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aaag-theory-building
Use when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in geographic theory (place, scale, space-time, environment-society, spatial process). Sharpens the argument; it does not run analyses.
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# Theory Building (aaag-theory-building)
An Annals paper is judged on the **geographic argument**, not only the result. The contribution must
do conceptual work with geography's own apparatus — space, place, scale, region, territory, landscape,
environment-society relations, spatial process — and be portable enough that other geographers can use it.
## When to trigger
- Moving from "we found X" to "X means Y for how geographers understand Z"
- A reviewer said the paper is "descriptive," "atheoretical," or "a case study without a concept"
- Deciding which geographic concept the argument advances or revises
## Build the argument with a geographic concept
