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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104315

Laurian Rosa-Rosa , Bárbara López-González , Kevon Rhiney

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Engendering cumulative disadvantage: Explaining the experiences and outcomes of skilled migrant women 产生累积劣势：解释技术移民妇女的经历和结果

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104310

Caitlin Flanagan , Audrey Lumley-Sapanski

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Evolving foodscapes: Tracing trajectories of urban and peri-urban food sharing initiatives for just food transitions 不断演变的食物景观：追踪城市和城郊食物共享倡议的轨迹，以实现食物转型

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104318

Anna R. Davies , Hyunji Cho , Marco Vedoa , Robert Martinez Varderi , Ana Maria Gatejel

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From headlines to hashtags: How media platforms shape smart city acceptance 从标题到标签：媒体平台如何塑造智慧城市的接受度

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104320

Reza Shaker

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Capital contradictions in the age of incorporation: Queer and trans materialism at work 合并时代的资本矛盾：工作中的酷儿和跨唯物主义

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104309

Natalie Oswin , Suzanne Mills

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Geopoetics of distance: The anticolonial geographies of Lusophone diasporic Negritude 距离地理学：葡语流散黑人的反殖民地理学

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104317

Federico Ferretti

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Transcorporeality and thick time in an era of climate uncertainty: relocation on the Island of Cardoso 气候不确定时代的超实体和厚时间：卡多索岛的重新安置

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104316

Giovanna Gini

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Liberal water law against itself: Acequias and legal contestation in New Mexico's South Valley 自由水法与自身对立：新墨西哥州南谷的水坑和法律争议

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104299

Samuel B. Feldblum

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Surfacing the urban underground: Knowledge production, modes of envisioning, and politics of visibility 地表城市地下：知识生产、设想模式和可见性政治

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104301

Alexander Craig-Thompson, Magdalena Kuchler

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Cultural extractivism and its undoing: Towards socioecological transformations through cultural production 文化榨取主义及其毁灭：通过文化生产走向社会生态转型

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104295

Paula Serafini

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