Showing papers in "Annals of the American Association of Geographers in 2020"
TL;DR: In this paper, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socio-environmental challenges, from protecting urban green spaces to mitigating urban flooding.
Abstract: Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting ur...
134 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the unknown properties of a place are inferred from both its observed attributes and the characteristics of the places to which it is connected, based on both observed and unknown attributes.
Abstract: Inferring the unknown properties of a place relies on both its observed attributes and the characteristics of the places to which it is connected. Because place characteristics are unstructured and...
73 citations
TL;DR: Scholars have demonstrated that citizenship is tied to water provision in megacities of the Global South where water crises are extensive and the urban poor often do not have access to public water as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Scholars have demonstrated that citizenship is tied to water provision in megacities of the Global South where water crises are extensive and the urban poor often do not have access to public water...
71 citations
TL;DR: Using real-time data from portable air pollutant sensors and smartphone Global Positioning System trajectories collected in Beijing, China, the authors demonstrates how smart technologies and indivi...
Abstract: Using real-time data from portable air pollutant sensors and smartphone Global Positioning System trajectories collected in Beijing, China, this study demonstrates how smart technologies and indivi...
68 citations
TL;DR: A number of texts have addressed desires for and iterations of freedom throughout the Black diaspora as mentioned in this paper, and conceptualizations of freedom are often employed and interrogated in critical scholars, although conceptualization of freedom is not often employed in critical research.
Abstract: A number of texts have addressed desires for and iterations of freedom throughout the Black diaspora. Although conceptualizations of freedom are often employed and interrogated in critical scholars...
67 citations
TL;DR: Although the literature on the financialization of housing pays most attention to mortgaged and securitized homeownership and the penetration of capital into subsidized rental housing, forms of fin... as mentioned in this paper
Abstract: Although the literature on the financialization of housing pays most attention to mortgaged and securitized homeownership and the penetration of capital into subsidized rental housing, forms of fin...
56 citations
TL;DR: Within climate-energy-transport scholarship and professions there is a growing consensus that electric vehicles (EVs), which include personal cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), vans, and pickup t...
Abstract: Within climate–energy–transport scholarship and professions there is a growing consensus that electric vehicles (EVs), which include personal cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), vans, and pickup t...
44 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to understand the new world geography through its cities by treating corporate globalization from the perspective of cities insofar as they are central to the global netw...
Abstract: In this article we attempt to understand the new world geography through its cities by treating corporate globalization from the perspective of cities insofar as they are central to the global netw...
44 citations
TL;DR: This study formalizes the sampling biases of LBSM data from various perspectives, including sociodemographic, spatiotemporal, and semantic, and provides insights for understanding the limitations of L BSM data for smart city applications and for developing mitigation approaches.
Abstract: Social networking sites (SNS), such as Facebook and Twitter, have attracted users worldwide by providing a means to communicate and share opinions and experiences of daily lives. When empowered by ...
43 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision making.
Abstract: This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision...
42 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how hybrid environmental governance produces, maintains, and reconfigures common property across transboundary geographies of resource access, use, and ownership.
Abstract: This article examines how hybrid environmental governance produces, maintains, and reconfigures common property across transboundary geographies of resource access, use, and ownership. Transboundar...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to the geographical understanding of how mobile online presence enabled by smartphones transforms human spatial practices, i.e., people's everyday routines and experienc...
Abstract: This article contributes to the geographical understanding of how mobile online presence enabled by smartphones transforms human spatial practices; that is, people’s everyday routines and experienc...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors respond to the following paradox: as government actors have begun to operationalize resilience in a variety of ways and contexts, critical analyses of resilience have continued to sid...
Abstract: This article responds to the following paradox: As government actors have begun to operationalize resilience in a variety of ways and contexts, critical analyses of resilience have continued to sid...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer an interrogation of the discursive politics of adaptation to climate change in development programming across the Global South, focusing on the role of discursive power.
Abstract: Adaptation to climate change is a policy objective of rapidly growing importance for development programming across the Global South. This article offers an interrogation of the discursive politics...
TL;DR: The authors argue that the predominance of political analysis and critique of immigration and asylum regimes obscures how those regimes produce circuits of value in and through law, state practices, and exclusion.
Abstract: In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies, including border encampment in Thailand, deprivation in U.S. immigration detention centers, and deterrence through destitution in the United Kingdom, demonstrate that circuits of value depend on the detachment of workers from citizenship and simultaneously produce both migrant destitution and new forms of value production. Within destitution economies, migration and asylum’s particular juridico-political position as domestic, foreign, and securitized allows legal regimes to produce migrants and asylum seekers as distinct economic subjects: forsaken recipients of aid. Although they might also work for pay, we argue that destitute migrants and asylum seekers have value for others through the grinding labor of living in poverty. That is, in their categorization as migrants and asylum seekers, they occupy a particular position in relation to economic circuits. These economic circuits of migration control, in turn, rely on the destitution of mobile people. Our approach advances political geographies of migration, bordering, and exclusion as well as economic geographies of marketization and value, arguing that the predominance of political analysis and critique of immigration and asylum regimes obscures how those regimes produce circuits of value in and through law, state practices, and exclusion. Furthermore, law, state power, and forced mobility constitute circuits of value and marketization. Conceptualizing these migration control practices as destitution economies illuminates novel transformations of the political and economic geographies of migration, borders, and inequality.
TL;DR: In this article, instead of starting from the United States or the United Kingdom in histories of geography, we start from Nigeria, focusing on Nigerian geographers work in the 19th century.
Abstract: This article asks this question: What if, rather than starting from the United States or the United Kingdom in histories of geography, we start from Nigeria? Focusing on Nigerian geographers workin...
TL;DR: The space–place (splatial) framework proposed in this article will enable us to creatively study the human dynamics in the age of smart technologies and will not only allow us to better understand human dynamics but also advance and enrich the authors' theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying smart technology and the profound social impacts from a geographic perspective.
Abstract: The smart technologies led by advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the emerging data science in recent years are transforming many facets of society in profound ways. One of t...
TL;DR: It is found that bandwidth selection is subject to uncertainty in both single-scale and multiscale geographically weighted regression models and it is demonstrated that this uncertainty can be measured and accounted for and unconditional parameter estimates can be computed based on Akaike weights.
Abstract: Bandwidth, a key parameter in geographically weighted regression models, is closely related to the spatial scale at which the underlying spatially heterogeneous processes being examined take place....
TL;DR: Geographers are called on to be attentive to the multiple forms of intelligence made possible by innovations in information processing and to the ways in which particular intelligences are prioritized—as others might be neglected or suppressed—through the production of smart spaces in the context of the authors' rapidly changing understandings of the “humanness” of intelligence.
Abstract: As spaces increasingly come to be described as “smart,” “sentient,” or “thinking,” scholars remain in disagreement as to the nature of intelligence, knowledge, or the “human mind.” This article ope...
TL;DR: The authors argue that geography is a power-laden venture rather than an impartial or self-contained discipline, and that critical engagement with the relations between geography and empire has become integral to the view that geography can be seen as a "power-laden" discipline.
Abstract: Critical engagement with the relations between geography and empire has become integral to the view that geography is a power-laden venture rather than an impartial or self-contained discipline. Th...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors ask why smart cities have emerged within the international development community as the normative urban logic for confronting systemic global crises, and why this phenomenon is exemplifi...
Abstract: In this article we ask why smart cities have emerged within the international development community as the normative urban logic for confronting systemic global crises. This phenomenon is exemplifi...
TL;DR: In this article, the role of education activities in the context of environmental peacebuilding is analyzed and the authors establish a theoretical framework and analyze the education activities of three environmental PE projects in Israel and Palestine based on forty-five interviews conducted between 2010 and 2018.
Abstract: Environmental peacebuilding has attracted great scholarly and political interest in recent years, but little knowledge is available on the interface of education and environmental peacebuilding. This void is unfortunate given the importance of education for peacebuilding and the wider “educational turn” in human geography. This study represents the first systematic analysis of the role of education activities in the context of environmental peacebuilding. We establish a theoretical framework and analyze the education activities of three environmental peacebuilding projects in Israel and Palestine based on forty-five interviews conducted between 2010 and 2018. The findings reveal that the projects mostly aim to create trust and understanding but that activities related to an improvement of the environmental situation and to the cultivation of interdependence take place as well. Despite a number of significant problems—primarily the tense political situation and local resistance—the education activities successfully catalyze processes of building everyday or local peace, at least among the participants. An impact of such projects on formal conflict resolution is possible but remains uncertain. The findings also show that environmental cooperation can spill over and that contested processes of depoliticization and neoliberalization can, at least to a certain degree, be utilized to positively affect environmental cooperation, education, and peacebuilding. Key Words: climate change, environment, Middle East, peace, security.
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography, yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed.
Abstract: Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how recent increases in commercial poaching of wildlife intensify the dictates that underpin conservation law and its enforcement; namely, the securing of space, punishing of the punishing of...
Abstract: This article examines how recent increases in commercial poaching of wildlife intensify the dictates that underpin conservation law and its enforcement; namely, the securing of space, punishing of ...
TL;DR: The prevailing labor migration regime in Asia is underpinned by rotating-door principles of enforced transience, where low-wage migrant labor gains admission into host nation-states based on short-term contracts as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The prevailing labor migration regime in Asia is underpinned by rotating-door principles of enforced transience, where low-wage migrant labor gains admission into host nation-states based on short-...
TL;DR: In the absence of long-term, longitudinal neighborhood data, the spatial structure of inequality in cities has not been investigated as mentioned in this paper, and the authors provide conflicting answers to this question.
Abstract: How entrenched is the spatial structure of inequality in cities? Although recent discussions provide conflicting answers to this question, the absence of long-term, longitudinal neighborhood data c...
TL;DR: Rosewood has become the world's most trafficked group of endangered species, with global seizure values surpassing that of ivory, rhino horn, and big cats combined.
Abstract: Rosewood has become the world’s most trafficked group of endangered species, with global seizure values surpassing that of ivory, rhino horn, and big cats combined. This is almost entirely attribut...
TL;DR: It is argued that it is through processes of measurement, calculation, and classification that “smart” emerges along distinct axes of power and knowledge.
Abstract: As “smart” urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such syste...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how geographic information systems (GIS) have come a long way since the original call from critical GIS scholars in the 1990s and the invention of the geoweb as well as big data sources for qu...
Abstract: Qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) have come a long way since the original call from critical GIS scholars in the 1990s. The invention of the geoweb as well as big data sources for qu...
TL;DR: In an effort to contribute to the contemporary debates on accumulation by dispossession (ABD), the authors argue for a closer attention to the link between the state and ABD, and propose contextualizing ABD.
Abstract: In an effort to contribute to the contemporary debates on accumulation by dispossession (ABD), we argue for a closer attention to the link between the state and ABD. We propose contextualizing ABD ...