We are delighted to share that ACME's second issue of 2026, Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026): Special Issue: What Is Critical Geography, What Can, and What Must It Be? has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
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The Treaty Truckhouse built along the Sipekne’katik River in 2016. Photo credit: Sadie Beaton (2022)
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We are delighted to share that ACME's fifth issue of 2025, Vol. 24 No. 5 (2025): Research Articles, Intervention, and Translation, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
Alice Wong (she/her) was a disabled activist, writer, editor, and community organizer. She was the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. Alice was the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people and Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today, an adapted version for young adults. Her debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life was published in 2022. Her latest anthology, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire is available now. In 2024 Alice was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2025, Alice co-partnered with Finnegan Shannon on Disabled Rage, a public art project. Alice passed away on November 14, 2025. For more: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/. Digital portrait by Jen White-Johnson.
Read more about ACME Vol. 24 No. 5 (2025): Research Articles, Intervention, and Translation Available Now!We are delighted to share that ACME's fourth issue of 2025, Vol. 24 No. 4 (2025): Research Articles, Intervention, Roundtable, and Translation, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
Blank(et) Spaces. 2025. Credit: Acetino et al.
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Poster advertising the Jackson People’s School initiative at the Boys & Girls Club of West Jackson, Fall 2019. Photo Credit: Noel Didla.
Read more about ACME Vol. 24 No. 3 (2025): Research Articles, Roundtable, and Interview Available Now!We are delighted to share that ACME's second issue of 2025, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Research Articles and Special Theme, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
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Resting time and social space in the community garden. Image source: Owain Hanmer.
Read more about ACME Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Research Articles Now Available Online!We are delighted to share that ACME's fifth issue of 2024, Vol. 23 No. 5 (2024): Research Articles, Roundtables, and Translation, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
A page from the Degrees of Belonging Zine. Credit: Farhana Ghaffar/The Concrete Collective. Zine available here: https://www.eggboxpublishing.com/product-page/degrees-of-belonging-zine
Read more about ACME Vol. 23 No. 5 (2024): Research Articles, Roundtables, and Translation Now Available Online!We are delighted to share ACME's third issue of 2024, Vol. 23 No. 3 (2024): Research Articles, Interviews, and Roundtable, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here!
Brandalism mock ad from the Paris COP21 in 2015. Artist Credit: Matt Bonner, http://brandalism.ch/gallery/
Read more about ACME Vol. 23 No. 4 (2024): Special Issue: Climate Action Task Force 2023 Plenary Lecture and Forum Now Available Online!We are delighted to share ACME's third issue of 2024, Vol. 23 No. 3 (2024): Research Articles, Interviews, and Roundtable, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here!
A basket of tender sliced bamboo shoots in the foothills of Nagaland during the filming of “Seasons of Life” (2020), Dr. Dolly Kikon’s film focused on community connections with foraging, forest, and seasons. Photo credit: Mhademo Kikon. For the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrI4e07MYKk&t=16s
Read more about ACME Vol. 23 No. 3 (2024): Research Articles, Interviews, and Roundtable Now Available Online!We are delighted to share ACME's second issue of 2024, Vol. 23 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue: Desirable Futures, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here!
We are delighted to share ACME's first issue of 2024, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2024): Themed Section: Indigenous Geographies in the Making and Translations, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here!
We are delighted to share ACME's sixth issue of 2023, No. 6 (2023): Research Papers and Creative/Alternative, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here!
We are delighted to share ACME's fourth issue of 2023, No. 4 (2023): Themed Section: Departures, Arrivals, and Encounters: Feminist Understandings of Borders and Human Im/mobilities, Research and Intervention Papers. To access our most recent issue click here!
Dear Community of Geographers & Spatial Scholars,
As we are an unpaid Collective, we take off the month of August to refresh ourselves. We look forward to working with you in September. Please direct any questions or communications to acmegeography@gmail.com, which will be monitored throughout this break by our Coordinating Editor.
Natasha Fox
ACME Coordinating Editor
We are delighted to share that ACME's third issue of 2023, No. 3 (2023): Special Issue: Heteroactivism, Homonationalism, and National Projects, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here!
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We are delighted to share that ACME's second issue of 2023, No. 2: Interview, Review Essay, Research Papers, and Preprints, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
We are delighted to share that ACME's final issue of 2022, No. 6: Research Papers and RGS-IBG ACME Sponsored Keynote, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
ACME is seeking contributions to Critical Geography Conversations: ACME’s 20+ Year Anniversary!
Read more about Proposals to Contribute to the "Critical Geography Conversations: ACME’s 20+ Year Anniversary CFP"ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies invites applications for Editors to join the journal’s Collective. We are seeking individuals with a commitment to mutuality, collective work, and conviviality to join our team. ACME will offer mentorship by previous editors and create cohorts to build expertise. Previous editorial experience is appreciated but not at all required or expected.
Read more about ACME Journal Call for EditorsWe are delighted to share that ACME's final issue of 2022, No. 6: Research Papers and RGS-IBG ACME Sponsored Keynote, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
We are pleased to share that ACME's fifth issue of 2022, Special Issue: Monumentality, Memoryscapes, and the Politics of Place, has been released! To access our most recent issue click here.
Read more about ACME Vol 21 No 4 Doing Critical GIS Now Online!
We are pleased to share that ACME’s third issue of 2022, including Research Papers, Interventions and Creative Works has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Vol 21 No 3 Research Papers, Interventions and Creative Works Now Online!We are pleased to share that ACME’s third issue of 2022, including Research Papers, Interventions and Creative Works has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Vol 21 No 3 Research Papers, Interventions and Creative Works Now Online!ACME's latest issue "Ethics in Multispecies Research: Reflections from the Field" is now published and available online.
Read more about ACME Vol 21 No. 2 is Published and Available Now!We are pleased to announce that ACME's latest issue is now published and available online. To access this issue click here.
Read more about ACME Vol 21 No 1 is now Published and Available OnlineWe are pleased to share that ACME’s sixth issue, "Carceral Geographies" has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Vol 20 No 6 Special Issue "Carceral Geographies" Now PublishedWe are pleased to share that ACME’s fifth issue of 2021, "Embodying Controversy Through Pedagogy " has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Vol 20 No 5 (2021): Themed Section: Embodying Controversy Through Pedagogy & Research PapersWe are pleased to share that ACME’s fourth issue of 2021, "From the Margins Within " has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Volume 20(4) From the Margins Within is now released!We are pleased to share that ACME’s third issue of 2021, "Moral Economies" has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Volume 20(3) "Moral Economies" is now released!We are pleased to share that ACME’s second issue of 2021, "Anarchist Geographies and Epistemologies of the State," has been released! To access our most recent issue, click here.
Read more about ACME Volume 20(2) "Anarchist Geographies and Epistemologies of the State" is now released! listzFor the last few months, we have witnessed the growing tensions of political debates in France. Ultimately, these tensions have resulted in members of the French government (notably the Minister of National Education, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, and elected members of the National Assembly) attacking members of the French scientific community who critically examine questions such as gender, race, or postcoloniality. These attacks have triggered a strong reaction on the part of the scientific community, particularly geographers. They have been condemned at the highest instances, in France and abroad, for example, by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Conférence des présidents d’université, le Conseil National des Universités or the International Geography Union. We at ACME stand by our French colleagues who have been at the receiving end of this vicious abuse. ...
Este dossier propone profundizar en la cuestión de la producción no alienada del espacio a través de un diálogo entre los enfoques teórico-conceptuales del urbanismo crítico europeo y latinoamericano a partir de los aportes de Lefebvre como un nexo entre ambas corrientes. Para ello se recuperan los discursos y prácticas referidos a la Producción Social del Hábitat (PSH) y los comunes urbanos mediante la indagación en experiencias de cooperativismo autogestionario de vivienda y hábitat. Este número es una invitación a reflexionar sobre alternativas a la producción mercantil y sus potencialidades.
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Read more about Volume 19, issue 3, a special issue on “Producción Social del Hábitat y Comunes Urbanos” is now released!The ACME Collective is delighted to announce the release of our new issue! Volume 19, issue two features an intervention on the uneven demands placed on scholars as we continue to grapple with COVID-19, and seven research articles on topics from radical ethics of care, to Mayan-led environmental response in the Yucatan region, knowledge production and decolonial studies, and housing policy and social stigma in Finland.
You can freely access the new issue here: https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/issue/view/119
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We are pleased to announce the new ACME Editorial Collective, with Jack Gieseking serving as Managing Editor. We are grateful to our previous Managing Editors, Simon Springer and Levi Gahman, and our Editors Sean Wang, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Laura Bisaillon, and Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch for their years of service. The new Editorial Collective looks forward to supporting the open access publication of critical and radical geographical scholarship for years to come. Click through for the full listing of the ACME Editorial Collective.
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The editorial collective of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographers supports Black Lives Matter.
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Read more about ACME Statement of Solidarity in Support of Black Lives Matter and ProtestorsUPDATE MARCH 2021: While ACME is accepting new papers, we are no longer seeking Covid-specific materials. A full update is forthcoming.
ACME has decided that it is best for us to establish a rolling pause on all new submissions not related to issues amplified by, adjacent to, or instigated by COVID-19, and submissions not by junior authors who need papers to go through at this time. Given the unprecedented situation of COVID-19, we are also unsure when, exactly, we will be able to receive new work. The severity of the ongoing pandemic is immense and we, as a Collective and journal, feel like a full slowdown is needed, not only to support our editorial Collective but also to support our reviewers, who tend to reflect the disproportionately marginalized people we study. As we announce this on May Day, it is especially a time for ACME to rethink our priorities and identity, to take care in all aspects of our life and of those we love, and to enact our best way forward in support of the reproductive labor of journal work. By work that is “amplified by, adjacent to, or instigated by COVID-19,” we recognize that authors have research manuscripts that already speak to the violence and disparities seen during this pandemic.
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Our first issue of 2020 features a themed issue on the narratives of populations suffering from displacement on a global scale. It also includes eleven research articles ranging from topics including urban conflict, housing, geographies of anti-Blackness, and Indigenous geographies.
Read more about Latest Issue: Vol 19, No 1Dear all,
In this time of crisis, we hope you are well and connected to those you love.
We are writing now to announce that ACME will pause accepting of most new work through April 15th. However, as an online journal with the ability to publish quickly and publicly, we will accept new work regarding COVID-19 to make sure this work can reach public audiences in a timely manner. We will not send out reviewer reminders for most publications through this period, with the exception of early career researchers who may still need feedback during this time and we will support them in all ways possible. As an all-volunteer journal, we will do our best to continue to support our authors and keep working on those papers already submitted. We are already set to continue to publish issues.
Read more about Slowing Down in Solidarity: Notice of ACME Suspension of Accepting New Work (Exception: Work on COVID-19)ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies invites applications for Editors to join the journal’s Collective. We are seeking at least EIGHT new editors. All who apply will be considered. A commitment to mutuality, collective work, conviviality, and punctuality is required. No previous editorial experience is required; ACME will offer mentorship by previous editors and create cohorts to build expertise. Previous editorial experience is appreciated but not at all required or expected.
Read more about Call for Editors for ACME: An International Journal for Critical GeographiesACME will not be publishing our February issue in solidarity with our colleagues in France who have shut down their journals as part of the protest against the neoliberalization of the university. Please share information of this strike with other lists and your colleagues. For more about the protest, see the links below the protest image.
February 7, 2020 :: We, the ACME editorial collective, stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and land defenders who are lawfully defending their unceded territories from violent raids, invasions, and unlawful uses in efforts to advance development of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline by TC Energy (formerly TransCanada).
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Our last issue of 2019 features an intervention on the geography of peace, and eight research articles on topics ranging from anti-immigration policy and necropolitics to doctoral fieldwork experiences with and without Indigenous communities.
Read more about Latest Issue Now Available (Vol 18, No 6)We are not accepting special issue or themed section proposals at this time.
We are working through the special issue and themed section proposals currently underway and will announce when are able to accept new proposals.
Thank you for your understanding,
ACME Editorial Collective
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This special issue, guest edited by Caitlin Cahill, and Rachel Pain, revolves around the theme of ‘Slow Violence’.
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This issue includes interventions on ’climate mathematics’, ‘care-full’ academic spaces, a photo essay, and new research articles on mutual aid, wind energy, the Knitting Nannas Against Gas, and more.
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This issue includes an intervention on ‘slow conferencing,’ and new research articles on environmental justice, research on sexual violence, art and rural gentrification, and more.
Read more about Latest Issue: Vol 18, No 3Our latest issue is here.
This issue includes a themed section on “Acting Peripheries,” and new creative and research articles on contested public space, green grabbing, public art and more.
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Read more about Latest Issue (Vol 18, No 2)Our latest issue is here.
This issue includes a themed section on “Border Imperialism,” and new research articles on feminist countertopographies, vers une recherche-création, decolonizing postcolonial thinking, and undoing fieldwork.
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Read more about Latest Issue Now Available (Vol 18, No 1)Our latest issue is here.
This issue includes themed section on “Food Justice Scholar-Activism and Activist-Scholarship,” and new research articles on biometrics, university responses to the travel ban, and more.
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Read more about Latest issue: Vol 17, No 4Check out the third issue of 2018, hot off the press!
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Our latest issue is published!
This issue includes an intervention on academic freedom, a themed section on “(urban) commons to commoning: political practices and horizons in the Mediterranean context”, and new research articles.
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Read more about Latest Issue (Vol 17, No 2)Our latest issue is published!
This issue includes coverart work by Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, an intervention by geographers on Trump, and new research articles.
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Read more about Vol 17, No 1 (2018)Our latest issue is published!
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Read more about Vol 16, No 4 (2017)Vol 16, No 3 (2017)
Our latest issue is published!
It includes a themed section on critical geographical queer semiotics, as well as original research articles.
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