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© Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Edited By: Kevin Ward (Editor) and Paul Wood (Co-Editor, Physical and Environmental Geography)
Impact Factor: 1.368
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2011: 24/73 (Geography)
Online ISSN: 1475-4762
Associated Title(s): The Geographical Journal, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Recently Published Issues
Current Issue:June 2013
Volume 45, Issue 2
Volume 45, Issue 1
Volume 44, Issue 4
Volume 44, Issue 3
Volume 44, Issue 2
EarlyView - Latest Articles Online
Red stamps and green tea: fieldwork negotiations and dilemmas in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
Sarah Turner
Waste, commodity fetishism and the ongoingness of economic life
Andrew Herod, Graham Pickren, Al Rainnie and Susan McGrath-Champ
Commentary
Static imaginations and the possibilities of radical change: reflecting on the Arab Spring
Federico Caprotti and Eleanor Xin Gao
2.2 good to be true? Reply to Keith Richards
John E Thornes
Comment on ‘External examiners and the continuing inflation of UK undergraduate geography degree results’
Keith Richards
Impacted geographers: a response to Pain, Kesby and Askins
Tom Slater
The politics of social justice in neoliberal times: a reply to Slater
Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby and Kye Askins
Some reflections on the ‘problematic’ dominance of ‘Web of Science’ journals in academic human geography
Ben Derudder
Is there a world beyond academic geography? A reply to Ben Derudder
Bruno Meeus, Nick Schuermans and Filip De Maesschalck
Current Issue Spotlight
Exploring Innovative Themes and Supporting New Researchers
Force-full: power, politics and object-oriented philosophy
Ian G R Shaw and Katharine Meehan
Community resilience, social memory and the post-2010 Christchurch (New Zealand) earthquakes
Geoff A Wilson
News and Highlights
Area Prize
2012 Area Prize Winning Article Free Online
Martin C A Muir, University of Dundee, is the winner for Climate change and standing freshwaters: informing adaptation strategies for conservation at multiple scales (co-authored with Christopher J Spray and John S Rowan)
Area 44 411–22
First Classics Revisited
Critical papers published in Area...
Peck and Tickell’s (1994) Jungle law breaks out: neoliberalism and global-local disorder Area 26 317–26
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Virtual Issues
Enjoy the following virtual issues, compiled by the journal's editors:
New Geographical Frontiers
May 2013
Security of Geography/Geography of Security
January 2012
Inequality, poverty and social exclusion
April 2011
Methods
March 2008
Special Sections
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Reviews
Forum on Reflections on the Conservative agenda for international development (December 2011)
Forum on MINDSPACE: State knowledges and the new philosopher kings (September 2011)
Forum on Resistance, space and political identities: the making of counter-global networks by David Featherstone (June 2011)

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