{"title":"Discovering the Quinkans: Adventures of a Young Geographer, Long Ago, in a Place Far Away","authors":"Ray Sumner","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913570","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper is a recollection of and reflection on student participation in an expedition to discover and record a vast but previously unrecognized collection of Indigenous cave art created by ancient peoples in an extremely remote location in North Queensland. Now known as Quinkan Country, it was inscribed into the Australian National Heritage List in November 2018.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":" 1031","pages":"55 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clark Akatiff, Deborah Che, Robert Gill, Bill Helmer, David Kaplan, David J. Nemeth, Marilyn O'Brien, Joseph Palis, Michael Pretes, Jörn Seemann
{"title":"Dr. Ack Rides Again: Adventures in Radical Geography, Many Small Stories, and a Banjo","authors":"Clark Akatiff, Deborah Che, Robert Gill, Bill Helmer, David Kaplan, David J. Nemeth, Marilyn O'Brien, Joseph Palis, Michael Pretes, Jörn Seemann","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913572","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper aims to tell episodes of the geographical trajectory of radical geographer Clark Akatiff based on his own reflections and statements by people who know him as friend, colleague, or teacher. The authors make a plea to pay more attention to \"small stories\" and \"minor geographies\" in studies on the history of geography and to employ unconventional narratives that provide insights into how geographers engage with the world, express their political and philosophical standpoints, inspire others, and lead an essentially geographical life. Personal accounts like Akatiff's do not oppose the dominant discourse of key thinkers in the discipline as it is told in textbooks, but enrich geography's history by revealing grassroots stories that are frequently overlooked in academia and downplayed as ephemeral, in this case the origins of radical geography in the United States and the legacy of geographer William Bunge. The authors argue that research must follow a more inclusive, multivocal approach that consists of listening to stories and recording narratives.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"93 9","pages":"120 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138623628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jim Craine, Ron Davidson, David Deis, David Lawrence, Debra Scacco, Jack Swab
{"title":"The Maps with X-Ray Eyes: The Sanborn Collection","authors":"Jim Craine, Ron Davidson, David Deis, David Lawrence, Debra Scacco, Jack Swab","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913569","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Sanborn Map Company, established in 1867, was famous for publishing highly detailed maps of the urban areas of the United States. These maps, using data collected by an army of fieldworkers and surveyors, were used by insurance underwriters to remotely assess the risk of potential clients and were bound into regularly updated volumes for each major city in the United States. However, by March 1972, Sanborn began to close shop, disposing of most of their internal archives apart from the most recently updated volumes. Recognizing the inherent value of the volumes to the field of geography, faculty from the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, undertook an expedition to Sanborn's San Francisco office to recover as many volumes as possible. Over the years, the recovered volumes have moved from room to room until finally finding a home in a climate-controlled office in Sierra Hall, on the CSUN campus. Our article highlights three very different endeavors using the Sanborn maps, in an effort to illustrate the value of the CSUN collection to scholarly and artistic projects: Dr. Ron Davidson's exploration of historical change in a small corner of downtown Los Angeles; Dr. Jim Craine's attempt to uncover the \"real\" 77 Sunset Strip, and Los Angeles-based artist Debra Scacco's Compass Rose Project, an ongoing installation using Sanborn pages as a metaphor for American history.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":" 3","pages":"27 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138617583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscape Love Letters: An Appreciation of the Larry Ford Photographic Library","authors":"Steven Graves","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913568","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay, adapted from the APCG Presidential address delivered at the eighty-fourth annual APCG conference in Bellingham, Washington, explores the substantial legacy of Larry Ford as an author and photographer. Ford's extensive research publications profoundly influenced the thinking, and indeed the career trajectory, of numerous geographers, including the author. Ford's corpus of landscape geography photography is perhaps the equal of his text-based works and is the most important photographic collection housed in the Geography Department at California State University, Northridge. To demonstrate the value of the collection, several sample images from the Ford photography collection are considered from a landscape geography perspective.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"115 19","pages":"17 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138609318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Appreciation of Carl O. Sauer's Intellectual History","authors":"Hong-key Yoon","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Based on Carl O. Sauer's taped reflections on his own academic life, this paper outlines and offers a personal appreciation of Sauer's intellectual history. I argue that Sauer's intellectual life can be conceptualized as three dialectical developmental stages: (1) the Warrenton-Calw stage, marked by general education in his hometown environment; (2) the Chicago-Ann Arbor stage, marked by steep intellectual growth and expansion of his knowledge in geography as an academic subject; and (3) the Berkeley Stage, characterized by his Mexican field work and establishment of his own form of historical-cultural geography. This paper argues that Sauer's own intellectual curiosity, rather than any external influences, was the primary factor behind his scholarly progression to successive stages. Driven by his own curiosity, Sauer covered a wide range of research themes covering physical geography, use of fire in the development of landscape, theoretical discussion of the landscape morphology, and prehistorical agricultural origins and dispersals. He was a remarkable scholar and teacher who made a significant impact on the course of geography.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"125 15","pages":"67 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138607849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sierra Nevada (California) Is a Relict Tropical Late Cretaceous Range: A Field Guide to the Evidence","authors":"Jeffrey P. Schaffer","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The notion of late-Cenozoic uplift was implied in 1865 by Whitney, who assumed a buried bedrock canyon lay beneath the Table Mountain latite flow and above the modern Stanislaus River canyon, with the difference between the two longitudinal profiles suggesting post-latite uplift. However, only a series of buried bedrock ridges exists and no uplift is inferred. I briefly present thirty-three key sites of about three hundred remnants in the entire Sierra Nevada, from north of the Feather River south to the Kern River. These include Late Cretaceous strata, Eocene strata, Oligocene rhyolites, Mio-Pliocene andesites, and Quaternary basalts, some remnants on canyon floors but most on lower slopes, preserving topography at the time of deposition. I found no evidence of late-Cenozoic incision, which is required under the late-Cenozoic uplift paradigm. Instead, each site contains verifiable field evidence that challenges the uplift paradigm. Moreover, the results are consistent with the range having a common uplift history: the crest elevation, drainage topography, and relief developed in the Late Cretaceous, and only minor changes occurred in post-Eocene time. This supports uplift studies in the northern Sierra based on hydrogen and oxygen isotopes on auriferous deposits, and supports pediment ages of 40+ Ma in the southern Sierra. Uplift studies based on thermochronology and numerical modeling, on cave-sediment dating and its implied incision, and on significant denudation on benchlands cannot be reconciled with verifiable field evidence. Finally, migration of giant sequoias southwest into the Sierra Nevada was possible only from late in the Cretaceous, when the Nevadaplano came into existence and the range was high, negating any Sierran late-Cenozoic uplift paradigm.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"121 44","pages":"121 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138609199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Notes","authors":"Craig S. Revels","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2023.a913566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2023.a913566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":" 10","pages":"11 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Arreola, Richard L. Nostrand, W. Wyckoff, C. Colten, P. Starrs
{"title":"Donald W. Meinig's Southwest at Half-Century, a Reflection and Appreciation","authors":"D. Arreola, Richard L. Nostrand, W. Wyckoff, C. Colten, P. Starrs","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change, 1600–1970, published by D. W. Meinig, is one in a series of monographs about regions of the American West. The short but comprehensive book gained wide appeal among historians as well as historical and cultural geographers, both as a research synthesis and a popular text in college-level courses. Remarkably, the book remains in print today—fifty years on—under its original publisher, Oxford University Press. This article stems from a special session presented to the Eighty-Third annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in San Diego, California, on October 15, 2021. It brings together a group of geographers, including some of Meinig's former students as well as admirers of Meinigian regional geography. Participants reflect on their relationships with Meinig, their experiences with Southwest, and how this small but influential work shaped their geographical perspectives.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130658100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weighted OWA Operators in Spatial MultiCriteria Decision-Making","authors":"Soheil Boroushaki","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper presents an implementation of a Weighted Ordered Weighted Averaging (WOWA) algorithm within a GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). Conventional OWA procedures do not account for varied relative importances of the decision evaluation criteria. This research focuses on the procedure for aggregating criteria-weights into OWA operators by implementing a special Weighted OWA (WOWA) operator that unifies conventional OWA with Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) techniques within a spatial decision context. The paper then demonstrates the application of WOWA within a vector-based spatial problem for identifying Disadvantaged Communities within San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122205474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Geographer as Bibliophile","authors":"M. Pretes","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Much can be learned about the history of geography and geographers by examining personal papers and books, including handwritten notes, jottings, marginalia, letters, inscriptions, and signatures. This essay examines some of the book inscriptions, letters, and marginal notes on materials held in the author's own personal collection by the geographers Carl O. Sauer, J. Paul Goode, Ellen Churchill Semple, T. Griffith Taylor, and Oskar Spate. The writings discussed here help to humanize our views of these geographers and reveal hidden aspects of geographic history.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133739780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}