Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.008
Lotte Jensen , Adriaan Duiveman
This article proposes a novel theoretical framework for the study of cultural resilience in the context of historical disasters. Defined as the cultural practices by which communities cope with current calamities, past disasters, and possible future threats, cultural resilience can be divided into four basic elements: sense-making, charity, commemoration, and – as a result of the previous three – community building. We further distinguish both social and temporal dimensions. The social dimension pertains directly to those communities involved with the disaster, whereas the temporal dimension refers to the way in which sense-making, charity, and commemorative practices relate, not only to the past and the present, but also the future. The framework is illustrated with two historical case studies: eighteenth-century conflagrations – the devastating fires that befell several Dutch towns – and the 1953 North Sea Flood.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.01.001
Zhaodong Wang
The borders of British India defied classification as boundaries, which delineate the territorial confines of a sovereign state, or as frontiers, which are indeterminate zones dividing tribes, kingdoms, principalities, or empires. Rather, they comprised a complex, multi-layered frontier system with three distinct lines: the administrative line, delineating areas of government; the borderline, marking British India's so-called official boundaries (e.g., Durand and McMahon Lines); and the sphere of influence line, often more diplomatically and militarily significant than the borderline, indicating the farthest reach of British control over neighbouring states or political entities. The system, particularly the British disregard for the territorial nature of the borderline both in practical and diplomatic terms, was unique and largely driven by the buffer strategy designed to defend British India. Upon gaining independence, India and Pakistan inherited this system but adopted the second line – the borderline – as their international boundary. This decision has led to ongoing border disputes and conflicts between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and between India and China.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.005
Federico Ferretti , André Reyes Novaes
Resulting from a multi-paper session organized by the International Geographical Union/Division of History of Science and Technology (IGU/DHST) Commission History of Geography, this virtual special issue engages with the challenges that waters and spaces characterized by liquid/solid hybridity pose to geographic thought and mapping practices since the antiquity. The places of the earliest experimentations of ‘rational’ geographical knowledge—as exemplified by the cases of the ancient Mediterranean Sea or the modern Atlantic Ocean—seas and oceans have been later key spaces for imperial and colonial expansion, and for heterogeneous geopolitics of emerging nation states in the last couple of centuries. Today, critical scholarship deconstructs imperial representations of seas and oceans and rediscovers the roles of spaces of oppression and racial exclusion, but also of subaltern connections that the seas played as diasporic spaces for the enslavement of non-white bodies. This led to current understandings of seas as insurgent spaces, including the Black (or Red and Black) Atlantic, the Black Pacific and the Black Mediterranean among other compelling definitions. Some of these scholarly trends also draw upon geopoetic and geopolitical ideas of relational ontologies. While the papers that follow can account only for a part of these rich debates, namely from the standpoint of historical geography and histories of geography/cartography, they open new and promising research avenues for critical and anticolonial scholarship in these ‘sub-disciplinary’ fields that have been too long characterized by (political or epistemic) conservatism.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.004
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
Jawad Daheur
This article provides the first systematic discussion of the interaction between settlement and market dynamics in Central Poland in the period from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1870s, focusing on the case of forest products. Research indicates that during this period hundreds of settlements were established in the region under the so-called ‘olęder’ law. The settlers were free workers who paid their rent in cash and produced agricultural surpluses. However, the question of how their extensive land clearing activities interacted with the export of forest products remains open. This article shows that the settlers were instrumental in transforming the natural value of the environment by converting ‘dormant’, untouched forest biomass into cash. Central to this process was the labour they indirectly provided to the market by carrying out clearing operations that benefited them and others involved in the trade in potash and timber products. Of course, settlement was not entirely driven by the market, but it clearly worked in synergy with it.
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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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