ABSTRACT Food is emerging as a geographical lens to investigate socioecological relations. A growing body of research is exploring food in the city, considering it not only as a commodity but also as an archive of practices and their spatial and ecological transformations. While land‐based foodways are increasingly questioned, the relationship between food, oceans, and urban spaces is largely overlooked. This essay provides an overview of the contemporary debate on food geographies, with a focus on relational approaches to urban foodways. Radical Food Geographies will be analysed as a theory and praxis that tackles food and spatial injustices, interconnecting critical geographical lenses and food studies. To foster the emerging focus within Radical Food Geographies on more‐than‐human relations, this review proposes contamination across ocean and food geographies, discussing the entanglements between food and oceans along urban waterfronts. Geographies of urban marine foodways are introduced to explore socioecological relationships mediated by food in urban natures. Highlighting the uneven processes that mutually construct oceans, cities, and foodways through feminist, southern, and political ecological perspectives, artisanal fishing is framed as a relational practice amid the ruins of extractive and neoliberal waterfront development. Drawing from the definition of food as a visceral and lively matter and grounding its material and political implications, this review invites food geographies to delve underwater, questioning artisanal fishing through the mirror of urban oceans.

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ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities. Synthesizing globalization studies, identity transformation literature, and spatial theory, we conceptualize layered citizenship as a regime of constitutional equality coupled with differentiated access to political voice, cultural expression, and mobility, sustained by hierarchies of cultural legibility and securitized forms of visibility. We develop this argument through Türkiye's trajectory from late Ottoman plural imaginaries and Republican homogenization to contemporary geopolitical upscaling, showing how shifting spatial projects have configured unity and disunity across time. While external organizations recalibrate state functions without abolishing capacity, internal cohesion increasingly depends on integrating plural identities into the language and infrastructures of public space. As a constructive response, we reconstruct Blue Anatolianism not as historical romanticism but as a methodology of spatial commoning that relocates identity from blood to place and from essence to shared use. Through route pedagogy, in situ learning, multilingual signage, and conservation–use balances, we outline scalable commons‐oriented policies that render difference co‐present and publicly legible without undermining territorial integrity. The framework explains why conventional appeals to unity reproduce fragmentation and offers an implementable program to reconcile adaptive statehood with plural belongings. Though grounded in Türkiye, the argument travels to post‐imperial and metropolitan contexts, where spatial commons can realign sovereignty, territory, and identity by thickening shared infrastructures of narrative, route, use, and care.

ABSTRACT This paper argues for the importance of centring mothers in the design and conceptualisation of ‘care‐full’ and compassionate cities and communities. Focusing primarily on the experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood ‐ particularly in relation to babies and toddlers ‐ it reviews and unites literature on motherhood on the move and ‘caringscapes’, including caring and care‐full cities and compassionate communities. While existing literature on compassionate communities has largely focused on the frail, elderly, and those with disabilities or life‐limiting conditions, this paper highlights the need to also address the specific needs of mothers. It emphasises maternal physical, emotional, and mental health as key considerations in designing care‐full urban environments. The paper advocates for mobility designs that prioritise mothers ‐ whether they are travelling with or without their young children ‐ within the framework of care‐full cities and compassionate communities, aiming to create more mother‐friendly cities that possess distinct qualities beyond those of child‐friendly cities.

ABSTRACT This review traces the evolution of eco‐nationalism in India—from early religio‐ecological resistance in the pre‐colonial and colonial eras, through post‐independence state‐led developmental nationalism, to its contemporary inflection under majoritarian politics. It argues that eco‐nationalism has unfolded in distinct, historically contingent phases, each reflecting shifting power relations, social priorities, and political appropriations. Drawing on Anderson's concept of imagined communities and Greenfeld's definition of the nation, the review highlights that not all environmental movements can be subsumed under a monolithic eco‐nationalist banner, given internal contestations and competing visions of national consciousness. By synthesizing insights from political ecology, ecofeminism, and subaltern studies, the paper reveals eco‐nationalism as a contested terrain that simultaneously advances ecological justice and reinforces exclusion. It calls for a justice‐centered environmentalism rooted in India's plural ecological traditions, prioritizing inclusivity over nationalist hegemony.

ABSTRACT The object of this paper is to offer a theorisation of experimentation in public policy, building upon insights from the study of policy mobilities. Drawing on the recent attention to time and temporalities in this academic literature, the paper argues that experimentation is an integral component of public policymaking, shaping the framing, learning, mediation and translation of public policies. The paper introduces four mid‐level framings—experiments as: (i) situated; (ii) power‐laden constructs; (iii) learning sites; and (iv) translation instances. These illustrate how experimentation can generatively advance the processual, relational, and socio‐constructivist nature of policy mobilities studies. The paper concludes by highlighting how experimentation and policy mobilities are mutually generative lenses for theorising the making‐up of public policymaking in the twenty‐first century.

ABSTRACT How much did the Great Recession change U.S. municipal budgetary and fiscal governance? According to an academic literature that subsequently emerged, the period saw a combination of both change and continuity. The work offered two distinct ways to explain and understand the emerging context: austerity urbanism and pragmatic municipalism. This paper reviews these explanations with the goal of showing how and why they developed contrasting conceptualizations. We argue differing epistemological approaches underpin the two competing approaches. Understanding these differences is, we argue, critical for moving forward. The COVID 19 pandemic saw another round of changes to U.S. municipal budgetary and fiscal governance, thus stimulating, we argue, the need for another round of conceptual development. However, an under‐appreciation of the distinctions between austerity urbanism and pragmatic municipalism threatens to stymie this on‐going, post‐COVID 19 pandemic conceptualization. We review recent developments in the broader U.S. municipal fiscal governance literature to generate a set of guideposts for this much‐needed work.

ABSTRACT In recent years, archiving and countermapping have emerged as popular and powerful instruments to represent unauthorized migrations and criticize contemporary border regimes. This resulted in a variety of political projects involving academics, migrants, and advocacy groups, using archiving and mapmaking as vectors of dissensus and affirming politics. This parallel between maps and archives is not just a contemporary trend; it speaks to their longstanding relationship throughout political modernity, as well as the overlap between the archival and cartographic critiques over the past century. This article reviews contemporary projects that mobilize this nexus to challenge contemporary border regimes. In doing so, I direct attention to how their goals, methods, and designs align with different conceptual approaches to archives and maps. The analysis explores the contributions of geographic thought to this conceptual framework, and it encourages further reflection and participation from geographers in projects making political interventions through archival and countermapping methods.

ABSTRACT Rapid urbanization in China in the last 4 decades was fuelled by a huge out‐migration of people from the countryside, contributing to rural decline in many areas. Recognition of ongoing rural poverty and the need to modernize the rural economy has given rise to a myriad of policies in the last quarter century supporting rural development, notably in two key initiatives: Creating the New Socialist Countryside (2005) and a Rural Revitalization Strategy (2017). The former focussed on creating improvements to the welfare system, health services and education in rural areas, and was subsequently accompanied by concerted efforts to eliminate rural poverty. Rural revitalization has emphasized the need for agricultural modernization and reducing the income gap between the countryside and the cities. Based on an assessment of the implementation and outcomes of the two initiatives, this paper explores the policies and key events in the process of rural improvement and revitalization in China. It summarizes the development stages of the relevant policies over time and examines the key facets of revitalization. It focuses on increased provision of services in rural areas as part of significant reductions in rural poverty, the reorganisation of agriculture via land consolidation, and the growth of new investment in rural‐based industry.

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