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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,
04/23/2026
Human Geography 19.1 has been published. All the published articles are available at:
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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.”
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.
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.”
Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropolis from a Marxist perspective - Nikos Kapitsinis, 2026 Metropolitan areas have been recently facing important challenges and transformations due to significant structural changes, such as consecutive crises, climate...
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:
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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).
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Institute of Human Geography - IHG Research Grants 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
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