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“We’re going to tear up the Caldera so we can have an electric car”: Wrestling with prospective lithium mining in the Oregon desert “我们要摧毁火山口，这样我们就可以拥有一辆电动汽车”：与俄勒冈州沙漠中潜在的锂矿搏斗

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104536

Elizabeth Bartholomew , Alida Cantor , Kate Berry , Noel Vineyard

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The making and unmaking of place: the extroversion of the Mapleridge neighborhood in post-bankruptcy Detroit 地方的形成与毁灭：破产后底特律梅普莱里奇社区的外向性

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104532

Martin J. Murray, María Arquero de Alarcón, Olaia Chivite Amigo

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‘Precarious’ worlds of work: Geographies of (over)work and (un)certainty amongst permanent employees in the creative economy “不稳定”的工作世界：创意经济中永久雇员（过度）工作和（不）确定性的地理分布

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104472

Karenjit Clare

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What happened to agroecology? Tracing Actors’ (Power) relations and the seeming dissipation of transition dynamics in Argentina’s Río Negro Valley 农业生态学怎么了？追踪行动者（权力）关系与阿根廷Río黑谷转型动态的看似消散

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104475

Anna-Maria Brunner , Felix M. Dorn , Robert Hafner , Delfina Arancio Sidoti

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Influencer-led rural commodification: Reshaping the nested markets through digital platforms in China 影响者主导的农村商品化：通过数字平台重塑中国的嵌套市场

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104502

Renhao Yang , Ziyue Zhou , Yingnan Zhang

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Governing creative mobility through artist residencies: the case of Doha 通过艺术家驻地管理创意流动：以多哈为例

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104501

Jeremie Molho

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Modes of Hospitality: The diversity of Airbnb hosting 待客模式：Airbnb托管服务的多样性

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104509

Mathilde Dissing Christensen

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Exploring precarity in semi-enclave rural geographies: the case of Louroujina, Cyprus 探索半飞地农村地区的不稳定性：以塞浦路斯卢鲁吉纳为例

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104498

Eliz Erdenizci

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Coexistence 2.0? How interactions between humans and wildlife are mediated in Web 2.0 space 2.0共存?在Web 2.0空间中，人类与野生动物之间的互动是如何中介的

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104526

Svetoslava Toncheva , Robert Fletcher

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Community-supported agriculture in Czechia: Value-based embeddedness and contradictions in the current food regime 捷克社区支持农业：当前粮食制度中基于价值的嵌入性和矛盾

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104521

Veronika Nováčková , Michaela Pixová , Christina Plank

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