GEOZONe – Geography Zine Organizing Network – is a transnational collective archiving zines and print ephemera broadly concerned with space, place, power, and the earth. Our collection is available for download, print, and distribution in academic and activist spaces. Explore the collection by tags, location, or language. We welcome submissions from zine-makers across the world: see our submission instructions here. We encourage readers to print and distribute materials as they see fit. You can follow us on instagram to receive periodic updates about new zines and any events or projects associated with the network.
This work combines fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, and experimental fieldnotes centering Black ecologies primarily in the US South and Caribbean contexts.
Mapping Absent Memory is an accompanying zine to a project with the same title, which is a community-generated counter-mapping platform that invites migrants from Southwest Asian and North African countries who live/d in Arabian Gulf cities to recall and archive lived experiences and sensory memories. The zine includes information on the project, a guide on how to contribute to the map, prompts, and a brief essay on counter-mapping as method and medium.
Strange Natures is a collection of reflections from different places, times and vantage points, different ways of noticing, seeing, listening and inhabiting reality. The collection shows many ways of understanding and experiencing ‘strange natures’, from nomadic river islands and the call-and-response of bullfrogs in India, to the haunted floodplains of Texas; from strange patterns in bird flights off the Scottish coast, to stories and poems that challenge the boundaries of selves and bodies. The zine invites us to abolish the rational, to find re-enchantment, to embrace the weirdness of the …
Earlier this year, Dr. Javier Ordás (Assistant Professor of geography at the University of León) shared a student-made urban geography zine, Transectos, with our archive. Below, we talked with Javier about bringing zines into the classroom and the …
We recently had the chance to catch up with Dr. Denise Fernandes (Assistant Professor of politics at Whitman College) about her experience teaching with zines in her introduction to environmental racism class. Last year, her students produced a …
Hello again from the GEOZONe collective! Three months ago, we convened in Detroit to hold our first in-person zine fair in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. The fair was a huge success: special shout out …