Edited by: Katie Willis, Gavin Bridge, Scott Prudham, Michael Samers

This collection of 26 papers in a virtual issue of Geoforum has been put together to mark the journal’s fortieth birthday. Since Geoforum first appeared   in 1970, about 1,600 articles have appeared between its covers, encompassing the wide range of topics, theories and methods adopted by geographers and scholars in related disciplines. In choosing the articles for inclusion, we have tried to reflect the breadth of scholarship included in Geoforum, but the selection is obviously partial. The papers have been classified into seven broad categories to indicate the range of Geoforum articles, but the diversity within these categories and the overlap between groupings is also apparent. We hope that the collection provides a stimulating introduction to the journal for those unfamiliar with its contents, and a thought-provoking reminder to readers who have contributed to and used the journal in the past.

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Articles in the Virtual Special Issue: Geoforum 40^th Anniversary

Economy

Hughes, A (2000) ‘Retailers, knowledges and changing commodity networks: the case of the cut flower trade’, 31:2

Peck, JA & A Tickell (1992) ‘Local modes of social regulation? Regulation theory, Thatcherism and uneven development’, 23:3

Pratt, AC (2000) ‘New media, the new economy and new spaces’, 31:4

  
Environment

Boykoff, MT. & JM Boykoff (2007) ‘Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass media coverage’, 38:6

Buttel, FH (2000) ‘Ecological modernization as social theory’, 31:1

Davis, D.K. (2005) ‘Indigenous knowledge and desertification debate: problematising expert knowledge in North Africa’, 36:4

McCarthy, J. & S. Prudham (2004) ‘Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism’, 35:3 

Rees, J. (1982) ‘Profligacy and scarcity: A analysis of water management in Australia’, 13:4

  
Methodology

Cameron, J. & K Gibson (2005) ‘Participatory action research in a poststructuralist vein’, 36:3

Mullings, B. (1999) ‘Insider or outsider, both or neither: some dilemmas of interviewing in a cross-cultural setting’, 30:4

  
Politics

Kelly, P. (1997) ‘Globalization, power and the politics of scale in the Philippines’, 28:2

Mercer, C., G. Mohan & M. Power (2003) ‘Towards a critical political geography of African development’, 34:4 

Mol, APJ. (2000) ‘The environmental movement in an era of ecological modernisation’, 31:1 

  
Society & Culture

Collins, DCA & R Kearns (2001) ‘Under curfew and under siege?: Legal geographies of young people’, 32:3

Dirsuweit, T. (1999) ‘Carceral spaces in South Africa: a case study of institutional power, sexuality and transgression in a women’s prison’, 30:1

Huang, S. & B.S.A. Yeoh (1996) ‘Ties that bind: State policy and migrant female domestic helpers in Singapore’, 27:4

Slocum, R. (2007) ‘Whiteness, space and alternative food practice’, 38:3

Wylie, J. (2002) ‘An essay on ascending Glastonbury Tor’, 33:4

  
Urban

Blomley, N. (2005) ‘Flowers in the bathtub: Boundary crossings at the public-private divide’, 36:3 

England, K. (1991) ‘Gender relations and the spatial structure of the city’, 22:2

Liu, YT. & F Wu (2006) ‘Urban poverty neighbourhoods: Typology and spatial concentration under China’s market transition, a case study of Nanjing’, 37:4

Ward, K. (1996) ‘Rereading urban regime theory: a sympathetic critique’, 27:4.

  
Critical conceptual commentaries

Barnett, C. (2005) ‘The consolation of ‘neoliberalism’, 36:1

McDowell, L. (1991) ‘The baby and the bath water – Diversity, deconstruction and feminist theory in Geography’, 22:2

Murdoch, J. (1998) ‘The spaces of actor-network-theory’, 29:4