The issue opens with an essay that contributes to ongoing debates in legal geography, focusing on the concept of entry fiction—the idea that physical presence can be separated from legal presence to determine asylum rights. The piece traces the origins of this doctrine in reverse, from recent European asylum policies back to its roots in the United States, unpacking the legal and spatial imaginaries that have shaped it and exposing its fundamentally exclusionary logic.
This is followed by two articles that, through different lenses, explore the relationship between space and social practices. One examines how vegan food practices are embedded in specific places and identities, while the other considers mobility as a tool for fostering inclusion and participation in urban life.
The issue then turns to two case studies that investigate the complex dynamics between actors and territory, each drawing on distinct theoretical and methodological approaches to examine environmental conflict and territorial governance. One explores how the concept of Social Licence to Operate plays out in the Val d’Agri region, while the other applies the quintuple helix model to participatory processes in citizen science projects.
A review essay closes the section, calling for a renewed engagement with cosmopolitanism in contemporary geographical scholarship.
The issue concludes with a wide-ranging set of book reviews, covering topics such as food geographies, migration, citizenship education, local communities and heritage, mobility, and the intersections between geography and artistic practice.