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(Em)placing the Popular in Cultural Geography, Guest edited by Alex Hastie and Robert A. Saunders
Volume 25, Issue 5, 2024 pages 685-832
Special Issue: Social and Cultural Geographies of COVID-19, guest edited by Avril Maddrell, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho and Michele Lobo
Volume 24, Issue 3-4, 2023 pages 385-718
Why 'cultures of care'?
Volume 24, Issue 1, 2023 pages 1-194
Deadly intersections: living and dying with non-humans in everyday life
Volume 23, Issue 1, 2022 pages 1-172
Urban Singles and Shared Housing
Volume 22, Issue 9, 2021 pages 1195-1328
Special Issue: Living Protocols
Volume 21, Issue 7, 2020 pages 893-1038
Virtual Special Issue on Sexualities and Gendered Intersectionalities
Volume 21, Issue s1, 2020 pages 141-125
Geographies of Islamophobia
Volume 21, Issue 4, 2020 pages 449-577
Hyperdiversity in/and geographies of childhood and youth
Volume 20, Issue 9, 2019 pages 1189-1339
Young People's Security Landscape
Volume 20, Issue 4, 2019 pages 435-603
Placing care in times of austerity
Volume 19, Issue 3, 2018 pages 303-406
Geographical research with 'vulnerable groups': re-examining methodological and ethical process
Volume 18, Issue 7, 2017 pages 895-1065
Negotiating Strange Encounters: Conceptualising Conversations Across Difference
Volume 18, Issue 1, 2017 pages 1-115
Provocations for Cultural Geography Today
Volume 17, Issue 6, 2016 pages 745-824
The geography of transnational adoption: kin and place in globalization
Volume 16, Issue 5, 2015 pages 499-592
Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places
Volume 15, Issue 8, 2014 pages 861-ebi
Public religion and urban space in Europe
Volume 15, Issue 6, 2014 pages 591-691
Marginalia, or the knowledge of excess
Volume 14, Issue 7, 2013 pages 739-859
Gendered spaces of commoditised care
Volume 14, Issue 5, 2013 pages 491-598
Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol
Volume 13, Issue 2, 2012 pages 99-209
Care of the Body: Spaces of Practice
Volume 12, Issue 6, 2011 pages 517-661
The limits of the body: boundaries, capacities, thresholds
Volume 12, Issue 4, 2011 pages 331-418
Practising architectures
Volume 12, Issue 3, 2011 pages 211-329
Education spaces: embodied dimensions and dynamics
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2011 pages 1-106
Scary cities: urban geographies of fear, difference and belonging
Volume 11, Issue 3, 2010 pages 201-306
Masculinity, intersectionality and place
Volume 10, Issue 8, 2009 pages 811-940
Themed issue: Geography, Religion, and Emerging Paradigms: Problematizing the Dialogue
Volume 10, Issue 6, 2009 pages 629-720
Trieste: geographies beyond borders
Volume 10, Issue 3, 2009 pages 243-402
Spaces of technology/technologised spaces
Volume 9, Issue 6, 2008 pages 601-736
Lesbian Geographies
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2007 pages 1-163

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20 th Anniversary Virtual Special Issues

Twenty years on from the inaugural issue of Social and Cultural Geography we want to celebrate the journal’s importance in fostering a rich array of research exploring a diverse range of geographies. To this end, a series of Virtual Special Issues have been created showcasing the vibrant, and often challenging, themes explored in the journal.

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Special Issue Proposals

We welcome proposals for special issues twice a year, with 1 May and 1 November deadlines. We limit the number of special issues to three per volume. Guidelines for special issues can be found here. Special issue proposals should be consequential, innovative and relate to themes developed in the journal.