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/10.1177/194277862513… Wu, J. (2026). Transforming Guizhou: Urbanization in an ethnic region in southwest China. Human Geography, 19(2), 232-245. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Walker, A. (2026). Neither chains nor networks: Modeling ambivalence in the US automotive sector. Human Geography, 19(2), 246-260. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Williams, J. (2026). Nature, rent and the persistence of inequality: A Georgist political ecology. Human Geography, 19(2), 261-273. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Roy, S. (2026). Claiming the night: Fear, exclusion, and the right to urban nocturnality. Human Geography, 19(2), 274-292. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Kirk, R. (2026). Financialization and the reorganization of U.S. public housing. Human Geography, 19(2), 293-303. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Mikati, M. (2026). Agrarian futures and normative practices: A case study of small-scale ecological farming. Human Geography, 19(2), 304-316. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862513… Envall, F., & Andersson, J. D. (2026). Forging green frontiers: The agonistic potential of energy communities. Human Geography, 19(2), 339-354. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862514… 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/10.1177/194277862514… Contentions: Pateman, J. (2026). Imperialist racism, the highest stage of racism. Human Geography, 19(2), 399-403. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862513… Cezne, E. (2026). A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit: Critical reflections. Human Geography, 19(2), 410-419. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Liu, N., & Xi, K. (2026). Uighurs of China: Examining facts and debunking propaganda. Human Geography, 19(2), 420-429. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862513… Reviews: Maalsen, S. (2026). Digital activism in housing struggles: Countering algorithmic violence with algorithmic care. Human Geography, 19(2), 447-457. doi.org/10.1177/194277862514… Du, Y. (2026). Black Geographies unveiled: A critical review. Human Geography, 19(2), 458-471. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… 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/10.1177/194277862614…

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Onlinefirst: Heortotopias: Festive geographies of embodied resistance - Mara Zacharaki, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “This article introduces heortotopia as a contemporary form of spatial otherness: an ephemeral, embodied and conflictual spatiality produced through festive collective practices mobilized in protest and political struggle. It asks how other spaces might be understood as practices of collective becoming. The concept is developed through a critical engagement with Foucault’s heterotopia, reworked through the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari and Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque.”

Onlinefirst and open access: Where will this violent force appear next? Military veterans of the Middle East and the racialized policing of migration in the American midwest - Andrew Brooks, Mark Griffiths, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… “Against a backdrop of anti-immigration state violence in the American Midwest (e.g., in Chicago and Minneapolis), this article examines the transfer of racialized violence from sites of war to internal policing. The growing recruitment of military veterans into federal law enforcement—particularly The U.S. Department for Homeland Security (DHS) forces: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—facilitates the spread of practices and ideologies from war zones to the civilian policing of US cities.”

Onlinefirst: ‘Social movement theories’ in solidarity or simply as legitimization, pacification and counterinsurgent narratives? - Josephine Becker, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… “By reviewing the current trajectories of social movement theory (SMT) and scholarship, this piece exposes three specific dangers that exist by theorizing (progressive) social movements. The first recognizes how SMT can produce legitimizing narratives that sanitize contentious politics, reinforce liberal assumptions of ‘legitimate’ protest and render dissent legible through neat analytical categories. Second, it examines ‘scholar-activism’ within academia, considering the repercussions of professionalization of activism and the institutional incentives that reward production of movement knowledge. Third, it reviews how social movement research risks producing and enriching surveillance, open-source intelligence and counterinsurgency from state and corporate geographies, undermining movements and exposing them to (increasing) repression”

Online first: Abolition means attack! Towards an insurrectionary theory of prison abolition1 - Ryan Fatica, Hannah Kass, Enrique Olivares-Pelayo, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “We argue that transformative change arises not merely from top-down legislative reforms and grassroots consciousness-raising but also from sustained, collective resistance generated from within carceral spaces. This analysis is grounded in 20 years of support and political collaboration with prisoners and detainees across the United States, the authors’ own experiences of incarceration, as well as careful observation of prisoner and detainee resistance.”

Onlinefirst and open access: The politics of place in energy transformations: Contesting green extractivism through indigenous governance in Union Hidalgo, Mexico - Aisha Valenzuela Basurto, Astrid Krisch, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “We argue that Indigenous resistance to green extractivism in the form of wind energy development is not merely oppositional but generative, producing alternative socio-technical and social-ecological imaginaries, as well as governance models through transformative strategies grounded in land-based autonomy.”

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Onlinefirst: State, imperialism, and the national question in Pakistan - Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “Chinese development assistance, while distinct from US imperialism's decidedly more militaristic role in Pakistan, has nevertheless engendered significant disaffection within peripheral regions such as Balochistan. In varying degrees, the US and China continue to buttress the militarised state apparatus while deepening Pakistan's external dependency. By critically analysing the histories and geographies of imperialism and the national question in Pakistan, this paper interrogates current articulations of Marxism and ethnic-nationalism; while anti-imperialist popular fronts comprising Marxists and ethnic-nationalists were highly influential during the Cold War, the present conjuncture is characterised by growing fragmentation.”

Onlinefirst and open access: Repairing harm: Desalination in copper mining and claims for responsibility in Chile's Atacama Desert - Anna Heikkinen, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “Recently, copper demand related to the global clean energy transition has further intensified extraction. To secure water access for extractive operations, Chile's mining industry is increasingly turning to desalinated seawater, which it also frames as a practice of responsibility. This study explores how local communities experience mining-related harm on water supplies and claim responsibility in their daily lives in the Atacama Desert, and how these experiences are shaped by corporate discourses and practices of environmental repair.”

Onlinefirst: Wasted land, wasted lives: Environmental injustice and the making of a metropolitan backyard in Athens, Greece - Giorgos Velegrakis, Artemis Koumparelou, Florian Sattler, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “This article examines West Attica, Greece, as a politically produced sacrificial “backyard” for the city of Athens, offering a critical environmental justice analysis of the region's transformation into the metropolitan capital's primary waste sink.”

Onlinefirst: Eco-City dream: Urban realities of environmental injustice in Austin and Dallas - Suraj Sharma, Ipsita Chatterjee, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… “ This article critically examines Green city policies in Austin and Dallas revealing, firstly, the gaps between sustainability policy discourses and the actual lived experiences, and secondly, the class-based and racially unjust nature of green urbanism thus, strengthening environmental justice literature. Employing discourse analysis of city policy documents and semi-structured interviews with residents from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, the study explores disparities in the distribution of environmental amenities.”

Onlinefirst: Burial at the data plantation: Public memory and the terrain of abolition in “the internet capital of the world” - Clayton Rosati, Stephen Voss, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… “The series shows how data centers, a key infrastructure of the “AI” economy, impinge on aspects of life in that region of the country. Particularly, it explores occurrences of data center development disturbing Black cemeteries and displacing features of Black life more generally on the landscape.”

Onlinefirst: Resisting mining in Ireland: The social engineering and colonial logics of green extractivism - V’cenza Cirefice, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… “I explore the resistance movement to a gold mining proposal for the Sperrin Mountains, North of Ireland, building on feminist and decolonial scholarship which has conceptually widened extractivism from a physical removal of resources to be understood as a logic, worldview, a way of relating in the world rooted in coloniality and specific power relations.”

Online First and Open Access: The Russian–Ukraine war and a polyphonic geopolitics - Paul Richardson, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… “The war takes place in a world in flux where modernist territorial structures and norms collide with imperial spatialities, a territorial taboo shifts from Washington to Moscow, multiple versions of sovereignty confound authoritarian modes of governance, marginalised voices signal the end of empire, drones reformat warfare, NATO sustains Putin's legitimacy and East-West binaries unravel while axes of global inequality persist. These contradictions are part of a reconfiguration of world politics as dramatic as the end of the Cold War, and this Contention advocates for a more polyphonic reading of geopolitics to understand it.”

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Human Geography Publication Awards, 2026 The Institute of Human Geography confers the 2026 Editors’ choice Awards to the following scholars for their publications in the journal Human Geography (for articles published in the year 2025): · Best Substantive Article: Mitchell, K., & Woolston, G. (2025). Philanthrocapitalism, Neoliberalism, and the University. Human Geography, 18(3), 286-302. doi.org/10.1177/194277862413… The institutional affiliation of co-authors Katharyne Mitchell and Gregory Woolston is University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. · Best contention: Arnold, T. D. (2025). De-dollarization and global sovereignty: BRICS’ quest for a new financial paradigm. Human Geography, 18(1), 78-83. doi.org/10.1177/194277862412… The author, Theryn D. Arnold, is from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada · Best Review: Bernauer, W. (2025). ‘Settler’ and ‘internal’ colonialism in ‘Canada’: Reconciling competing conceptual approaches to Canadian Colonialism in the North. Human Geography, 18(1), 107-116. doi.org/10.1177/194277862412… Warren Bernauer is from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada · Best visual intervention: López-González, B. (2025). Art for re-existence: Casa Pueblo’s decolonial landscape interventions toward an energy insurrection. Human Geography, 18(2), 272-280. doi.org/10.1177/194277862513… Bárbara López-González’s institutional affiliation is the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada · Gerardo A. Torres Contreras receives the award for Best Paper by an Early Career Academic: Torres Contreras, G. A., & Flores Cruz, R. M. (2025). “If we rebuild the kitchen, we rebuild the heart”: Post-relief transformational politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Human Geography, 18(2), 198-212. doi.org/10.1177/194277862413… Gerardo A. Torres Contreras is from King’s College London, London, U.K. Congratulations! P.S. HG Articles authored/co-authored by HG editors and editorial board members are not eligible for these awards.

Online first: Tourism-driven spatial fixes and labour flexibilisation: The case of Greece - Giorgos Sykas, Athina Avagianou, Kostas Gourzis, Electra Petracou, Stelios Gialis, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “This article examines spatial fixes and their dialectical relationship with poor forms of flexible work, positioning touristification as a key contemporary form of capital's spatial fixes. Drawing on a multi-scalar methodological framework that integrates Gross Fixed Capital Formation with employment data, it offers a systematic account of shifting patterns of capital allocation between sectors and across regions of Greece, tracing how these may signal the consolidation of new spatial fixes.”

Online First with abstract available in Creole: The milpa system in the Mesoamerican region: Microbiome as a human–plant–microbial continuum embedded in indigenous ecological knowledge - Rita Valencia, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… "The importance of the microscopic world in human and more than human health has been gathering momentum in recent years, particularly in human and soil microbiomes. Their potential to reconfigure human health, agriculture and ecologies is an exciting prospect which is also being exploited as a green capitalist enterprise amidst the scale and pace of destruction of the capitalist industrial system that operates globally. However, it is important to highlight that before the violent and genocidal establishment of the ongoing colonial capitalist project, an intimate relationship, a relationality forged between soils, plants, people and territories existed. Plant-soil microbial interactions in indigenous agricultural systems cannot be separated from specific human and ecosystemic practices developed over millennia."

Online first: Parks, perks, conflicts, and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan's conservation paradigm - Shahram Sarwar, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… “This article critically evaluates how environmental conservation in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Pakistan, functions as a vehicle of dispossession masquerading as ecological care. Through the struggle of the Shimshali community against the imposition of Khunjerab National Park (KNP), I reveal how national parks reinforce colonial fantasies of pristine wilderness by violently severing human communities from the lands they have long inhabited and governed.”