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‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new
Author(s) -
Matless David
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12291
Subject(s) - cultural geography , sociology , human geography , social geography , geography , social science , economic geography , regional science , anthropology
This paper reflects on Cosgrove and Jackson's ([Cosgrove D, 1987]) Area paper ‘New directions in cultural geography’ (Area, 19, 95–101), discussing its place within British geography in the 1980s, the associated conferences organised through the Institute of British Geographers, the continuing resonance of its themes and the nature of a ‘classic’ paper. Historical analysis is combined with personal memory to consider the paper's role in generating a ‘new’ cultural geography.