Space & Polity is a fully refereed international journal devoted to understanding relations between the state and regional & local forms of governance.

Joined September 2019
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New article on cultural politics in Ireland: Policy rhetoric and meaning within the cultural industries across a shared land border: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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A new article on neighbourhood boundaries and their everyday governance: Fuzzy neighbourhoods in urban Bangladesh: perceived boundaries, administrative misfit, and everyday governance: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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A new paper on urban biopolitics and riverbed generation in Türkiye: Urban biopolitical inclusion and exclusion in the regeneration of urban riverbeds: the case of Şanlıurfa City, Türkiye: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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Issue 2 of 2026 is now out: A special section on feminist political ecology. Space and Polity: Vol 30, No 2
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Two more articles are out this month, the first on neoliberal urbanization: Private neighborhoods as an emerging imaginary of neoliberal urbanization: a case study of Golden Lake in Porto Alegre: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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The second on urban art and public space: Urban art and disputed territorialities: symbolic production and community agency in Havana, Santiago de Chile and Montevideo: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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Latest open-access articles in July: The first is on urban planning in Australia, linking to ideas of colonial settlement. Full article: Urban planning as a settler colonial tool: land, control and extractive settlement on the Queensland (Australia) frontier
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The second features a provocation on a critical–relational reading of the climate crisis: Full article: Structural violence and the climate crisis: A critical–relational reading
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A theoretical piece on political space, drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s relational ontology. Full article: Spaced out: thinking political space with Jean-Luc Nancy
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A short provocation on AI and governance: Full article: Civil society in crisis times: new geographies of governance in an era of AI
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An article using spatial statistical methods to examine populist politics in Italy: Between regional and neighbourhood structures: contextual effects behind populist radical right support in Italy: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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Issue 1 of 2026 is here! Check it out: Space and Polity: Vol 30, No 1
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Another article in the upcoming feminist political ecology special section: Reflections from feminist political ecology perspectives on care practices in the Maasai community in Kenya: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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New paper alert on port-city politics: Port politics and the city: Valparaíso’s trajectories from contestation to consensus over Terminal 2: Space and Polity: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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An open-access provocation on decolonial ecology and ecofeminist theory: Full article: A decolonial ecofeminist critique of rewilding in the highlands of Scotland
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Two open access articles: The first on EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum, Full article: The European Union as a humanitarian border: the production of vulnerability in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
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The second on Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) and research practices, Full article: Weaving researcher’s positionality into thinking and practising research
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1st of 2026 online: Full article: Why feminist political ecology matters
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Another feminist political ecology provocation, focusing on Pakistan: Full article: Infrastructure violence and gendered bodies in Karachi: reflections on feminist political ecology
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A paper on the political dynamics of balancing equity, land use, and climate resilience goals. Full article: An unfulfilled aspiration of state planning: balancing spatial equity, climate justice, and growth coalitions
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