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On canonical geogra...
On canonical geographies
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- Abrahamsson, Christian (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Human Geography,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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Keighren, Innes (author)
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della Dora, Veronica (author)
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- 2013-01-23
- 2012
- English.
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In: Dialogues in Human Geography. - : SAGE Publications. - 2043-8214 .- 2043-8206. ; 2:3, s. 296-312
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- Histories of geography are, by their very nature, selective enterprises. The apparent tendency of geographers to disparage particular periods of the discipline’s history, at the same time as exalting others, is characteristic of the way in which progress has been measured, relevance defined, and novelty identified. Yet, whilst other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences actively engage with their textual canons and founding figures, geographers have notoriously avoided doing so. In this paper, we consider why this has been the case and how different conceptions of canonicity have mattered to the ways in which the history of geography and its intellectual foundations have been narrated. In thinking through the significance of geography’s texts to the ways we imagine the discipline – its past, present, and future – we consider how processes of remembering and forgetting have been employed to serve certain intellectual and ideological agendas. We conclude by advocating a more serious engagement with geography’s textual legacy: one which might benefit not only disciplinary historiography but also disciplinary consciousness, and thus the future of geography itself.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Kulturgeografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography -- Human Geography (hsv//eng)
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