds forms of labor, exchange, and interdependence marginalized in capitalocentric accounts. This paper uses the iceberg as a focal representational device through which to synthesize debates about economic representation and valuation. Building on diverse and community economies scholarship that has developed heterogeneous practices of inventory, measurement, recognition, and intervention, the paper develops surfacing as a comparative vocabulary for examining how actors, devices, and socio‐technical arrangements make economic relations apprehensible, valued, and consequential for particular audiences and institutional settings. Surfacing distinguishes recurring configurations of commensuration and incorporation, recognition without commensuration, and residualization and overflow without treating them as sequential stages or fixed outcomes. Reinterpreting the iceberg through this lens shows how economic boundaries and forms of value are produced, contested, and reorganized through differing relations among representation, valuation, recognition, and institutional uptake. The paper thereby offers a framework for comparing how economic plurality becomes consequential in different ways and settings.
ABSTRACT Many expressions of solidarity are mobile in nature. Whether marching through a city, walking to make claims upon territory, or communicating across struggles, the spatial politics of solidarity is often shaped through its mobility. In this review article, we consider this spatial politics of mobile solidarity. We bring into conversation scholarship on solidarity that is mobile in nature and scholarship on mobility politics, to argue for a renewed engagement with mobile political formations. We make these arguments by drawing together literature on mobility politics and solidarity to frame such mobile spatial politics. At the same time, our commentary draws upon our own experiences as researchers and participants within mobile demonstrations. In drawing attention to these interests, our argument here is that attending closely to the mobile and solidarity aspects of mobile solidarity can unearth three new understandings of spatial politics. First, the relationships fostered through participation in marches and being together in space. Second, the alterity of reimagining public space that marching enables. Third, a consideration of the power relationships within and beyond mobile solidarities that both cause marches and result from marches.
ABSTRACT Scholarship in the Geography of religion has expanded the study of religious space beyond formal places of worship to informal and temporary sites. This article reviews these developments while highlighting a persistent gap: the limited attention paid to the material agency of architecture. By revisiting debates on the ‘politics and poetics’ of religious space, the paper argues that architecture is often reduced to a symbolic representation of power or a passive container of practice. To address this, the article proposes an original framework that synthesises three established dimensions—Infrasecularity, Iconicity (and Iconic Aspiration), and Infrastructuring—to re‐materialise the study of religious buildings. Drawing on these extant concepts, the framework provides new tools to analyse how architecture actively participates in visibility and spatial negotiation. Applying this model to Sikh gurdwaras in Singapore and Italy, the article demonstrates how buildings act as catalysts in the material production of religious space and the assertion of a community's right to the city.
