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Seismic media: art and geological co-creation in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand 地震媒介:艺术和地质共同创造Ōtautahi基督城，新西兰奥特罗阿

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Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221134121

Zita Joyce, Susan Ballard

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Enacting sustainability through glass: a study of ontological politics in the proclaimed role model neighbourhood of Vallastaden 通过玻璃实现可持续性：对瓦拉斯塔登已宣布的榜样社区的本体论政治研究

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221133820

Maria Eidenskog, W. Glad, Madelene Gramfält

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Vegetal HydroPoetics: an arts-based practice for plant studies 植物水诗学:植物研究的艺术实践

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Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221135013

Franklin Ginn, Katy Connor

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Shelter or status? Housing and the shifting markers of family status in Tibetan communities in China 庇护所还是地位？中国藏族社区住房与家庭地位的变迁

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Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221134120

Duojie Zhaxi

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Book review: Ronan Hervouet, A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus 书评:罗南·赫沃特，《压迫的味道:白俄罗斯日常生活的政治民族志》

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221134123

Sergei Basik

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Opening spatial hinges with mindful writing practice: negotiating Philip Pullman’s secret commonwealth 用谨慎的写作实践打开空间铰链：谈判菲利普·普尔曼的秘密联邦

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221126988

J. Lovell

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‘It was quiet’: the radical architectures of understatement in feminist science fiction “它很安静”：女权主义科幻小说中低调的激进架构

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Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221126986

Amy Butt

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A geography beyond the Anthropocene: Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home as topophilia for survival 人类世之外的地理学：Ursula Le Guin的《为了生存而永远回家》

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Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221126984

B. Garlick, Liesl King

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All Lines Flow In: excavating the geophilosophical relations of Singapore’s infrastructure through SEA STATE All Lines Flow In:通过SEA STATE挖掘新加坡基础设施的地理哲学关系

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Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221123572

William Jamieson

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(In)visible powers: witnessing the ‘tourist-waters’ of Nämforsen 可见的力量:见证Nämforsen的“旅游水域”

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/14744740221126991

Linda Maria Thompson

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