Pub Date : 2025-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels
This essay reviews Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at the Djangoly Gallery, University of Nottingham 22 September 2023—7 January 2024, and also an accompanying monograph titled Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond by Isobel Elstob, and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. This essay addresses academic exhibition making and meaning, also themes of a Neo-Victorian ‘present past’ in a selection of artworks displayed in the exhibition and discussed in the book, and their geographical re-imagination of sites, spaces and landscapes.
本文回顾了2023年9月22日至2024年1月7日由Isobel Elstob在诺丁汉大学Djangoly画廊策划的展览《Reimag(in)ing the victoria’s》，以及Isobel Elstob在2023年由Palgrave Macmillan出版的题为《Reimag(in)ing the victoria in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond》的专著。这篇文章讨论了学术展览的制作和意义，以及在展览和书中讨论的艺术作品中展示的新维多利亚时代“现在过去”的主题，以及他们对场地、空间和景观的地理重新想象。
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Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
Salvatore Valenti
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Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.006
Lucy Thompson
This paper investigates the life history and geography of William Henry Lane, more commonly known by his stage name ‘Master Juba’. As a once-renowned, mid-nineteenth-century African American performer, Lane's microhistory is central to tracing the wider cultural and historical geographies of tap dance across circum-Atlantic performance, appearing as one of the earliest named tap dancers in the historical record. While his biographical details remain ambiguous, Lane's unique rhythmic, percussive dance style heavily influenced nineteenth-century transatlantic performance. This paper traces and maps ‘Master Juba's’ footsteps across the Atlantic, first exploring the historical geographies of the Five Points District, Manhattan, which fostered tap dance's early development through competitive challenge dancing, and where Charles Dickens allegedly witnessed Lane's ‘inimitable’ dancing. It subsequently traces Lane's journey to Britain in 1848, mapping his performances across Victorian Britain through the geographies of nineteenth-century performance circuits. Lane's myriad performances are further investigated, working both within and beyond the constraints of minstrelsy, which fundamentally challenged race, gender, and class inequalities in Victorian Britain. The paper finally explores the archival silences surrounding Lane's life and early demise. This historical geography speaks more widely to circum-Atlantic mobilities, Black performers in nineteenth-century Britain, and advocates a more-than-representational historical geography of dance.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
Emily O'Gorman
The text of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, Especially as Waterfowl Habitat was finalised in 1971 at a conference in the Iranian city of Ramsar. The Convention was revolutionary at the time and remains a landmark of post-1945 international environmental conservation. This article focuses on the series of meetings at which an international wetlands convention became a sustained focus of scientific attention, from the Project MAR Conference in 1962, which initiated these efforts, to the Ramsar conference in 1971. It examines changes in the science of ecology and shifting socio-political contexts that shaped the development of a wetlands convention and the idea of wetlands as ‘internationally important’. In so doing it brings histories of the Ramsar Convention which have largely been written from within the sciences, and scholarship on international conventions and history of science within historical geography and environmental history, into closer conversation. It particularly focuses on the shifting relationship between two sets of ideas within the sciences that significantly shaped the development of a wetlands convention -- wetlands dynamics (including wetlands as ecosystems) and the routes of migratory waterbirds – and argues that despite a growing emphasis on the importance of wetland dynamics and ecosystems by scientists, discussion of an international wetlands convention came to focus on the older concerns of protecting migratory birds. A significant consequence was that the movement of birds began to shape the geographical scope of a wetland convention. The planned wetland convention initially focused on Europe and North Africa. Yet, countries like the USSR argued that the birds needed to be followed into other regions and the scope of an international convention needed to be much wider. Ultimately the Ramsar Convention brought together the two concerns of bird migration and wetlands dynamics, or movement and site specificity, which remains its defining feature and, arguably, its strength. Within these discussions of an international convention on wetlands questions of race, politics, shifting scientific concepts, and bird movements came into dynamic conversation to shape consequential histories.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.009
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Marianna Dudley, Linda Ross, Hiroki Shin
Climate crisis has made the transition from carbon-rich to low-carbon energy systems an existential necessity for the future of our planet. This article sets out how greater attention to low-carbon energy history, currently a neglected component of modern energy development, should comprise an essential part of building a zero-carbon future. We argue for the usefulness of low-carbon as a capacious term that foregrounds the historic and ongoing relationality between low- and high-carbon energy, and set out the ways this has shaped energy infrastructures, practices, and imaginaries through the twentieth century to the present. We outline a range of analytics—materiality, scaling, community—around which critical understandings of low-carbon energy can be gained. And we show that decarbonization, while urgent, does not have to be speculative: the historical examples provided here offer valuable insights into the social and spatial impacts and temporal challenges of introducing new energy infrastructure and decommissioning old that can, and should, be paid more attention.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
Jacob Fairless Nicholson , Nathaniel Télémaque , Jasmine Roberts
Arguing for a 'public historical geography' and focusing on a collaborative research project conducted at Black Cultural Archives in London, England, this paper contributes to a body of geographical scholarship that has in recent years situated the archive as a subject of, rather than source for, geographical knowledge production. Past accounts have provided important evidence of the precarity and financial insecurity that Black archives face. In this paper we shift this focus on to the affordances and opportunities eked out by one Black archive as it negotiated struggles for survival creatively and sensitively, and challenged archiving's history as a Euro-American practice of violence. Providing insight on our participatory approach that involved producing research aids and organising a public event to engage public audiences with the Jacqueline Creft Memorial Collection pertaining to the Grenada Revolution 1979–1983, we situate archival research as a collaborative, affective, and exploratory practice that can impact public audiences in diverse ways.
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