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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 He addressed this problem in a second conference presentation, which has remained unpublished. This unpublished hitherto “lost manuscript” has been located and is examined with an eye to Cumberland's role as a disciplinary gatekeeper and boundary rider of New Zealand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.

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