Research Guides: Critical Cartography: Journals

Journals

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies: International journal for critical analyses of the social, the spatial, the ecological, and the political, grounded in critical geographic scholarship.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers: One of the world’s leading geography journals and is the flagship journal of the American Association of Geographers.
The Annual Review of Anthropology: Covers significant developments in the subfields of anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and international anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.
Antipode: A radical journal of geography that pushes at the boundaries of radical geographical thinking.
Cartography and Geographic Information Systems: Official publication of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The Society supports research, education, and practices that improve the understanding, creation, analysis, and use of maps and geographic information.
Cultural Geographies: International journal of peer-reviewed scholarly research on and theoretical interventions into the cultural dimensions of environment, landscape, space, and place.
The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries: Focuses on the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology innovations in the Global South.
Geography Compass: An authoritative and accessible geography journal publishing peer-reviewed surveys with a primary focus on human geography. With a wide scope, the journal covers cultural, economic, environmental, historical, political, social and urban aspects of geography, alongside GIS, spatial analysis, and geospatial technologies.
Geoforum: Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy, through political ecology, national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, feminist, economic and urban geographies and environmental justice and resources management.
GeoJournal: International journal devoted to all branches of spatially integrated social sciences and humanities.
Human Ecology: Probes the complex and varied systems of interaction between people and their environment. Contributions examine the roles of social, cultural, and psychological factors in the maintenance or disruption of ecosystems and investigate the effects of population density on health, social organization, and environmental quality.
Landscape and Urban Planning: International journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions for landscape change.
Political Geography: Flagship journal of political geography and advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political.
The Professional Geographer: Publishes short articles of academic or applied geography, emphasizing empirical studies and methodologies. These features may range in content and approach from rigorously analytic to broadly philosophical or prescriptive.
Progress in Human Geography: Peer-review journal of choice for those wanting to know about the state of the art in all areas of research in the field of human geography - philosophical, theoretical, thematic, methodological or empirical.
Settler Colonial Studies: Publishes research on settler colonialism as a distinct social and historical formation, involving areas like history, law, indigenous and genocide studies.
Social Identities: Journal aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions.
Urban Studies: International journal for urban scholarship at the forefront of intellectual and policy debates on the city, and has hosted ground-breaking contributions from across the full range of social science disciplines.