IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1111/area.12952

Amy Clarke, Ben Rogaly, Cath Senker

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Branding the ‘VBA’ (Village Basketball Association) to revitalise a Miao village: Platform ruralism in the making 打造 "VBA"（乡村篮球协会）品牌，振兴苗族村寨：打造平台型乡村主义

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/area.12951

Han Zhang, Junxi Qian

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Civic geographies: A commentary and call for Area 公民地理：评论和区域呼吁

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1111/area.12950

Lloyd Jenkins, Alison Blunt

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The island, the prison, and the colony: Sardinian carceral and colonial geographies 岛屿、监狱和殖民地：撒丁岛的监狱和殖民地地理学

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1111/area.12949

Ettore Asoni

{"title":"The island, the prison, and the colony: Sardinian carceral and colonial geographies","authors":"Ettore Asoni","doi":"10.1111/area.12949","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12949","url":null,"abstract":"Across research on incarceration and insularity, recent trajectories have challenged conventional understandings of islands and prisons as isolated, autonomous units. Instead, they have directed attention toward their capacity to establish relations, circuits and routes. Beyond the focus on mobility and exchanges, this literature criticised the association between insularity, incarceration and confinement as the outcome of specific colonial epistemologies. This article builds on these literatures to investigate the case of Sardinia, a large Mediterranean island that plays a key role in the Italian carceral regime by providing a destination for thousands of Italian convicts. Despite being an Italian and European region, Sardinia's past and present exhibit distinct colonial qualities, which are visible in the structure of its carceral estate. The case study exemplifies how islands can hardly be interpreted as isolated units, given that their histories and geographies have implications that extend far beyond their coasts. In the case of Sardinia, the island combines modern penitentiaries with dynamics reminiscent of previous periods in the history of punishment, specifically penal colonies and convict transportation. This case study illustrates the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach that is willing to question the conceptual categories adopted, particularly those of island, prison and colony.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141109624","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}

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Disability and gender in the history of geographical exploration: Understanding Isabella Bird Bishop as a disabled geographer 地理探索史中的残疾与性别：将伊莎贝拉-伯德-毕晓普视为残疾地理学家

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1111/area.12944

Edward Armston-Sheret

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Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory 追踪年轻人参与英国海外领地外交和地缘政治的情况

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1111/area.12942

Matthew C. Benwell, Catriona Pennell, Alasdair Pinkerton

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Cue card conversations to investigate domestic practices and energy demand 调查家庭做法和能源需求的提示卡对话

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/area.12936

Theresa Harada, Gordon Waitt

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The past, present and future of health geography: An exchange with three long standing participants in the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group 健康地理学的过去、现在和未来：与健康与福祉地理学研究小组的三位长期参与者进行交流

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/area.12940

Chloe Asker, Richard Gorman, Thomas Aaron Lowe, Sarah Curtis, Graham Moon, Julia Jones

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The decolonial pedagogies of colonial violence: Curricular decolonisation in the (geo)sciences 殖民暴力的非殖民化教学法：地理科学课程的非殖民化

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1111/area.12941

Julie Cupples

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Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography 印度的性别、种姓和街头小贩：走向交叉地理学

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1111/area.12939

Saanchi Saxena

{"title":"Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography","authors":"Saanchi Saxena","doi":"10.1111/area.12939","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12939","url":null,"abstract":"Through an analysis of the available literature on women street vendors in the Global South, and then specifically in India, this paper identifies several knowledge gaps and future directions for research. The paper makes three broad claims: (1) street vending spaces are fundamentally gendered spaces; (2) the intersectional identities and caste-based locations of women street vendors shape their spatial experiences, material realities and access to power; and (3) gender and caste are co-constituted categories that produce a spatiality unique to the Indian subcontinent. While the geographical approach towards street vending recognises the importance of space and considers vendors as spatial practitioners, vendors are often assumed to belong to a homogenous (male) category with differentials such as gender, race, age, ethnicity and caste invisibilised. This research gap is of even more critical importance in India where caste intersects with gender to produce space. Examining the literature on gender and street vending reveals three broad analytical themes—socio-spatial disparities, politics of space, and strategies of control. What seems to be missing is a critical, qualitative focus on the experiences of women street vendors, the gendering of vending spaces, the recognition of caste as a dynamic factor, and a spatial analysis grounded in the Southern urban context. Ultimately, this paper makes the case for a situated and postcolonial feminist geography approach to street vending in India, and calls for an intersectional research agenda that is attentive to the co-constitution of caste and gender in the production of urban space.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140210436","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}

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