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phg-literature-positioning
Use when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your intervention sits. Positions the essay in the field; it does not build the synthetic argument (see phg-argument-synthesis).
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# Literature Positioning (phg-literature-positioning)
A PiHG review is judged partly on **command of a literature** — reviewers are usually leading figures in
the field, and they will notice what you missed, misread, or misattributed. This skill defines the
**corpus** (what you are reviewing and why), maps its **camps and debates**, and locates your **entry
point** so the essay reads as an authoritative, fair, and current intervention rather than a partial or
dated survey.
## When to trigger
- Assembling and bounding the literature the essay will review
- Mapping who argues what, and where the real disagreements lie
- A reviewer said coverage is "partial," "dated," "US/UK-centric," or "misreads camp X"
- Deciding whose work anchors the debate and whose is peripheral