This paper introduces psychedelic geographies as micropolitical praxis for unsettling the spatiotemporal closures of colonial capitalism, and enlivening alternative ways of being in the present. Building from Indigenous practices, countercultural histories, and the contemporary ‘psychedelic renaissance’, the paper argues that psychedelic geographies, in conjunction with (but distinct from) other radical geographical literatures, can provide important interjection into debates about how radically different experiences of space are experienced and prefigurative. Psychedelic geographies are situated alongside literatures on affect, hauntology, pluriverse imaginaries, and quantum geographies, not to supplant them but to bring them into productive resonance critiquing capitalistic spatial and temporal logics.
Carceral spaces and practices threaten the reproductive rights of women and gender diverse people. As the global population of people in prisons for women is growing, there is a need for research exploring how the spaces and practices of detainment produce reproductive injustice. This article provides an overview of existing geographic and reproductive justice scholarship within the context of incarceration and reproductive rights, identifies potential convergences between reproductive justice theory and fields of abolition and carceral geography, and proposes a research agenda of abolitionist feminist geography to guide inquiry into the experience of carceral spaces as sites of reproductive injustice.
Over the past two decades, tourism geographers have approached tourism as a mode of capitalist accumulation that produces space, reorganizes labor and social reproduction, and appropriates nature. This report traces that shift through work on uneven development, financialization, platform capitalism, labor, and political ecology. It distinguishes limits to growth from the contradictions and limits generated through accumulation. These tensions become visible in debates over overtourism, while degrowth, post-capitalist, and regenerative approaches ask what contraction, redistribution, and ecological repair might require. I argue that tourism offers human geography a critical vantage point for examining how these relations might be organized otherwise.
Property is of concern to human geographers because of how it shapes the social circumstances and physical conditions of places. Given property’s role in structuring the socio-spatial conditions of homelessness, geographic research on homelessness has analyzed property for decades. However, with advances in property scholarship emerging within the broader discipline, geographies of homelessness can recenter property in its analyses. To do so, this paper promotes a relational approach to analyzing property by highlighting key features of property’s formations: home-making, race-making, and political subject-making, formations that cannot only inform and guide homelessness research, but research concerned with the puzzle of possession in shaping more just geographies.
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life. By contrast, this article makes an intervention in economic geography debates by refuting this analysis as largely misguided. The article makes the case for an explicitly open notion of concrete totality. We argue that a conception of concrete totality is especially useful for understanding our contemporary conjuncture of crisis across debates in and beyond economic geography.
