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Intersectionality is an approach to research that focuses upon mutually constitutive forms of social oppression rather than on single axes of difference. Intersectionality is not only about multiple identities but is about relationality, social context, power relations, complexity, social justice and inequalities. This report reflects upon the use of intersectionality in social geography and emphasizes the complex histories of intersectionality that are often overlooked in geography. I argue for a greater embrace of the contribution of black feminists and some of the earliest work in geography taking an intersectional perspective. I also argue for intersectionality to be used ethically and with care in geography, rather than it being deployed in a way that unwittingly reproduces a white, colonialist, racist and masculinist discipline. I explore possible avenues for future research about intersectionality in social geographies including a focus upon residential segregation, transnational migration and embodiment.

Humanistic geography is a genre of geography born in late 1960s. A series of theories came out which criticize the knowledge system of logical positivism. The philosophical fundaments of humanistic geography are existentialism and phenomenology. Yi-fu Tuan, Edward Relph, Anne Buttimer, David Ley, Marvyn Samuels and Nicholas Entrikin are the leaders of humanistic geography. Yi-fu Tuan published the first article about humanistic geography, which was collected in Human Geography (1976). The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. However, in different geographic traditions, humanistic geography is often criticized for its weak methodology. I argue humanistic philosophy, can provide a sound epistemologicalframework in which to organize and strengthen this methodology in human geography research. The topics of geographical knowledge, territory and place, crowding and privacy, livelihood and economics, and religion are briefly noted from the humanistic perspective. The basic approach to these topics is by way of human experience, knowledge, and awareness. The application of this approach is emerging in the Nepalese context, however for long time Nepalese geographers followed the Western Eurocentric view and appear to be content in following western notions and ignored understanding our own social and cultural aspects/landscapes that enrich our knowledge of geography. The researcher claims that there is a need to rethink our research practices towards better understanding of the world with austerity of philosophical and methodological consistency.The Geographical Journal of Nepal Vol. 10: 121-140, 2017

Geographic place and socio-political space are salient in struggles for justice in education. Social geography provides a frame for discussing the relationship between names of schools and narratives of race, place, and justice (racial and spatial) in the US South. Featured herein is an illustrative case of how a school named after an African American man is implicated in the construction and preservation of cultural memory through its namesake status and the curriculum. In the literature, commemoration policies are often ignored as little points of support that codify the processes of deliberation and decision-making that guide how school buildings are named. Commemoration policies from two school districts are juxtaposed to show the varying levels of attention each gives to diversity and culture. The notion of curriculum leadership advanced is characterized by socio-political consciousness about how racial justice is linked to spatial justice and how both are mediated by practices, policies, and...

This report examines how social geography engages with nonhuman subjects; in this case, bugs. The report focuses on how social geography is rethinking its core concepts of difference and inequality through scholarship that examines the relations between bugs and human inequality, bug management and molecular intervention on/in bugs, and the biosocial relations bugs help forge. It does so while opening up what bugs – not just insects, but also a wider range of bugs, such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites operating within and beyond the human body – offer to our theorization and examination of everyday social life.

This paper aims to examine the integration of cultural values of ethnic Bugis Makassar in learning Social Geography as one of the strategies to face the Asean Economic Community (AEC). Local cultural values is an important issue that should be studied in study Social Geography. This new face is needed to adopt a variety of strategies including local cultural values in the learning process. Planting the values of the local culture in the learning process is expected to offset the influence of foreign culture that is increasingly prevalent in our society, especially South Sulawesi. Culture Bugis Makassar as one of the local culture that is growing and developing among the Bugis Makassar, has an important element that can increase the motivation of learners, namely the concept of Siri 'and Pacce . This concept when used correctly in the learning process can be a powerful incentive for students to improve their academic achievement. Keywords : Integration, Local Culture, Ethnic Bugis Makassar, Social Geography http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um022v1i12016p013

NEW POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES Welcome to another issue of Territory, Politics, Governance that illustrates the expanding breadth and depth of an inter-disciplinary engagement with political geography. The papers represented here come from six disciplines – Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, Area Studies – and have been written by interesting authors drawn from across the northern hemisphere – these scholars being based in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Finland and Greece. Their topics and methodologies range from North American water governance to European Union (EU) diplomacy in Kenya, from the political science of intergovernmental relations to neo-Marxist situations of the state as a social relation, capturing how exciting and dynamic the field of territory, politics and governance has become. In doing so, they illustrate the importance of this journal in providing the collective platform for bringing together these bodies of critical thinking. It is a pleasure to position these papers, individually and collectively, in their broader intellectual environment of ‘new political geography’ (JONES et al., 2004, 2015a ,p . 2–4). There have, of course, been a number of different approaches to defining the shifting field of political geography. To some scholars, political geography has been about the study of political bounded territorial units, demarcated borders and administrative sub-divisions (ALEXANDER, 1963). For others, political geography is the study of political processes, differing from political science only in the emphasis given to geographical influences and outcomes and in the application of spatial analysis techniques (BURNETT and TAYLOR, 1981). A third approach holds that political geography should be defined in terms of its key concepts, which the proponents of this approach generally identify as territory and the state (COX, 2002, 2013). This approach shares with the earlier two approaches a desire to identify the ‘essence’ of political geography such that a definitive classification can be made of what is and what is not ‘political geography’. Yet, the doing of political geography, i.e. how it is actually researched, is much messier than these definitions suggest (witness the variety of papers published in Territory, Politics, Governance to date – compare, ELDEN, 2013 ;J ESSOP, 2016 ;P ECK, 2013 ;S ASSEN 2013; STORPER, 2014). As such, scholars, who have sought to define political geography in a much more open and inclusive manner, have taken a fourth and more relational approach. Agnew, for example, defines political geography as ‘the study of how politics

The subject of research in this paper is coffee houses as third places. They are approached and defined from the sociological and the genealogical perspective. When observed as a spatialized history of places, genealogy provides an adequate theoretical and methodological framework for this research. The main task of such genealogy is to research the spatialization of a certain type of sociability and social capital in civil society. We have indicated broader social and historical circumstances in the genesis and development of third places as well as their contribution in the processes of developing a new type of sociability and public reasoning. The rise of coffee houses through history is contextualized: within the framework of a new type of critical public as opposed to the representative public; within the process of division between the private and public domain; as a kind of undifferentiated space/discontinuity/heterotopia that, in the social geography of the civil society, stands vis - a - vis the existing social stratums and the future spatial and class division. In conclusion we claim that, although the third places were privileged social spaces, they were not the only or fundamental places important for the genesis of rational discourse. However, third places were of key importance in the processes of forming urban institutes, development of public spaces, public speech, civil liberties and legitimacy of rationality in the societies of Western Europe.

Conflicts and contention increasingly challenge the capacity to govern the city. Social conflicts are not only problematic but also reveal a sense of active citizenship and engagement. Agonistic theories argue that governments should embrace contention to improve democracy, but this notion has rarely been made tangible in a framework of analysis. This paper proposes the ‘social-spatial narrative’ (SSN) framework to analyze if, when, where, and how conflicts can create opportunities to strengthen urban democracy. The SSN framework analyzes the social geography and political significance of street-level encounters in processes of urban conflict. It unravels exactly how the micropolitics of citizenship interacts with policy practices at the street-level. Narratives reveal the perspectives of stakeholders, but in order to study how some actors establish power and others get excluded, I argue for a social-spatial approach to critical moments. Critical moments may create liminal moments to (re)negotiate meaning, relationships and repertoires of action. The potential of conflict lies in the dramaturgy of these critical moments, which are therefore pivotal vantage points for critical reflection on the repertoire of urban politics. The paper coalesces theories from conflict studies, geography, and public policy to examine conflict empirically through case studies. I illustrate the framework with a case study in Amsterdam that addresses when and where opportunities to engage plural voices in decision making have emerged, and how local officials have missed these opportunities.

The contribution of the well-known Ukrainian economist-geographer, cartographer, organizer and long-time leader of the Department of Economic Geography of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv O. Vashchenko on the theory, methodology and method of social geography, the main directions of the development of scientific ideas by the students and followers of the professor are determined. Prof. O. Vashchenko was one of the first in Ukrainian science to consider the subject and structure of economic geography. O. Vashchenko is the first Ukrainian author who carried out the classification of economic-geographical science with the allocation of four classes of scientific disciplines: comprehensive synthetic, branch analytical, scientific and methodological, general education disciplines. The dominant features of the geographic worldview as a theory of cognition and social practice of geospatial development for prof. O. Vashchenko were specificity, geospatial differentiation and delimitation, systemicity and complexity, the use of the cartographic method of research. Interpretation of prof. O. Vashchenko subject of economic geography as the placement of productive forces predetermined the use of his cartographic method of research, and the system methodology – the appropriateness of atlas mapping. Prof. O. Vashchenko is a worthy follower of the Galician cartographic tradition (S. Rudnyts'kyi, V. Kubiyovych), the founder of the Ukrainian Atlas Mapping in the postwar period (doctoral thesis "Atlas of the development of the economy of the western part of the Ukrainian SSR (from ancient times to the 70's of the twentieth century"), 1971). For the scientific worldview prof. O. Vaschenko is characterized by an organic combination of geography and historicism. Dominant signs of historicism of scientific views prof. O. Vaschenko: scientific and pedagogical activity in the field of geography history, geographic biography, periodization of the economy of the Western region of Ukraine (from ancient times to the 70's of the twentieth century), periodization of the formation and development of economic geography in Ukraine (1917–1977), the periodization of the research work of the Department of Economic Geography of Lviv University (1945–1965), as well as the transition from the analysis of time dynamics to the analysis of the functioning of economic objects and their combinations. A general conclusion is drawn about the logical triad of scientific worldview prof. O. Vashchenko, formed by geography, historicism, economism, which are connected with cybernetic connections. Supplemented by ecological and humanitarian approaches, it determines the current progress of geographic science.

This commentary will coalesce around two main points. First, the articles by Markus Hesse on urban geography, by Annika Mattissek and Georg Glasze on recent developments in discourse-analytic approaches, and by Ulrich Best on the genealogy of radical–Marxist or critical German-language geography all support the contention that key features of Germanophone human geography still mark it out as a ‘Cold War’ human geography. As will become clear, this contention goes well beyond noting the marginality (until recently) of radical–Marxist positions (Belina, B., Best, U., & Naumann, M. (2009). Critical geography in Germany: From exclusion to inclusion via internationalization. Social Geography, 4, 47–58). Second, I will argue that although this configuration has had real costs, including both analytic and ‘civic’ deficits, it has also allowed the development of distinctive strengths and innovative emphases in human geographic research that can and should be engaged by other sub-communities in the international d...

Promoting the development of social geography (one of the most important components of present-day social sciences) is especially important for contemporary Russia. In the last 25 years Russian social geography has seen dramatic disciplinary changes. On the one hand, it has widened its scope. On the other hand, it has suffered from a growing contradiction between the popularization of the social geographic knowledge, the need to have a clear understanding of the factors and results of a multi-scale territorial social and economic dynamics, and the limits of the field (with its organizational structure, possibilities and practitioners desperately falling behind the times). The aim of this article is to analyze the post-soviet period of the development of social geography to identify the strengths and weaknesses that the discipline has de- monstrated, the challenges it still has to overcome and the priorities it has yet to formulate. It is shown how the traditional dimensions of social geography (with their focus on humanities, culture, economics, geography or environment, respectively) not only keep their value but acquire new meanings. The author concludes about the importance and the strategies of further integration within the community of social geography researchers, and points out the directions of future research: fundamental issues of Russian spatial planning, Russian positioning in both global and local (Eura- sian) contexts.

This essay reviews Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus's New Age Spiritualities: Rethinking Religion. It shows that their attempt to redefine religion through new age spiritualities is actually an attempt to impose an economically elite social geography onto religious studies as a social fact. My central argument is that this effort in turn reveals that religious studies serves as a sociological factory for liberal economic ideologies. It suggests that to mitigate this ideological work, a shift toward critical geography in religious studies is the way forward.

In the article the factors and especially the formation of foreign human geography of the twentieth century. Based on the number of primary sources analyzed areas that were most represented. Material study contains an analysis of the evolution of views of foreign researchers in the field of human geography that appear within anthropogeography, human geography, social geography, cultural geography and more.

The essence of contemporary geography--its disciplinary DNA--is bound up in its connections to the past: rich branches of a growing family tree of Ph.D.s, advisors, and institutional homes. Many trace how we arrived at the current state of our discipline. These histories describe shifting paradigms (James and Martin, 1993), subfields (Gaile and Wilmott 2003), or geography's "key thinkers" and their representation of, and influence on, the discipline as it changed over time (Johnston and Sidaway, 2004). Recounting of core geographical debates and profiles of prominent geographers can be quite useful. But at the same time, it is an elite exercise in which changes in geography are examined from the standpoint of its most outstanding participants. Characterizing the trends in geography from the bottom up--witnessing the interests of the emergent junior cadre of geographers--is an equally if not more valuable endeavor. In this paper we expand current understandings of the institutional and disciplinary nature of geography, and its change over time by examining the over 10,000 dissertations produced during the 120+ years that geography has been a doctoral-level discipline in the United States. A digital humanities approach to the history of the discipline allows us to examine this large database of Ph.D. production. We argue that dissertations offer a broad view of the field, which allow us to track the overall output of geographical scholarship by university, take into account the different eras of geography based on dissertation topics, chart the rise and fall of important key terms, and examine the changing locational interests of geographic scholarship. In their aggregation, doctoral dissertations represent trends in geography as long as it has been a distinct academic field of study in the United States. THE DISSERTATION AS A BIBLIOMETRIC TOOL IN CHARTING GEOGRAPHY'S PROGRESS While grand narratives of geography are frequently qualitative and anecdotal, there are also numerous quantitative, but narrower, assessments of the field. Scholars have scanned the number of publications, grants, and other tangible products of the research faculty (Groop and Schaetzl 1997; Morill 1980; Koelsch 1981). Billie Lee Turner and William Meyer (1985) compared the level of citation indices at major departments of geography. There has also been a look at the degree to which graduate programs in geography are successful in student placements (Liu and Zhan 2012). Other disciplinary research includes investigations of courses offered, undergraduate enrollment, and degrees conferred (Murphy 2007). Beyond these in-discipline evaluations, the National Academy of Science regularly assesses doctoral programs based on a variety of metrics and multivariate regression methodologies (Ostriker and others 2010). These provide the metrics used by deans and provosts to justify hiring decisions or rationalize the downsizing of geography programs. Another angle is observing how geographers fit into a larger body of knowledge. Andrew Bodman's (1986, 1991) studies employed citations to determine the disproportionate influence of a relatively small percentage of academic geographers and also demonstrated that while human geography imports a great deal of material from other social science disciplines, it exports very little. Neil Wrigley and Stephen Matthews (1986) also examine citations, identifying "classic" books and articles in the field based. Jamie Foster and coauthors (2007) later revealed the influence of economic geographers through citations in nongeography journals. Other studies depict how the discipline of geography itself is taught. Textbooks and course syllabi are analyzed to delineate different "fashions" within physical geography (Jennings 2006), the current state of the discipline (Baylina and Pratts 2003), how regions of the world are addressed and perceived (Martis 2005; Bagoly-Simo 2013; Rees and Legates 2013), and the treatment of women's achievements in the field (Mayer 1989). …

In previous studies on the development of human geography, the most commonly accepted historical model is a chronological description of the issues discussed, accompanied by characteristics of the most notable scientific works. A similar situation may be applied to the summaries of achievements in geography of agriculture. An attempt of subjective reconstruction concerning theoretical and methodological foundations is a much less frequently implemented model for assessing the achievements and character of the discipline. The development of agricultural geography research program in Poland can be seen as a set of successive sub-programs, whose history of introduction can be interpreted as a repeated procedure of reforming the hard core and creating a protective belt around it. The genesis and maintenance of the explanatory power of the research program by gradual expansion of the subject matter, while retaining the methodological discipline is an interesting case in the evolution of a scientific movement, its growth, blooming and decline.

This review discusses the social geographies of food, focusing on how social geographic research has been taken up in and influenced by the wider discussions of food geographies in the discipline. It does so with particular attention to: the spatial politics of food deserts, food security, and food justice movements; the socialities of food identities; and the embodiments of food. This tripartite discussion of the social geographies of food is intended to highlight the complex theoretical and methodological approaches that geographers are employing when interrogating this particular object.

This article brings together six talented women historians in twentieth-century England whose scholarly productions helped shape modern historical practice but who are little known in the canonical accounts of history-writing in the period. The author is looking to map and describe historical communities from a grounded and qualitative perspective using a biographical approach pioneered by Olive Banks, showing the sequencing of connections located in time and space, social history and social geography. The crux of the argument is that these intellectual portraits tell us something about the ‘career’ chances for scholarly women that are significant to debates over politics, professions and identity, and women’s position in higher education today. The key objective is to provide a historically situated account of their contribution to developments within the field, attending not simply to their ideas but to their social status in relation to the university-based discipline of history.

This book promises “an overview of key approaches … and an introduction to some key case studies” in order “to encourage you to think critically and creatively about cultural geographies … ” (p. xi...

This chapter details the Church’s rise to political relevancy and the events surrounding the People Power Revolution of 1986. As an influential civil society institution, the Church has contributed to polarizing public discourses on the RH Law and helped to shape state legislation on family, marriage, and abortion. Collantes then discusses how the Philippines’ economic development and global restructuring since the 1970s have dramatically transformed the social geography of the Philippines. Export labor migration, in particular, continues to propel the dispersal of Filipinos across great distances. Collantes shows how the Church’s relevance in civil society and politics—in addition to the country’s globalizing economic landscape—continue to impact intimacies in Metro Manila as well as the country’s complicated reproductive politics.

Contents: Introduction Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology, William Bunge Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes, D. Sibley Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn', Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation, David Harvey The socio-spatial dialectic, Edward W. Soja The matter of nature, Margaret Fitzsimmons. Part III Humanistic Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Humanistic geography, Yi-Fu Tuan Practising humanistic geography, Susan J. Smith Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, Denis Cosgrove. Part IV Agency and Structure: Human agency and human geography, Derek Gregory Human agency and human geography revisited: a critique of 'new models' of the self, Steve Pile Space and causality, or whatever happened to the subject?, Benno Werlen. Part V Time, Space, Place and Space-Time: Social reproduction and the time-geography of everyday life, Allan Pred Geography and the realm of passages, Erik Wallin Politics and space/time, Doreen Massey. Part VI Scaling Human Geographies: Is there a place for the rational actor? A geographical critique of the rational choice paradigm, Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies, Neil Brenner Human geography without scale, Sallie A. Marston, John Paul Jones III and Keith Woodward. Part VII Feminist and Other 'Positioned' Geographies: The geography of women: an historical introduction, Alison M. Hayford Changing ourselves: a geography of position, Peter Jackson Postcolonialising geography: tactics and pitfalls, Jenny Robinson I lost an arm on my last trip back home: black geographies, Katherine McKittrick. Part VIII Poststructuralist Geographies: Geography and power: the work of Michel Foucault, Felix Driver Understanding diversity: the problem of/for 'theory', Linda McDowell My dinner with Derrida, or spatial analysis and poststructuralism do lunch, D.P. Dixon and J.P. Jones III Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection, Marcus A. Doel. Part IX Posthumanist Geographies: Inhuman/nonhuman/human: actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society, Jonathan Murdoch The body as 'place': reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria, Heidi J. Nast Making connections and thinking through emotions: between geography and psychotherapy, Liz Bondi From born to made: technology, biology and space, Nigel Thrift. Part X Limits to Human Geography: Hemming the way, Gunnar Olsson Coming out of geography: towards a queer epistemology, Jon Binnie Neo-critical geography, or, the flat pluralist world of business class, Neil Smith Name index.

The geography of education and educational systems deals with the causes and consequences of spatial variations in the provision and consumption of education; the impact of local milieus and of social and cultural environments on educational attainment; spatial variations in the sociodemographic structure of the teaching profession; the influence that political systems, educational policies, and demographic change have on location patterns of schools and universities; the spatial mobility of scholars, students, and ideas; and other issues where places, spatial relations, and social environments have an impact on educational processes. In a knowledge society, the educational system is an important sounding board of societal and economic structures and processes. Various indicators of educational attainment and achievement are used to uncover social and economic inequalities, and to display unequal power relations. Keywords: children and youth; discrimination of minorities; educational achievement; educational policy; inequality; knowledge; learning; schools; social geography; spatial disparities; teaching; universities

The aim of this paper is to identify the challenges in management of urban development on the example of Nowa Huta. The work was divided into three parts, each of which discusses a different aspect concerning the essence of the subject. The fi rst part refers to the history of Nowa Huta. Second part discusses problems in managing the development of the city. Last part refers to Nowa Huta and the challenges posed by the authorities in relation to its historical conditions, as well as the actions taken to date. To achieve the objective were used analysis of literature on the fi eld of history, sociology, management development, social geography, strategic documents and materials available on the Websites. Analysis of literature allowed the development of applications which basis do further research in this area.

Society is constituted by both historical and spatial elements; however, education research, policy, and practice often subordinates the spatial in preference for the temporal. In what is often referred to as the “spatial turn,” more recently education researchers have acknowledged spatial concepts to facilitate understandings and inform debates about identity, belonging, social justice, differentiation, policy, race, mobility, globalization, and even digital and new communication modes, amongst many others. Social geographers understand place as more than a dot on a map, instead focusing on the sociocultural and sociomaterial aspects of spaces. Space and place are core elements of social geography. Schools are comprised of architectural, material, performative, relational, social, or discursive spaces, all of which are socially constructed. Schools and education contexts, as social spaces and places, produce and reproduce modes of social interactions and social practices while also mediating the relational and pedagogical practices that operate within. Pedagogical spaces are also about the exercise of power—a spatial governmentality to regulate behavior. Yet pedagogy can focus on place-based and place-conscious practices that highlight the connectedness between people and their non-human world. A focus on the sociospatial in education research is able to foreground inequalities, differences, and power relations that are able to speak to policies and practices. As such, in this field there is often a focus is on spatial justice, where inequalities based on location, mobility, poverty, or indigeneity are analyzed using spatial understandings of socioeconomic or political characteristics. This brings together connections between place and space in a powerful combination around justice, equity, and critical thinking.

Over the past ten years or so, social scientists have started to pay an increasing amount of interest in the role that computer software is playing in contemporary urban environments. So far, approaches that treat information technologies as increasingly constitutive of the social world have been missing in Finnish Sociology. On the other hand, after an initial period of activity around sociological analysis of various information technologies in the UK, there has been something of a lull. This paper takes one example of influential information technology, geodemographic neighbourhood segmentation software, and analyses it in the context of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The analysis consists of three parts. First, based on existing literature, a brief history of Helsinki is provided. Secondly, commercial geodemographics of Helsinki are analysed in detail from the perspective of Finnish Urban Sociology. The analysis pays specific attention to the problems that arise when a classification scheme developed in the UK is translated in to the historical and cultural context of a Nordic welfare State. Finally, the paper looks at the theoretical debates around geodemographics, and considers directions for future research in the area. After all, the inundation of digital data in our culture has not only been seen as a new subject of inquiry for social science, but as an intensifying methodological challenge for the entire discipline.

Until now geographical research on creative labour has tended to characterise it either in terms of �€˜hot�€™ jobs in €˜buzzing€™ places or precarious, often poorly paid working conditions. This article argues for a subtler consideration of the complex combination of factors at play within the cultural ecology of art-making. The lure of creative labour has been explained by three key rationales: intrinsic motivators of personal satisfaction and social status; risk-taking; and the challenging, self-affirming nature of creative work. Place-making is advanced here as a fourth rationale for volunteering in creative labour. The co-production of Yorkshire Sculpture Park as an affective, practised and material (art) place is explored through the new concept of embodied and emotional philanthropy. Capturing the unbounded and processual qualities of place-making, this paper provides insights into how volunteers labour beside the artist and paid workers to help co-create an internationally renowned art and environmental attraction. Philanthropy is therefore opened from referring to rich, individualistic donors, to include those who gift time, passion and labour. The paper also argues that volunteering, as a form of gifting, is especially significant during times of economic instability.

During the last decades, geography has lost its epistemological exceptionality, but is this enough? Social sciences are commonly threatened by methodological nationalism and, more generally, by methodological communalism, that is the corruption of a scientific approach or project by any kind of other social alignment that undermines its capacity to develop a free, autonomous thought. Has geography escaped these pitfalls? In this text, the example of urban studies is taken to try and answer these questions. More specifically, the way the idea of spatial justice has emerged in the last decades is explored through the analysis of five significant books among the academic production on these topics. It is then argued, thanks to a critical review around the iconic notion of 'gentrification', that the corpus at stake is more substantial than the limited, partially arbitrary selection of these five books. The present-day situation of urban geography (and probably of urban sociology, too) shows a serious risk of methodological communalism particularly located in Anglophone, and especially North American, literature. Some hypotheses are proposed to explain this particular geography of the academic episteme of inhabited space. It is argued that the potential single-paradigm hegemony in geography and, more generally, in social sciences might fuel this danger. Finally, a possible antidote to this worrying trend could be the simple, but complex idea of putting science, space and society together in a non-dissociable way. The conclusion stresses the necessity of taking up key challenges that urbanity issues raise and the usefulness of epistemological and theoretical pluralism as a major intellectual resource.

This introductory essay situates this edited collection on “contemporary research strategies in cultural geography” in relation to relevant scholarly debates, e.g., around positionality in feminist geography, reflexivity in critical human geography, and world-making in cultural geography. We claim that, taken together, the essays in this collection represent an “embrace” of dissensus, which is to say they stage encounters between often-irreconcilable senses of the world. We suggest that this dissensus in the subdiscipline is a source of dynamism and vitality, which promises to generate new ways of doing cultural geography and therefore new ways of making and knowing the world.

This paper asks what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might look like. In taking seriously Susan Hanson's claim that transportation geography has become a “moribund corner” of the discipline, this paper suggests a set of new avenues for inquiry. To do so, the paper draws on fieldwork I conducted in California's East Bay, as well as the story a fictitious transit system called the “B-Line.” Despite being a fiction, I argue that the B-Line offers an excellent entry point into mapping what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might entail. Speaking to the larger theme of “doing cultural geography,” this essay argues that doing cultural geography not only means continuing to explore questions of representation, ideology, and cultural meaning, but it also means applying those questions to areas of study like transportation geography—areas where such questions remain largely unexplored.

The paper discusses street vendors' spatial appropriations and the governance of public space in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The much debated question in social geography how people's position in social space relates to their position in physical space (and vice versa) stands at the centre of the analysis. I use Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to discuss this dialectic relation at two analytical levels. On a micro-political level it is shown that the street vendors' social positions and the informal rules of the street structure their access to public space and thus determine their "spatial profits". At a macro-political level, it is not only the conditions inside the "field of street vending" that matter for the hawkers, but also their relation to the state-controlled "field of power". The paper demonstrates that Bourdieu's key ideas can be linked to current debates about spatial appropriation and informality. Moreover, I argue that Bourdieu's theory builds an appropriate basis for a relational, critical, and reflexive social geography in the Urban South.

Bird-watching is an increasingly popular leisure activity. Previous research has taken for granted the identity of people who watch birds, often categorised by their level of skilled practice as ‘dude’, ‘birder’ or ‘twitcher’. Feminist geographers encourage us to explore identity work as an outcome of the reciprocal relationships between practices and place. Our feminist approach illustrates that the practices of bird-watching are always much more than categorising birds as species. This paper illustrates how the practices of bird-watching are integral to the making and remaking of sense of place as ‘home’ and ‘away’, to sustain identities beyond accepted categories of ‘dude’, ‘birder’ and ‘twitcher’. The creation and application of different types of ‘bird-lists’ helps to explain the ways in which practices of bird-watching facilitate making sense of place as simultaneously ‘home’, ‘away’ and habitat, as well as the identity work of home-maker, citizen-scientist and tourist. Our insights into the...

Топузов О. М., Федій О. А. Поняття «тривалість життя населення» як демографічний компонент шкільної географічної освіти. Демографічна характеристика населення – важлива складова шкільної географічної освіти. Поняття «тривалість життя» є необхідним елементом багатьох демографічних процесів, які відбуваються у державі та світі загалом. У статті обґрунтовано поняття «тривалість життя» як одну з найважливіших категорій під час вивчення учнями економічної і соціальної географії у 9-му і 10-му класах.

The first full English translation of Friedrich Theodor Rink's edition of Kant's Physical Geography was finally published in 2012, and several significant transcriptions of Kant's classroom lectures on physical geography are still forthcoming in volume 26 of the German Academy edition of his Collected Writings. Why has Kant's work on geography suffered from so much neglect? Contrary to received scholarly wisdom, I argue that the main cause of the neglect is not Rink's editorial sloppiness. Rather, Kant's Geography is simply not viewed as being as important as his ethics, logic, metaphysics, theology, and anthropology. In my paper I argue that Kant's Geography deserves our respect, and I present four key reasons for taking it seriously.

Preferred place of care and death is a widely used quality measure for palliative and end of life care services. In this article we explore the use of Zygmunt Bauman’s ideas on solid and liquid modernity to understand the complexity of the social geographical contexts of delivering and receiving care. Although solid ways of dying offer certainty and standardized care, more liquid ways allow for individualized care connected to family and communities. Understanding the complex tensions between solid and liquid aspects of palliative care may allow practitioners to help dying people to die in the ways and places they prefer.

Geographers have increasingly employed the notion of experiment to describe the explorative styles of researching and thinking that they have elaborated in response to the complexities that characterise the present world. This article discusses the shifting uses of the notion in recent contributions, tracing out the ethical, methodological and theoretical sensibilities that it brings into geography. The article falls into two parts, the first reviewing geographies of experiment—that is, accounts exploring diverse empirical sites of experimentation, from scientific laboratories to performance art and urban spaces. The second part concentrates on experimental geographies which involve attempts by human geographers and other social and cultural researchers to reconsider their practices as experimental. Although the notion of experiment might take on varied functions and meanings, the article indicates that it offers plenty of inspiration for geographical learning and more collaborative and responsive modes of researching and thinking.

This paper traces the origins and recent history of the geography of the book: an interdisciplinary focus of study for geographers, book historians and historians of science. In describing this field's twin concern with geography in books and with the geography of books, the paper examines the ways in which printed texts matter to the study of geography's discursive and disciplinary histories and the contributions that geography, in turn, can make to explaining the circulation and reception of knowledge in print. Through an attention to the making and movement of texts, the paper examines how questions of geography inform understandings of the uneven diffusion and varied reception of knowledge and ideas. In addressing geography's print culture, and in examining geographies of reading, the paper reflects on the significance of books to the making of geographical knowledge and to the significance of geography in accounting for the making of textual meaning.

Among current theories on regional development the creative capital has received major attention. Several assessments of the theory have shown that tolerance and creativity cannot be ignored. Howev ...

Resettlement of dispersed populations into centralized villages has been a watershed cultural change across many world regions, often occurring under pressure from states, world religions, and markets. Recent village formation processes among Korowai of Papua, Indonesia, have been caused by such pressures but have also been heavily structured by Korowai understandings of geography. This article takes Korowai villages as a case study in the semiotics of space. The power of villages to be the pivot of historical transformation flows from this spatial form's “poetic density,” meaning its ladenness with a multiplicity of social principles, structures of feeling, and models of extralocal geopolitical articulation. Additionally, Korowai strongly orient to space as a field of heterogeneity. Their expectation that different spaces are charged with otherness of order has shaped their village-forming actions and their intense focus on villages in thinking about contemporary history at large.

This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads—biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies—to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-placed to continue pushing the boundaries of biopolitical research, with particular reference to an area that has received little attention thus far: biopolitics and the non-human.