Making molehills out of mountains: Keeping the tempest in the teapot

In this short piece, drawing on personal and professional experience, and based on the urgency of myriad crises, I suggest ways of moving our considerable accumulated theoretical, methodological, and substantive insights more consciously (rather than tacitly) into wider circulations of dialogue and activism. I examine extant hegemonic relations of academic production and reproduction, the relationships between academia and the “outside" worlds in which we operate, and conclude with some specific recommendations for the role that this newest member of the Environment and Planning suite of journals might take in these critical endeavors.

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