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Cheryl Mcgeachan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Historical Geography III: Hope persists:
Progress in Human Geography, 2017Co-Authors: Cheryl McgeachanAbstract:The final report in this series focuses on the emerging intersections between Historical Geography, archaeology and the law. Whilst staying attuned to the darkest of geographies emerging from the s...
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Historical Geography II: Traces remain
Progress in Human Geography, 2016Co-Authors: Cheryl McgeachanAbstract:The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in Historical Geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which Historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces through varied biographical terrains. Continuing to draw attention in Historical Geography to the darkest of histories, this piece will pivot on moments of discovering the dead to showcase the nuanced ways in which Historical Geography is opening doors into uncharted lives and unspoken histories.
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Historical Geography I What remains
Progress in Human Geography, 2014Co-Authors: Cheryl McgeachanAbstract:This report uses the First World War as a way to open up current debates into issues of bodies, selves, battlefields, memory and death in Historical Geography and beyond. Sweeping through a range of scales, from the global nature of imperialist practices to the intimate spaces of the psyche, this report highlights the contributions that Historical geographers are making to these studies and the creative approaches taken. The aim is to expose the need for Historical Geography to engage with the darkest corners of human experience, in relation to conflict, so as to learn from the past in present insecure times.
Xiong Mei - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Regional study of Geography and the approach of regional Historical Geography
Progress in geography, 2013Co-Authors: Xiong MeiAbstract:The history of regional study of Geography,as a process of constant review and improvement,has four stages: writing of regional chronicles,description and interpretation of regional differences,quantitative analysis of spatial relationship,and thorough analysis of social process.In fact,the setbacks and revitalizations of modern regional Geography study reflect the process in which this discipline benefits from the applications and geographic perspectives of the knowledge and theories of other schools with different philosophical bases and makes breakthroughs in the staggering and isolated research field of traditional regional Geography.In the meantime,regional Historical Geography follows the footsteps of regional study of Geography.Oriented toward the objects,paradigms and methodologies of regional Geography,regional Historical Geography gradually has developed the research fields such as: continuous geographic horizontal cross-section reconstruction,regional cultural landscape ecology,location and structure-function system research,and comprehensive studies of regional division,categorization and classification.Since 1970s,regional Historical Geography has learned to pay more attention to the study of history and culture from regional Geography and has gradually moved into the contemporary Historical Geography "conception" stage.In the past thirty years,the scholars of Historical Geography in China have made some achievements in the fields of regional Historical Geography through learning the methodologies and paradigms from their counterparts.However,both the theoretical construction and case study in China are still lagging behind the West.The development of regional Historical Geography in China can't do without the basic principles and methods of regional Geography.We should be oriented to the enlightenment of new regional Geography: from traditional research with static descriptions into a thorough analysis of social,cultural and economic aspects,and gradually form a regional system with the integrations of the theories of physical Geography,landscape science,regional science,spatial economics,and praxiology.Adhering to the concepts of "people","place",and "system",we should strengthen the research on the influences of social structure and process on economic development,pay attention to operation process and mechanism of regional systems,understand the interactions among the regions,and make in-depth analysis on characteristics of specific regions.We need to be good at not only explaining natural phenomena with natural reasons and the social phenomena with social reasons,but also explaining the social phenomena with natural reasons and natural phenomena with social reasons.It is important to strengthen the communication between Historical Geography and regional Geography and closely follow the international academic trends and the latest academic achievements.
Karl Offen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Historical Geography iii climate matters
Progress in Human Geography, 2014Co-Authors: Karl OffenAbstract:My third report covering recent research in Historical Geography focuses on climate, and particularly scholarship that explores how the meaning of climate and climate change varies in distinct cultural and temporal contexts. Viewing climate science, and more specifically interpretations of climate science, as a discourse amenable to cultural criticism suggests that notions of climate are and have always been a physical and social phenomenon. Reviewed research suggests that ideas of climate and climate change are intertwined with social mores, politics and institutions, philosophies of civilization and progress, and inseparable from the cultural expressions that give them meaning and, thus, are far too important to be left to climate scientists to narrate or interpret.
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Historical Geography II Digital imaginations
Progress in Human Geography, 2012Co-Authors: Karl OffenAbstract:In my second report discussing the state of Historical Geography, I review some of the ways Historical geographers have made use of digital technologies and digital media. I also highlight how digital data, research, and presentation are affecting related humanities disciplines and inspiring their practitioners to engage more fully with geographic concepts of space, place, and cartography. I argue that information technologies and digital media can deepen the place of Historical Geography in the academy and in the public’s eye.
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Historical Geography I: Vital traditions
Progress in Human Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Karl OffenAbstract:In the first of three reports outlining the current state of Historical Geography, I review recently published work from three research themes: the geographic imagination (maps and cartography), geographies of knowledge, and society-nature geographies. I argue that these themes build upon important and dynamic, or vital, traditions within the subfield.
Andre Reyes Novaes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Historical Geography as an international discipline 1975 2015 responses
The Geographical Journal, 2016Co-Authors: Laura Cameron, Isla Forsyth, Aki Yamamura, Andre Reyes NovaesAbstract:This commentary is a compilation of four responses to a paper by Alan R. H. Baker on the internationalisation of Historical Geography, originally given during the plenary session of the 2015 International Conference of Historical Geographers, and published in The Geographical Journal (Baker 2015). The oral versions of these (international) responses were presented by Laura Cameron (Canada), Isla Forsyth (UK), Aki Yamamura (Japan) and Andre Reyes Novaes (Brazil); Mona Domosh (USA) also contributed to the oral session.
Laura Cameron - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Historical Geography as an international discipline 1975 2015 responses
The Geographical Journal, 2016Co-Authors: Laura Cameron, Isla Forsyth, Aki Yamamura, Andre Reyes NovaesAbstract:This commentary is a compilation of four responses to a paper by Alan R. H. Baker on the internationalisation of Historical Geography, originally given during the plenary session of the 2015 International Conference of Historical Geographers, and published in The Geographical Journal (Baker 2015). The oral versions of these (international) responses were presented by Laura Cameron (Canada), Isla Forsyth (UK), Aki Yamamura (Japan) and Andre Reyes Novaes (Brazil); Mona Domosh (USA) also contributed to the oral session.