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Human Geography

Published in Association with Institute of Human Geography

eISSN: 2633674X | ISSN: 19427786 | Current volume: 17 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: 3 Times/Year
Human Geography is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published three times per year by SAGE publishing and independently owned by the non-profit Institute of Human Geography. 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.

HG is a forum for all kinds of therotical praxis like Marxism, anarchism, post-Marxism, post-structuralism, post-coloniality, feminism, queer theory that challenges exploitation and oppression in any form. HG hopes to radicalize the academia by producing knowledge that is life-transforming because it aligns with the exploited in intellectually critiqing class supremacy, imperialism, racism, sexism, war, genocide, and destruction of the environment. In producing knowledge that is radically critical of the status quo, it hopes to challenge class-power, state-power, corporate power, racism, patriarchy, homophobia and therefore, challenge capitalist social reality.
HG was founded by Richard Peet with his graduate students at Clark University. The first issue of the journal was published in early 2008. Richard Peet served as the editor of the journal from 2008 through 2018. The vision was to provide an intellectual space for graduate students, and radical academics to fearlessly publish their point of view about the world written in an engaging and interesting manner without having to pander to citation politics, bow to academic censorship, and having to mute their ideological fervor. The founders of the journal were of the opinion that graduate students and early career academics of leftist/Marxist disposition were finding it increasingly difficult to get favorable reviews from anonymous reviewers that often in the name of ‘publishability,’ squeezed the revolutionary passion right out of the articles. Keeping this in mind, HG was started as a challenge to academic status quo in addition to all other forms of elitism. In this way, HG attempts a dialectical praxis—changing the world by challenging the nature of academic knowledge production, afterall, the material and ideological are inseparable.

The very first issue of Human Geography, published in 2008, set the precedent for inclusivity and diversity in representation of radical scholarship in the journal. In this first issue, while Derek Gregory focused on the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics in examining conflict in Baghdad, Utsa Patnaik used quantitative techniques in her paper to analyze the reasons for declining incomes and nutritional standards of agriculture-dependent populations in India. While Richard Peet engaged with concepts proposed by Marx, Hilferding and Harvey in examining global finance capital, the book reviews focused on post-structural feminism, race theory and radical activism. And over the years, HG has become a venue where scholars like David Harvey, Diana Liverman, Neil Smith, Michael Watts, James K. Gailbraith, Utsa Patnaik, Noura Erakat, Kevin Cox, Noel Castree, Nancy Ettlinger, Patrick Bond, Baburam Bhattarai, and several others have chosen to publish their research, reviews and ideas.

Human Geography (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 include Marxist-Socialist positions, in addition to feminist, queer, 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, Afghanistan catastrophe, the war induced refugee crisis, global finance capitalism, poverty, famine, imperialism, consumption or capitalism induced 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.

Founding Editor
Richard Peet Clark University, USA
Managing Editors
Waquar Ahmed University of North Texas, USA
Ipsita Chatterjee University of North Texas, USA
Contentions Editors
Raju Das York University, Canada
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro State University of New York, New Paltz, USA
Review Editors
Nancy Ettlinger The Ohio State University, USA
Craig Jones Newcastle University, UK
Visual Interventions Editor
Clayton F. Rosati Bowling Green State University, USA
Editorial Associate
Jayson Funke Western Connecticut State University, USA
Editor for South Asia
B. S. Butola Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Editor for Latin America
Brian M. Napoletano Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Editor for East Asia
Harvey Neo The Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Editor For Oceania
Anitra Nelson The University of Melbourne, Australia
Editor for Europe
Alexander A. Dunlap University of Helsinki, Finland
Editorial Board
John Agnew University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Derek Alderman The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Patrick Bond University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Kevin Cox Ohio State University, USA
Verónica Crossa Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales, El Colegio de México, Mexico
Noura Erakat Rutgers University, USA
Alistair Fraser Maynooth University, Ireland
Carrie Freshour Georgia State University, USA
Ruthie Gilmore City University of New York, USA
Jim Glassman University of British Columbia, Canada
Derek Gregory University of British Columbia, Canada
Costis Hadjimichalis Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
David Harvey City University of New York, USA
Andy Herod University of Georgia, USA
Nik Heynen University of Georgia, USA
Qingzhi Huan School of Marxism, Peking University, Beijing, China
Maria Kaika University of Manchester, UK
Mazen Labban Rutgers University, USA
Nana Liu Associate Professor, School of Marxism, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University), Beijing, China
Alex Loftus Royal Holloway College, UK
Bernardo Mançano Fernandes State University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Brent McCusker West Virginia University, USA
Mizhar Mikati Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Brandon University, Canada
Beverley Mullings University of Toronto, Canada
Sagie Narsiah University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Stijn Oosterlynck KU Leuven, Belgium
Laura Pulido University of Southern California, USA
Robert Ross Point Park University, USA
Nuria Benach Rovira University of Barcelona, Spain
Camilla Royle Durham University, UK
Abdi Samatar University of Minnesota, USA
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester, UK
Carly Thomsen Middlebury College, USA
James Tyner Kent State University, USA
Joel Wainwright Ohio State University, USA
Michael Watts University of California, Berkeley, USA
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