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Introduction: Networks

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Ling Bian *
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Sarah Elwood
DOI:10.1080/24694452.2024.2388012delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Networks represent connections between people, things, ideas, and events in physical, digital, or hybrid spaces. The topic has long piqued geographers' curiosity in regard to enduring fundamental questions in our field: How and why do we perceive and represent geographic phenomena as networks? Do networked spaces challenge established geographic thoughts? What kinds of new knowledge inform or transform how we view geographic phenomena as networks? Might this network thinking collectively foster new policies or approaches to social and spatial problems? The collection of twenty-three articles included in this special issue addresses these questions by showcasing theoretical, epistemological, ontological, and methodological innovation in contemporary geography scholarship on networks. Insights gained from the discussion advance our discipline forward and meet societal needs.
Keywords:
absolute cartesian space
networks
relational topological space
space and society

Journal

Annals of the American Association of Geographers cover
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
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2.9
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1.4K
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4.5K

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state university of new york (suny) system
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6.5W
Papers: 5.8W
Citations: 65
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university at buffalo, suny
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1.2W
Papers: 9.5K
Citations: 9