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...

In their recent essay, ‘Human Geography without Scale’, Marston, Jones and Woodward (2005) take stock, albeit selectively, of almost 25 years of scale research and find it wanting. Given how substantial and influential the scale literature has become, not only in human geography but also now in political science, sociology and anthropology, we welcome their efforts to assess and critique this l...

This analysis of the Brazilian geography congresses sponsored by the Geography Society of Rio de Janeiro between 1909 and 1944 identifies commonalities as well as differences over the years. Given how these scientific events focused on both the state of the art within the field as well as on its overall development, such an analysis serves as a good thermometer for measuring the social, economi...

Abstract Following geographically concentrated changes in housing markets, real estate prices have skyrocketed many cities and metropolitan areas across Germany. These developments not only shifted the macro-level distribution of asset wealth among homeowners but also resulted price spikes rental which turn intensified social economic risks renters. This preregistered study aims to provide a th...

The concurrent development of political economy and the modern conception of medicine was reflected from the first decades of the seventeenth century by a degree of interdisciplinary borrowing based on analogy between the human body and the body politic. It seemed perfectly feasible that the growing knowledge of the human body and its diseases might inspire new concepts, and vindicate the use o...

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...