I am most grateful to the editors of the British Journal of Sociology for putting together such an impressive set of review papers about my book. I am very honoured by the very thoughtful essays written by such a distinguished group of scholars coming from sociology, political science, anthropology, history, geography and economics. I warmly thank all participants for their time and attention t...

Time geography is a constraints-oriented approach to understanding human activities in space and time. Time geography recognizes that humans have fundamental spatial and temporal limitations: people can physically only be in one place at a time and activities occur at a sparse set of places for limited durations. Participating in an activity requires allocating scarce available time to access a...

Medical geography and epidemiology share the common goal of understanding disease processes and improving methods of health interventions. While they share a common history, the fields have diverged and developed different, often complementary, approaches to the same types of problems. Medical geography differs from epidemiology in its underlying focus on applying the concepts and methods of ge...

The intersections and conversations between feminist geography and political geography have been surprisingly few. Feminist geographers’ forays into geopolitics and international relations within political geography have been relatively rare compared to their presence and influence in social, cultural, and economic geography. Likewise, only a few political geographers concerned with IR and geop...

A series of clues suggests that the concerns would have converged, over time, under academic label “social geography” were already well present, a century ago, also in Italian geography, albeit often other denominations. While denomination social geography was used Italy, likewise very soon, but to indicate something quite different from what we can understand today. This contribution therefore...

while it is a well-known fact that geopolitics is a subject of boardroom discussions that has been derived from the debth of political science, there are those who consider it to be an academic discipline, independent of both political geography and political science. yet, an etymological review of the case proves that political geography must have gained prominance as a specialist field of aca...

Social infrastructure is an emerging research frontier in urban geography and studies. This editorial introduction provides a concise to the term. It briefly sets out intellectual provenance of concept social infrastructure, examining different ways being used across geography.

Human geography is a major subdiscipline within the wider subject field of geography. Traditionally, geography is considered the study of the Earth’s environments and peoples, and the interactions between them. ‘Geography’ comes from ancient Greek origins (Eratosthenes was the first to use it), literally translating as ‘to write or describe the world’. In classical and Enlightenment geography, ...