This second of three reviews of action-orientated research in social geography focuses on one area of this work which is thriving. Moving, like many good ideas, from the field conventionally viewed as ‘development’ to wider application, participatory research (PR) has seen rapid expansion in recent years (see Breitbart, 2003; Kesby et al., 2004; Pratt, 2000). It has particular attractions for s...

Geography plays an important role in shaping societal interactions in the offline world. However, as more and more social interactions occur online via social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, users can interact with others unconstrained by their geolocations, raising the question: does offline geography still matter in online social networks? In this paper, we attempt to address this...

the purpose of this paper is to describe the concept of neoliberalism, globalization. also, the effects of these concepts on space and geographical identity and also by focusing on globalization effects on geography science have been addressed. finally by criticizing the present way that expands neoliberalism ideology is sought to be able to maintain human being dignity in of economic, social a...

This article shows how the social sciences, particularly human geography, rejected hard determinism by the mid-twentieth century largely on the deontological basis that it is irreconcilable with social justice, yet this rejection came just before a burst of creative development in consequentialist theories of social justice that problematize a facile rejection of determinism on moral grounds, a...

Ifocus in . . . this article on the social geography . . . of the McDonaldization of society. This, of course, is based on Max Weber’s famous work on rationalization and his vision of the social world as being increasingly encased in an “iron cage” of rationalization. This metaphor can be interpreted in various ways, but one that has not been explored systematically is from the perspective of s...

The emergence of computational social science has had a transformative influence on the geographical sciences, integrating diverse themes of scholarship and allying it with the pursuit of grand challenges in the physical, natural, and life sciences. Geography has benefitted from many of these developments and has, in turn, catalyzed significant advances and innovation in computational social sc...