R Research Papers

Thinking Geographically

Based on a recent presentation at the GA Annual Conference (Manchester 2006), this article presents an argument for the power of thinking geographically, emphasising the discipline's grammar (its concepts and theories) as well as its vocabu...

Geographical information science

. Research papers at conferences such as EGIS and the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling address a set of intellectual and scientific questions which go well beyond the limited technical capabilities of current technology in ge...

Introducing Human Geographies

Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition. Now in full ...

From Military Geography to militarism's geographies: disciplinary engagements with the geographies of militarism and military activities

This paper reviews contemporary approaches in Anglophone human geography to the geographical constitution and expression of militarism and military activities. Three main approaches are identified, and the merits, limitations and insights o...

The Geography of Development

We develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced-growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. Different migration sc...

Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Dead or Alive? PART I - CULTURAL TURNS, GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS Introduction The Twistings and Turnings of Geography and Anthropology in winds of Millennium Transition ...

Listening geographies

This paper argues for expanded listening in geography. Expanded listening addresses how bodies of all kinds, human and more-than-human, respond to sound. We show how listening can contribute to research on a wide range of topics, beyond enq...

Geography of Elections

Within an international framework, this work provides a fully comprehensive approach to the geographical coverage of elections. Numerous applications of ideas and concepts from human geography are incorporated into a new political context, ...

Ecosystem Geography

Cultural geography: cultural geographies of home

The Geography of Transport Systems

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

Sports Geography

'Space' and 'place' are concepts central to both geography and sport. Places, for example, are the means of identifying most sports teams, while sport both affects, and is affected by, the physical environment and landscape.In this fully re...

Poststructuralist Geographies

Poststructuralist Geographies is the first attempt to draw out and develop the inherent quality that is at the heart of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives. With expertise in both critical human geography and post-war continental ...

Geographies of the camp

Imaginative geographies

Reanalyzing the work of Eward Said the essay illuminates the complexity and fractured formation of Orientalism as a constellation of power, knowledge and geography. In doing so the author reconstructs Said's geographical imagination and its...

Geography, Memory and Non‐Representational Geographies

Abstract I discuss the presence of memory within geography, particularly in relation to the interweaving non‐representational/peformative/affective ‘turns’. Memory seems under‐considered in these non‐representational geographies (nrgs) whic...

The geography of gentrification

This paper revisits the ‘geography of gentrification’ thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism. I argue that given the ‘mega-gentrification’ affecting many cities in the Global South gentrification researchers need to adopt a...

The Geography of Equity Analysis

ABSTRACT I provide evidence that geographically proximate analysts are more accurate than other analysts. Stock returns immediately surrounding forecast revisions suggest that local analysts impact prices more than other analysts. These eff...

Entangled Geographies

Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War. The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and p...

Emotional Geographies of Teaching

This paper introduces a new concept in educational research and social science: that of emotional geographies. Emotional geographies describe the patterns of closeness and distance in human interactions that shape the emotions we experience...