ABSTRACT
‘Where?’ is often one of the most powerful questions that you can ask in any research project. Asking this question allows you to ground and contextualize your work into discrete geographic units. Location is often used as a proxy for many other variables, patterns, processes and meanings. If you read about a study in Rhode Island, USA, or the Rift Valley in Kenya, you immediately recognize those places as not only fundamentally different and distant from one another, but you are also likely to contextualize those places within pre-existing understandings about culture, economics, politics and environment.
