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Kenneth Cumberland on historical geography at the first New Zealand Geography Conference in 1955
Author(s) -
Roche Michael
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/nzg.12278
Subject(s) - presidential address , historical geography , discipline , scope (computer science) , presentation (obstetrics) , geography , human geography , regional science , economic geography , sociology , social science , political science , public administration , medicine , computer science , radiology , programming language
Professor Kenneth Cumberland's presidential address at the first New Zealand geography conference in 1955 considered the achievements, aims and objectives of the discipline, which he positioned as a chorological science. This view of geography posed difficulties for the scope of historical geography, one of Cumberland's main areas of research. He addressed this problem in a second conference presentation, which has remained unpublished. This unpublished hitherto “lost manuscript” has been located and is examined with an eye to Cumberland's role as a disciplinary gatekeeper and boundary rider of New Zealand geography in the 1950s.