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Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. We consider how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children's and young people's geographies and the (re)production of social ordering; and (3) geographies of mobility and transnationalism in a world of increased human spatial movement and social relations at a distance. © The Author(s) 2012.
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affect, conviviality, friendship, intimacy, social networks, subjectivities, trust
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Progress in Human Geography
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2012-08
DOI
10.1177/0309132511426606
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