In this letter, addressed to the collective of geographers, the EARTH is begging them to quickly rise up to the unprecedented and urgent challenges that 'the EARTH' and 'them humans' face in this extraordinary grave planetary moment of the climate emergency. With the help of a human ghostwriter, the EARTH accuses geographers for having committed a series of mis-translations, notably by having reduced the EARTH to an extensive 'earth surface' in wait for other agencies like 'Nature', 'Space', 'the Social', 'Culture', 'the Environment', to provide the action. According to the EARTH, this is one of the worst cartographic crimes ever committed in the discipline of geography. Consequently, the EARTH asks geographers to fundamentally reconsider an un-earthly and de-geographized onto-epistemological direction that their discipline generally has taken. Given that the Earth now has evolved into a new kind of geo-being in the Anthropocene, and because the planetary climate emergency means that Terra Oikos is on fire, geographers need to update and revitalize their obsolete geo-ontological conceptual apparatus They must try and save as much, and as fast, as they possibly can, including an EARTH who is in a dire condition and about to leave the Holocene.

Hotel Anthropocene is a new hotel advertised as a luxury all-inclusive resort. It was until recently operated under the name of ´Hotel Holocene´, but due to the widespread attention the Anthropocene has received the new owners decided to change its name. The day at the Hotel Anthropocene, written in the form of fiction, renders different ways of knowing, feeling, sensing, conceptualizing, and practising real time ecological mutation. The guests are increasingly dissatisfied and they gradually realise that something is terribly wrong with the hotel. The dialogues and heated discussions take place in the hotel lobby, corridors, rooms, the pool-bar, the restaurant, the common room, and they disclose cognitive and emotional dissonances in relation to the future.

The chapter invites the reader to critically reflect upon tourism futures in relation to contemporary climate change and planetary ethics. It disrupts the idea of touristic bubbles without entanglements and responsibility with the ongoing crisis. The chapter also draws attention to a fundamental paradox of tourism, where search for wellbeing and hedonistic joy simultaneously contribute to accelerating climate change. The story at the hotel problematizes the conceptualization and practices of a ‘common future’, especially the future as a utopian time that lies ahead. Consequently, towards the end, the guests begin to realise that there is, unfortunately, no check-out from this hotel.

The story of Hotel Anthropocene also raises questions about our responsibilities as researchers and teachers when using fiction as method for producing and sharing knowledge of our current and future planetary situation in the Anthropocene. How do different kinds of stories tune us in, or out? What kinds of storytelling and story listening should we engage in if we wish to contribute to a more caring, sustainable, hospitable and peaceful co-existence in our one and only common “hotel” when cast in dire predictions of its planetary future?

Enligt både vetenskapen och världssamfundet (FN) befinner vi oss i ett planetärt klimat- och ekologiskt nödläge. I skuggan av smältande glaciärer och otillräckliga klimatåtgärder står vi inför en ny människa och en ny Jord. I det följande skall jag ta upp några aspekter av hur denna planetära utveckling utmanar grundläggande föreställningar och utgångspunkter i geografiämnet.

Given the empirical scope and gravity of the ongoing planetary climate and ecological mutation we can safely say that “our house is on fire”. The chapter problematizes the conceptualization of the Earth and engages “the Critical Zone” as an earthly entity for composing our common planetary house in actionable terms. The chapter points towards a politics of earthly habitation, a (new) Earth politics that does not depart from Nature and Society, nor separates the social from the natural, and where the earthly territorialities of the local is folded with the territory of planetary climate conditions. The emerging (new) Earth politics highlight the “planetary vital signs” which need to be incorporated into climate politics in and of the Critical Zone.

Purpose: This discussion paper aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the state of the art of research engaged with conceptual matters of space and place for health and care.

Method: The authors, who represent a variety of academic disciplines, discuss and demonstratethe conceptual recognition of space and place in research in health and caring sciences building upon own work and experience.

Results: To explore the concepts of space and place for health and care is a research pursuit of utmost importance, and should be made through transdisciplinary research collaborations,whereby spatial theories from various disciplines could be communicated to cultivate truly novel and well-informed research. Furthermore, engaging with relational and topological perceptions of space and place poses methodological challenges to overcome in futureresearch on health and care.

Conclusions: We argue that there is a need for accelerating spatially informed research on health and care that is informed by current theories and perspectives on space and place, and transdisciplinary research collaborations are a means to achieving this.

Time-geography is a descriptive and analytical geographical framework initially developed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s by the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004). Time-geography consists of a conceptual apparatus and a graphic notation system by which the time-spatial embeddedness and couplings of human and nonhuman geographical beings and their corporeal (material) geographical conditions for existence can be mapped and investigated.

Time-geography is founded on a matter-realistic ontology that explicitly recognizes the material, corporeal nature of geographical beings and their geographical settings as demarcated somewhere on the Earth's surface. Reflected in its notation system, the methodology of time-geography is guided by the principle of always simultaneously keeping track of both spatial and temporal features of material geographical events.

Time-geography has been applied in numerous areas in human geography, as well as in a large number of studies in a variety of different disciplinary settings. As a research program on its own, time-geography has increased the conceptual and empirical knowledge of time-space conditions of and for geographical beings and their geographical existences.