Ecumene (later Cultural Geographies)

Ecumene was founded at Edward Arnold in 1994 as a journal of environment, culture and meaning, and was renamed Cultural Geographies from 2002 onward. The journal sits at the intersection of cultural geography and the wider humanities — environmental humanities, landscape studies, the geography of art and literature, performance and embodiment, postcolonial cultural geography, and the visual and material cultures of place.

Founding editor Denis Cosgrove (Royal Holloway, later UCLA) shaped the journal's intellectual direction during the Arnold years, placing it as the principal English-language venue for the cultural turn in geography. Editorial scope under both titles has favoured essayistic and theoretically engaged work alongside more conventional research articles, and the journal has been particularly influential in developing the iconography-of-landscape, geography-and-the-humanities, and non-representational-theory literatures.

Transferred to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale under the Cultural Geographies masthead, the journal has continued without editorial disruption and remains a principal humanities-facing journal in human geography.