Inhabiting Regional Geographical Practice in a Climate-Changing World

Taylor, Zac

doi:10.1111/tesg.12551

Inhabiting Regional Geographical Practice in a Climate-Changing World

Title

Inhabiting Regional Geographical Practice in a Climate-Changing World

Author

Taylor, Zac (TU Delft Urban Development Management)

Date

2023

Abstract

Reflecting on the limits of the sovereign-state centricity of mainstream contemporary climate action, Peter Taylor calls for new forms of regional geographical analysis and intervention. What might these aims and ambitions look and feel like for geographers? With this commentary, I take up Taylor's propositions through personal reflection on the work of “doing regional geography” in this current juncture of transnational climate action and transformation. I engage with the analytical challenges associated with regional climate research today – in my case, by way of financialized climate governance puzzles in Florida and the Netherlands. I also discuss how deconstructive and reconstructive approaches to knowledge production enliven my regional geographical engagement, but also generate new personal and disciplinary dilemmas. With this brief note, I hope to reinforce continued reflection on how geographers might take up – or inhabit – timely calls for regional analysis and intervention in climate-changing regions.

Subject

Regional geography
climate change
knowledge production
Florida
The Netherlands
financialization

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12551

ISSN

0040-747X

Source

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 114 (2), 86-90

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