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Analytical eclecticism for vigor and rigor? 分析折衷主义的活力和严谨?

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231189391

Heather Whiteside

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Incendiary assets: Risk, power, and the law in an era of catastrophic fire 易燃资产:灾难性火灾时代的风险、权力和法律

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191930

John Schmidt

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Why is causal explanation critical in/to economic geography? 为什么因果解释对经济地理学至关重要?

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191923

H. Yeung

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From coca to cocoa: Conflicts, violence and hegemonic compromises in the turbulent Peruvian Amazonia settlement process: The case of Tocache 从古柯到可可:动荡的秘鲁亚马逊流域定居过程中的冲突、暴力和霸权妥协:托卡什的案例

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231189569

Daniel Coq-Huelva, A. Higuchi, Ruth Arias-Gutiérrez, Rafaela Alfalla-Luque

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Bringing life's work to market: Frontiers, framings, and frictions in marketised social reproduction 把生活的工作推向市场:市场社会再生产中的前沿、框架和摩擦

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231187402

Emily Rosenman, Jessa M. Loomis, Dan Cohen, T. Baker

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Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History 世界体系分析中的资本主义和殖民主义理论，达累斯萨拉姆历史学派和新印度劳工史

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231187389

Kristin Plys

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Robots and care of the ageing self: An emerging economy of loneliness 机器人与老年人护理:新兴的孤独经济

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231172199

G. Pratt, C. Johnston, Kelsey Johnson

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Finance interrupted: Social impact bonds, spatial politics, and the limits of financial innovation in the social sector 金融中断:社会影响债券、空间政治和社会部门金融创新的局限性

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-16 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231187409

James W. Williams

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Urban governance in the age of austerity: Crises of neoliberal hegemony in comparative perspective 紧缩时代的城市治理:比较视角下的新自由主义霸权危机

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-07 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231186151

J. Davies

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Online work as humanitarian relief? The promise and limitations of digital livelihoods for Syrian refugees and Lebanese youth during times of crisis 网络工作是人道主义救济吗?危机时期叙利亚难民和黎巴嫩青年数字生计的希望与局限

IF 4.2 1区社会学

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231184470

A. Hackl, Watfa Najdi

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