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Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809) Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Mirela Altic
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Adriatic was still insufficiently explored sea. The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), which in 1806 resulted in a territorial expansion of the French Empire to the eastern Adriatic (formerly part of the Austrian Empire), highlighted the issues of territorial sovereignty both on land and at sea, triggering the first hydrographic survey of the Adriatic. Napoleon
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French names bestowed by the Baudin expedition along the coasts of Australia: A snapshot of French national spirit during Napoleonic times Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Dany Bréelle
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Guns, goons, and the waterfront priest: Remaking Manila's anti-communist docks in 1950 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Mike B. Hawkins
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How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Stephen Legg
In this ‘Historical Geography at Large’ review I recount my participation in an August 2023 summer school led by Professor Alan Lester at the University of Sussex, entitled ‘How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war’. The workshop encouraged the participation of non-academics who desired greater knowledge of the British empire and its legacies, to help them negotiate contemporary
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Orwell's Roses, Rebecca Solnit. Viking, New York (2021), 320 pages, US$28 hardcover Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Caroline Cornish
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Anticolonial Irish History: A round-table Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Gerry Kearns, Rory Rowan, Lorraine Dowler, Enya Moore, Joseph S. Robinson, Robbie McVeigh
McVeigh and Rolston's puts colonialism at the heart of Ireland's social and economic history, but also as essential to understanding modern Irish politics. The subjugation of Catholics in Northern Ireland was a consequence of the failure to end British control over the island and a perpetuation of ethnic rule characteristic of other white dominions. The incomplete reckoning with colonialism has shaped
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Urbanization, proto-industrialization, and virtual water in the medieval Middle East Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Majid Labbaf Khaneiki, Zohreh Emamzadeh, Abdullah Saif Al-Ghafri, Ali Torabi Haghighi
This article is an attempt to understand a mesh of complex relationships among tangible and intangible socio-economic factors that turned a desert city into the headquarters of one of the mighty polities in the Middle East in the fourteenth century CE. This paper argues that proto-industrialization led to the growth of ‘virtual water’ that helped the city of Yazd, in central Iran, to break free from
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Somewhere downstairs: Re-animating a departmental geography collection Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 David Matless
This paper discusses the re-animation of a geography departmental collection through a study of the archives and map collection of the School of Geography, University of Nottingham. The discussion is situated within parallel examples of work on geographical archives and map collections, and wider debates on engagement with archival sources. The paper considers how a previously dormant collection has
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Obituary: Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, 1928–2023 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Rehav (Buni) Rubin
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Reexamining reclamation: A comparative analysis of agricultural transformation in nineteenth century Sweden Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Oscar Jacobsson
Wetland reclamation was an intrinsic part of nineteenth-century global agricultural transformations. In Swedish research, reclamation has mainly been situated in larger general processes of population rise, commercialization and societal/technological development. The intersection of reclamation, physical environments and local economies has seldom been studied in detail. This paper conducts a local
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Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 David Beckingham
This article uses the records the Manvers and Portland estates in Nottinghamshire and north-east Derbyshire to consider the provision and management of licensed premises between the 1860s and 1930s. Using archival materials of land agents and solicitors, it examines the changing place of public houses in a range of local communities affected by agricultural decline and industrial change in the region
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The art of earth-building: Placing relief models in the culture of modern geography in Britain Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 George Tobin, Hayden Lorimer, Simon Naylor
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An axis, not a line of division: Cooperative planning and development on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1960s Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Joshua Savala
The article looks at the conversations and ideas exchanged between US and Mexican architects and planners in the early 1960s and their vision of redesigning the borderlands. Through a reading of Robert Evans Alexander's archival material (donated to Cornell University) and primary source material written by Guillermo Rossell, I argue that broader ideas of spatial justice influenced their conceptions
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Mapping a French Department in the northeastern Amazonia: The 1947 Oyapock mission in a context of Decolonization Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Victor Campolo
This article delves into the interplay between the political, social, and cultural context and the material conditions of governing a cartographic mission within a French territory in the northeastern Amazon. It brings to the fore the collaborative endeavors involving a spectrum of stakeholders, ranging from local knowledge to various institutions, financial and technical resources, and human and logistical
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The atlas of local jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, Marc Goñi
This article describes the construction and content of an atlas of local jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France: . Bailliages were at the center of the Ancien Régime's jurisdictional apparatus: they administered the ordinary royal justice, delineated the area of influence of heterogeneous customary laws, and served as electoral constituencies for the Estates General of 1614 and 1789. Yet, their territorial
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Negotiating Danish identity with(in) Copenhagen's postcolonial landscape of commemoration Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Doron Eldar
The paper investigates changes to Copenhagen's landscape of commemoration concerning its former colony, the Danish West Indies (DWI), prompted by the 2017 centennial anniversary of the Islands' sale to the US. It argues that Denmark, like other European nations, navigates a postcolonial identity crisis and that the landscape of commemoration plays a significant role within it. The paper advances our
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Reflections on the first decade of the HPGRG undergraduate dissertation prize: The geography and politics of reward Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Pauline Couper
The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group launched its undergraduate dissertation prize in 2008. This paper reflects on the dissertations submitted throughout its first decade, highlighting particular themes in Deleuzian-inspired vitalism and immanence, attention to the politics of knowledge production, and the emergence of critical physical geography. The paper also discusses the practice
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Where is the past? Time in historical geography Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ivan Marković
Despite human geography's sophisticated analyses and overwhelming focus on space, time in its various guises has certainly not been absent in the literature. The same cannot be said for historical geography, which is particularly interesting as its main concern is purportedly with space and place in and across other times. In response, this paper examines the ontology and epistemology of time in “modern”
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Reconstructing of historical land cover based on contemporary cartographical materials Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Michał Sobala
Historical land use reconstructions help to assess climate change, interactions between ecosystems and human and strengthen the knowledge about these interactions. They are conducted on the basis of historical maps that only cover certain areas. Hence, there is a need to seek other maps enabling historical land use to be reconstructed. The aim of study is to assess the suitability of contemporary maps
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How geographic thought happens: The autobiography of a mutable mobile Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Tim Cresswell
This article approaches the history of geographic thought through a partial autobiography that covers the last 40 years – a period that corresponds with the existence of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). The paper is informed by both memory and a personal archive of material from the mid to late 1980s
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Writing/Righting the world: Reflections on an engaged history and philosophy of geographical thought Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Richard T. Harrison
This paper argues for the relevance of the history and philosophy of geography and provides a personal perspective on the origins of the Working Party/Study Group/Research Group by one of its founders. Intellectually, the paper identifies the role of its history and philosophy as the construction and sanctioning of meta-narratives by which meaning is conferred on ‘geography’. Practically, the paper
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Correspondence, scale and the Linguistic Survey of India's colonial geographies of language, 1896–1928 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Philip Jagessar
This paper examines the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), a monumental exercise supervised by George Grierson to survey and classify the languages of colonial India. It considers why the LSI developed into an atypical scheme that corresponded with a multiethnic and multinational network of officials and scholars to survey India's languages. It makes the case that the networked practice of surveying
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Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Innes M. Keighren
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Revising historical geography reviews Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Emily Hayes, Roberto Chauca Tapia
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Securing the boundaries of wilderness in northern Alaska, 1892–1950 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jonathan Luedee
This paper examines the socio-ecological implications of reindeer-caribou hybridization during the rise and collapse of the reindeer industry in Alaska. Following their introduction in the late nineteenth century, reindeer populations increased dramatically as herds spread throughout the territory. As populations increased, domesticated reindeer often escaped from their herds and ran off with migratory
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Demons, spirits, and haunted landscapes in Palestine Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Amer A. Al-Qobbaj, David J. (Sandy) Marshall, Loay A. Alsaud
In recent decades, a spectral turn has animated geography and related fields like archaeology, memory studies, and landscape studies, examining how places can be haunted by the ghosts of the past, with heavy emphasis on metaphorical specters and spirits. The geography of spirits and other unseen forces presented here takes a less metaphorical approach to haunted landscapes. This paper examines how
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“A new power: Photography in Britain, 1800–1850” 1 February – 7 May 2023 ST Lee Gallery, Bodleian Weston Library, Oxford Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Susan C. Squibb
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The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Brian J. Godfrey
Since 1965, New York City's Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) has listed over 37,900 buildings and sites, overwhelmingly located in 156 historic districts. While official landmark criteria have not changed, designation reports reveal shifting narratives of place and race. I examine historic placemaking in Black-identified districts, focusing on how designation rationales have evolved. Evidence
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Geobiographies of prominent Polish painters: Changing hierarchies of art cities and patterns of artistic migrations from 1760 to 1939 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jarosław Działek
In the field of art studies, there is a growing interest in data-driven approaches to analyse the spatial organisation of art worlds. Biographical databases of notable individuals have been used to uncover the emergence and decline of globally significant art cities, while less attention has been given to peripheral art systems. This paper aims to address this gap by utilising a curated dataset that
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Habitability as a historical category for interpreting the Anthropocene Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Mauricio Onetto Pavez
The article examines the development of a new discourse on habitability in the sixteenth century, which breaks with the ancient notion that distinguished between habitable and uninhabitable spaces according to their climate and location. In it, a new conception of the world as completely habitable and exploitable is articulated, and the European ideal of a temperate climate as a reference to characterize
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Contesting monuments, challenging narratives: Divergent approaches to dealing with the colonial past and its legacies in Lisbon, Portugal Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sofia Lovegrove, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro
Portugal was the longest modern European imperial power, yet the dominant historical narrative is characterised by a celebration of the ‘Discoveries’ and a denial of colonial violence. This is visible in Lisbon's public space, dotted with monuments and statues glorifying the imperial past, while occluding less convenient histories. Especially since 2017, more attention has been given to Portugal's
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Preserving whose city? Memory, place, and identity in Rio de Janeiro, Brian J. Godfrey. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham (2021), 223 pages US$39.00 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ana Gisele Ozaki
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ArchieDavisA World Without Hunger: Josué de Castro and the History of Geography2022Liverpool University Press, Liverpool272 pages, Open Access, PDF/EPUB Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Dirceu Marroquim
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Commemorating Picton in Wales and Trinidad: Colonial legacies and the production of memorial publics Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Gareth Hoskins, Leighton James
This article develops a dual analysis of commemoration in Wales and Trinidad that extends outwards from a monument in the Welsh town of Carmarthen to Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, the most senior officer to die at the battle of Waterloo and an aggressive imperialist who has since been accused of committing crimes against humanity in the name of the British Empire. Using torture and public executions
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Memorial as aegis: Colonial sovereignty and the unmaking of the Kanpur Memorial Well Monument Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Swati Chattopadhyay
This article addresses competing visions of sovereignty that underwrite recent debates about monuments. It turns to a well-known monument built to commemorate the loss of British lives in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857–59: the Kanpur (Cawnpore) Memorial Well Monument. The memorial stood over a well in which the bodies of 200 British women and children killed by Indian sepoys lay buried. A large landscaped
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Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A very short introduction, Liba Taub. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2023), 154 + XXII pages, $11.95 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Carlotta Santini
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Moving statues: Monuments to empire from London's Waterloo Place to the Maidan in Calcutta Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Durba Ghosh
From the end of the Napoleonic wars through the First World War, London was made into a historic city that showcased it as the heart of a growing empire. Waves of urban reform produced public spaces, such as Waterloo Place, that were populated with statues of military and imperial heroes involved in Britain's territorial conquests. The result was that London came to be imagined as old, designed in
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Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–1945, Bill Sewell2020University of British Columbia PressVancouver312US$37.95 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Yiming Xu
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Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics, F.P. Cacciafoco and F. Cavallaro. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2023), 297 pages, $ 105.00 hardback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Selim Bozdoğan
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A World Without Hunger: Josué de Castro and the History of Geography, Archie Davies. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool (2022). 256 pp, $49.99 hardback. Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Julian Brigstocke
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Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past, Omer Bartov. Yale University Press, New Haven (2022). 384 pages, US$30.00 hardcover Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Tristan Kenderdine
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Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative. Tings in de House, Shawn-Naphtali Sobers2023LondonRoutledge(2023), 206 pages, $160.00 hardback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Anne J. Kershen
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Codifying clumsiness: Tracing the origins of dyspraxia through a transatlantic constellation of mobility (1866–1948) Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Philip Kirby
Dyspraxia affects up to five percent of the population, but its history and its historical geographies have gone unexplored. This article offers the first historical geography of dyspraxia, conceptualising its emergence in the transatlantic world through a ‘constellation of mobility’. It explores the major episodes in dyspraxia's early history (1866–1948) – from the Victorian science of apraxia in
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Small urban waters and environmental pressure before industrialization: The case of Hungary Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 András Vadas, László Ferenczi
Before the birth of modern infrastructures, towns in Europe kept experiencing difficulties in providing water and a healthy environment for their inhabitants. Freshwater was not only essential for basic hygiene and drinking but water resources, especially urban streams played a key role in local economies. The article addresses the pressure the increasingly diverse utilization of water put on such
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An explosive landscape: Arranging the barnacle goose on the Solway Firth Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Charlotte Wrigley
By the end of the Second World War, the Svalbard barnacle goose population had dwindled to a couple of hundred birds. Flying in from the Arctic to spend the winters on the Solway Firth (the estuary that separates England from Scotland), they were a favourite target of wildfowlers in the area. Since then, a ban on shooting and the Solway goose management scheme that pays farmers to maintain a goose
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From sacred place to outer space: Collective creativity and the iconographies of mid-twentieth century English modernity in Guildford Cathedral's kneelers Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 William Barnes, Claire Dwyer, David Gilbert
Between 1936 and 1969, around 1600 kneelers were produced for the new Anglican cathedral at Guildford in Surrey, southern England. This was a major collective devotional artwork, involving hundreds of embroiderers, mostly local women. The project was a distinctive form of community and collective artwork, that complicates established understandings of embroidery, craftwork, femininity and politics
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Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Briony McDonagh, Edward Brookes, Kate Smith, Hannah Worthen, Tom J. Coulthard, Gill Hughes, Stewart Mottram, Amy Skinner, Jack Chamberlain
The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engaging people in climate narratives. Far less has been said about mobilising arts and creativity to build anticipatory climate action. Nor have archival material
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African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment, Rebekah Mitsein, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville (2022), p. 294 pages, US$ 105 cloth Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Johanna Skurnik
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Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal ‘Asqalan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Roy Marom, Itamar Taxel
This paper deals with the dialectics of settlement continuity and change in Palestine's southern coastal plain during the Mamluk and Early Ottoman periods (1270–1750 CE). Using Ḥamāma, an Arab village in Majdal ‘Asqalān's hinterland as a test-case, the paper introduces a new method of establishing settlement continuity — a major challenge in the study of the historical geography of late medieval and
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The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north: Cold War vernacular collecting and mining uranium, and its legacies Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Nadezhda Mamontova
This paper explores the production of vernacular geological knowledge about uranium during the Cold War. In particular, it investigates uranium gathering practices in Siberia as a form of geopower exercised where Soviet citizens were encouraged to participate in geological exploration of the ‘bowels of the Earth’ for national benefits. This paper further discusses a novel theorization of the early
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The colonizers, the developmental state, and uneven geography of development: Reclamation of South Korea's tidal flats, 1900s-1980s Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Young Rae Choi
South Korea's tidal flats, called getbol, are muddy and grayish coastal wetlands under the tidal influence that constitute the predominant landform of South Korea's west and southwest coasts. Today, getbol is appreciated for its biological and geological diversity, for which it recently earned UNESCO's World Heritage status. Yet, throughout the 20th century, more than 50% of getbol areas were lost
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Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Katrina Navickas
This article examines the women's protest camps at RAF Greenham Common cruise missile base, Berkshire, England, between 1981 and 1990. Using new evidence from government correspondence in the Home Office archives, it argues that the legal status of the common and its history were key determinants of how the protest camps were policed and repeatedly evicted. The processes of eviction were determined
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Gandhi falling … and rising Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Rahul Rao
In recent years, statues of Gandhi have been attacked by a variety of radically incommensurable movements. Subaltern social movements struggling to dismantle the legacies of colonialism, slavery and apartheid have attacked Gandhi on the grounds of his alleged racism, casteism, misogyny and because he functions as a cipher for the imperialism of the contemporary Indian state and the racism of Indian
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Editorial board Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-28
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The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-18
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Anticipatory historical geographies of violence: Imagining, mapping, and integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state, 1866–1939 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-10
Any understanding of the transformation from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state rule must consider the complex interplay between knowledge production, sovereignty, and power, as well as the historical geographies that shape them. As such, this article focuses on Middle Eastern modern-state formation through the case of Dersim, a region in contemporary Turkey's Eastern Anatolia, in the late
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Traffic logic, state strategies and free speech in an urban park: The Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme, London, 1955–1962 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-10
‘Traffic logic’ draws attention to how civil rights in public space, such as free speech, are often compromised by officials in favour of expanding bureaucratic traffic codes, designs and plans. However, internal disputes among state departments about nascent traffic logic schemes will sometimes be strategically employed by social movements to campaign for civil liberties and rights in public space
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Animating historical resource geographies: Encountering the guitar's North American material traces Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Chris Gibson, Andrew Warren
This article seeks to animate historical resource geographies by uncovering unforeseen material lineages and foregrounding the lived experiences of otherwise unremembered resource workers. We revisit research on the historical resource geographies of the guitar, adapting what McGeachan (2018) calls ‘the trace’ to connect material archival fragments with visceral, ethnographic encounters in multiple