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Featuring full length scholarly articles, as well as shorter creative pieces that cross over between the academy and creative practice, this journal is published twice a year. Articles span conceptual and methodological debates in geography and the humanities; critical reflections on analog and digital artistic productions; and new scholarly interactions occurring at the intersections of geography and multiple humanities disciplines. It began in 2015 presenting a new opportunity for publishing interdisciplinary scholarship.

Impact Factor: 1.1, ranking 88th out of 173 geography journals worldwide

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GeoHumanities 2028 Special Issue

GeoHumanities is seeking contributions for a Special Issue on the topic of Critical GeoHumanities: Solidarities, Humanitarianism, Scholarship-Activism and Creative Political Engagements.

The inaugural Special Issue of GeoHumanities invites new and emerging geohumanities and geographic scholarship situated at the crossroads of the key themes of Solidarities, Humanitarianism and Scholarship-Activism as regards the political and/or creative entanglements of these concepts with wider issues of social justice.

In seeking contributions from across the disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts, we welcome submissions that advance critical geohumanities thinking utilizing a broad array of empirical data, theories, approaches and methods which cultivate radical, inclusive, intersectional and interdisciplinary insights that cut across temporalities, translocations, dislocations, transnationalisms and diverse notions of place and space.

We perceive contemporary global phenomena linked to conflict, displacement and exclusion, exacerbated by (civil) wars and (gendered) violence to be particularly pertinent to how academic research and scholarship, as well as artistic practice, should engage with activism and humanitarianism, but also with centering the imperative of academic freedom and freedom of speech within campuses, teaching, research and publications.

The global world, in this moment in time is rife with contentious politics, while the need for more solidarity, activism and humanitarianism is unprecedented.

This Special Issue acknowledges the historical importance for geohumanities scholarship to address these issues and to contribute empirical, theoretical, methodological, curatorial, artistic, etc. insights addressing these matters through inter-and-multi-disciplinary perspectives with conceptual depth, analytical perspectives, socioaesthetic flair and historical engagement.

For more on the Editor’s vision for such submissions please refer to: Christou, A. (2024) ‘GeoHumanities: Reflecting on the Last Decade and Envisioning the Future’, GeoHumanities, 10(2), pp. 245–246. doi: 10.1080/2373566X.2024.2426417.

Possible topics and themes for submissions could include, but are not limited to:

  • Theoretical, empirical, case study, curatorial and practice-based submissions on the utility of critical geohumanities to engage politically with solidarity, humanitarianism and activism.
  • Emancipatory empowerments and im/possibilities in co-creative, convivial and co-productions of critical geohumanities research.
  • Spaces, places, temporalities, ongoing struggles and collective transformations for solidarity.
  • Navigating trauma, memory, grief, power, hope and healing within critical geohumanities.
  • Deathscapes, borderscapes, affective biopolitics, necropolitics, racial, carceral, genocidal, intersectional and feminist understandings of critical geohumanities.
  • Theorizing suffering, vulnerability, indigeneity, dispossession, community, compassion and care in a variety of multiscalar contexts inclusive of migrant, asylum, refugee, displaced humanitarian contexts.
  • Storytelling and narratives of solidarities, humanitarianism and activism from decolonial, post-colonial, queer, gendered and feminist perspectives.
  • Emotions, bodies, cultural/social/historical geographies of exclusion and solidarity.
  • Nations, states, civil society, social justice and institutions within critical geohumanities.
  • Critical geohumanities and critical pedagogies: academic freedom, freedom of expression, scholasticide, educide, epistemicide, epistemic violence.
  • Objects, materialities, arts and the socioaesthetics of solidarity and activism.
  • All world regions are welcome. Geographies of regions often marginalized or mis/under-represented are particularly welcome (e.g. Palestine, Syria, Ukraine).

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by October 20, 2025 via this form. The Editor will consider all abstracts by December 15, 2025, and invite a selection to submit full papers for peer review.

Articles will have a target maximum length of 4,000 words (including main text, abstract, and references) and Practices and Curations pieces will have a target maximum length of 2,000 words (including main text and references). First drafts of papers will be due by May 1, 2026, and revised manuscripts will be due December 1, 2026, for publication in 2028. For questions about this Special Issue contact the Editor, Anastasia Christou, at A.Christou [at] mdx [dot] ac [dot] com. For questions about the abstract submission process please contact the AAG Publications Director, Jennifer Cassidento, at jcassidento [at] aag [dot] org.

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Editors, Editorial Board and Production Team

 

Anastasia Christou
Anastasia Christou
Editor

Middlesex University, London, UK

Anastasia Christou

Anastasia Christou

Middlesex University, London, UK

A.Christou@mdx.ac.uk

Anastasia Christou is professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Middlesex University, London, UK. Her work is immersed in the critical geography, humanities, social sciences, and the arts, seeking to create “a public sociology which is relevant, meaningful and transformative,” she says. She has published widely on issues of migration and mobilities; citizenship and ethnicity; space and place; transnationalism and identity; culture and memory, gender and feminism; inequalities and austerity; postsocialism; home, belonging and exclusion; emotion and narrativity; youth and aging; sexualities; translocal geographies; affect, care and trauma; motherhood and mothering; women, men and masculinities; racisms and intersectionalities; gendered violence and social media; tourism mobilities; material culture; academic exclusion and solidarity; educational inequalities; embodiment. Christou is co-author with Eleonore Kofman of Gender & Migration (Springer, 2022), and co-author with Russell King of Counter-diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns ‘Home’ (Harvard University Press, 2015). She brings to her editorship significant experience editing book volumes and journal special issues, and serves on the international board of journals in the US and Europe. Her multi-sited, multi-method, and comparative ethnographic research in more than a dozen countries includes Narratives of the Greek Civil War: Memory and Political Identities as Public History; and the poem “Ruination,” anthologized in The Other Side of Hope.

Joshua Inwood
Joshua F. J. Inwood
Editor

Pennsylvania State University

Joshua Inwood

Joshua F. J. Inwood

Pennsylvania State University

jfi6@psu.edu

Joshua Inwood is a professor in the Department of Geography and The Rock Ethics Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching are focused on the social, political, and economic structures that perpetuate exploitation and injustice with a specific focus on the US South. His work explores racial capitalism and the broad trajectories of white supremacy. In addition, his work has engaged with the U.S. civil rights struggle and a broad understanding of the geography of the American Civil Rights struggle. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and his work has been recognized with several AAG honors including the Glenda Laws Award and the AAG’s media achievement award. He has authored or co-authored over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and is co-editor of the volume Non-Killing Geographies: Violence, Space, and the Search for a More Humane Geography (Center for Global Non-Killing, 2011) and has a forthcoming co-edited book on Geographies of Justice (Bristol University Press 2024). He brings to his editorship at GeoHumanities an awareness of the intersection of geography, humanist value systems and human rights, politics, and history.

Stephen Hanna
Stephen Hanna
Cartography Editor

University of Mary Washington

Stephen Hanna

Stephen Hanna

University of Mary Washington

mapedit.aag@gmail.com

Stephen Hanna is a full professor of geography and former chair of the Department of Geography at University of Mary Washington. His cartographic editorial experience is extensive, for example, Hanna has served as the cartography editor for two edited volumes on tourism, Mapping Tourism and Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies, as well as produced dozens of maps for personal publications in both academic and public outlets. As cartography editor, Hanna “enjoys engaging with a wide variety of graphics including some innovative ways of visualizing both qualitative and quantitative information.”

Hanna’s research is focused on critical cartography and heritage tourism, and his expertise is well documented in numerous cartographic projects. Some of his most recent NSF-funded team research involved investigating how slavery is (or is not) addressed in the landscapes, narratives, and performance that constitute southern plantation museums as heritage places.

In addition to ensuring that the maps and figures printed in the AAG suite of journals meet high quality cartographic standards, Hanna envisions his role as editor to include continued mentorship of students, a key component of his current work at an undergraduate focused institution.

Hanna offers the following advice for prospective publishers in geography: “As cartography editor, I’m focused on the maps people create to accompany their articles. Please don’t settle for the default map design options found in most GIS software packages. Take a little time to consider how best to encourage your readers to spend some time examining your maps. After all, you are including them to clearly communicate your findings or to support your argument.”

GeoHumanities has two editors, each of whom serve a four year term, and are assisted with editorial responsibilities by a cartography editor and an editorial board, while staff from the AAG and Taylor & Francis manage various aspects of the production process.

 

Editorial Assistant

Kelsey Tyler, University of Mary Washington

 

Cartography Editor

Stephen Hanna, University of Mary Washington

 

American Association of Geographers team

Jennifer Cassidento, Managing Editor

 

Taylor & Francis team

Katie Gezi, Portfolio Manager
Nathan Clark, Production Manager

 

Editorial Board

Derek Alderman, University of Tennessee, USA

Sonia Barrett, Independent artist, UK

Adam Bledsoe, University of Minnesota, USA

Yanjia Cao, University of Hong Kong, China

Genevieve Carpio, UCLA, USA

Veronica Crossa, El Colegio de México, México

Andrew Curley, University of Arizona, USA

Shari Daya, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Sonja Dümpelmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Marcia England, Miami University, USA

Pawel Frelik, University of Warsaw, Poland

Rebecca Ruth Gould, SOAS, University of London, UK

Lesley Green, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Euan Hague, DePaul University, USA

Yannis Hamilakis, Brown University, USA

Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Steve Hoelscher, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Jessica Jacobs, Queen Mary University London, UK

Miranda Joseph, University of Minnesota, USA

Rose Kando, Dar Al-Kalima University, Palestine

Marina Karides, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA

Anna Karlsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland

Dana Karwas, Yale University, USA

Olaf Kuhlke, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA

Jaeyeon Lee, Hollins University, USA

Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Danny McNally, Teesside University, UK

Kylie Message-Jones, Australian National University, Australia

Claudio Minca, University of Bologna, Italy

Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden

Arnold Modlin, Jr., Norfolk State University, USA

Carrie Mott, University of Louisville, USA

Carla Narciso, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Astrida Neimanis, University of British Columbia, Canada

Joseph Palis, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

Amy Potter, Georgia Southern University, USA

Danielle Purifoy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, UK

Theano S. Terkenli, University of the Aegean, Greece

Susan Thieme, University of Bern, Switzerland

Sandy Wong, The Ohio State University, USA

Willie Wright, University of Florida, USA

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