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History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward

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posted on 2024-09-17, 15:37 authored by Heike JonsHeike Jons, Julian Brigstocke, Pauline Couper, Federico Ferretti

This introduction to the special issue Reflections on Histories and Philosophies of Geography discusses the context and content of nineteen articles written to mark the fortieth anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). The group was founded in 1981, two years after the early career researchers who set up the group, Richard T. Harrison and David N. Livingstone, published jointly their first critical interventions in support of human geography's paradigmatic shift away from positivism, based on an early form of social constructivist argumentation. We argue that the subsequent proliferation of epistemic pluralism, which is discussed in the contributions to this special issue and has characterised the activities organised by the HPGRG, exemplifies the considerable value of three historiographical practices: first, engaging with the history and philosophy of geography collectively in one research group; second, situating methodologies within the history and philosophy of geography; and third, critically interrogating the discipline's evolving geographical knowledges, professional practices, and material cultures from different authorial positionalities. 

History

School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Published in

Journal of Historical Geography

Volume

85

Issue

2024

Pages

1-8

Publisher

Elsevier

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2024-06-04

Publication date

2024-07-05

Copyright date

2024

ISSN

0305-7488

eISSN

1095-8614

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Heike Jons. Deposit date: 5 July 2024