{"title":"Industrial Obelisks: Working-class memory and Barcelona's chimney-monuments","authors":"Brian Rosa","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study critically examines the transformation of industrial chimneys into monuments within Barcelona's deindustrializing urban landscapes. Since the 1970s, redevelopment contexts and reimaging strategies have led to the conservation of industrial chimneys as public art and historic monuments. This paper explores the intersection of urban memory, heritage, and transformation in Barcelona, highlighting the absence of a coherent ‘Authorized Heritage Discourse’ and the resulting ambiguity in the meaning of these monuments. Analyzing this unique heritage practice, the study considers its impact on historic memory and working-class identity within the city's urban fabric. The research situates chimney-monuments within broader discussions on postindustrial redevelopment, urban design, heritage conservation, and public memory amidst deindustrialization. By examining the symbolic and material dimensions of industrial chimneys within Barcelona's political-economic shifts and contemporary social movements, the paper unpacks their polysemic meanings. This analysis contributes to local debates and reflects broader European trends. The study questions how these monuments are integrated into working-class memory politics and shifting heritage regimes. Recognizing that historic monuments are dynamic material and cultural processes subject to ongoing resignification, the paper concludes with a discussion on the potential roles of insurgent heritage practices in connecting past and present social struggles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 454-465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143170887","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":"Governing the private scales of families and homes: Visiting nurses and Turkey's mobilization of consumptive care","authors":"Kyle T. Evered , Emine Ö. Evered","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the visiting nurses of western empires and nation-states performed vital labor in combating tuberculosis (TB). Their hybrid role combined modern nursing and social work, typically benefitting from civil society organizations. In late Ottoman and early republican Turkey, tuberculosis resulted in many fatalities. To overcome this biopolitical challenge, the state prioritized creating a network of dispensaries and visiting nurses. Going into citizens' homes and communities, these nurses were to both educate the public on TB prevention and treatment and report their health and personal data to the state. Envisioned as essential public health agents, visiting nurses bridged gaps in hygiene education and demographic data collection. However, the republic struggled with insufficient resources to recruit, train, and deploy them effectively. Our study explores the evolving vision of leveraging women's labor for public health and geopolitical aims. By analyzing key thinkers' writings, legislative efforts, and the delayed realization of a visiting nurse corps post-1945, we highlight efforts to professionalize women and expand their societal roles. These mobile public health initiatives not only advanced women's status but also marked a significant development in Turkey's public health and medical governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 439-448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142747533","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":"Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain, Corinne Fowler. Allen Lane, London (2024), 432 pages, £25.00 hardback","authors":"Alan Lester","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review article sets Corinne Fowler's new book in the context of the political struggle over Britain's colonial past, often referred to as a ‘culture war’. It identifies this struggle specifically as a right wing backlash against Black Lives Matter, notes how Fowler has been targeted by its protagonists, and examines how she has responded with this a book intended to inform, ameliorate and encourage enjoyment of contested British landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 451-453"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746319","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":"Mapping Europe in war and peace, 1915–1919: B. C. Wallis and the 1919 Peoples of Austria-Hungary geographical handbook and atlas","authors":"Róbert Győri , Charles W.J. Withers","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper examines <em>The Peoples of Austria-Hungary</em> geographical handbook and the accompanying <em>Atlas of Austria-Hungary</em>, published by Britain's Naval Intelligence Division in 1919 and, in greater detail, the antecedent mapping and statistical studies of Bertie Cotterell Wallis, a London schoolteacher, who undertook to study Hungary's nationalities and demography from 1915 as part of the 1:1 M mapping project coordinated by Arthur Hinks in the Royal Geographical Society in London. The paper is the first study of a geographical handbook for World War I and the first to recognise Wallis's involvement and significance. The paper extends geographical studies of mapping and border-making in Europe during and after the First World War. The paper addresses the implications of Wallis's work on the 1919 <em>Handbook</em> and <em>Atlas</em>: for studies of geographical authorship and map making, understanding the nature of the British geographical community at this time, and for illuminating the connections between geography, mapping and military intelligence in Britain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 428-438"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142720881","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":"","authors":"Joan M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 422-423"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705754","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":"Projecting the world: The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920","authors":"Margo Buelens-Terryn , Thomas Smits","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article studies the virtual world(s) that Belgian audiences encountered through the multimodal mass medium of the projection lantern in the early twentieth century. In contrast to previous work, we move from studying the visual representation of a single place in a small number of projection slides to examining the virtual world(s) that the lantern medium enabled. To achieve this overview, we produce and analyze a database of announcements and reviews of 5673 unique lectures lantern lectures published in Antwerp and Brussels newspapers in three sample periods (1902–1904, 1914–1918, and 1922–1924). Oscillating between distant reading the database and close reading individual announcements, we chart the virtual world(s) of this multimodal mass medium in Belgium: the parts of the globe that became visible – be it in a positive or negative projection light – and the parts that remained underexposed. We show that in this virtual world, the Belgian colony of Congo was relatively close, while it was almost impossible to visit South America. While previous research has underlined the representation of far-away and exotic places, our research demonstrates that audiences most prominently used the projection lantern to take trips in their own country. By analyzing the virtual geography on multiple scales —continents, countries, and cities— we show how Belgian audiences experienced the world through the lens of a particular medium, uncovering the complex interplay between technology, media, and geographical imagination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 403-421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696378","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}