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Political ecologies of livestock predation: Agrarian change, farming subjectivities and human-wildlife conflict in the European Uplands

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104271

Agnese Marino , Tom Fry

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“Progressive Farmers” and the Moral Economy of Standardization in Indian Agri-commodity Markets

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104265

Amrita Kurian

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Structures of feeling in the affective economies of renting in the Majority World: An interpretative synthesis of qualitative research

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104268

Adriana Mihaela Soaita

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Fractured hegemony and Vietnamese pragmatism in the Red River basin

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104269

Stew Motta , Johanna Koehler

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Socialización and labor unions in waterway port development in the Bolivian Amazon 玻利维亚亚马逊河水运港口开发中的社会化和工会问题

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104270

Fernando Schrupp Rivero, Jannes Willems, Maria Kaika

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A Place to Transit: The seasonal migrant workers of Huelva’s strawberry industry

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104266

Merissa Gavin, Joost Jongerden

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Remaking land–water boundaries in the Rhone plain in Switzerland: A reinterpretation of past and present river training using a ‘postcolonial mirror’

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104246

Alexis Metzger , René Véron , Emmanuel Reynard

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Urbanization’s mediator: Reassembling rural tibetan lives through pig breed changes

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104262

Dan Wu , Yang Zhan

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“They’re probably quite used to this idea of us and them”: The racialising assemblage and development discourses in school geography in England

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104240

Christine Winter , Shaakirah Kasuji , Daniel Whittall

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Can wild geese remake a zoo? The promise of more-than-human heterotopia for a politics of living with urban wildlife

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104261

Yulia Kisora , Clemens Driessen

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