Things Are How They Are Because of How They Got That Way: Thoughts from the Beach, on 50 Years of Geographical Analysis

© 2019 The Ohio State University The subtitle of Geographical Analysis is “An International Journal of Theoretical Geography”, yet in fifty years of publication little has been published in the journal that fits that remit. In this short commentary I reflect on the nature of theory and explanation in geography and call for more sustained engagement with these themes in the pages of the journal in the years to come.