A Geographical CenturyThe International Circulation and Dissemination of Geographical Concepts and Ideas
A Geographical Century: The International Circulation and Dissemination of Geographical Concepts...
Barnes, Trevor; Roche, Michael
2022-06-01 00:00:00
[Using the examples of both regional geography and the new geography, this chapter’s purpose is to examine how IGU conferences and symposia for the fifty-year period 1920–1970 were part of a larger apparatus that allowed the international circulation of geographical ideas along with their development, amendment and reproduction. The chapter is divided into three sections. First, we discuss the role of the conference as a site in the circulation of disciplinary ideas. We stress the importance of both travelling scholarship and conferences as sites for performing new knowledge. Second, we discuss the role of the IGU in formalising and disseminating regional geography. While the region was an object of geographical research from the late nineteenth century, it was not formally recognised by the IGU as a separate thematic interest until 1938. Third, we turn to the new geography that emphasised abstract theory and quantification, which received its first IGU exposure in 1938 with Walter Christaller’s presentation on central place theory. It was not until after the War, however, that the new geography became a general methodological approach. That was the significance of the 1960 Lund IGU Symposium in Urban Geography and from 1964 furthered by the IGU Commission on Mathematical Geography.]
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A Geographical CenturyThe International Circulation and Dissemination of Geographical Concepts and Ideas
Editors: Kolosov, Vladimir; García-Álvarez, Jacobo; Heffernan, Michael; Schelhaas, Bruno
[Using the examples of both regional geography and the new geography, this chapter’s purpose is to examine how IGU conferences and symposia for the fifty-year period 1920–1970 were part of a larger apparatus that allowed the international circulation of geographical ideas along with their development, amendment and reproduction. The chapter is divided into three sections. First, we discuss the role of the conference as a site in the circulation of disciplinary ideas. We stress the importance of both travelling scholarship and conferences as sites for performing new knowledge. Second, we discuss the role of the IGU in formalising and disseminating regional geography. While the region was an object of geographical research from the late nineteenth century, it was not formally recognised by the IGU as a separate thematic interest until 1938. Third, we turn to the new geography that emphasised abstract theory and quantification, which received its first IGU exposure in 1938 with Walter Christaller’s presentation on central place theory. It was not until after the War, however, that the new geography became a general methodological approach. That was the significance of the 1960 Lund IGU Symposium in Urban Geography and from 1964 furthered by the IGU Commission on Mathematical Geography.]
Published: Jun 1, 2022
Keywords: Conferences; Knowledge circulation; New geography; Regional geography
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