SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
Scope & Guideline
Transforming understanding of societal relationships with space.
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Spatial Dynamics and Social Practices:
The journal emphasizes the interplay between spatial dynamics and social practices, exploring how individuals and communities navigate, inhabit, and produce spaces. - Cultural Representations and Geographies:
It investigates cultural representations and their geographical implications, looking at how narratives, symbols, and practices shape identities and community belonging. - Interdisciplinary Methodologies:
The journal employs a range of interdisciplinary methodologies, including qualitative research, visual methods, and critical theory, to understand complex social and cultural phenomena. - Emotional and Affective Geographies:
It focuses on emotional and affective geographies, examining how feelings, emotions, and subjective experiences influence spatial practices and vice versa. - More-than-Human Perspectives:
The journal considers more-than-human perspectives, exploring the relationships between humans and non-human entities, and how these interactions shape cultural and spatial understandings. - Political and Economic Contexts:
It critically analyzes the political and economic contexts that shape social and cultural geographies, including issues of power, inequality, and social justice.
Trending and Emerging
- Digital and Virtual Geographies:
There is a growing interest in the impact of digital technologies on social and cultural practices, examining how digital spaces shape identities, communities, and relationships. - Affect and Emotion in Space:
Recent papers emphasize the role of affect and emotion in understanding spatial practices, highlighting how feelings and emotional experiences influence social interactions and place-making. - More-than-Human Geographies:
Emerging themes focus on more-than-human geographies, exploring the complexities of human-nonhuman interactions and their implications for cultural and spatial understandings. - Care and Community Practices:
There is an increasing emphasis on care practices and community engagement, reflecting a broader societal shift towards understanding the importance of care in social and spatial contexts. - Intersectionality and Social Justice:
The journal is increasingly publishing works that address intersectionality and social justice, examining how various forms of inequality intersect and manifest in geographical contexts. - Environmental Justice and Sustainability:
Research on environmental justice and sustainability is on the rise, with a focus on how social and cultural geographies respond to ecological challenges and the implications for marginalized communities.
Declining or Waning
- Traditional Geopolitics:
There seems to be a decrease in publications focusing on traditional geopolitics, as the journal shifts towards more localized and grassroots perspectives on geography. - Historical Geographies:
Research focused on historical geographies, particularly those that do not engage with contemporary issues or current events, appears to be less frequent as the journal prioritizes relevance to current social and cultural challenges. - Static Representations of Space:
There is a noticeable decline in studies that treat space as a static entity, moving towards more dynamic and fluid understandings of spatial practices. - Conventional Economic Geographies:
Themes centered around conventional economic geographies, such as traditional market analyses, are becoming less prominent as critical, intersectional approaches gain traction. - Fixed Identity Categories:
The journal is moving away from fixed identity categories in favor of more fluid, intersectional identities, indicating a shift in focus towards more complex understandings of identity.
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