{"title":"(Post)colonial worlding in Jordan's nature reserves: Conservation, racial science, and national identity","authors":"Olivia Mason","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 1960s saw a series of British expeditions to Jordan to establish protected areas. By carefully examining archival material pertaining to these expeditions, I demonstrate how these expeditions, and the protected areas they sought to establish, constituted crucial acts of (post)colonial worlding. These expeditions took place almost twenty years after the end of administrative colonialism in 1947 and reveal how conservation in Jordan remained entangled in colonial knowledge production and spatial control. I trace how conservation agendas in these expeditions were shaped by racial science, environmental orientalism, and geopolitical alliances, influencing both material practices and cultural framings of nature. When turning to the relationship between Jordanian elites and conservation, I demonstrate how (post)colonial identity struggles became central to conservation. A decolonial reading of the archive illuminates not only the dominance of colonial narratives but also the absence of Jordanian archival materials. Yet what is available, offers conservation framings rooted in geopolitics, mobility, and national identity. This paper advances two arguments. First, historical geographical approaches to (post)colonial worldmaking must engage more critically with conservation. Second, decolonial approaches to the archive demonstrate how conservation participates in worldmaking projects. Attending to archival presences and silences is key to forging more equitable conservation futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 118-131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291346","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":"What Have We Here? Re-discovering colonialism at the British Museum","authors":"Felix Driver","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This essay is prompted by What Have We Here?, an exhibition by Hew Locke, Isabel Seligman and Indra Khanna at the British Museum, 17 October 2024 to 9 February 2025. The accompanying book was published by The British Museum Press in 2024.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 168-172"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291350","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":"Tracing spazio and tempo: Historical geographies in Italy (2020–2024)","authors":"Nicola Gabellieri","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This ‘Historical Geographies’ paper provides a review of historical geography publications in the Italian language for the 2020–2024 period. The aim is to assess the main research trends by focusing on academic production in Italian and, therefore, to update previous bibliographic studies. Methodologically, the paper outlines the criteria used to identify the publications taken into consideration, from which key areas of discussion have emerged: the history of cartography and of geographical knowledge; Historical GIS; the history of landscapes and territories; the emerging of new methods, sources and interdisciplinary approaches. In conclusion, the study highlights the importance of fostering historical geographical research that addresses contemporary challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291376","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":"Communist literary internationalism and worldmaking in the twentieth century: Kerala and the Soviet Union","authors":"Anand Sreekumar","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>My paper explores the dynamics of twentieth-century literary manifestations of communist internationalism in the southern Indian region of Kerala vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. Drawing from Allan Pasco's notion of the literature-archive, I illustrate how communist internationalism in Kerala was expressed in terms of worldmaking in three chronological periods in response to political and literary shifts at the local, national and global levels. The first period deals with early engagements of the literature-archive from the 1910s till the 1930s, marked by a yearning for an amorphously defined new world characterised by individualised political canonical engagements with individuals associated with Marxism as well as situational identification with the worlds of Tsarist Russia and Soviet Union. The prominence of the progressive literature movement from the late-1930s until the late 1940s resulted in the emergence of multiple literary-political circles that wrought various imaginations of a socialist realist egalitarian internationalist world, producing and contesting various visions of Soviet Union. Finally, in the third period, I deal with how the Cold War context enabled the perpetuation of these literary contestations as well as the diffusion of a new mode of the cultural internationalism of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union from the 1950s till the 1980s making and contesting Soviet utopias in travelogs and children's literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 108-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291345","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":"Mapping Karen Parker's Journal: Student archival interpretation as feminist geographic worldmaking pedagogy","authors":"Lara Lookabaugh , Banu Gökarıksel , Sarah Carrier","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper draws on an undergraduate archives project to consider student archival interpretation as a worldmaking feminist geographic pedagogy. In Spring of 2021, we embedded an archives-based digital humanities project into GEOG124: Feminist Geographies. The project had students map, analyze, and contextualize the archival journal of Karen Parker, accomplished journalist and the first Black undergraduate woman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The journal she kept as a student is a prized archival object in UNC's Wilson Library. In it, she describes her experience as both a student and leader in the Civil Rights movement against Jim Crow segregation. Student work to visualize her journal spatially onto the campus and town landscapes provided new ways to understand university and town histories. Through spatial and temporal interpretation of this archival object, which included consulting and learning from Parker in the present day, students brought together their own experiences of campus life and histories of struggle on their everyday landscapes. Students challenged official progress narratives to center the work of student activists and identified with recent histories more intimately. This project highlights not only archives themselves as worldmaking institutions but the practice of interpreting materials as also worldmaking.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 146-156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291348","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}
Awadhendra Sharan , Li Zhang , Louis S. Warren , Margarita Gascón , Mike Hulme , Simon Naylor , David N. Livingstone
{"title":"David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate: A History of An Idea","authors":"Awadhendra Sharan , Li Zhang , Louis S. Warren , Margarita Gascón , Mike Hulme , Simon Naylor , David N. Livingstone","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 173-178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291351","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}