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The Geographical Journal is a British academic journal devoted to the field of geography. The Geographical Journal publishes original research papers and review articles in the field of geography, in addition to book reviews and news from the Royal Geographical Society.
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Re-thinking frontiers in Southeast Asia.(Editorial)
June 1, 2009... The frontier has a long tradition in geographical study. Exploration, conquest and the colonial project were all about pushing back the frontier of civilisation, and seeking riches at and beyond the resource frontier. Turner's thesis put frontiers as geographical peripheries at the heart of...
Finding common ground: relational concepts of land tenure and economy in the oil palm frontier of Papua New Guinea.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction
There is growing appreciation within geography of the value of relational concepts of the economy for providing theoretical insights into processes of economic change. Relational perspectives are now influencing research in a variety of contexts in both developed and...
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction
A remarkable transformation has occurred over recent decades in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and many areas of Indonesia outside Java with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm plantations. The area of oil...
Revisiting frontiers as transitional spaces in Thailand.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction: the frontier in Thailand
In this paper, I examine three zones of transition under the rubric of frontier in Thailand. The first is the agricultural frontier, but one in which dynamics are significantly different to those I and others wrote about previously (Hirsch 1990 1992;...
Global-local interactions: socioeconomic and spatial dynamics in Vietnam's coffee frontier.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction
During the 1990s, Vietnam progressed from being a relatively insignificant coffee producer to become the world's second largest exporter of coffee and the single largest exporter of the Robusta variety. This extraordinary development has been primarily based on the...