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Human Geography: A New Journal

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Human Geography: A New Journal

Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232
Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US
Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com

Call for submissions and donations

Human Geography

We are starting a new journal in Human Geography broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from geopolitics, through cultural and economic issues, to political ecology. We envisage a well written, critical, intellectual journal, not full of empirical detail, and not encumbered by too many citations, a journal that can be read in its entirety. The journal will be peer reviewed -but we want to give positive, helpful reviews of papers, and not savage them or decline to publish based on minor points made by reviewers who hide behind anonymity. We plan a mix of longer papers up to 7500 words and shorter papers of up to 3000 words, with timely opinion pieces and book review essays interspersed within the body of the main text of the journal. We plan a paper version of the journal for the moment, followed soon after by a web site with multi-media content.
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Emerging Geographies

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CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS:

Emerging Geographies: Mapping, Tracking, and Tracing
Conference Date: April 18, 2008

Deadline for submissions **has been extended** to February 20, 2008

Maps of worlds are often depicted as stories already told, already written. If we acknowledge these geographies as emerging and in process, how can we map, track, and trace these worlds as they become entangled with and produce various scales of time and space?
Anatomy Map
Instead of assuming the regions of Cold War geography, emerging geographies encourage scholarship that investigates how the world looks from various locations and “out of the way” places to understand geographies as formed and contingent. We are interested in how histories are lived in the present, how they shape our current worlds, and are alive within these worlds. Emerging geographies track the longue durée and uncover alternative and layered histories. This tracking requires an engagement with histories that pays attention to complex, situated entanglements and the significance of details. Emerging geographies map the active ways in which social landscapes are constructed and regions are made. They ask: how do geographies come into being?
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