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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104412

Ashawari Chaudhuri , Natalia Gutkowski

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The beast from the east:Preparing for cross-border wild boars in Norway 来自东方的野兽：为挪威的跨境野猪做准备

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104421

Erica von Essen , Henriette Wathne Gelink , Helene Figari , Olve Krange

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A multi-scalar nested framework for the influencer economy in China: Implications for regional and urban development 中国网红经济的多尺度嵌套框架：对区域和城市发展的启示

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104420

Junfeng Yin, Bo Niu

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Urban Political Ecology from the margins: Peripheral youth and everyday agency for environmental justice in the Global South 来自边缘的城市政治生态：全球南方边缘青年和环境正义的日常机构

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104419

Letícia Stevanato Rodrigues , Susanne Börner , Sylmara Lopes Francelino Gonçalves Dias , Pedro Henrique Campello Torres

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Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility 自行车和汽车之间或超越？在向可持续城市交通过渡的过程中导航电子货运自行车公民

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104416

Clara Glachant , Noel Cass , Nicholas Marks , Labib Azzouz

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The agency of ice in Arctic geopolitics: An autoethnography of the Northwest Passage 冰在北极地缘政治中的作用：西北航道的自我民族志

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104417

Sohvi Kangasluoma

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Following money, mapping ‘development’: The opaque geographies of UK aid flows across the outsourcing assemblage 追踪资金，绘制“发展”地图：英国援助的不透明地理分布贯穿整个外包组合

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104415

Paul Robert Gilbert , Olivia Taylor

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Between flood vulnerability and watery pedagogies: A critical review of children and young people’s voices and experiences 在洪水脆弱性和水教育之间：对儿童和年轻人的声音和经历的批判性回顾

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104413

Blanche Verlie , David Rousell , Lisa de Kleyn , Michael Hartup , Lauren Rickards , Jeanti St Clair , Chantelle Bayes , Helen Widdop Quinton , Simone Blom , Katie Hotko , Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles , Liberty de Rivera , Alexandra Lasczik , Yaw Ofosu-Asare

{"title":"Between flood vulnerability and watery pedagogies: A critical review of children and young people’s voices and experiences","authors":"Blanche Verlie , David Rousell , Lisa de Kleyn , Michael Hartup , Lauren Rickards , Jeanti St Clair , Chantelle Bayes , Helen Widdop Quinton , Simone Blom , Katie Hotko , Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles , Liberty de Rivera , Alexandra Lasczik , Yaw Ofosu-Asare","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104413","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This critical review explores how child and youth voices have been largely overlooked or “submerged” within existing scholarly literature on floods and education. It considers whether children’s experiences might be recuperated or recovered by including intersectional, decolonial, place-based and child-centred approaches to understanding the confluence of education and climate-induced disasters. We engage a political ecology framework to review literature from a diverse range of fields, primarily disaster studies focusing on floods and education, and childhood/youth studies and education/pedagogy research focusing on children’s relationships with water. We find that modernist epistemologies operating in disaster studies provide important insights about risk, vulnerability, and disaster prevention but largely overlook children’s voices and experiences. Alternatively, in the childhood, youth, and pedagogical literatures, we find richly detailed studies of children and young people’s relations with water, but minimal engagement with the severe consequences of climate-intensified floods. In response to these findings, we propose a research agenda calling for scholarship that can adequately theorise children’s educational lives as unfolding amidst complex social, economic, cultural and political relations with floods and other catastrophic waters across local and global scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 104413"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strategic coupling in global financial networks: divergent trajectories of domestic and foreign venture capital investments in the Yangtze River Delta, China 全球金融网络中的战略耦合：长三角地区国内外风险资本投资的不同轨迹

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104406

Yulan Guo , Chun Yang , Fenghua Pan

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‘It has a life’: Youth revaluing food ‘waste’ at an Australian university “它有生命”：澳大利亚一所大学的年轻人重新评估食物“浪费”

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104409

Febe De Geest , Jane Dyson , Sara Guest , Craig Jeffrey , Gyorgy Scrinis

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