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Pluriversal Terrain: Rethinking More-Than-Human Borders in the Himalaya 多元地形：重新思考喜马拉雅山脉超越人类的边界

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-10-27 DOI: 10.1111/area.70160

Yanzheng Li

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Enby Ecologies: On Being Fluid in the Field Enby生态学：论野外的流动

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/area.70159

Ellen Bergan, Nick Koenig, Lauren Stachowiak

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The Ethics of Research Co-Production With Global South Partners in an Age of Government Automation and Algorithmic Visa Regimes: A View From the United Kingdom 在政府自动化和算法签证制度时代，与全球南方伙伴合作研究的伦理：来自英国的观点

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1111/area.70158

Jenny Webster, Jonathan Westaway

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Tea Stewardship in Jingmai Mountain: A Practice-Based and Cross-Scalar Illustration of Ecological Citizenship in the Making 景麦山茶叶管理：生态公民权形成过程中的实践跨尺度阐释

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1111/area.70157

Zijing Shen, Xiaoyu Hu, Junxi Qian

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Rural–Urban Lifeways Post–Pandemic: Views From Asia 大流行后的农村-城市生活方式：来自亚洲的观点

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-09-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.70149

Jessica Clendenning, Tim Bunnell

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Governing Vulnerability Through Feeling: Safety Education and Affective Infrastructure in Taiwan 以情感控制脆弱性：台湾安全教育与情感性基础建设

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-09-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.70154

Francis Chia Hui Lin

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‘Researching Up’ in a Geopolitical Field: Positionality, Access and Belonging in Nepal's Hydropower Sector 地缘政治领域的“向上研究”：尼泊尔水电部门的定位、准入和归属

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-09-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.70155

Udisha Saklani

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The Poster Child of Climate Change? The Changing Iconography of the Arctic Polar Bear 气候变化的典型代表？不断变化的北极北极熊形象

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-09-26 DOI: 10.1111/area.70153

Kate Manzo

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Walking the Map? Reflections on Counter-Mapping and Critical Cartographies of the Balkan Route 在地图上行走？对巴尔干路线反测绘和批判制图的思考

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/area.70150

Sebastian Cobarrubias, Claudio Minca

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The State-Architecture Nexus in Post-Socialist Tirana: European Imaginaries and State Power 后社会主义地拉那的国家-建筑关系：欧洲的想象与国家权力

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1111/area.70151

Chiara Iacovone

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