Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2100922
M. Hannah
ABSTRACT Alain Badiou’s work provides an important opportunity for critical human geographers to enhance our grasp of a range of abstract mathematical concepts while clarifying that toward which we must remain critical. Yet the geographical encounter with Badiou thus far has been needlessly hampered by, and has itself reinforced, a certain pessimism about the ability of qualitatively-trained geographers to deal in any meaningful way with his mathematical arguments. Challenging this pessimism, the present paper argues that if we trust ourselves a bit more to think through, with, and against mathematical concepts, we can in fact learn a great deal from Badiou. To illustrate this claim, the paper draws upon mathematical dimensions of Badiou’s arguments – as well as some ideas from Gestalt theory – to highlight failures both of his ontological and of his phenomenological projects. In light of the latter failure, however, Badiou’s mathematical concepts suggest the possibility of an analysis of qualitative geographical phenomena that both retains a place for subjectivity and leaves space for the recognition of ‘proto-quantitative relations’. The paper closes by suggesting how Badiou’s abstract mathematical concept of the ‘transcendental’ can help to understand the manipulative production of space in twenty-first century capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2095427
C. Philo, V. Vitaliev
ABSTRACT Responding to the war in Ukraine, unleashed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and ongoing at the time of writing, this article carries the edited transcript of a conversation with Vitali Vitaliev, an independent journalist, author, travel-writer and ‘geographer’. Ukrainian-born with Russian as his first language, and now living and working in the UK, Vitaliev is being deeply affected – intellectually and emotionally, professionally and personally – by the horrors of the current situation. Over the course of the interview transcribed here, he covers aspects of his biography, in Ukraine and elsewhere, as well as reflecting on the geographical sensibility that shapes his writing and then elaborating, in various ways, his interpretation of what is unfolding presently in Ukraine. Fiercely critical of the forms of ‘Russian fascism’ underlying the assault on Ukraine ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vitaliev discusses the psychological, historical and geopolitical roots of Putin’s actions. He also describes the cementing of a newly confident and dignified Ukrainian identity as a ‘counterforce’ to Putin’s ‘force’, hastening a trajectory whereby most Ukrainians, in both western and eastern Ukraine, are now attempting to escape the hauntings of the Soviet era.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2099007
J. McKendrick
ABSTRACT This contribution to the Applied Geographies series describes how geographical skills and knowledge are being used in Scotland to support the work of those tackling poverty in central government, local government, the Third Sector, and community groups. Opportunity is abundant for geography to contribute to the ambitious goal of eradicating child poverty in Scotland by 2030, recently described as a ‘national mission’ by the First Minister. Geography should not be amoral: as there is a necessity for geographical analysis to inform anti-poverty activity, it is incumbent upon geographers with an interest in poverty and related issues to make impactful contributions beyond the Academy.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2093394
Sadie Harriott, D. Evans
ABSTRACT A systematic mapping approach characterizes Dartmoor periglacial landform signatures using the geomorphology of nine summit areas displaying well developed tor and blockfield landforms. This combines manual vectorisation with automatic classification and surface boulder identification, using spectral signatures to reveal patterns and distribution. Tors were classified using a three-fold scheme: T0 - summits with no tors; T1 - summits with castellated and high relief tors; T2 - summits with subdued or low relief tors. Clitter (blockfield and blockstream) features identified by automated mapping include boulder lobes and stripes and boulder-fronted lobes and terraces, arranged according to distance downslope from parent tors. This zonation of periglacial landforms is proposed as a landsystem signature for areas exposed to periglacial and permafrost processes for significant time during the Quaternary. It represents a process-form regime in which cold climate processes, acting on partially deeply weathered and pneumatolysised granite, produce castellated tors, cryoplanation benches and autochthonous blockfield (clitter), and permafrost creep develops boulder lobes that elongate and evolve downslope as allochthonous blockslopes with boulder stripes and boulder-fronted lobes and terraces. This demonstrates that automated mapping can be applied to areas of upland periglacial landforms to rapidly and systematically compile quantifiable patterns of landform assemblages.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2125561
K. Stewart
ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, there has been a concern about a growing disconnect between Geography in academia and the Geography taught in the school curriculum. The claim is that School Geography has remained, to some degree, stuck with outdated notions of the discipline, resulting in detrimental effects on those making the transition from School Geography to University Geography. This paper investigates whether these issues are present in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Geography. Drawing upon curriculum materials, a survey of Geography school teachers, university staff and a handful of follow-up interviews, CfE was evaluated with respect to policy and implementation, course content, pedagogy, and the relationship between Scottish Geography’s secondary and tertiary educational sectors. Findings pertained to concerns around non-specialist teaching, and about how transition is impacted by socio-economic inequality between state and independent schools. Significant criticisms were voiced over outdated topics, resulting in declining pupil interest, while issues were identified regarding certain pedagogies and problematic stereotyping of places. A distinct deficit of communication between educational sectors became clear, and it is concluded that there are significant problems with CfE Geography symptomatic of a wider disconnect with University Geography, presenting a serious barrier to transition into Higher Education Geography.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2110610
P. Nunn
ABSTRACT The question of whether culturally-grounded stories (myths and legends) have any value in understanding past environmental changes is uncertain. Focused on stories that plausibly recall movements of the land-sea interface in Scotland in postglacial times, this paper summarises details of 11 stories that refer to submergence and 7 stories that refer to emergence. Most submergence stories are confined to the Outer Hebrides and include those recalling when it was possible to walk between places that are now islands. Emergence stories come from around the Scottish coast and include some from the Inner Hebrides. The agreement in direction of movement (submergence or emergence) with models of postglacial landscape change is almost perfect. By comparing submergence/emergence magnitudes to histories of relative sea-level change from glacial-isostatic adjustment models, it is possible to estimate ages for all the submergence stories to at least 2107-8695 years BP and all the emergence stories to 674-7120 years BP. Land-uplift rates calculated from emergence stories agree with those from palaeo-shoreline analysis. As is becoming increasingly clear for other places to which ancient culturally-grounded stories about environmental change refer, these Scottish stories likely represent residues of millennia-old observations of coastal change. This study should encourage further investigations of ancient Scottish narratives.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2112273
C. Withers
ABSTRACT The paper presents a summary biographical history of those persons who have held the title Geographer Royal or a variant since its inception in 1682. The distinction can be made between individuals who held the title because of their personal standing and geographical accomplishments, and those, principally map makers and geographical publishers, who held the title as a reflection of excellence in the commercial production of maps and atlases. The honorific Geographer Royal or equivalent illustrates the importance of royal patronage and the public recognition of geography’s commercial outputs. Neither topic is addressed in existing histories of geography.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2089722
R. Johnston, Richard D. F. Harris
ABSTRACT This paper presents a recently transcribed copy of Ron Johnston’s inaugural lecture that he gave in 1975 following his appointment as Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Entitled ‘The Spatial Variable’, it is published for the first time, with a foreword by one of Ron’s subsequent colleagues at the University of Bristol, highlighting the lecture’s continuing relevance to contemporary geographical praxis – especially quantitative geography – as well as Ron’s own interest in studying the histories of geographical thought. The lecture is offered as an intellectual tour de force that reverberates with Ron’s deep knowledge of and passion for the discipline of geography, and is infused with a belief in its social and academic validity; a validity that the lecture showcases with a wide range of examples, many in topics that Ron would continue to study throughout his career. Underpinning the lecture is recognition of the challenges but importance of geographical explanation to understand the (re-)production of socio-spatial inequalities. The lecture richly demonstrates Ron’s fascination with ‘the spatial variable’, the study of which would be a life-long pursuit and, in his pioneering approaches to its understanding, cement Ron’s recognition as one of Geography’s most prolific and respected practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2082515
C. Philo, Martin D. Hurst, E. Laurie, Rhian Thomas
Following the latest hand-over in the ‘slow-motion geographical relay race’ (Clayton & Warren, 2016, p. 183) that is the editorship of the Scottish Geographical Journal, the ‘baton’ has now been passed from St Andrews – specifically from Dan Clayton and Charles Warren – to a new Editorial Team based in Glasgow (in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences). This new team spans four of us, combining expertise across human geography (Emma Laurie, Chris Philo) and physical geography (Martin Hurst, Rhian Thomas), and with a variety of cross-disciplinary linkages across to the earth sciences, geospatial sciences, social sciences and humanities. Our capacities will be extended by reaching out to a revivified Editorial Board, currently being updated with renewed responsibilities, and of course by seeking the generous assistance of reviewers spread globally and across (and beyond) academia. We wish to acknowledge the tremendous efforts of our predecessors, Dan and Charles (St Andrews: 2016–2021 [Clayton & Warren, 2016]), and before them Tim Mighall and Lorna Philip (Aberdeen: 2009–2016 [Philip & Mighall, 2009]), Jim Hansom and Joanne Sharp (Glasgow: 2005–2008 [Hansom et al., 2006]), and Alison McCleery (Napier: 1999–2004 [McCleery, 1999]). These have been the editors during the period when the Scottish Geographical Magazine (SGM) became renamed as the Scottish Geographical Journal (SGJ), although it is interesting that even in the SGM’s founding year of 1885 – as in the epigraph above – it was already on occasion being termed a ‘Journal’. The deeper implications of the epigraph will be inspected below, in the context of briefly inspecting the journal’s history and drawing out certain ‘lessons’ for us, going forward, as the new editors. More importantly perhaps, we will conclude this editorial with a statement of how we intend to ‘refresh’ the journal, including various initiatives for introducing greater flexibility into the normal expectations of what and how an academic journal will publish. That said, we know that we are building on the accomplishments and indeed visions of our predecessors from 1885 onwards, thereby sitting ‘on the shoulders of giants’, and we are fully aware that in some instances we are reworking ideas and innovations that have been attempted previously.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2100923
N. Castree
ABSTRACT Geoscientists claim that we live in a new geological epoch, such is the magnitude, scale and scope of the human impact on the Earth. Yet the Anthropocene cannot speak for itself: it requires spokespeople to analyse and evaluate its character and meaning. The Anthroposcene necessarily mediates our understanding of the Anthropocene. This review essay assesses one of the latest editions to ‘the scene’, the book Altered Earth (2022) edited by Julia Adeney Thomas. Aimed at those with little prior knowledge, Altered Earth raises questions about how best to represent the fast-expanding Anthroposcene so that neophytes can grasp the key questions, issues and debates. Like it or not, the Anthropocene presents truly formidable challenges to thought and action. The richness of the Anthroposcene needs to be parsed in ways that allow those outside it to comprehend the principal analytical, moral-ethical, aesthetic and practical problems, perspectives and opportunities.
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