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phg-critical-intervention
Use when making the critical move at the heart of a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — naming what the field misses, mistakes, or takes for granted, and re-ordering the debate. Sharpens the critical turn; it does not build the synthetic spine (see phg-argument-synthesis) or frame the forward agenda (see phg-contribution-framing).
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# Critical Intervention (phg-critical-intervention)
PiHG is a **critical** review journal. A survey that is comprehensive and fair but says nothing the field
does not already know is a desk-reject. The essay must make a **critical intervention**: identify what the
literature has been getting wrong — an unexamined assumption, a false binary, a blind spot, a concept doing
covert work — and **re-order the debate** around a better account. This is the move that turns a review
into a *Progress* essay.
## When to trigger
- You have a synthesis but reviewers would ask "so what does this change?"
- Deciding what, specifically, the field has been getting wrong
- Distinguishing genuine critique from mere summary-with-attitude
- A reviewer said the piece is "even-handed but toothless" or "adds nothing"