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View article: Geopsychiatry and geography: A response
Geopsychiatry and geography: A response Open
Background: This contribution responds to three articles (we refer to all three as ‘editorials’) concerning something called ‘geopsychiatry’. Aims: To evaluate claims made in these editorials for ‘geopsychiatry’ as a new field of inquiry a…
View article: COP26, human geography and earth futures: introduction to a theme section
COP26, human geography and earth futures: introduction to a theme section Open
The rationale for this theme section on ‘COP26, human geography and earth futures’ is explained. A previous special issue of this journal – entitled ‘Climate change, COP26 and the crucible of crisis’, published during 2020 in anticipation …
View article: Encountering COP26 as a security event: a short walking ethnography
Encountering COP26 as a security event: a short walking ethnography Open
This paper represents a short ethnographic encounter with the site of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow in 2021. It communicates an experiential picturing of the site as it was assembled and disassembled, as this was recorded in note…
View article: Climate change and rural mental health: a social geographic perspective
Climate change and rural mental health: a social geographic perspective Open
Ultimately, the authors would like to prompt a re-thinking of 'social' as a category, which is usually confined to interpersonal interactions between humans and suggest a broadening of the concept to include both human and non-human worlds.
View article: Missing women: policing absence
Missing women: policing absence Open
This paper considers the neglected mobilities associated with a sample of UK women reported as missing. Refracted through literatures on gendered mobility and abandonment, the paper argues that the journeys of these women in crisis are not…
View article: Living Absence: The Strange Geographies of Missing People
Living Absence: The Strange Geographies of Missing People Open
In this paper ‘missing people’ gain an unstable presence through their (restaged) testimonies recounting individual occupations of material urban public space during the lived practice of absence. We explore ‘missing experience’ with refer…