This paper introduces to an international audience the ‘encyclopaedic approach’ to geographical historiography. This approach was developed at the Free University of Amsterdam between 1961 and 1987 by Marcus Heslinga and Andries Kouwenhoven. Signalling how contemporary geography is hampered by the silofication of different subdisciplines and how a better understanding of our shared and pluriform histories can help overcome these silos, the encyclopaedic approach demonstrates how an ‘engaged pluralist’ historiography of geography could take shape. Testifying to its bridge-building character, the approach was developed in response to decades of acerbic conflict between rivalling schools of human geography in the Netherlands. Its central premises involve an acknowledgement that geography is a dynamic discipline with shifting formal and material objects and an empirical strategy to map and relate these different conceptual fields.

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荷兰对多元主义地理学史学的启发


本文向国际读者介绍了地理史学的“百科全书式方法”。这种方法是由 Marcus Heslinga 和 Andries Kouwenhoven 于 1961 年至 1987 年间在阿姆斯特丹自由大学开发的。百科全书式的方法表明了当代地理学如何受到不同分支学科的孤立性的阻碍，以及如何更好地理解我们共同的和多元化的历史如何有助于克服这些孤岛，百科全书式的方法展示了如何形成“参与的多元主义”地理学史学。该方法是为了应对荷兰人文地理学相互竞争的学校之间数十年的尖刻冲突而开发的，这证明了其桥梁作用。其核心前提包括承认地理学是一门动态学科，其形式和物质对象不断变化，并具有映射和关联这些不同概念领域的经验策略。