Material objects and football fandom are intimately linked. As a repository of emotion, memorabilia holds value as a marker of identity. For many football fans the conception of ‘home’ is integral to their identity. Despite its centrality to football fans’ construction of identity, the notion of ‘home’ has received little attention within geographies of sport. Drawing on recent work in cultural geography, this paper employs concepts of home to explore the ways in which materiality holds identity for football fans. Evidence from New Zealand-based fans of European teams displays how material objects are able to collapse distance between fans and their club, acting as palimpsests for memory and narratives for significant emotional experiences. Embedded in the New Zealand home of the fan, memorabilia resides as an emotional bridge to their football home locality, stadia and supporters.

This paper is a phenomenological account of travelling the Trans-Siberian railway. As the primary form of long distance transportation in Russia, rail lines weave people together across vast distances. This paper recounts the manipulations in time and space that long-distance train travel brings about: the multi-sensory experience of simultaneously moving and not moving. It examines the interactions between people and places, of the within-train and out-of-train worlds.

Devising a methodology that is attentive to the more-than-human is an ongoing challenge. While traditional methods, such as the interview and survey, are being passed over for more novel approaches, many geographers are changing the ways in which conventional methods are being conceptualised and performed. This paper aims to contribute to this conversation by examining the body-space relations that occurred during fieldwork for a PhD thesis (ongoing) concerned with domestic water relations. Specifically, this paper draws on unplanned ethnographic encounters with water during the hand-delivery of a postal survey and interviews conducted with households that are self-sufficient for water, on the south-coast of New South Wales, Australia. I reflect on the fleeting summer rain showers, the morning dew soaking through dusty boots, frogs in mailboxes, and the numerous cups of tea that I encountered during the course of my fieldwork, to demonstrate how water (or its absence) exerted itself in the fieldwork process in unplanned and often unexpected ways; simultaneously shaping, constraining and enhancing data collection and, ultimately, the insights gained.

This survey of geographical whithering was prompted by Brian Finlayson's GR Commentary “Whither (or Wither?) Geography”, and extended by John Holmes's subsequent response together with the IAG-2016 focus on Frontiers of Geographical Knowledge. Such engaged and impassioned questioning interested me since student days, and now led to an investigation into the frequency and variety of "Whither" authors (whither-ers) and their papers. The exploration reveals diverse views of the enquirers, whose focus, viewpoints, and language reflect some eighty years of developments, trends, and attitudes in our geography discipline. It also calls attention to the growing disconnect between academic geography and K-12 education.