Recognition that environmental degradation is mostly driven by human activity is widely supported by interdisciplinary scholarship. However, the terminology and conceptual frameworks used to describe such socioenvironmental interconnectedness remain diverse, reflecting differing theoretical perspectives and disciplinary traditions. In this commentary, we engage with the concept of ‘geoviolence’—defined as human actions that generate, exacerbate or instrumentalise adverse geophysical conditions to increase suffering—from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on insights from social and economic geography, geographies of disasters, glaciology and geomorphology, we nuance how geoviolence intersects with established understandings of natural hazards and disasters, and we explore its implications for both human and more‐than‐human bodies. Our commentary demonstrates how geoviolence can serve as a disciplinary bridging notion, illuminating the links between spatial and temporal dimensions of human‐driven environmental harm. In so doing, the concept provides an interdisciplinary framework that elaborates the centrality of relationality—spatially and temporally across multiple bodies and disciplines, to locate accountability and identify pathways towards more just and sustainable futures.
Komposch et al. (Thu,) studied this question.