The De Gruyter Handbook of Social Geographies gathers energies, tensions, signs of change, transformation, and renewal of the discipline. It provides a unique analytical framework, avoiding any attempt to define and draw rigid boundaries around the discipline, opening the way to progressive possibilities and directions.

Rather than trying to define what the discipline is through a series of discursive categories and subdisciplines, the analytical strategy foregrounding the book consists in trying to recognize what it does not want to be, that is singular, closed, monolithic, white, colonial, provincial, diurnal, deterministic, masculinist, heteronormative, ableist, anthropocentric, methodologically rigid, boring, or objective. All the contributions in the volume are, therefore, organized in a way that signals the explosion of the original core of Social Geographies (the idea of the relation between society and space) into a multitude of diverse splinters including categories, labels and disciplinary boundaries that no longer fit.