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{"title":"Priests in the observatory: rethinking climate science and religion in a warming world","authors":"A. Bobbette","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2157866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2157866","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay considers the possibilities of re-thinking what a climate change observatory might be. Rather than reproducing science as usual, climate change observatories assembled with faith institutions, might open new potential for experimental environmental knowledge practices. The essay examines these ideas through an account of an experimental environmental observatory based in churches in the Solomon Islands.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44057420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Encountering COP26 as a security event: a short walking ethnography","authors":"H. Parr","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2125563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2125563","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper represents a short ethnographic encounter with the site of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow in 2021. It communicates an experiential picturing of the site as it was assembled and disassembled, as this was recorded in notes, conversations, via phone footage and in a short talk afterwards with human geography colleagues at the University of Glasgow. The paper seeks to make sense of this short experiential encounter by drawing from scholarship on ethnography, security and events of emergency assemblage. The paper concludes by reflection on the ordinary purpose of walking sites of climate security and emergency.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47224363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professor Roderick Brown (1962–2022)","authors":"David Brown, C. Persano, Iain Neill, D. Fabel","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2146175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2146175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Irish literature in transition","authors":"G. Kearns","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2140187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2140187","url":null,"abstract":"This six-volume series captures the dynamic energies transmitted over more than 300 years of the established literary landmarks that constitute Irish literary life. Ambitious in scope and depth, and accommodating new critical perspectives and approaches, Irish Literature in Transition captures the ongoing changes in the Irish literary canon. Each of the six volumes revises our understanding of established issues and texts and, simultaneously, introduces new questions, approaches","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44365368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial","authors":"P. Harrison","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2137734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2137734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper offers a reading of the work of the artist Rachel Whiteread. The reception of Whiteread's work has focused on its site-specific, symbolic and memorial nature, the work understood as a series of mediations of and metonymies for hidden social and personal contexts and histories. The paper claims that such accounts overlook what may be a more radical and disquieting aspect of Whiteread’s work; that Whiteread’s sculptures may be understood as not primarily concerned with memory work, but rather with the limitations and failures thereof. Through this other reading, the paper reflects on the nature of the social relation, on the relation of one to the other, and the possibilities for thinking this relation as irreducible to any specific property, attribute, substance, or predicate. Following Whiteread, the paper sets out the ways in which we may understand and know this irreducibility, arguing that, in presenting us with the limits of memory work, Whiteread’s sculptures engage us another mode of signification. Specifically, a mode of de-signification. Hence, the paper proposes a ‘theory of de-signification’; de-signification describing a naming by not naming and the way in which the irreducibility of the social relation and the other make themselves known as other.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47194938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The geography of geographical education in Scotland: who studies geography and why?","authors":"I. Selmes, Alastair McConnell, J. Bruce","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2146174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2146174","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Scotland there is on-going concern about the status of geography in education. The numbers of pupils studying geography has been falling, as has the number of universities offering the subject. All when the relevance and importance of geography should be high, given the significance of issues such as climate and biodiversity change. Who studies geography is crucial knowledge for a vibrant discipline seeking to engage with relevant actors to grow the subject and perceptions of its value. This paper combines quantitative data for academic years ending 2016–2021 from the Scottish Pupil Census with Scottish Qualification Authority geography entry and attainment statistics for secondary school pupils, plus Higher Education Statistics Agency figures for undergraduate and postgraduate geographers in Scottish universities. It shows that the tide may now be turning for geography study in Scotland, entries are rising at all stages as its attainment. There remain huge differences between local authorities. Female students tend to predominate, as do learners in the lowest deprivation quintiles. The empirical knowledge of characteristics of who is studying geography at each national stage of education in Scotland is enlightening. The question for all professional geographers is how we might together improve on the current situation.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43793387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obituaries in the Scottish Geographical Journal","authors":"C. Philo","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2152859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2152859","url":null,"abstract":"This year my own home department, the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences (GES) at the University of Glasgow, has lost two much-valued colleagues: Emeritus Professor Paul Bishop (1949-2022), leading physical geographer, earth scientist and scholar of long-term human-environment relations, and Professor Roderick Brown (1962-2022), an earth scientist who worked occasionally with geographers. To lose two such mainstays of the one department in such a short space of time is extremely tough for colleagues, and added poignancy here arises because of how much the research and teaching of Paul and Rod had intersected over many years. Indeed, Rod was going to be a speaker at a GES event commemorating Paul that we held in September 2022: in practice, the resonances of Rod’s loss quietly sounded throughout this event, chiming into our reflections on and for Paul. The plan is to publish a selection of pieces in an issue next year (2023) commemorating Paul’s academic life and work, while an obituary for Rod is included in the current issue. Alongside that for Rod, this issue also contains an obituary for Professor Akin Mabogunje (1931-2022), an eminent Nigerian geographer regarded as one of the most prominent representatives of academic geography from and about Africa. Rod’s Scottish connection is obvious, Mabogunje’s less so, but in fact Mabogunje was a recipient in 1984 of the Centenary Medal (now the Coppock Medal) of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS), the only African ever to receive this honour. It is interesting to consider the status and history of obituaries as these have appeared over the nearly 140 years of the journal’s existence, initially as the Scottish Geographical Magazine (SGM) and subsequently as the Scottish Geographical Journal (SGJ) (Philo et al., 2022). A basic search (as of late-November 2022) on ‘Obituary’ using the journal website’s search function generates 396 results. One is a thought-provoking ‘obituary’ for the ‘death of a subject’, meaning the teaching programme (and recognisably distinct department) of Geography at the University of Strathclyde (Chan, 2011), while others are historiographic papers drawing upon obituaries as sources for reconstructing the past lives and contributions of geographers or explorers (e.g. Maddrell, 1997; Murray, 2013; Philip & Edwards, 2019). The majority of results do identify obituaries for named individuals, however, some being wellknown figures from Geography’s disciplinary history in Scotland: e.g. J. Scott Keltie (18501927: Chisholm, 1927); George G. Chisholm (1855-1930; R.N.R.B., 1928); J.W. Gregory (1864-1932: Anon, 1932); Marion Isabel Newbigin (1869-1934: Anon, 1934); James Wreford Watson (1915-1990: Crosbie, 1991); Joy Tivy (1924-1995: Caird, 1996); and John Terrence (Terry) Coppock (1921-2000: Rhind, 2000). Other names are of prominent geographers from outwith Scotland, although in such instances the obituary-writer often references Scottish connections, personal, profe","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48689275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors influencing the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: the case of seven horticultural farms in the United Kingdom","authors":"D. Feliciano","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2151041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2151041","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The production of fruits and vegetables is expected to increase in the United Kingdom (UK) as a response to increasing consumers’ demand, coupled with impacts of Brexit on the imports from the European Union (EU). Retailers and consumers are more aware of the environmental impact and provenance of food and are demanding to their suppliers to implement sustainable agricultural practices. Seven horticultural farmers and farm managers across the UK were interviewed to investigate the implementation of sustainable practices, and the motivations and enablers for adoption, as well as perceptions on sustainability and climate change. Factors influencing adoption mainly were efficiency and cost reduction, regulations, and market demand, even though, environmental, and social consciousness also played a role in adoption. There was little evidence that participation in knowledge networks or the perception of climate change and impacts, and of carbon footprint assessments influenced the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, but this finding deserves further investigation. Farmers’ awareness of the importance of soil was clear and governments should encourage farmers’ involvement in the monitoring of soil health, as a mean of engaging them in the wider discussion about the implementation of sustainable land management, including climate change adaptation and mitigation.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49106381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professor Akin Mabogunje (1931–2022)","authors":"J. Briggs","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2146738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2146738","url":null,"abstract":"Professor Akin Mabogunje, often referred to as the Father of African Geography, passed away in August 2022 at the age of 90 years. Professor Mabogunje was the recipient of the RSGS’s Centenary Medal (now the Coppock Medal). in 1984, the first and, to date, only African to receive it. He was also the first African President of the International Geographical Union and served in this position from 1980 to 1984, as well as being the first African to be elected as Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1999. ProfessorMabogunje was one of themost distinguishedAfrican scholars of his generation, his work focusing onurban geography and regional planning, and hewas central to the development of Geography as a university subject not only in Nigeria but across the continent of Africa. Such was his intellect and talent that he was the first Nigerian to be made a professor when he was appointed to theChair ofGeography at theUniversity of Ibadan in1965at the ageof only 34years. Professor Mabogunje published many papers and books during his long career, with perhaps the most notable being the single-authored monograph Urbanization in Nigeria, published in 1968, and then another such monograph The Development Process: a Spatial Perspective, published in 1980. In his work, Mabogunje challenged the relevance of western explanations of urban development in relation to the urbanisation process in Africa. He argued that the growth and development of African urban areas were subject to three limiting conditions, as he called them, these being: the importance of surplus food production for consumption by the urban population; the existence of a small group of powerful people who provided the political leadership and stability to allow urban growth to take place; and an active class of traders and merchants to drive the economic growth of African urban areas. For Mabogunje, simply and uncritically transferring theories of urban growth developed in North America and Europe provided little meaningful explanation of urbanisation in an African setting. He was arguably the first geographer to ‘Africanise’ thinking and to break out of the colonial mindset and mode of thought. It is fitting that Professor Mabogunje should be remembered as one of the greats of African Geography, but also in the eyes of many, myself included, one of the greats of world Geography.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45618107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A ‘geographer of the soul’: James M. Houston’s voyage from geography to theology","authors":"C. Philo","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2125562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2125562","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the year of his 100th birthday, this contribution considers the unusual story of Scottish geographer James Macintosh Houston (1922-). Following his passage from undergraduate geographer at the University of Edinburgh to postdoctorate and then lecturer in geography at the University of Oxford, aspects of Houston’s approach to geography – increasingly a cultural-historical geography, sometimes framed by him as the ‘history of ideas’ – are reconstructed. Narrating his dramatic change of career circa 1970, from academic geographer at Oxford to academic and practising theologian at Regent College, Vancouver, continuities are uncovered between Houston’s geography and his theology. Particular attention is paid to his pioneering essay from 1978, the only one obviously directed back to geography from his new theological orbit, and one that should arguably be better-known as a profound statement of a humanistic geography critical of humanity becoming drawn into an abusive relationship with the world predicated on abstracted space rather than meaningful place(s). Drawing upon the example of Houston, reflections are offered on the relations between ‘geographical theology’ and ‘theological geography’.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49558289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}