Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2192704
A. Bonnett
ABSTRACT This review discusses the rise and nature of the ‘new popular geography', a genre exemplified by Vitali Vitaliev’s engaging new work Atlas of Geographical Curiosities. The attraction to ‘curious' places, along with remote, hidden and ‘off the map' places, is explored in the context of the growth of anxieties about surveillance and ‘placelessness’ as well as the emergence of mapping as a central social and personal technology. I also consider what such works mean for geography as an academic discipline. Over forthcoming decades, the new popular geography is well-placed to shape the meaning of geography and, hence, we must ask how academic geographers can respond and engage with this genre.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2189746
K. Ross
ABSTRACT The historical geography of Scotland’s nineteenth-century lunatic asylums has only been lightly researched to date, and particularly under-studied is what might be termed Scotland’s ‘Asylum Age’ – c.1857 into the 1870s – when publicly-funded and purpose-built district asylums started to appear across the Scottish landscape. This was a period of therapeutic optimism about what these asylums could achieve, as curative institutions buttressed by medical and moral ideas about how lunacy should be treated. Using Annual Reports of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland over a fifteen-year period, 1857–1872, this paper explores ‘expert’ criticisms directed at the perceived geographical failings of the pre-1857 establishments housing lunatics (royal asylums, private licensed houses and Poor Law facilities). Attending to the macro and micro-geographies discussed in these Reports, the Commissioners’ ideal for asylum location and architecture is reconstructed, noting how this became a geographical blueprint for the emerging district asylum system. Over the fifteen-year study period, ideas about the ideal site and building shifted once more as lunacy numbers increased and money dwindled, suggesting that the ideal was soon to be overtaken by a more pessimistic turn less sure about the curative benefits of rural sites or homely buildings.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2188250
S. M. Hall
ABSTRACT Doreen Massey’s academic repertoire, as a human geographer and political thinker, is almost unmatched. This review essay catalogues my experience of ‘meeting’ Massey through the eyes of David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher, the editors of this collection of selected political writings. Highlighting Massey’s contributions to theories of relationality, space, place, politics and praxis, I show how the collection captures her ability to synthesise everyday struggles and global political-economic processes. We also meet Massey in her various, intersecting guises: academic, political organiser, person. Where the book brings forth a vision of Massey as scholar and as public intellectual, I further comment on how her contributions are framed within geography and particularly her influence on feminist geographies.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2187447
K. P. Kallio
ABSTRACT This position paper reflects upon the publication policies and practices of the Scottish Geographical Journal (SGJ), as presented by the new editorial team in their introductory editorial ‘‘In the critical department’: refreshing the Scottish Geographical Journal’ (Philo, C., Hurst, M., Laurie, E., & Thomas, R. (2022). ‘In the Critical Department’: Refreshing the Scottish Geographical Journal. Scottish Geographical Journal, 138(1-2), 1–15). Specifically, the focus is on alternative, open peer review practices that the journal has considered as one opportunity to emphasise mutual respect between scholars and substantial research quality, vis-à-vis aggression and Journal Impact Factors. The paper draws from the author’s own experiences as science editor, from her activities in science policy, and from networks in non-commercial open access publishing often referred to as diamond or platinum OA.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-05DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2183984
H. Gray
ABSTRACT This (recently republished) book presents an anthropological study of the Scottish fishing community residing in Ferryden and the impacts of their wider social setting. Jane Nadel-Klein, the author, has eloquently woven together her twenty-five years of anthropological studies with a wide body of literature and disciplines spanning many decades, incorporating a breadth of material culture that illuminates topics and brings the themes of the book alive. The narrative takes the reader through time, studying the origins of fishing in the Scottish economy through to the processes of modernisation and globalisation that marginalised fishing-folk and ultimately ended their way of life in Ferryden. The intention of this publication was to bring the voices of fishing-folk to a wider public, such as academics, policy-makers, and those generally interested in fishing culture, rural and heritage studies. To her credit, Nadel-Klein manages to do that in a way that is accessible to all.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2175369
Cheryl McGeachan
ABSTRACT This short reflective piece charts my own experiences of working with young people (aged 5–11 years) during COP26 and offers some tentative reflections on the role of hope in emplaced geographical education. Through detailing the experiences of a community garden workshop in Drumchapel, Glasgow, this paper highlights the ways in which hope for the future in the face of climate adversity was both felt and seen by young people during COP26. In doing so, it briefly reflects upon why their hopes and imaginations matter in our discussions of the legacy of climate events such as COP26.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2181385
R. Kruse
ABSTRACT The study of dwarfism continues to offer unique opportunities for understanding the socio-spatial experiences of bodily difference and impairment. This review essay focuses on the latest book on dwarfism written by a geographer. Erin Pritchard situates the experiences of people with dwarfism within the social model of disability and addresses the ways in which public spaces in the UK can be disabling to people of extremely short stature. Her book describes how people with dwarfism adapt to environments that are not intended for their body types. Her interviews with people with dwarfism provide rich descriptions of the ways in which historical and contemporary representations of dwarfs influence interactions between average-height people and people with dwarfism. As an academic and as a person with dwarfism, Pritchard makes a strong argument for increasing accessibility to public spaces and reimagining environments that better accommodate bodily diversity.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2178667
J. Moore
ABSTRACT William Roy was the son of a Lanarkshire estate factor, born into a locally influential and solidly Presbyterian family. Through contacts with the powerful Dundas family, his career path took him away from Clydesdale to make a significant contribution to the improvement and accuracy of the mapping of Great Britain. Following the defeat of the Jacobite army at Culloden, he came to the attention of David Watson, appointed Deputy-Quartermaster-General in Scotland and tasked with producing a survey of North Britain based on his own scheme. This was part of a wider military programme to improve the road network and the defences of several key Scots castles. Although to the wider public Roy is most closely associated with this Military Survey, it was Watson’s concept and was carried out for a military purpose. It was subsequently described by Roy himself as ‘rather … a magnificent military sketch, than a very accurate map of a country’ and this may have influenced his later career. Roy worked throughout as a civilian and only received his army commission after the Survey was completed. Although this was only part of his contribution to the advancement of knowledge, it is possible that, in Scotland, it is the one part of his career which won him most renown. While surveying southern Scotland, he developed an interest in military, particularly Roman, antiquities which led to the posthumous publication of his major study in 1793. Unlike other Scots figures alive during the Scottish Enlightenment, his real contribution to cartography was particularly British and was instrumental in the foundation of the Ordnance Survey. For the first time, readers have the opportunity to consider his life in the round.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2178666
Peter Jones, T. Jonell, Martin D. Hurst, Adam R. Lucas, S. Naylor
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Pub Date : 2023-02-13DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2176540
Callum Sutherland
ABSTRACT Climate change represents a set of emergencies for humanity. Many geographers have argued that in order to repair and avert the damage that these confluent emergencies have and may-yet cause, a postcapitalist society is necessary. However, strategies for how this might be achieved often forgo any consideration of desire, which is problematic given the influence that desire holds over the ‘popularity’ towards which a postcapitalist politics may aspire. This paper reports on a psychogeographic walk to a church in Glasgow, taken by the author during the COP26 Youth March. Reflections on the role of the church amidst the roil of protest allows the author to imagine new ways in which movements striving for a climate-conscious postcapitalist future might engage with religion and spirituality in order to direct popular desires away from and beyond further climate breakdown.
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