Refusing spatiotemporal unfixity: A response to ‘Inhabiting the extensions’

Abstract

This commentary on Simone et al.'s ( 2025) ‘Inhabiting the Extensions’ explores what exactly this phrase could mean, for whom it inspires bewilderment and why, and what it might mean to engage the geographical research drawn upon if they were to express something about collective refusal of widespread spatiotemporal unfixity.

Keywords

Black Marxist geography critique precarity space and time

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