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Robert J Mayhew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Historical Geography 2008—2009: Mundus alter et idem
Progress in Human Geography, 2009Co-Authors: Robert J MayhewAbstract:The 400th anniversary of the English translation of Joseph Halls’ humanist geographical tract, Mundus alter et idem, is used as the springboard for an analysis of current research in historical Geography organized around three themes: new discoveries in the History of Geography; the fascination with the cold worlds of the polar regions; and the resurgent centrality of maps and images to the practice of historical Geography. Despite pressures to conform to a ‘big science’ model, current work suggests the vibrancy of a humanist conception of historical Geography, and makes the subdiscipline an inheritor of Joseph Hall’s vision.
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materialist hermeneutics textuality and the History of Geography print spaces in british Geography c 1500 1900
Journal of Historical Geography, 2007Co-Authors: Robert J MayhewAbstract:Abstract This essay canvasses a range of recent work in literary studies and the History of science advocating a ‘materialist hermeneutic’, an approach to the study of texts which takes seriously their printed format as a bearer of expressive meaning. The essay goes on to show the role of such a hermeneutic in revising our narratives of the History of geographical thought by looking at the print format of British Geography books in the era 1500–1900. It is argued that the age of discovery created a ‘problem situation’ for geographical knowledge which was solved by the geographical grammar, this solution only collapsing with the closing of the world in the late-nineteenth century. It is further shown that the so-called ‘new’ Geography of the late-nineteenth century developed a radically different print space for Geography. The print spaces of early modern and new Geography are shown to have been key determinants of the social and intellectual positioning of Geography as a scholarly enterprise.
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Materialist hermeneutics, textuality and the History of Geography: print spaces in British Geography, c.1500–1900
Journal of Historical Geography, 2007Co-Authors: Robert J MayhewAbstract:Abstract This essay canvasses a range of recent work in literary studies and the History of science advocating a ‘materialist hermeneutic’, an approach to the study of texts which takes seriously their printed format as a bearer of expressive meaning. The essay goes on to show the role of such a hermeneutic in revising our narratives of the History of geographical thought by looking at the print format of British Geography books in the era 1500–1900. It is argued that the age of discovery created a ‘problem situation’ for geographical knowledge which was solved by the geographical grammar, this solution only collapsing with the closing of the world in the late-nineteenth century. It is further shown that the so-called ‘new’ Geography of the late-nineteenth century developed a radically different print space for Geography. The print spaces of early modern and new Geography are shown to have been key determinants of the social and intellectual positioning of Geography as a scholarly enterprise.
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Effacing and Recovering the History of Geography
Enlightenment Geography, 2000Co-Authors: Robert J MayhewAbstract:This book is an enquiry into the History of Geography. More specifically, I seek to analyse the political languages which were encoded in British geographical discourse, c.1650–1850. In order to engage in such an enquiry, we need to start with a clear understanding of what distinguishes History as a mode of scholarship from other modes, and therefore what an enquiry into the History of Geography can and cannot be about. This may appear self-evident, but, as we shall see, most enquiries which have nominally been conducted under the rubric of the History of Geography have not, in fact, been historical in their ambition. On the contrary, they have effaced Geography’s History.
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was william shakespeare an eighteenth century geographer constructing histories of geographical knowledge
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1998Co-Authors: Robert J MayhewAbstract:A Wittgensteinian view of language and meaning is employed in a modified approach to the historiography of Geography which steers between socio-economic approaches and the scepticism engendered by post-structuralist theories of language, so enabling connections between Geography and humanism to be explored. The contextual History which flows from this method is exemplified by an analysis of eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare and the approaches they adopted to discussing Shakespeare's knowledge of Geography and the natural world. The early eighteenth century edited Shakespeare in the light of subsequent knowledge of nature, thus removing him from historical context and rendering him as an eighteenth century geographer. By contrast, later editions, starting with Samuel Johnson's (1765), attempted to recover the geographical knowledge Shakespeare could have possessed in the Tudor period. The two editorial projects are related back to the religious, natural philosophical and historical beliefs of the editors. Individual intellects, the History of textuality and the shifting affiliations of Geography in the division of knowledge need to be addressed more closely in future work on the History of Geography.
Federico Ferretti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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History of Geography (Not Identical to Historical Geography)
2021Co-Authors: Federico FerrettiAbstract:This entry does not pretend exhaustivity in summarizing the bourgeoning field of current international scholarship in the History of Geography. It does not even pretend to be a compendium of any possible narrative to be defined a "History of Geography". Rather, it will focus on some current methods and research tools in the broadly defined area of the philosophy and History of Geography. This way, it will provide the reader with the most relevant updates to understand why this "subdiscipline", which is still considered as a relatively peripheral one by several geographers, is showing special vibrancy in the last years. This renewed interest in Geography's histories is based on the increasing extension of the places, periods, authors and definitions which are currently investigated by scholars, who generally use the theoretical and methodological tools of the spatial turn and of contextual readings in the History of science that successfully challenged internalism, essentialism and positivism in reading the geographical traditions. An important part of current scholarship is now committed to radicalize, internationalize and decolonize the histories of Geography, by increasingly addressing the richness, complexity and diversity of a plurality of "geographical traditions" rather than one "geographical tradition".
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Imperial ambivalences. Histories of lady travellers and the French explorer Octavie Renard-Coudreau (1867–1938)
Geografiska Annaler: Series B Human Geography, 2017Co-Authors: Federico FerrettiAbstract:This article addresses the life and works of a virtually unknown lady explorer, Octavie Renard-Coudreau (1867-1938), who continued an Amazonian exploration 'alone' after the death of her husband, the maverick French geographer Henri Coudreau (1859-1899). It extends and connects two main bodies of scholarship, the first on women travellers and feminist historical geographies, the second on scientific couples and collaborative partnerships in the History of sciences. I argue that, in addition to textual analysis, the social, biographical, cultural and political contexts of these travels allow a better understanding of the ambivalences that characterised Western travellers and scholars, both men and women, in imperial contexts. This helps avoiding essentialism and recovering the experiences of marginalised figures in the History of Geography. The story of Octavie Coudreau has elements of originality that can stimulate new reflections on these points, also because her travel experience was not in the hegemonic Anglophone context, and she was acquainted with unorthodox and dissident geographers of that time. This article also contributes to studies on the influence which anarchist geographers such as Elisée Reclus, a supporter of the Coudreaus, exerted on explorers, though Octavie seemed to keep her distance from this former socialist inspiration.
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the correspondence between elisee reclus and petr kropotkin as a source for the History of Geography
Journal of Historical Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Federico FerrettiAbstract:The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) contains a corpus of around one hundred letters sent by Elisee Reclus to Petr Kropotkin between 1882 and 1905. The correspondence is mainly concerned with their geographical works, notably the collaboration of Kropotkin with the Nouvelle Geographie Universelle (1876e1894) and the Brussels edition of Kropotkin's Orographie de la Siberie (1904), edited by Reclus. In this paper, we deal first with the importance of this source: it is an example of the material work of a network of geographers who were at the same time the founders of the international anarchist movement. We suggest the correspondence falls into two parts: the first period (1882e1886) when Reclus was in exile in Switzerland after the Paris Commune of 1871, and Kropotkin was in prison in France; and the second period (1888e1905) when the two anarchist geographers discuss the role of geographical education, historical Geography in Europe and its part in the globalisation of their era. The archive also contains significant evidence of their relationships with British Geography: Kropotkin lived in London and joined the Royal Geographical Society and was on familiar terms with leading Fellows, such as John Scott Keltie and Halford Mackinder. The paper addresses the significance of the correspondence for understanding the relationships between Geography, politics and public education, and the role of these heterodox geographers in the construction of geographical knowledge. The paper is accompanied by the publication, for the first time, of an edited selection of the letters.
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The correspondence between Élisée Reclus and Pëtr Kropotkin as a source for the History of Geography
Journal of Historical Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Federico FerrettiAbstract:The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) contains a corpus of around one hundred letters sent by Élisée Reclus to Pëtr Kropotkin between 1882 and 1905. The correspondence is mainly concerned with their geographical works, notably the collaboration of Kropotkin with the Nouvelle Géographie Universelle (1876-1894) and the Brussels edition of Kropotkin's Orographie de la Sibérie (1904), edited by Reclus. In this paper, we deal first with the importance of this source: it is an example of the material work of a network of geographers who were at the same time the founders of the international anarchist movement. We suggest the correspondence falls into two parts: the first period (1882e1886) when Reclus was in exile in Switzerland after the Paris Commune of 1871, and Kropotkin was in prison in France; and the second period (1888e1905) when the two anarchist geographers discuss the role of geographical education, historical Geography in Europe and its part in the globalisation of their era. The archive also contains significant evidence of their relationships with British Geography: Kropotkin lived in London and joined the Royal Geographical Society and was on familiar terms with leading Fellows, such as John Scott Keltie and Halford Mackinder. The paper addresses the significance of the correspondence for understanding the relationships between Geography, politics and public education, and the role of these heterodox geographers in the construction of geographical knowledge. The paper is accompanied by the publication, for the first time, of an edited selection of the letters.
Innes M. Keighren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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History and philosophy of Geography i the slow the turbulent and the dissenting
Progress in Human Geography, 2017Co-Authors: Innes M. KeighrenAbstract:This report takes as its prompt John K. Wright’s 1925 ‘plea for the History of Geography’ – an early call for an inclusive account of geographical thought and practice, embracing both professional and amateur ways of knowing. In reflecting on the extent to which contemporary histories of Geography realize the scope of Wright’s ambition, the paper considers how external pressures, such as neoliberalism and academia’s audit culture, function to shape and constrain the writing of those histories. The paper argues for the value of ‘slow’ scholarship as an act of political resistance and as a sine qua non of nuanced and comprehensive historiography. The report concludes by examining how biographical and genealogical approaches to narrating Geography’s histories have important implications for the decisions made about inclusion and exclusion, about what and who counts in Geography.
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Teaching the History of Geography: Current challenges and future directions
Progress in Human Geography, 2016Co-Authors: Innes M. Keighren, Jeremy W. Crampton, Franklin Ginn, Scott Kirsch, Audrey Kobayashi, Simon Naylor, Jörn SeemannAbstract:Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the History of Geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the History of Geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a device for cohort building and professionalization, and as a means of interrogating the disciplinary present – but also how it is challenged by neoliberal educational policies, competing priorities in curriculum design, and sub-disciplinary divisions.
Avril Maddrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The ‘Map Girls’. British women geographers’ war work, shifting gender boundaries and reflections on the History of Geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2007Co-Authors: Avril MaddrellAbstract:This paper focuses on bringing to light the little-known war work of women who used their geographical skills and training in their war service, principally under the headings of university teaching, contributing to Naval Intelligence Handbooks and working in the armed services and the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department. The research is based on archive sources, obituaries and other secondary sources, as well as a small number of oral History interviews. This work is placed in the context of debates on the gendered boundaries of public/combatant and private/non-combatant in war, and gender and the state. The significance of gender as a methodological and conceptual category in the History of Geography is discussed in the light of evidence from women geographers’ war work.
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teaching a contextual and feminist History of Geography through role play women s membership of the royal geographical society 1892 1893
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2007Co-Authors: Avril MaddrellAbstract:Focusing on the debate around women's membership of the Royal Geographical Society (UK) 1892–1893, a role play was written using archive and secondary sources and is reproduced here as a resource. In the first instance the role play makes women visible in the late nineteenth-century geographical discourse. It also shows how institutional practices, grounded in prevailing views, excluded women from institutional recognition, but that this was both local and contested. Although place and time specific, the example provided demonstrates the value of using role plays to tackle historical issues within Geography. Largely qualitative analysis of student and colleague feedback shows the importance of placing these historical issues, especially gender, in wider socioeconomic contexts and suggests that by taking this approach a time- and place-specific event allows discussion of much wider issues on the nature and practice of Geography, including notions of how geographical discursive practices have been validated...
Jörn Seemann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Teaching the History of Geography: Current challenges and future directions
Progress in Human Geography, 2016Co-Authors: Innes M. Keighren, Jeremy W. Crampton, Franklin Ginn, Scott Kirsch, Audrey Kobayashi, Simon Naylor, Jörn SeemannAbstract:Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the History of Geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the History of Geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a device for cohort building and professionalization, and as a means of interrogating the disciplinary present – but also how it is challenged by neoliberal educational policies, competing priorities in curriculum design, and sub-disciplinary divisions.