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The Geographical Tradition and the challenges of geography geographised
Author(s) -
Livingstone David N.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12299
Subject(s) - presentism , historiography , historical geography , discipline , politics , subject (documents) , focus (optics) , history , sociology , geography , epistemology , human geography , anthropology , social science , political science , philosophy , archaeology , law , physics , optics , library science , computer science
After briefly reflecting on the birth of The Geographical Tradition , I focus on several key issues that snake their way through the observations of my commentators. These include presentism in historiography, the political positioning of the historian, and the role of disciplinary location in the production of subject history. I then reflect on the promises and perils of “big history” before moving to some thoughts on the complex interplay between translation and transformation in the circulation of texts. I close with some observations on the implications for geographers of thinking geographically about geographical knowledge.