ACME International Journal for Critical Geographies

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ACME is an international journal for critical analyses of the social, the spatial, the ecological, and the political, grounded in critical geographic scholarship. #GeoSky #OpenAccess #CriticalGeographies https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/about

Where do the Geographic terms we speak, teach and have learned come from, and what do they mean for the reproduction of spatial heuristics? How have we been taught to think about spatiality, especially in terms of grouping/binary? Trauger & Fluri tackle outdated spatial vocabulary in their paper:

Zones of Accumulation Make Spaces of Dispossession: A New Spatial Vocabulary for Human Geography | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

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"Landscape as a Device of Power" describes and analyzes the ways in which the planting of 240 million trees by the Zionist project has contributed to the colonization and dispossession of Palestinians since 1904 - described as 'territorial ethnic cleansing." From Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025):

El Paisaje como Dispositivo de Poder: Ocho Tácticas de Colonización Territorial Sionista en Palestina | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

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#Eco-anarchy anyone? In Francisco J. Toro's "Stateless Environmentalism," Toro looks at the contributions of eco-anarchists in promoting a "non-statist balanced and fair relationship between societies and nature." From Vol. 20 No. 2: "Anarchist Geographies and the Epistemologies of the State"

Stateless Environmentalism: The Criticism of State by Eco-Anarchist Perspectives | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

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"Home, Interrupted" is an article by Geoffrey Boyce, centered around the lives of citizens arrested by immigration services, their families, and the transformation of place in the aftermath. Written in 2021, this article feels shockingly significant right now. #carceralgeographies Vol. 20 No. 6:

Home, Interrupted: Crises of Social Reproduction, Mutual Aid, and the Transformation of Place in the Aftermath of an Immigration Arrest | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geograph...

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