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Digitalising rural lifestyles: Online platforms and everyday life in Chinese villages 数字化农村生活方式：网络平台与中国农村的日常生活

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104206

Xinhui Wu , Chen Liu

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Spaces of cinema in rural Cyprus: Cinemagoing and the Turkish Cypriot audience in the Karpas region, 1960–1974 乡村塞浦路斯的电影空间：1960-1974年卡尔帕斯地区的电影观众和土族塞人观众

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104176

Barçın Boğaç , Jonathan Stubbs

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Conflicts over periurban green infrastructure: Unresolved social problems with nature-based urban solutions 城市周边绿色基础设施的冲突：基于自然的城市解决方案解决的社会问题

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104212

Jeroen Warner , Richard Meissner

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Domestic campus expansion in France as a practice of regional dissociation: Advancing reflections on the socio-spatial fragmentation of higher education ‘at home’ 作为区域分离实践的法国国内校园扩张：对“国内”高等教育社会空间碎片化的超前思考

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104189

Alice Bobée

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What does it mean to nurture ‘good intentions between city and country’? Performances of rural–urban relations in community-supported agriculture 培养“城乡之间的善意”是什么意思？社区支持农业中的城乡关系表现

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104211

Julia Spanier

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From real estate financialization to decentralization: A comparative review of REITs and blockchain-based tokenization 从房地产金融化到去中心化：房地产投资信托基金和基于区块链的代币化的比较回顾

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104193

Ang Liu , Cheng Chen

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Privilege forged in space: Student experiences in transitioning to Zurich’s highly selective public secondary schools 在空间中锻造的特权：学生过渡到苏黎世高选择性公立中学的经历

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104219

Lara Landolt , Carlotta Reh

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Navigating change, maintaining breadth: The future of Geoforum 驾驭变化，保持广度：地理论坛的未来

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104181

Julie MacLeavy, Sarah Hall

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‘Doubly exploited’: Migration, activism and the generative geographies of labour agency “双重剥削”：移民、行动主义和劳工中介的生成地理

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104190

Sarah Peck

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Revolutionary countryside: A feminist counter-topography of war in Myanmar 革命农村：缅甸战争的女性主义反地形

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104164

Hilary Oliva Faxon , Jenny Hedström , Nicole T. Venker , Zin Mar Phyo , Mi Mi

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