A missing link? Network analysis as an empirical approach for critical physical geography.
Critical physical geography (CPG) calls for integrative research on material landscapes and the socio‐political dynamics of scientific knowledge production. Network analysis, a rich tradition of tools and approaches for analyzing relational information, has seen little use in the CPG literature to d...
| Published in: | Canadian Geographer Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 52 - 74 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2023
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