This book was borne in a period of history that has felt particularly alive with activism. From global protest movements around human rights; racial justice; women's rights; climate change/ climate justice and more, the second decade of the new millennium looks to be a time marked by mass social activism in the struggles for rights, respect, and representation. Enabled in part by social media and responsive organizing, this activity has drawn in a wide range of citizens from young people to seniors, for some of whom this was their first taste of activism. At the same time this activity has shown the power of activism to produce concrete and significant social change, from Black Lives Matter to the rise of the Climate Justice movement, and the 2022 women-led revolution in Iran ignited in response to the murder of Jina Masha Amini in police custody after being arrested by the morality police or allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. As scholars and citizens, we have been inspired by the scale, power, and urgency of this work, and hope this edition might serve to further these goals.

Based on feminism's longstanding insistence on the need for praxis as well as theory, the purpose of this book is to explore what it means to enact feminist geography in this political moment. Feminist geography has seen a groundswell of scholarship in recent years engaging with questions of social justice activism and collaborative research with activists and activist movements. This work has ranged widely by topic and cultural context, engaging themes of abolitionism, reflexivity, anti-immigration policies, and the power of social media. Activist Feminist Geographies is a sampler of some of the most exciting work in this field, drawing this scholarship together in one place so that students and scholars draw out cross-cutting themes. It will be an agenda-setting work for the sub-discipline as well as a means of tracing feminist activism through cutting-edge research. It explores research in contemporary feminist geography on social justice and activism broadly conceived, across a range of research foci, methodological approaches, and theoretical frameworks.