2025/09/26 by Sarah Marie Hall · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice #Historical Geography and Geographical Thought #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/area.70062
openalex publication_date 2025/09/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Abstract Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio‐spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.