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Human Geography: A New Radical Journal (HG) is broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from economic, urban, social, cultural and geopolitical issues. Therefore, HG is committed to an array of research ranging from political economy, to cultural economy to political ecology. It is envisaged as a well-written, critical, political, and intellectually rich journal that can be read in its entirety, stimulate debates and spark social change. The critical politics that fueled the radical geography movement is being dissipated in philosophical-theoretical aestheticization and niceties, and empirical evasions. Particularly, articles written from specifically Marxian and post-Marxian/post-structural philosophical-theoretical and political positions face a difficult time – young academics have to deny their radical politics to get published. Thus, HG consciously favors political as well as theoretically-based articles from various left positions that definitely include Marxist-Socialist positions, in addition to feminist, q***r, anarchist, anti-racist, postcolonial, anticolonial, subaltern and any newly emerging critical thought. Additionally, HG is a forum to respond to the difficult and wide range of urgent social and political questions thrown up by capitalist globalization that are not being fully addressed in an increasingly neoliberalizing and commodified academia. Some of the most basic issues (the Iraq invasion, the war induced refugee crisis, global finance capitalism, poverty, famine, imperialism, environmental crisis) are hardly mentioned in the existing journals. Hence, we favor a new, more extensive and politically inclusive journal of broadly, but very politically, conceived Human Geography

09/03/2026

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01/27/2026

Online first & open access: Then they came for the cities: Radical geography's puzzling silence in the summer of fascism Walter J Nicholls and Ian R Baran — https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786251393554

“This paper examines the silence of critical and radical geographers during the Trump administration's 2025 federal occupations of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Despite decades of theoretical development around urban sovereignty and spatial resistance, scholars remained largely absent from public discourse during unprecedented military interventions. Analysis of academic responses reveals California universities dominated engagement while Northeastern institutions stayed silent, and legal scholars far outnumbered geographers in commentary.”

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kohei Saito of the University of Tokyo as our new editorial board member. Please join us...
01/26/2026

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kohei Saito of the University of Tokyo as our new editorial board member. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Saito.

Online first: Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropo...
01/08/2026

Online first: Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropolis from a Marxist perspective

Author: Nikos Kapitsinis

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786251408023

“Literature in smart cities has been growing, although it has adopted a-political, a-spatial and a-critical approaches, neglecting crucial issues and thus leaving room for improvement and further need for studies highlighting and addressing them and particularly the socio-spatially uneven effects of smart city deployment. This intervention adopts a Marxist perspective and seeks to highlight important research themes, related to these neglected issues, whose exploration could provide socially useful insights and increase the chances for a socially just smart metropolis in the 2030s.”

Metropolitan areas have been recently facing important challenges and transformations due to significant structural changes, such as consecutive crises, climate...

Human Geography 18.3 has been published. Please share it in your networks. Follow the link to access the issue. Table of...
11/29/2025

Human Geography 18.3 has been published. Please share it in your networks. Follow the link to access the issue. Table of contents available in the images:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/HUG/current

Grant Application Deadline is September 15, 2025: We invite proposals up to US $10,000 per research grant and continue t...
08/18/2025

Grant Application Deadline is September 15, 2025: We invite proposals up to US $10,000 per research grant and continue to encourage applications for smaller research grants (under US $5,000).
For more information, go to:

IHG Research Grants The context for the Institute of Human Geography (IHG) research grants is provided in an editorial by Richard Peet published in the first issue (2008) of the Human Geography journal. A huge effort in terms of labor and time over the years has produced both a viable journal and

Human Geography 18.2 has been published. Help us in circulating this information. Please find the issue at: journals.sag...
07/16/2025

Human Geography 18.2 has been published. Help us in circulating this information. Please find the issue at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/HUG/current

We are excited to welcome Professor John Agnew as an Editor of Human Geography. He will be focusing on HG’s ‘contention’...
06/02/2025

We are excited to welcome Professor John Agnew as an Editor of Human Geography. He will be focusing on HG’s ‘contention’ submissions. Please take a look at our submission guidelines: “Contentions publishes shorter original contributions. Contentions can give a perspective on current or past events or intervene in topical debates. This section of the journal seeks to bridge the divide between academic and more journalistic writing. It seeks to apply critical thinking in human geography to real world situations with contemporary relevance for example those related to environmental issues, race, gender, sexuality, war and conflict, workers’ struggles, or other movements against injustice and oppression. Although contributions should be intellectually rigorous and may be informed by the author’s previous research, contentions are generally more focused on topical issues and can be more polemical in tone than a research article. All submissions will be sent for anonymous peer review.“
https://geog.ucla.edu/person/john-agnew/

11/22/2024

Congratulations!!
The Institute of Human Geography awards research grants 2024 to:
1. Dr. Saad Ismail Amira (Al Quds Bard College, Palestine), Dr. Hannah Boast (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Dr. Samer Raddad (Al Quds Bard College, Palestine) for project titled “Palestinian women, cooperative agriculture & land-based struggle, 1967-2005”.

2. Maria Villalpando Páez (University of California, Berkeley) for project titled “Cultivating Food Sovereignty in the High Mixtec Region: A Participatory Approach Towards Peasant Women’s Knowledge and Experience”.

3. Dr. Juneseo Hwang (University of Hamburg, Germany) and Tony Hyunduck Cho (University of California, San Diego) for project titled “Everyday encounters: The U.S. military, war economy, and place-based resistance in Pyeongtaek, South Korea”.

4. Carolyn Swope (Columbia University) for the project titled “District of Dispossession: The Embodiment of Gentrification Within the Long History of Racial Capitalism in Southwest Washington, D.C.”

5. Dr. Francisco Fernández Romero (Instituto de Geografía, Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET, Argentina) and Prof. Pato Laterra (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas / CONICET, Argentina) for project titled “Trans Political Economy: Travesti-trans contestations of productivity in the workplace”.

6. Dr. Isaac Rivera (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Drew Heiderscheidt (Indiana University Bloomington) for project titled “Dismantling The Colonial Archive: Towards Life Affirming Geospatial Infrastructures”.

7. Theryn Arnold (York University, Toronto) for project titled “Climate, Crisis, and Worker Health: Green Capitalism and State Policy in Canada”.

8. Dr. Peerzada Raouf Ahmad (O P Jindal Global University, Haryana, India) for project titled “Dispossession as State Building: Understanding Securitized Social Formations of Gurez”

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