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cultural geographies


eISSN: 14770881 | ISSN: 14744740 | Current volume: 31 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: Quarterly

cultural geographies is an international journal of peer-reviewed scholarly research on and theoretical interventions into the cultural dimensions of environment, landscape, space, and place. We encourage papers that engage the cultural politics of geographical issues. cultural geographies is particularly committed to the development of methodologically rigorous interpretive approaches that explore how meaning, materiality and/or practice are implicated in the (re)production, maintenance and transformation of cultural worlds as they are materially constituted, represented, imagined, and lived. We do not restrict our remit to any particular methodological or theoretical orientation, but publish both empirically grounded, and theoretically speculative pieces designed to further understanding and debate. We welcome contributions from scholars and practitioners across the arts, humanities, and social and environmental sciences.

The journal’s Cultural Geographies in Practice section offers an editor-reviewed space for critical reflection on creative expression in the discipline of geography, on artistic, civic, and policy practices that inform and/or relate to geographic concerns, and for reflections on and with practitioners in or outside cultural geography. It acknowledges, presents, and discusses the intellectual and practical engagements with the journal’s interests beyond a narrowly conceived academy. We particularly encourage submissions from practitioners beyond the academy, and from collaborations between academics and other individuals and groups.

cultural geographies remains committed to an extensive Book Review section where we publish both review essays and reviews in brief.

A successful paper in cultural geographies will typically:

Advance a new approach to an issue or debate in cultural geography or the humanities and social sciences more broadly.

Significantly further an existing approach to an issue or debate in cultural geography or the humanities and social sciences more broadly.

Detail a truly exemplary empirical case that does not significantly forward new theoretical approaches, but makes clear how existing approaches work.

When authors make clear their contributions in these areas, their papers are much more likely to succeed.

In general, we avoid:

Strictly empirical case studies, or case studies that represent applications of existing approaches without forwarding those approaches.

Interdisciplinary papers that do not engage with cultural geography.

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cultural geographies is an international journal of peer-reviewed scholarly research on and theoretical interventions into the cultural dimensions of environment, landscape, space, and place. We encourage papers that engage the cultural politics of geographical issues. cultural geographies is particularly committed to the development of methodologically rigorous interpretive approaches that explore how meaning, materiality and/or practice are implicated in the (re)production, maintenance and transformation of cultural worlds as they are materially constituted, represented, imagined, and lived. We do not restrict our remit to any particular methodological or theoretical orientation, but publish both empirically grounded, and theoretically speculative pieces designed to further understanding and debate. We welcome contributions from scholars and practitioners across the arts, humanities, and social and environmental sciences.

Editor-in-Chief
Dydia DeLyser California State University, Fullerton, USA
Managing Editors
Harriet Hawkins Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Mark Jackson University of Bristol, UK
Matthew Wilson University of Kentucky, USA
Cultural Geographies in Practice Editors
Caleb Johnston Newcastle University, UK
Jamie Winders Syracuse University, USA
Book Review Editors
Eric Magrane New Mexico State University, USA
Charlotte Veal Newcastle University, UK
Editorial Board
Kay Anderson University of Western Sydney, Australia
Laura Cameron Queens University, Canada
Dan Cockayne University of Waterloo, Canada
Ian Cook University of Exeter, UK
Philip Crang Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Tim Cresswell Trinity College, USA
Julie Cupples University of Edinburgh, UK
Michelle Daigle University of Toronto, Canada
Caitlin DeSilvey University of Exeter, UK
J. D. Dewsbury University of Bristol, UK
Mona Domosh Dartmouth College
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle, Australia
LaToya Eaves University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Caroline Faria University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jennifer Fluri University of Colorado, USA
Leah Gibbs University of Wollongong, Australia
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong, Australia
Juan Herrera University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Rachel Hughes University of Melbourne, Australia
Scott Kirsch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Hayden Lorimer University of Edinburgh, UK
Antonio Luna Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Becky Mansfield Ohio State University, USA
Tom Mels University of Uppsala, Sweden
Peter Merriman Aberystwyth University, UK
Katharyne Mitchell University of Washington, USA
Catherine Nash Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Mike Pearson Aberystwyth University, UK
David Pinder Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Margaret Marietta Ramirez Simon Fraser University, Canada
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Mitch Rose Aberystwyth University, UK
Tania Rossetto University of Padova, Italy
Arun Saldanha University of Minnesota, USA
Joan Schwartz Queen's University, Canada
Darius Scott McGill University, Canada
Anna Secor University of Durham, UK
Ola Soederstroem University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Shanti Sumartojo Monash University, Australia
Brandi Summers University of California, Berkeley, USA
Deborah Thien California State University, Long Beach, USA
Karen Till Maynooth University, Ireland
Keith Woodward University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
John Wylie Exeter University, UK
Yujie Zhu Australian National University, Australia
Advisory Editorial Board
Mark Bassin University of Birmigham, UK
Barbara Bender University College, London, UK
Augustin Berque École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Peter Bishop University of South Australia, Australia
Stephen Daniels University of Nottingham, UK
Felix Driver Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
James Duncan University of Cambridge, UK
J. Nicholas Entrikin University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Matthew Gandy University College London, UK
Claire Hancock University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France
Donna Haraway University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Peter Hulme University of Essex, UK
Anthony King Binghamton University, SUNY, USA
David Ley University of British Columbia, Canada
David N Livingstone Queen's University Belfast, UK
Gregg Mitman University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Pramod Parajuli Portland State University, USA
Mary Louise Pratt Stanford University, USA
Laura Pulido University of Southern California, USA
Gillian Rose University of Oxford, UK
Simon Schama Columbia University, USA
Leonid Serebryanny Russian Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow, Russia
Jonathan Smith Texas A & M University, USA
Sverker Sorlin Umea University, Sweden
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University, USA
Keith Thomas University of Oxford, UK
James L. Wescoat Jnr. University of Illinois, USA
Charles Withers University of Edinburgh
Brenda S. A. Yeoh National University of Singapore, Singapore
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