http://www.journals.elsevier.com/geoforum/policies/debates-and-critical-review
The primary aim of the Debates and Critical Review section is to publish high-impact pieces of circa 3,000 words that:
1) Engage, advance and initiate new debates in Geography and beyond. We are particularly interested in receiving provocative debate submissions on emerging areas of urgent importance that will advance the frontiers, set research agendas and shape debates at the cutting edge of knowledge generation in human geography and cognate disciplines.
2) Reflect critically on current events and trends of significance from a geographical perspective; and
3) Critique articles published in Geoforum or other scholarly works or collections of work, of substantial significance.
We are keen to invite academics at various stages of their career from within and beyond geography to contribute to Geoforum on any of the above categories. For the Critical Review part of the section we aim to engage a broader body of academics from geography and cognate disciplines to carry out cross-disciplinary conversations so as to cross-fertilize contemporary debates across the social. We are also interested in actively opening up this forum to scholars from the Global South and fostering interventions from emergent academics and putting them in conversation with those who are more established. Our only requirement is that these mediations speak to geographical framings and frameworks in a bid to enrich debate across, and break down barriers between, disciplines.
For contributions to Debates we want to spur interventions from various disciplines that speaks to key and contemporary geographical topics, issues and discussions. It will open the space for thinking and provoking conversations from diverse perspectives that speak to contemporary moments and movements. For this segment, we anticipate two to three academics writing on cutting-edge scholarly discussions or a contemporary global concern, for instance; each input will be around 1,500 words, making the space for a short dialogue of around 4,500 words total.
The Debates and Critical Review section of Geoforum serves as a platform to encourage necessary deliberations on critical points that mark our intellectual landscape via an associated blog, which will be coming up shortly. By having an open forum where academics across the globe can consider, discuss or dissent from interventions, we will complement and add to scholarship that stems from Geoforum more specifically but also geography and its cognate disciplines more broadly. Authors and academics can use the blog as a way of showcasing their research, and the contributions they make to the discipline through their writings in Geoforum to sketch and reflect on our collective scholarly endeavors and its implications for creating social spaces that are socially just and offer visions of alternative and sustainable futures.
1) Engage, advance and initiate new debates in Geography and beyond. We are particularly interested in receiving provocative debate submissions on emerging areas of urgent importance that will advance the frontiers, set research agendas and shape debates at the cutting edge of knowledge generation in human geography and cognate disciplines.
2) Reflect critically on current events and trends of significance from a geographical perspective; and
3) Critique articles published in Geoforum or other scholarly works or collections of work, of substantial significance.
We are keen to invite academics at various stages of their career from within and beyond geography to contribute to Geoforum on any of the above categories. For the Critical Review part of the section we aim to engage a broader body of academics from geography and cognate disciplines to carry out cross-disciplinary conversations so as to cross-fertilize contemporary debates across the social. We are also interested in actively opening up this forum to scholars from the Global South and fostering interventions from emergent academics and putting them in conversation with those who are more established. Our only requirement is that these mediations speak to geographical framings and frameworks in a bid to enrich debate across, and break down barriers between, disciplines.
For contributions to Debates we want to spur interventions from various disciplines that speaks to key and contemporary geographical topics, issues and discussions. It will open the space for thinking and provoking conversations from diverse perspectives that speak to contemporary moments and movements. For this segment, we anticipate two to three academics writing on cutting-edge scholarly discussions or a contemporary global concern, for instance; each input will be around 1,500 words, making the space for a short dialogue of around 4,500 words total.
The Debates and Critical Review section of Geoforum serves as a platform to encourage necessary deliberations on critical points that mark our intellectual landscape via an associated blog, which will be coming up shortly. By having an open forum where academics across the globe can consider, discuss or dissent from interventions, we will complement and add to scholarship that stems from Geoforum more specifically but also geography and its cognate disciplines more broadly. Authors and academics can use the blog as a way of showcasing their research, and the contributions they make to the discipline through their writings in Geoforum to sketch and reflect on our collective scholarly endeavors and its implications for creating social spaces that are socially just and offer visions of alternative and sustainable futures.
