{"title":"Investigating Cancer Inequalities in Urbanizing Texas with Plausible Reasoning.","authors":"Connor Donegan","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2425807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2425807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article contributes to geographical methodology by presenting an epistemology of plausible reasoning (PR) as a complement to realist and reflexive frameworks for science. I introduce PR's theory of evidence, after Harold Jeffreys and George Pólya, and then extrapolate principles for nonexperimental study designs. This article leverages these principles to structure an investigation into the causes of a racial disparity in the colorectal cancer (CRC) burden in the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan areas. Centered on a series of empirical questions pertaining to racial ghettoization, contemporary urbanization, and cancer inequalities, the study uncovers important geographic and social changes in the CRC burden in the study areas between 1999 and 2019. These include the emergence of a substantial class-related inequality in CRC incidence, the rise of aggregate racial disparities in CRC incidence outside of historically ghettoized areas, and an overall intensification of spatial CRC inequality. Drawing on fundamental cause theory and critical urban studies, I propose that these changes are a product of the uneven spread of new preventive technologies (screening colonoscopy) amid extensive and polarizing urbanization processes that are reshaping these regions. The study highlights the value of incorporating concern for dynamic macrostructures and political economy into analyses of spatial health data, and illustrates how PR can contribute to such work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"115 2","pages":"419-440"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11978404/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contesting the Anticipated Infrastructural City: A Grounded Analysis of Silk Road Urbanization in the Multipurpose Port Terminal in Chancay, Peru","authors":"Elia Apostolopoulou, Alejandra Pizarro","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2415718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2415718","url":null,"abstract":"A new private port and logistics complex is under construction in the city of Chancay, located north of Lima, Peru, as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promising to change life in the...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Survey of Researcher Perceptions of Replication in Geography","authors":"Peter Kedron, Joseph Holler, Sarah Bardin","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2415695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2415695","url":null,"abstract":"Replications confront existing explanations with new evidence by retesting prior claims using new data and similar research procedures. Publishing replication studies remains uncommon in the geogra...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cooper P. Corey, Jason C. Senkbeil, Kevin M. Curtin
{"title":"Are Some Cities Disproportionally Affected by Tornadoes?","authors":"Cooper P. Corey, Jason C. Senkbeil, Kevin M. Curtin","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2412171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2412171","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the danger presented to communities, there is still a notable lack of knowledge on how the locations of tornadoes and tornado tracks, especially for violent tornadoes (VTs), vary on small s...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voluntary Geographies of Internationalism: The Contributions of a Radical Mexican Family to Global Pacifism, Feminism, and Anticolonialism","authors":"Federico Ferretti","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2409441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2409441","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses geographies of internationalism, feminism, pacifism, and anticolonialism, by investigating the case of pacifist and feminist activist Clementina Batalla Torres de Bassols (18...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nine Processes That Have Shaped the U.S. National Park System","authors":"Lary M. Dilsaver","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2412178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2412178","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. National Park System began at Yellowstone in 1872 and the National Park Service (NPS) took over its management in 1916. That system has evolved through nine processes to 429 units in every...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy E. Frazier, Peter Kedron, Wenxin Yang, Hejun Quan
{"title":"America the Beautiful: Meeting “30 × 30” Conservation Goals Through Connected Protected Areas","authors":"Amy E. Frazier, Peter Kedron, Wenxin Yang, Hejun Quan","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2410008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2410008","url":null,"abstract":"Protected areas are a primary instrument for biodiversity conservation, and area-based targets have become a hallmark of global efforts with the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biological Framework re...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining National Parks for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from Yosemite’s Past","authors":"Roderick P. Neumann","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2410885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2410885","url":null,"abstract":"Many critics of the global rise in conservation displacements have traced the origins of this trend to nineteenth-century California and the establishment of Yosemite National Park. This historical...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Postsecular Feminism: Intersectionality and the Religious Subjectivities of Women Migrant Workers in China","authors":"Quan Gao, Peter Hopkins, Xinrong Ma","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2410002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2410002","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the subjectivities of Christian women migrant workers within the context of China’s social transformation, characterized by the interactive advancement of global capitalis...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Death Valley National Monument Mission 66 Conspiracy (That Never Was)","authors":"Joe Weber","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2024.2412175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2412175","url":null,"abstract":"In 1956 the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) launched Mission 66, a ten-year program to rebuild and improve infrastructure within hundreds of units of the National Park System, among them Death Val...","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}