R Research Papers

The geographies of cultural geography III

The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field ...

The Geography of Crowdfunding

Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding'' is the broad geographic dispersion of investors. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We exam...

Assemblage and geography

In this introduction to the special section on ‘Assemblage and geography’, we reflect on the different routes and uses through which ‘assemblage’ is being put to work in contemporary geographical scholarship. The purpose of the collection i...

On geography and encounter

The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio-cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that ‘encounter’ is a conceptually charged construct that is worthy of sustained an...

Geographies of responsibility

Issues of space, place and politics run deep. There is a long history of the entanglement of the conceptualisation of space and place with the framing of political positions. The injunction to think space relationally is a very general one ...

In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression

Part 1 The terrain of discussion - definitions, concepts, and arguments: geography, ideology and transgression - a relational ontology. Part 2 Heretical geographies: heretical geography 1 - the crucial where of graffiti heretical geography ...

GEOGRAPHY, EXPERIENCE, AND IMAGINATION: TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY1

(1961). GEOGRAPHY, EXPERIENCE, AND IMAGINATION: TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 241-260....

An Introduction to Geography

Geography of Innovation

The geography of innovation refers to the spatial clustering of innovative activity and the advantages conferred by co-location. Economic actors realize gains when located to places with abundant resources, well-developed social networks an...

Geography's Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge

In this paper the possibilities and hazards of a critical perspective on the history of geographical knowledge are considered. The focus is on the relations between modern geography and European colonialism during the ‘age of empire’ (circa...

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.

Acknowledgements. 1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction. 2. Women and Everyday Spaces. 3. No Place for Women?. 4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique. 5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. 6. Spatial ...

Geographies of Exclusion

Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the dominant factor in the creation of social and s...

Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography

This contribution is a reflection on the process of becoming a poet as a geographer. It charts my journey into the world of poetry and reflects on the cross-overs between academic geography and poetic practice in the past. It considers the ...

Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa

macroeconomics, Geography, Demography, Economic Growth, Africa...

From ‘energy geography’ to ‘energy geographies’

This paper takes stock of geographical contributions to the study of energy and energy futures. The paper is written in two parts. First, I trace the methodological and philosophical traditions that underpin geographical approaches to energ...

Encyclopedia of geography

With more than 1,200 entries, Encyclopedia of Geography reflects how the growth of geography has propelled a demand for intermediaries between the abstract language of academia and the ordinary language of everyday life. The six volumes of ...

Geography and Trade

I have spent my whole professional life as an international economist thinking and writing about economic geography, without being aware of it, begins Paul Krugman in the readable and anecdotal style that has become a hallmark of his writin...

Geography and Evolution

Promoting Geography for Sustainability

The discipline of geography encompasses both natural and social sciences and has the natural advantage of enabling the study of sustainability from a transdisciplinary perspective. There are great opportunities for geographers to participat...

Feminism and Geography

resent time spent with them as their parents seemed to. Some nannies X became deeply attached to their young charges despite the fact that these children would not represent a source of status to them, either in the present or even less in ...