TY - JOUR AU - Meijer, Marlies PY - 2023/01/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Shrinking geographies or challenged rurality’s? Three points of reflection – commentary to Syssner JF - Fennia - International Journal of Geography JA - Fennia VL - 200 IS - 2 SE - Reflections DO - 10.11143/fennia.121861 UR - https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/121861 SP - 251–254 AB - <p>By asking ‘what could geographers do for shrinking geographies’ Josefina Syssner offers a very comprehensive overview of what has been and should be on the research agenda’s for understanding rural shrinking geographies. In this commentary I would like to address three issues related to the Fennia keynote, that may add an additional perspective or a moment of reflection: 1) the issue of demographic change, rather than shrinkage, 2) how we can imagine the future of shrinking geographies, and 3) what Nordic perspectives have to offer. In conclusion, I believe that peripheral geographies, and challenged rurality’s deserve a key position within geography and related disciplines, and call for a repolitisation of the topic: what we research, how we conceptualise or even advice has consequences for those living and imagining futures in peripheral, rural and depopulating regions.</p> ER -