Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of Geography in the United Kingdom

Jons, Heike, Brigstocke, Julian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2455-0504, Bruinsma, Mette, Couper, Pauline, Ferretti, Federico, Ginn, Franklin, Hayes, Emily and van Meeteren, Michiel 2024. Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of Geography in the United Kingdom. Journal of Historical Geography 85 , pp. 40-54. 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.011

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Abstract

This article offers a critical appraisal of institutionalised knowledge production and exchange on the history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom. We examine broad epistemic trends over 41 years (1981–2021) through an analysis of annual conference sessions and special events convened by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). We show how organisational, sociocultural, and epistemic changes were coproduced, as expressed by three significant findings. Organisationally, the group emerged through shared philosophical interests of two early career geographers at Queen's University of Belfast in 1981 and received new impetus through its strategic plan 1995–1997, which inspired long-term research collaborations. Socioculturally, the group's activities contributed to national traditions of geographical thought and praxis in masculinist academic environments, with instances of internationalisation, increasing feminisation, and organisational cooperation. Epistemically, the group's events in the 1980s shaped contextualist, constructivist, and critical approaches, and coproduced new cultural geography, but the emphasis shifted from historically sensitive biographical, institutional, and geopolitical studies of geographical knowledges, via critical, postcolonial, and feminist geographies of knowledge-making practices in the 1990s, to more-than-human and more-than-representational geographies in the early twenty-first century.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0305-7488
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	24 June 2024
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2024 15:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170367

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