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Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia 喂养国家的动物和喂养动物的国家：加泰罗尼亚作为国家建设资源的工业化养殖猪

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104291

Guillem Rubio-Ramon

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Food sovereignty across borders: Fishing among Myanmar refugees in Upstate New York 跨越国界的粮食主权：缅甸难民在纽约州北部捕鱼

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104293

Nicole T. Venker , Kum Jaa Lee , T. Bruce Lauber , Kathryn J. Fiorella

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Resigned reductionism: Reconceptualising digital imaginaries of automated natural capital 辞职还原论：重新定义自动化自然资本的数字想象

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104292

Hope Steadman

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Eating like a local: Digital foodscapes, touristification, and gentrification in Paris’s Peer-to-Peer economy 像当地人一样吃饭：巴黎点对点经济中的数字美食、旅游和士绅化

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104287

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

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Othered food spaces in the Anglophone Caribbean 加勒比英语国家的其他食品空间

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104289

Samantha Nelson, Shuji Hisano

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Urban social sustainability and arboreal lived heritage in a West African capital city 西非首都的城市社会可持续性和树栖生活遗产

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104288

Liora Bigon , Joseph Adeniran Adedeji

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Reproducing extractivism: A political ecology analysis of strategic environmental assessment and hydrocarbon extraction in the Arctic 再现开采主义：北极战略环境评估和碳氢化合物开采的政治生态学分析

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104275

Warren Bernauer , James Wilt , Glen Hostetler , Jonathan Peyton

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Gold and geo-uncertainty in the making: The introduction of cyanide in Tanzania’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector 黄金和地理不确定性的形成：氰化物在坦桑尼亚手工和小规模采矿部门的引入

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104276

Anna Frohn Pedersen

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Platform animal: (de)commodification of anthropomorphic giant panda through the digital platform 平台动物：拟人化大熊猫通过数字平台商品化

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104272

Xiaoting Yang, Yi Yu

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Production of space and time in ‘New’ Turkey: Re-conquest and resistance in the making of Istanbul Airport “新”土耳其的空间和时间生产：伊斯坦布尔机场制作中的重新征服和抵抗

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104277

Ayşe Serdar

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