Human Geography

Human Geography 19.2 has been published! Please take a look at the table of contents and follow the links to access the articles.
Substantive Articles:
Xu, F., & Lawson, J. (2026). Eldercare and re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Capital switching and bundled commodities in recent trends. Human Geography, 19(2), 217-231. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Wu, J. (2026). Transforming Guizhou: Urbanization in an ethnic region in southwest China. Human Geography, 19(2), 232-245. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Walker, A. (2026). Neither chains nor networks: Modeling ambivalence in the US automotive sector. Human Geography, 19(2), 246-260. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Williams, J. (2026). Nature, rent and the persistence of inequality: A Georgist political ecology. Human Geography, 19(2), 261-273. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Roy, S. (2026). Claiming the night: Fear, exclusion, and the right to urban nocturnality. Human Geography, 19(2), 274-292. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Kirk, R. (2026). Financialization and the reorganization of U.S. public housing. Human Geography, 19(2), 293-303. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Mikati, M. (2026). Agrarian futures and normative practices: A case study of small-scale ecological farming. Human Geography, 19(2), 304-316. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Majumder, S. (2026). Diversifying ‘out of necessity, not choice’: The gender paradox of household headship in livelihood diversification of an indigenous South Asian community. Human Geography, 19(2), 317-338. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Envall, F., & Andersson, J. D. (2026). Forging green frontiers: The agonistic potential of energy communities. Human Geography, 19(2), 339-354. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Tedeschi, M., Gkouskos, D., & Resmini, A. (2026). Data justice made tangible, spatial and actionable: An exploration of everyday data fairness through game making. Human Geography, 19(2), 355-371. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Rasodi, R., ka Canham, H., Radebe, D., & Naidoo, S. (2026). Interspecies relations in Johannesburg’s outdoors ecologies. Human Geography, 19(2), 372-384. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Gangoiti, X., & Najarro Echaniz, X. (2026). New municipalism and the right to the city: A Lefebvrean re-examination and lessons from Barcelona. Human Geography, 19(2), 385-398. doi.org/10.1177/194277…

Contentions:
Pateman, J. (2026). Imperialist racism, the highest stage of racism. Human Geography, 19(2), 399-403. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Little, C., & John, T. J. (2026). Contemporary anti-racist struggle and Lenin’s thought: The enduring bond between racism and imperialism. Human Geography, 19(2), 404-409. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Cezne, E. (2026). A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit: Critical reflections. Human Geography, 19(2), 410-419. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Liu, N., & Xi, K. (2026). Uighurs of China: Examining facts and debunking propaganda. Human Geography, 19(2), 420-429. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Ceddia, M., & Bergamo, J. (2026). Changing social relations of production is essential to advance a sustainability transformation. Human Geography, 19(2), 430-439. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Peerzada, R. A., Sharma, A., & Kannan, S. (2026). The jurisprudence of digital blackouts: Law and its exceptions in Jammu and Kashmir. Human Geography, 19(2), 440-446. doi.org/10.1177/194277…

Reviews:
Maalsen, S. (2026). Digital activism in housing struggles: Countering algorithmic violence with algorithmic care. Human Geography, 19(2), 447-457. doi.org/10.1177/194277…
Du, Y. (2026). Black Geographies unveiled: A critical review. Human Geography, 19(2), 458-471. doi.org/10.1177/194277…

Visual Intervention:
Rosati, C., & Voss, S. (2026). Burial at the data plantation: Public memory and the terrain of abolition in “the internet capital of the world”. Human Geography, 19(2), 472-484. doi.org/10.1177/194277…

OnlineFirst and Open access: Shipping costs: Precarity, race and migrant truck drivers in Canadian long-haul freight transportation - Émile Baril, 2026

"In advanced capitalist countries, the seamless circulation of goods depends more than ever on the labour of migrant truck drivers. The trucking industry has undergone significant transformations in recent decades, including deregulation, fragmentation, platformization and periods of freight recession. Through the lens of racial capitalism and critical logistics studies, this paper examines how the Canadian logistics and long-haul transportation sector increasingly relies on racialized migrant truck drivers to sustain itself during economic downturns."
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OnlineFirst: Turkey's geocultural soft power spheres centred on historical–cultural heritage - Mürşide Coşkun, Bayram Çetin, 2026
"The study is an analysis of Turkey's initiatives to construct geocultural spheres of influence within the framework of its soft power policies. It constitutes a geographical and spatial examination of the activities of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), the institutional principal actor of Turkey's constructivist, neoliberal utilitarian, and proactive foreign policies since 2002."
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OnlineFirst: Reinventing human geography - Kevin R. Cox, 2026
"Harvey provided a geographic dimension to Marx's totality of relations hitherto lacking. As a result, he has had major impacts on the thinking of Marxists in other fields. Particular attention is paid to his work on the idea of totality, geography as an aspect of it, so that other aspects are impossible not only to conceive without it but also how the totality of capitalist social relations, always in a process of becoming has given capitalist geographies a very particular form. There is then his impact on the field. Despite his recognition, this could have been better. On the one hand, there are those clearly influenced by him in a highly sympathetic way."
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OnlineFirst and open access: The myth of the good landlord: Neoliberal urban governance and the politics of racialized class-monopoly rent in Syracuse, NY - Natalie McLaughlin, 2026
"Critical urban researchers have long sought to understand the dynamics of exploitation in low-income rental markets, especially since the 2008 financial crisis which expanded renting in U.S. cities. However, scholars have paid less attention to how landlords advance their class interests and shape urban governance within neoliberal contexts. Drawing on interviews and participant observation of landlords in Syracuse, NY, this study shows how landlords in high-poverty rental markets leverage free-market logics to construct a positive image of themselves and advocate for deregulation. As the City of Syracuse pursues revitalization through public–private partnerships and targeted redevelopment, landlords invoke anxieties of postindustrial decline and position themselves as drivers of economic development and service providers to vulnerable tenants."
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