This article offers a critical appraisal of institutionalised knowledge production and exchange on the history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom. We examine broad epistemic trends over 41 years (1981–2021) through an analysis of annual conference sessions and special events convened by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). We show how organisational, sociocultural, and epistemic changes were coproduced, as expressed by three significant findings. Organisationally, the group emerged through shared philosophical interests of two early career geographers at Queen's University of Belfast in 1981 and received new impetus through its strategic plan 1995–1997, which inspired long-term research collaborations. Socioculturally, the group's activities contributed to national traditions of geographical thought and praxis in masculinist academic environments, with instances of internationalisation, increasing feminisation, and organisational cooperation. Epistemically, the group's events in the 1980s shaped contextualist, constructivist, and critical approaches, and coproduced new cultural geography, but the emphasis shifted from historically sensitive biographical, institutional, and geopolitical studies of geographical knowledges, via critical, postcolonial, and feminist geographies of knowledge-making practices in the 1990s, to more-than-human and more-than-representational geographies in the early twenty-first century.

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地理学对话：英国四十年地理学历史和哲学之旅


本文对英国地理学历史和哲学的制度化知识生产和交流进行了批判性评估。我们通过分析英国皇家地理学会地理历史与哲学研究小组 (HPGRG) 与英国地理学家研究所 (RGS- IBG）。我们展示了组织、社会文化和认知变化是如何共同产生的，正如三个重要发现所表达的那样。在组织上，该小组于 1981 年因贝尔法斯特女王大学两位早期职业地理学家的共同哲学兴趣而诞生，并通过 1995-1997 年的战略计划获得了新的动力，激发了长期的研究合作。在社会文化方面，该团体的活动促进了男性主义学术环境中地理思想和实践的民族传统，包括国际化、女性化和组织合作的实例。从认识上看，该团体在 20 世纪 80 年代的事件塑造了语境主义、建构主义和批判方法，并共同产生了新的文化地理学，但重点从地理知识的历史敏感的传记、制度和地缘政治研究转向了批判、后殖民和女权主义地理学。从 20 世纪 90 年代的知识创造实践，到 21 世纪初的超越人类和超越代表性的地理。