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Tracing the settler colonial legacies of insurance: From empire to wildfires in British Columbia, Canada 追踪移民殖民时期的保险遗产：从帝国到加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的野火

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104544

Onyx Sloan Morgan

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Beyond binaries: negotiating resource futures in the Himalayas 超越二元对立：喜马拉雅山资源未来的谈判

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104556

Udisha Saklani

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The consumption-production nexus in home-located work: a class-based approach to understand the residential differentiation of artists and designers in Melbourne, Australia 在家工作中的消费-生产关系：以阶级为基础的方法来理解澳大利亚墨尔本艺术家和设计师的居住差异

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104569

Daniel de O. Vasconcelos, Julie T. Miao

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Maps in the service of sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transition 地图服务于能源转型的社会技术想象

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104543

Johanna Hohenthal, Jenny Rinkinen

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“You should be able to eat that meal and feel like someone cares”: Community food carers, good food, and the emergence of food-aid mutualism during Covid-19 “你应该能够吃到那顿饭，并感到有人关心你”：社区食品护理人员、美食以及2019冠状病毒病期间出现的食品援助互助

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104553

Adele Wylie

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Local autonomy in motion: The case of municipally-initiated weekend public transportation 运动中的地方自治：市政发起的周末公共交通的案例

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104567

Harel Nachmany, Tal Alster, Nufar Avni

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Expropriation and Refusal: Black Tenants, Racial Capitalism, and the Struggle for Home at Chalkfarm Drive 征用与拒绝：黑人佃户，种族资本主义，以及在粉笔农场路为家园而斗争

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104557

Nemoy K. Lewis, Dimitri Panou

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The Section 8 (F)influencer economy 第8 (F)条影响者经济

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104566

Will B. Payne

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Home-making at the margins: tensions of marginality, relationality, temporality and care 边缘的家庭建设：边缘性、关系性、时间性和关怀的紧张关系

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104564

Andrew Power , Sophie Bowlby

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Militarized margins: Counternarcotics policy and the struggle for territorial governance in Central America 军事化边缘：中美洲禁毒政策和领土治理斗争

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104535

Laura R. Blume , Laura Aileen Sauls , Fernando Galeana

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