Boundaries, territory and public controversy: The GM debate re-materialised

Area was established in 1969 as a bulletin for the Institute of British Geographers (IBG), but has evolved into a full academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG). The mission of Area is to publish the very best of geographical research and scholarship on all aspects of human and physical geography. Its particular emphasis is on the presentation of innovative and fresh ideas that move the discipline forward and make the journal accessible to new researchers (including postgraduate students and academics at an early stage of their research careers). It achieves this by publishing shorter articles that focus on topical issues, new research results, methodology theory and practice, and academic commentaries and debates.