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Counterplans in the jobs vs environment tension: Understanding participatory politics in the Hauts-de-France (France) and IJmond (Netherlands) regions 就业与环境紧张的对策：了解上法兰西（法国）和伊蒙德（荷兰）地区的参与性政治

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104352

Anaëlle Bueno Patin, Martijn Groenleer, E.W. Michiel Stapper

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The Political Geographies of Community in Warscapes 战争景观中的社区政治地理

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104349

Francesco Buscemi

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Follow the liquidity: Monetary policy, spatial inequality and the Bank of Canada's emergency COVID-19 corporate debt programs 关注流动性：货币政策、空间不平等和加拿大央行的COVID-19紧急企业债务计划

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104346

Dan Cohen , Martine August , Emily Rosenman , Yun Liu

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Central bank-led capitalism, remittances, and rentier consolidations in the Philippines 中央银行主导的资本主义、汇款和菲律宾的食利者整合

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104347

Kenneth Cardenas

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Banging them out: An affective politics of prison sound 把他们轰出去：一种监狱的情感政治声音

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104351

Stefano Bloch, Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo

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“Justice by Geography:” Legal Violence and Asylum in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals 《地理正义：第五巡回上诉法院的法律暴力与庇护》

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104339

Alisa Hartsell, Sarah A. Blue

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The dead as property marker: A legal geography of the cemetery 作为财产标记的死者：墓地的法律地理

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104345

Jae Page

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Socioecological marginality as a fix: leveraging inequality to valorise and legitimise capital in Southern Italy industrial-scale wind energy 社会生态边缘作为一种解决方案：利用不平等来使意大利南部工业规模的风能资本增值和合法化

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104344

Samadhi Lipari

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On the frontier of party-state capitalism: mapping the geopolitical economies of China’s Greater Bay Area 在党国资本主义的前沿：绘制中国大湾区的地缘政治经济

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104302

Jamie Peck , Matthew Sparke , Dimitar Anguelov , Jun Zhang

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Women’s agency in environmental interventions: Navigating “resilient livelihoods” in Kenya 环境干预中的妇女机构：在肯尼亚引领“弹性生计”

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104343

Charlotte Maybom , Mikkel Kjartan Funder

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