Final Call for Papers – International Conference of Historical Geographers
Warsaw, 15-20 July 2018
*Global Histories of Geography 1930-1990*
Convenors: Ruth Craggs (King’s College London) and Hannah Neate (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Reflecting on the key centres associated with the emergence of geography as a spatial science in the 1960s Barnes (2002, 508) remarked: “Why are places in Africa not on there, or Asia, or Australasia?” thereby highlighting significant gaps in disciplinary histories and accounts of geography’s development in the second half of the twentieth century. By way of response, this session aims to highlight work into the ‘global’ histories of geography in the period 1930-1990, a period marked by geopolitical transitions including WWII, decolonization and the end of the Cold War. We are looking to make links with scholars who are carrying out research on the history and practice of geography, specifically in submissions that explore scholarly communities of geographers whose contribution to the development of geography in the twentieth century often goes unrecognised in the ‘canon’ of geographical research.
Possible themes for papers:
• Papers focusing on geographers from the global South, Indigenous geographers in settler states, Asian geographies and geographers, geographers from the former Eastern Block
• Biographies of individuals or groupings of geographers
• Accounts that highlight how geography was being pursued in other ‘centres’
• The role and development of national and international disciplinary associations and networks
• Geographical knowledge, expertise and intersections with decolonization and the end of the Cold War
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words (for a paper of 15-20 minutes) to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by Friday, 29 September 2017. Further information on the International Conference of Historical Geographers 2018 can be found at: http://ichg2018.uw.edu.pl/.
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