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Trevor J. Barnes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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american Geographers and world war ii spies teachers and occupiers
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016Co-Authors: Trevor J. BarnesAbstract:This article reviews the military duties of a number of U.S. Geographers during World War II. It divides those duties into three kinds: spies, teachers, and occupiers. In each case, a specific form of geographical expertise was deployed—instrumental to achieving a particular military end. In particular, the article examines the roles of Geographers: first, in the analysis of military intelligence at the Office of Strategic Services; second, in the provision of geographical courses for the university-based Civil Affairs Training School and the Army Specialized Training Program; and, finally, as agents of occupation in Japan once World War II ended.
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Continental European Geographers and World War II
Journal of Historical Geography, 2015Co-Authors: Daniel Clayton, Trevor J. BarnesAbstract:Abstract This special issue considers the lives and work of Continental European Geographers during World War II. There is a range of work on the complicity of American and British Geographers in this global conflict, but barely any consideration of Geographers in mainland Europe. The six essays collected here provide detailed biographical and regionally specific case studies of the entanglements between geography and war in France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Romania and The Soviet Union between 1939 and 1945. This introduction delineates this important gap in the literature on the liaison between geography, Geographers and World War II, and flags a number of ways in which it might be conceptualised and contextualised.
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reopke lecture in economic geography notes from the underground why the history of economic geography matters the case of central place theory
Economic Geography, 2012Co-Authors: Trevor J. BarnesAbstract:The discipline of Anglo-American economic geography seems to care little about its history. Its practitioners tend toward the “just do it” school of scholarship, in which a concern with the present moment in economic geography subordinates all else. In contrast, I argue that it is vital to know economic geography’s history. Historical knowledge of our discipline enables us to realize that we are frequently “slaves of some defunct” economic geographer; that we cannot escape our geography and history, which seep into the very pores of the ideas that we profess; and that the full connotations of economic geographic ideas are sometimes purposively hidden, secret even, revealed only later by investigative historical scholarship. My antidote: “notes from the underground,” which means a history of economic geography that delves below the reported surface. This history is often subversive, contradicting conventional depictions; it is antirationalist, querying universal (timeless) foundations; it seeks out deliberately hidden and buried economic geographic practices, relying on sources literally found underground—personal papers and correspondence stored in one subterranean archive or another. To exemplify the importance of notes from the underground, I present an extended case study—the 20th-century development of central place theory, associated with two economic Geographers: the German, Walter Christaller (1893–1969), and the American, Edward L. Ullman (1912–76).
Andrés Rodríguez-pose - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Economic Geographers and the Limelight: Institutions and Policy in the "World Development Report 2009"
Economic Geography, 2010Co-Authors: Andrés Rodríguez-poseAbstract:The reaction of economic Geographers to the World Bank’s World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography has so far been a corporatist turf-protecting exercise. The report has been dismissed as the work of economists who completely ignore a rich tradition of work by “proper” economic Geographers. However, this negative response has prevented Geographers from engaging constructively with the World Bank’s analysis and proposals. In this article, I argue that, while the report presents an accurate diagnosis of recent development trends and should be praised for its flexibility in providing numerous policy alternatives, Geographers can significantly contribute by promoting a discussion around two key issues in the report: its treatment of institutions and its recommendation of spatially blind policies.
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Economic Geographers and the limelight: the reaction to the 2009 World Development Report
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Andrés Rodríguez-poseAbstract:The reaction of economic Geographers to the World Bank's World Development Report 2009 – Reshaping Economic Geography – has so far been a corporatist turf-protecting exercise. The report has been dismissed as the work of economists who completely ignore a rich tradition of work by ‘proper’ economic Geographers. However, this negative response has prevented Geographers from engaging constructively with the World Bank’s analysis and proposals. In this note I argue that, while the report presents an accurate diagnosis of recent development trends and should be praised for its flexibility in providing numerous policy alternatives, Geographers can significantly contribute to promote a discussion around two key issues in the report: its treatment of institutions and its recommendation of spatially-blind policies.
Eric Sheppard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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forum on geography and militarism an introduction
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016Co-Authors: Eric Sheppard, James A TynerAbstract:The discipline of geography has a long albeit uneven engagement with militarism. This is witnessed in the on-going efforts of Geographers to influence military policy as well as the development of technologies used in military action. This forum, based on papers originally presented at the 2014 Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, provides a critical introduction to contemporary issues related to geographies of militarism. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that Geographers located within the nonmilitary academy have failed to reflect adequately on the implications of militarism on the discipline. Consequently, we forward the argument that the American Association of Geographers must initiate a review of the relationship between academic geography and militarism.
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trade globalization and uneven development entanglements of geographical political economy
Progress in Human Geography, 2012Co-Authors: Eric SheppardAbstract:Mainstream geographical economics propagates the free trade doctrine, presenting capitalism as entailing, but capable of overcoming, uneven geographical development. Geographers have failed to enga...
L U Dadao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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development of geographical sciences and research on global change in china
Acta Geographica Sinica, 2011Co-Authors: L U DadaoAbstract:Geographical research in China has witnessed great changes in the past 10 years. It is mainly involved in global change research in a wide range of fields. This paper presents the main topics of global change and the roles that Geographers will play in these studies. It indicates that the long-term rapid economic growth in China has a much greater impact on environmental change than the atmospheric warming does. Thus Geographers should put emphasis on the relevant major regional issues as well as the trends in the global change research.
Mark Purcell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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space scale governance and representation contemporary geographical perspectives on urban politics and policy
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2003Co-Authors: Deborah G Martin, Eugene Mccann, Mark PurcellAbstract:Urban studies has long been an interdisciplinary field, drawing from, among other disciplines, anthropology, geography, history, planning, political science, and sociology. Geographers in urban stu...
