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Based on the example of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, this paper analyzes how urban development strategy shapes and exacerbate real estate speculation in a Global South city. By revisiting some of the dominant understandings of real estate speculation within critical urban studies, the article proposes to consider it no longer as a specific mode of capital accumulation, but rather as a spectrum of rationales, practices and strategies that set the framework for the production of urban spaces. Using the example of Phnom Penh, the article then analyses the role of condominiums, multifunctional projects and large-scale urban projects in the evolution of speculative strategies. By examining their development, management, and marketing terms, four mechanisms of real estate speculation are identified : speculative urbanity, the fluidification and temporalization of investments, the territorialization of speculation and the development of territorial investment platforms. These mechanisms finally highlight different « geographies of speculation » that reveal spatial and territorial processes participating in the circulation, anchoring and valorization of real estate capital flows in Global South real estate markets that are undergoing financialization.

The creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is accelerating throughout the world, but they are subject to opposition, which constitutes a challenge for their sustainability and effectiveness. The article is based on a cross-sectional analysis of 13 MPAs, located on 5 continents, and reveals the importance of conflicts in the process of territorial anchoring of MPAs, one of the objectives being to know if they weaken, and how, or if they contribute to redrawing the process of territorialization. Based on a documentary analysis of each case, in-situ observation, interviews with stakeholders (201) and participation in key dialogue sessions, the comparative analysis made it possible to observe the omnipresence of conflicts at the different stages of the institutionalisation of MPAs and then to categorise them. It emerges that the vast majority of conflicts identified are not between MPA promoters and opponents of conservation. Environmental protection brings people together, but it is the way it is managed that divides. Although the socio-cultural contexts are diverse, and the status, size and type of MPAs are different, recurring factors that reinforce conflicts have been identified. After describing them, the Authors focus on the more discrete ones associated with place attachment. For example, the feeling of dispossession, marginalisation and injustice, which is the result of insufficient consideration of the associated elements of place attachment, which affects the acceptance of the mechanism by local actors, its social legitimacy and its territorial anchorage. However, the article also presents examples of the innovation levers that are or can be activated once conflicts have been brought under control.

This article provides an original diachronic and international overview of the field of geography of education. It highlights the late, complex and incomplete relationship that geographers have with education. The geography of education emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in a staggered and relatively compartmentalized manner in France and Germany, then in Great Britain and North America. Initially not strongly conceptual, the geography of education underwent a decisive turn in the 2000s with the integration of issues developed by the critical and cultural turns taken by geography as a whole, in direct line with the approaches inherited from the spatial turn. In return, geography integrates the questioning proposed by education. This article questions the nature of current geographies of education, in English and German-speaking countries as well as in France. It ends with a plea for a interdisciplinary geography of education.

Based on a field survey of 45 French retired households in the Souss-Massa region (Morocco), this article examines how people register in a new living space during retirement and migration. Following an analysis of practices centred on domestic space, the article proposes a definition of 'home' in international retirement migration, which integrates both the material elements of housing and the immaterial practices that contribute to recreating a sense of familiarity abroad. The case study of French retirees in Morocco highlights the elements that make up the redefinition of this 'home' and its practice: living spaces and ways of living that depend on networks and infrastructures inherent to the migratory space ; the presence of a reassuring and familiar 'entre-soi'; the consideration of the family in residential choices ; bi-residence with housing in France that is part of a relational space constituting the migratory space of retirement.

The influence of Paris, due to its economic and demographic weight, goes beyond the administrative borders of Île-de-France, the smallest French region. As a result, to respond to the many challenges posed at the megaregional level, various attempts at interregional cooperation have been made since the 1960s (« Livres Blancs » (« White Papers ») for the Paris Basin, interregional plan contracts, etc.). However, apart from a few exceptions, they have all come to nothing. The aim of this article is to retrace the various initiatives for interregional cooperation in the Paris Basin and to analyse why they have not been successful. This analysis shows that the absence of concrete cooperation initiatives is largely due to the inability of regional institutional actors to go beyond their administrative borders and think and act on a megaregional scale. Recently, the reform of the regional map seems to further complicate cooperation, which is currently only taking place at the level of the Seine Axis, and to announce the end of the Paris Basin as a policy area.