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Eating like a local: Digital foodscapes, touristification, and gentrification in Paris’s Peer-to-Peer economy

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104287

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

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Othered food spaces in the Anglophone Caribbean

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104289

Samantha Nelson, Shuji Hisano

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Urban social sustainability and arboreal lived heritage in a West African capital city

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104288

Liora Bigon , Joseph Adeniran Adedeji

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Reproducing extractivism: A political ecology analysis of strategic environmental assessment and hydrocarbon extraction in the Arctic

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104275

Warren Bernauer , James Wilt , Glen Hostetler , Jonathan Peyton

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Gold and geo-uncertainty in the making: The introduction of cyanide in Tanzania’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104276

Anna Frohn Pedersen

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Platform animal: (de)commodification of anthropomorphic giant panda through the digital platform

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104272

Xiaoting Yang, Yi Yu

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Production of space and time in ‘New’ Turkey: Re-conquest and resistance in the making of Istanbul Airport

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104277

Ayşe Serdar

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Hate beyond the incident: Exploring the presence/absence dynamics of ‘hate relationships’ through geotrauma and haunting

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104274

John Clayton , Catherine Donovan , Stephen J. Macdonald

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Afterword: Greeting the border externalization wave in four movements

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104273

Olivier Thomas Kramsch

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Hedging energy transition: Green hydrogen, oil, and low-carbon resilience as state strategy in Namibia

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104267

Meredith J. DeBoom

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