{"title":"Synoptic subjects? The Scope and methods of philosophy, geography and anthropology","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article identifies the recurring expression ‘scope and method/s’ in three published lectures by Henry Sidgwick, Halford Mackinder and James George Frazer between 1885 and 1921. It tracks transdisciplinary connections between the thought and practice of late nineteenth-century philosophy, economic science and geography, and early twentieth-century anthropology, thereby illuminating shifting perceptions, and applications, of historical geographical knowledge and imaginations in a broader speculative evolutionary epistemological scheme. At a time when science and humanities subjects were thought to be diverging, it shows that metaphorical uses of optical instruments helped draw synoptic spatio-temporal frames of reference which shaped transdisciplinary and <em>trans</em>-institutional practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"85 ","pages":"Pages 66-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748824000239/pdfft?md5=5af81a033232fd4aa7a8437abaa8ca7d&pid=1-s2.0-S0305748824000239-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140402569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword: Method, voice and politics in the history and philosophy of geography","authors":"Richard C. Powell","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This commentary reviews the papers in the special issue on the history of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group, part of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). It outlines three main themes: methodological approaches in history and philosophy of geography; the need to consider history and philosophy of geography together; and critical approaches and politics. It draws attention to the important work that HPGRG has done during its four decades of existence. It argues for enduring resonances in the history and philosophy of geography around peace, biographies and invisible labour.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"85 ","pages":"Pages 102-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748824000367/pdfft?md5=95fbb35f115f24c6c3836b5e342ed2b3&pid=1-s2.0-S0305748824000367-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142230670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographical biobibliographies: Finding a niche","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>After a career devoted to studying aspects of the geography of France, compiling biobibliographies has provided a comfortable niche for the author in his retirement. Attention is drawn in this short article to the types of source employed, informants consulted, and the range of French and British scholars memorialized in Geographers Biobibliographical Studies and in other publications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"85 ","pages":"Pages 21-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141030697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Situating knowledges, making kin and telling stories: Geographical encounters with Donna J Haraway","authors":"Beth Greenhough","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Donna Haraway has been a constant presence in geographical thought and practice over the past 30 years. From her early and very influential essay on <em>Situated Knowledges</em>, to her more recent engagements with the Anthropocene in <em>Staying with the Trouble</em>, her work has become a key reference point for questioning the production of geographical knowledge. In this commentary I trace the influence of Haraway's thought on geographical scholarship, exploring how it both shapes our disciplinary histories and provides a critical lens upon them. In particular I highlight how Haraway's work informs feminist and more-than-human geographies, resonates with Indigenous ontologies and challenges geographers to reflect critically on the implications of their positionality and provinciality for academic research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"85 ","pages":"Pages 58-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748824000513/pdfft?md5=277fbfceeee283d1075d3b0b54506594&pid=1-s2.0-S0305748824000513-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142230005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The uses of biography’: Life writing and geography","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Geographers have regularly employed biography as a means to an end, that is, as a useful method for the investigation of some other phenomenon. But writing, reading, and collecting biographical memoirs has an inherent and not just an instrumental value. Linked to memory, biography becomes a way of recalling lives, including those not personally known to the reader, and remembering how one's own life and work is connected to those of predecessors and, by implication, those of successors. This article examines how biography can be used to foster an inclusive and diverse picture of the discipline which more fully appreciates the difficulties many geographers have overcome to pursue their geographical work, and the unnamed collaborators – colleagues, friends, and family – who supported them in their work. Portraiture is introduced as a complement to written memoir, as a subject which would bear further scrutiny.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"85 ","pages":"Pages 24-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141130675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this short commentary, I reflect on my experience of writing three progress reports on the history and philosophy of geography for <em>Progress in Human Geography</em>. In so doing, I consider the challenges of identifying commonalities and narrating progress in a sub-disciplinary specialism that is often characterised by diversity in its empirical and epistemological foci. I go on to propose three possible priorities for future work in the history of geography that, sitting alongside a wider cosmopolitan and decolonial agenda, are illustrative of the sorts of empirical and conceptual progress that might render future historiography more progressive and inclusive.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"85 ","pages":"Pages 99-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140192748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The historical geography of an idea: Sustainable development in Latin America, 1972–2022","authors":"Rodrigo Álvarez-Véliz , Jonathan R. Barton","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article traces the genealogy of the idea of sustainable development in Latin America. It links perspectives from historical political ecology and the history of ideas to trace authors, conferences and major works that produced and disseminated socio-ecological knowledge relating to sustainable development in the region. Challenging the pretensions of ‘universality’ of this concept, the article presents the formulations of alternative development created by Latin American theorists that were influenced by the socio-political and socio-economic ideas prevalent in the region prior to the Brundtland report, and which established strong ties to issues of justice and rights. The North-South flow of ideas is palpable, however, there was also a South-North flow that enriched and challenged ideas such as the limits to growth through the Latin American World Model and the concept of ‘ecodevelopment’. This allowed for a Latin American construction of sustainable development that was different from other regions, and which eventually led to new formulations such as post-development, <em>buen vivir</em> and neo-extractivism. The article concludes that there were key moments, themes and contexts that led to a particular emphasis on socio-ecological justice that contrasts with ecological modernisation and environmental responsibility conceptual formulations that emerged more strongly in other regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 175-186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142089502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Despotic dominion and union Organizing: Law, property, and the historical geography of class struggle in California agribusiness","authors":"Don Mitchell","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the role of law, particularly law related to private property, in the historical geography of class struggle. At the center of the analysis is the ‘access rule’, written by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board in 1975 and struck down by the United States Supreme Court in 2021. Responding to the specific geography of California agribusiness labor relations and the long history of violent repression of workers' organizing rights, the rule allowed union organizers onto growers' property under highly constrained conditions to speak with workers about the merits of unionization. The paper traces the ‘pre-history’ of the rule – the decades of law officers and growers' efforts to deny organizers access to California's rural working class – the working of the rule during its more than forty-five years of existence, and its demise at the hands of the current, conservative supreme court. In doing so, it shows how law not only shapes class composition in particular landscapes but is an essential tool, strategically deployed, by all sides in class struggles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 163-174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030574882400080X/pdfft?md5=45c0d63d35448f7785f96feb71db4139&pid=1-s2.0-S030574882400080X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142011281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical geographies of grid city development: Mandalay from Burma to Myanmar","authors":"Thwe Thwe Lay Maw , Ducksu Seo","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper critiques Mandalay city's gridded urban development within historical urban geography, providing a non-Western perspective in an increasingly global field that transcends the Eurocentric paradigm of urban form. The study combines historical and spatial analysis, literature review, and interviews to understand how Mandalay's urban grid embodies the shifting political landscapes. King Mindon's original grid, drawn from Burmese astrology and Buddhism respectively to legitimize his ruling power and reinforce social class division. British rule shifted the grid towards administrative and economic exploitation. Under socialism, adaptations to Mandalay's grid and land redistribution efforts, while seemingly equitable, primarily benefited the elite rather than marginalized squatters. Subsequently, the State Law and Order Restoration Council manipulated the grid for real estate purposes, reflecting monarchical practices. Mandalay's grid serves as a physical expression of power and governance, symbolizing the city's evolving political landscape from Burmese kingship to contemporary Myanmar under a top-down governance system. This research enriches historical geography by revealing the interplay between political history, symbolism, and urban geographic development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 133-148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141954692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper","authors":"Joan M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>The World's Edge — The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity</em> showcases, in exhibition and book form, the work of Thomas Joshua Cooper (b. 1946) and his project to chart photographically the edges and extremities of the Atlantic Basin. Cooper's large black-and-white prints, often abstract and tied tenuously to a specific location by words, are visually arresting and intensely geographical. This essay points to Cooper's work as an imaginative geography that inspires a deep rethinking about how we encounter land, sea, and sky; map space; contemplate emptiness; label extremity; and assign meaning to place.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 127-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748824000525/pdfft?md5=645a277ee4d1f75cf14d3e203adb0c68&pid=1-s2.0-S0305748824000525-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}