Call for Submission for the Philippine Geographical Journal - Vol. 67, 2023

Call for Articles for the 2023 issue of Philippine Geographical Journal (PGJ)

Geographies of Care: lives, spatialities, experiences, and practices

Geography is a caring discipline that takes the multi-scalar dimensions of care seriously. As former AAG (American Association of Geographers) president Victoria Lawson noted, geography examines climate change, ecological crises, disaster management, spatial justice, gender-ethnic divisions, spaces of exclusions, uneven development, environmental justice, extractivist capitalism, redistricting, necropolitics, among many spatialized manifestations of unevenness, inequalities and dispossessions (Lawson, 2007). These engagements speak of the substance of care that geographers involve themselves in research and practice.

For the 2023 issue of the Philippine Geographical Journal—a peer-reviewed journal of the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS)—multiple geographies of care is spotlighted in its varied iterative formations. The pandemic not only underlined the differentiated and multitudinous experiences and encounters of Covid-19 in terms of health access, empowered civil society, vulnerabilities of bodies and precarity of lives and livelihoods, it also ushered an emerging and emergent landscape of care founded on collective and mutual aid that underscore a network of relations built on the practical and emotional provision of support. From peoples’ cartographies that map several terrains of access of health and medical care, and the radical emergence of community pantries, to care ethics that tackle and question neoliberalism’s ideological constructs which can flatten nanosocial relations of care and intimate entanglements.

Care also manifest interstitially and in strange ways. For example, animal-human relations and the ethics of ‘killing’ as a form of caring in times of crisis. In some cases, informal carers who are invisible abound in places where local mores pathologise certain illnesses as taboo or not worth public discussion. Still other cases point to the silence of carers who tend to be ‘overprotective’ of people with intellectual disabilities that engender hidden social geographies of care that refused to be acknowledged as care. These examples shift the landscape of care and care provision.

For this call for article submission, we invite full-length papers that variously problematise, detail, analyse and imagine care geographies through either theoretical, relational, non-representational, artistic and performative praxis and lenses. We also seek provocative thought pieces that challenge care geographies, question geographical wisdom on topics such as distance, home space, care-giving, ‘care-ful’ geographies, or other geographical projects and practices beyond academic geography.

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Topics can be but not limited to:

– Place-based and emotion-based care and care-giving

– Care-ful and compassionate geographies

– Care ethics and responsibility

– Transactional and relational care

– Emergent and radical geographies of care

– Delayed and extended reciprocity of care

– Mutual aid and radical becomings

– Human-animal relationships of care

– Multi-scalar uncaring-ness and ‘false care’

– Mobilities, transportation and care infrastructures

– Children and child-friendly care

– Media representations of landscapes of care

– Personal, digital and online geonarratives of caring

– Health care and medical tourism

– Labor in care and care-giving

– Community-based care initiatives and state care

– Conservation management and care treatments of nature

– Informal caring and invisibilities

If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please send your article submission no later than 1 September 2023 to pgj.editor@gmail.com.   

Complete articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including endnotes, but excluding references) in length and must include a 200-250 word abstract. In addition, you should send a 50-word biographical note with your article. All submitted manuscripts will undergo double-blind reviews. Target publication is December 2023.

Particulars

- 6000-8000 word count excluding references

- 200-250-word abstract

- 4-6 keywords

- APA citation, 7th edition

- Signed conforme from author/s that submission is an original and is not being considered for publication elsewhere

Philippine Geographical Journal Launches Volumes 57, 58 & 59

Is it possible to bring the dormant to life? 

Maybe if we're talking volcanoes, winter seeds, the underground life of cicadas, hibernating Ursus Linnaeus, and yes, the 'sleeping' issues of the Philippine Geographical Journal. 

PGJ started in 1953 -- a few years after the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS) was born -- and it kept on publishing articles that were either straight-up physical geography or with a broadly human-environment slant. But like most disciplines,  Geography evolved through the decades. It did not forget the early tradition of quantification, the fluvial domains, synoptic climatology and area studies, but has forged on to challenge definitions of the rural and urban, questioning the natural in 'natural disasters, and even make a case why moving images have inherently spatial dimensions. Perhaps the articles themselves reflected the discipline's various foci and trajectories as influenced by local and local-adjacent geographers. Some of us even question the idea of 'local'. After all, 'local' is also a social construction, no?

It is with pride that we invite you to the launch of PGJ issues that should have been released a long time ago if not for diminished financial resources and a host of other things that are too various to specify. But a resolute decision to bring back what were started in 1953 by pre- and post-war geographers is always strong. So here we are.

On Saturday, 18 December 2021, a PGJ Launch is happening at 2:00PM where volumes 57, 58, and 59 will make their debut. So come and celebrate with us. 

The themes are ostensibly on cultural geographies (Volume 57), disaster studies (Volume 58), and urban geographies (Volume 59) but they are also critical expansions and provocative iterations of these themes. 

So geographers and allies of geography, come on, come on. To participate, register using this link: https://tinyurl.com/yev46btw

This PGJ Launch is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography.