Making repair reparative: Towards expanded geographies of repair

Nate Millington, Suraya Scheba, CS Ponder, Stella Paterniani, Sarah Knuth, Laura Kemmer, Alejandro de Coss-Corzo, Julia Corwin, Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Department of American Studies, University of Texas - Austin, Department of Anthropology, University of Campinas, Department of Geography, Durham University, Department of Sociology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Research Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, University of Edinburgh, Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science

Progress in Human Geography

Published online on June 03, 2026

Abstract

Progress in Human Geography, Ahead of Print.
This paper analyzes contemporary scholarship on repair and the reparative in Geography and allied disciplines. We understand the term repair to refer to incremental and everyday forms through which cities, objects, and landscapes are held together through ...