D Clayton
Biographic Data
| ID | 8853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Clayton |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Clayton |
| SIGNATURE | CLAYTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2557-5495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Progress in historical geography II
Historical geography’s core concern with connections between the past and present is currently expressed in an age marked by a desperate search for connections. The report considers how historical geography is linked to this scene through various ‘return of history’ ripostes and via the travails of what is described as its ‘pluriverse’. Three problematics are then identified: ‘the mendacious’ (about the truth of history); ‘the micrological’ (conc…
Race, language and (In)equality
“I know that it is not the English language that hurts me, but what the oppressors do with it, how they shape it to become a territory that limits and defines, how they make it a weapon that can sh
On Lefebvre's orientalism and geography's Eurocentrism in Sidaway's ‘critical Muslim geographies’
This commentary picks up on how James Sidaway sets up his ‘critical Muslim geographies’ through a selective reading and critique of Western geography's Eurocentrism. It traces how Isaiah Bowman, Henri Lefebvre, and Neil Smith are used for this purpose, and then homes in on Sidaway's reading of Lefebvre's flippant Orientalism and elision of tier-mondism, suggesting that fuller investigation of this scene is warranted
Teachers Challenging Language Discrimination in England’s Schools
Recent media coverage and academic scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that language discrimination is embedded and normalised in England's schools. We consider language discrimination as a structural phenomenon underpinned by language ideologies which frame the language practices of racialised and working-class communities as deficient. In this article we report on project where we worked closely with a group of teachers who identified as cr…
For an Environmental Ethnography in Human and Physical Geography
Funding: This work was supported by the Royal Society under Grant RG120575; the Natural and Environmental Research Council under Grant NE/R004528/1; the Scottish Funding Council under Grant SGS0-XFC090; and The Arts and Humanities Research Council under Grant AH/T004444/1AH
Spring 2024 Special Edition (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Race, language and (in)equality
Language has always played a central part in the crafting and maintenance of racial inequalities in English education. Building on long histories of anti-racist work and activism, scholars have hig
‘Scratching the surface of the taken as given, as a process of unsettling’
This interview with Tariq Jazeel, concerning his 2019 book Postcolonialism, was orchestrated by Dan Clayton in 2021 in his capacity (then) as co-editor of the SGJ. The interview is a frequently used medium in postcolonial studies, but one that is much underused in geography, which is maybe strange given critical human geography’s core commitment to appraising context and dialogue, and its attentiveness to agency, voice and exclusion, and promotio…
Exploring the processes of emergent leadership in a netball team
In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and characteristics displayed by individuals, this paper explores some of the discursive processes through which leadership emerges in a sports team. Drawing on over ten hours of naturally occurring interactions among the players of a women’s netball team in the UK, and applying th…
Historical geography I
‘Doom’, ‘danger’ and ‘disregard’ are palpable sentiments in recent writing by historical geographers and give the subfield some decidedly political intonations. These three words have diverse, disquieting and expectant connotations and are tracked in this report through clusters of research on colonialism, racism, decolonisation, climate change, Earth history and political reaction and populism. This range of historical work within geography prov…
Tropicality and the Choc en Retour of Covid-19 and Climate Change
This article reads 'pandemic, plague, pestilence and the tropics' through Covid-19, climate change and the discourse of tropicality. It asks: What happens, as seems to be the case today, when the temperate/tropical oppositions around which tropicality revolves start to unravel because the aberrations and excesses (here of epidemic disease and extreme weather) hitherto deemed to belong to tropical areas, and as constitutive of their otherness, are…
The Passing of "Geography's Empire" and Question of Geography in Decolonization, 1945-1980
Critical engagement with the relations between geography and empire has become integral to the view that geography is a power-laden venture rather than an impartial or self-contained discipline. The literature on this imbroglio, however, focuses either on the imperial past or on present-day colonialisms and pays scant attention to the postwar era of decolonization (1945-1980). Why is this so? What happened when the empires that geography had help…
Placing Joseph Banks in the North Pacific
The South Pacific was a fulcrum of Joseph Banks's maritime world and global networks. The North Pacific was a distant and intangible fringe. This article is concerned with how Banks should be ‘placed’ in the North Pacific. It tracks how Banks's activities have been delineated in terms of languages and categories of global and local, and centre and margin, and then considers the historical and geographical specifics apposite to his connection to t…
Geography and decolonisation
Tropical Geography
Tropical geography emerged as a distinct research area within geography after World War II, and most evidently in Western counties that had (or once had) tropical colonies. The French geographer Pierre Gourou was its best known exponent, but Gourou's work and influence illustrates that tropical geography cannot be considered in isolation from an encompassing and centuries‐old body of Western ideas and assumptions about the exoticism of the tropic…
Subaltern
“Subaltern” has two meanings: first, a person, group, or entity of subordinate status; and, second, a junior army officer. Critical use of the term was pioneered by the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci in relation to interwar fascist Italy, and it has since been used in a more diffuse (and often loose) way, to signal a concern with the most oppressed, disadvantaged, and voiceless sectors of society, and as a code word for non‐Western, colonial, …
Empire
“Empire” is one of the most potent words in the English language and the subject of a vast and eclectic literature. Empire's core (transhistorical) attributes are expansion, hierarchy, and order, which give spatiality to the organization of empires. Geographers have been concerned with how the development of their discipline has dovetailed that of empire. But the liaison between geography and empire is not just a disciplinary affair. The spatiali…
Snapshots of a Moving Target”
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization - Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2015
Continental European geographers and World War II
Fortifications, post-colonialism and power
Forts were vital building blocks of modern European overseas expansion, yet rarely have they been treated as objects of historical investigation or critical reflection in their own right. This inno
Emmanuel de Martonne and the wartime defence of Greater Romania
Geographical Warfare in the Tropics
This article tells a three-layered story. First, it reexamines the impact of French geographer Yves Lacoste's 1972 exposé on the American bombing of the Red River Delta of North Vietnam on opposition to the Vietnam War and how it was implicated in wider political debate about what Hannah Arendt saw as systemic “lying in politics.” In various reports and newspaper articles Lacoste deployed the tools of classical geography—firsthand observation, ma…
Militant tropicality
The critical literature on ‘tropicality’– the colonising discourse that constructs the tropical world as the West’s environmental Other – focuses chiefly on its historical links with colonialism and on the agency of Western colonisers. Scant attention has been paid to the trajectory of this discourse between the 1940s and 1970s, or to how it has been resisted by the ‘tropicalised’. This paper teases out how, in this post‐war era of decolonisation…
Rethinking Imperialism
Did Singapore have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress
In 1942, Singapore, a British colony, fell to invading Japanese forces, an event that was quickly and enduringly to become a symbolic one, used to create and re-shape myths, to build and break nations and empires. In a curiously titled study, Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn, two Singapore-based scholars, ask questions of interest to military, diplomatic and cultural historians about policy and strategy-making and about how war-time experiences are …
Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina
Research Article| April 01 2005 Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina: The Work of Pierre Gourou, 1927-1982 Gavin Bowd; Gavin Bowd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Daniel Clayton Daniel Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (2): 297–327. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-2-297 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Militant tropicality
The critical literature on ‘tropicality’– the colonising discourse that constructs the tropical world as the West’s environmental Other – focuses chiefly on its historical links with colonialism and on the agency of Western colonisers. Scant attention has been paid to the trajectory of this discourse between the 1940s and 1970s, or to how it has been resisted by the ‘tropicalised’. This paper teases out how, in this post‐war era of decolonisation…
Islands of Truth
This text reviews encounters by explorers, traders, and politicians with the territory and Native people of Vancouver Island. It questions premises underlying much of BC historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences
Tropicality and the Choc en Retour of Covid-19 and Climate Change
This article reads 'pandemic, plague, pestilence and the tropics' through Covid-19, climate change and the discourse of tropicality. It asks: What happens, as seems to be the case today, when the temperate/tropical oppositions around which tropicality revolves start to unravel because the aberrations and excesses (here of epidemic disease and extreme weather) hitherto deemed to belong to tropical areas, and as constitutive of their otherness, are…
Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina
Research Article| April 01 2005 Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina: The Work of Pierre Gourou, 1927-1982 Gavin Bowd; Gavin Bowd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Daniel Clayton Daniel Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (2): 297–327. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-2-297 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
The Passing of "Geography's Empire" and Question of Geography in Decolonization, 1945-1980
Critical engagement with the relations between geography and empire has become integral to the view that geography is a power-laden venture rather than an impartial or self-contained discipline. The literature on this imbroglio, however, focuses either on the imperial past or on present-day colonialisms and pays scant attention to the postwar era of decolonization (1945-1980). Why is this so? What happened when the empires that geography had help…
Geography and decolonisation
Geographical Warfare in the Tropics
This article tells a three-layered story. First, it reexamines the impact of French geographer Yves Lacoste's 1972 exposé on the American bombing of the Red River Delta of North Vietnam on opposition to the Vietnam War and how it was implicated in wider political debate about what Hannah Arendt saw as systemic “lying in politics.” In various reports and newspaper articles Lacoste deployed the tools of classical geography—firsthand observation, ma…
The creation of imperial space in the Pacific Northwest
Emmanuel de Martonne and the wartime defence of Greater Romania
Continental European geographers and World War II
On Lefebvre's orientalism and geography's Eurocentrism in Sidaway's ‘critical Muslim geographies’
This commentary picks up on how James Sidaway sets up his ‘critical Muslim geographies’ through a selective reading and critique of Western geography's Eurocentrism. It traces how Isaiah Bowman, Henri Lefebvre, and Neil Smith are used for this purpose, and then homes in on Sidaway's reading of Lefebvre's flippant Orientalism and elision of tier-mondism, suggesting that fuller investigation of this scene is warranted
On the colonial genealogy of George Vancouver’s chart of the north-west coast of North America
This paper contributes to the burgeoning critical literature on the history of cartography by tracking the links between maps, knowledge and power that stemmed from George Vancouver’s survey of the north-west coast of North America. Dispatched to the region by the British in 1791, Vancouver conducted an exhaustive cartographic survey and has been represented as the ‘true discoverer’ of the coast. It is argued here that he created a cartographic s…
Progress in historical geography II
Historical geography’s core concern with connections between the past and present is currently expressed in an age marked by a desperate search for connections. The report considers how historical geography is linked to this scene through various ‘return of history’ ripostes and via the travails of what is described as its ‘pluriverse’. Three problematics are then identified: ‘the mendacious’ (about the truth of history); ‘the micrological’ (conc…
Teachers Challenging Language Discrimination in England’s Schools
Recent media coverage and academic scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that language discrimination is embedded and normalised in England's schools. We consider language discrimination as a structural phenomenon underpinned by language ideologies which frame the language practices of racialised and working-class communities as deficient. In this article we report on project where we worked closely with a group of teachers who identified as cr…
Questions of Postcolonial Geography
Research in the Spanish Borderlands
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Infant feeding in Nigeria
A study by questionnaire of 1845 urban and 349 rural mothers in all regions of Nigeria is reported. 99% of all mothers commenced breastfeeding their infants. In urban areas most continued for at least 6 months and in rural areas for at least 12 months. In urban areas, 77% of the infants were given infant formula by the age of 3 months; in rural areas 40% were given infant formula. Cereals were also introduced early to many children. The reasons f…
Islands of Truth
In Islands of Truth, Daniel Clayton examines a series of encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 2…
The creation of imperial space in the Pacific Northwest
On the colonial genealogy of George Vancouver’s chart of the north-west coast of North America
This paper contributes to the burgeoning critical literature on the history of cartography by tracking the links between maps, knowledge and power that stemmed from George Vancouver’s survey of the north-west coast of North America. Dispatched to the region by the British in 1791, Vancouver conducted an exhaustive cartographic survey and has been represented as the ‘true discoverer’ of the coast. It is argued here that he created a cartographic s…
Questions of Postcolonial Geography
Islands of Truth
Journal Article Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island. By Daniel W. Clayton. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. xxii, 330 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-7748-0741-5. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0742-3.) Get access Michael Harkin Michael Harkin University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, Septe…
Islands of Truth
This text reviews encounters by explorers, traders, and politicians with the territory and Native people of Vancouver Island. It questions premises underlying much of BC historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences
Islands of Truth
Journal Article Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island Get access Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island. By Clayton Daniel W.. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. xxii + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Robert A. J. Mcdonald Robert A. J. Mcdonald McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Search for other works by this author on…
Fieldwork and Tropicality in French Indochina
This paper examines the fieldwork undertaken by the distinguished French geographer Pierre Gourou (1900–99) in the Tonkin Delta (Red River Delta) of northern Vietnam in the 1920s and 1930s, and his wider configuration of “the tropical world” as a distinct space of knowledge and radical otherness. Gourou's fieldwork endeavours in French Indochina are interpreted in the light of recent work on “tropicality”: the idea that “the tropics” need to be u…
Masters of All They Surveyed
Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina
Research Article| April 01 2005 Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina: The Work of Pierre Gourou, 1927-1982 Gavin Bowd; Gavin Bowd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Daniel Clayton Daniel Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (2): 297–327. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-2-297 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Did Singapore have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress
In 1942, Singapore, a British colony, fell to invading Japanese forces, an event that was quickly and enduringly to become a symbolic one, used to create and re-shape myths, to build and break nations and empires. In a curiously titled study, Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn, two Singapore-based scholars, ask questions of interest to military, diplomatic and cultural historians about policy and strategy-making and about how war-time experiences are …
Rethinking Imperialism
Militant tropicality
The critical literature on ‘tropicality’– the colonising discourse that constructs the tropical world as the West’s environmental Other – focuses chiefly on its historical links with colonialism and on the agency of Western colonisers. Scant attention has been paid to the trajectory of this discourse between the 1940s and 1970s, or to how it has been resisted by the ‘tropicalised’. This paper teases out how, in this post‐war era of decolonisation…
Geographical Warfare in the Tropics
This article tells a three-layered story. First, it reexamines the impact of French geographer Yves Lacoste's 1972 exposé on the American bombing of the Red River Delta of North Vietnam on opposition to the Vietnam War and how it was implicated in wider political debate about what Hannah Arendt saw as systemic “lying in politics.” In various reports and newspaper articles Lacoste deployed the tools of classical geography—firsthand observation, ma…
Emmanuel de Martonne and the wartime defence of Greater Romania
Snapshots of a Moving Target”
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization - Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2015
Continental European geographers and World War II
Fortifications, post-colonialism and power
Forts were vital building blocks of modern European overseas expansion, yet rarely have they been treated as objects of historical investigation or critical reflection in their own right. This inno
Tropical Geography
Tropical geography emerged as a distinct research area within geography after World War II, and most evidently in Western counties that had (or once had) tropical colonies. The French geographer Pierre Gourou was its best known exponent, but Gourou's work and influence illustrates that tropical geography cannot be considered in isolation from an encompassing and centuries‐old body of Western ideas and assumptions about the exoticism of the tropic…
Subaltern
“Subaltern” has two meanings: first, a person, group, or entity of subordinate status; and, second, a junior army officer. Critical use of the term was pioneered by the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci in relation to interwar fascist Italy, and it has since been used in a more diffuse (and often loose) way, to signal a concern with the most oppressed, disadvantaged, and voiceless sectors of society, and as a code word for non‐Western, colonial, …
Empire
“Empire” is one of the most potent words in the English language and the subject of a vast and eclectic literature. Empire's core (transhistorical) attributes are expansion, hierarchy, and order, which give spatiality to the organization of empires. Geographers have been concerned with how the development of their discipline has dovetailed that of empire. But the liaison between geography and empire is not just a disciplinary affair. The spatiali…
Placing Joseph Banks in the North Pacific
The South Pacific was a fulcrum of Joseph Banks's maritime world and global networks. The North Pacific was a distant and intangible fringe. This article is concerned with how Banks should be ‘placed’ in the North Pacific. It tracks how Banks's activities have been delineated in terms of languages and categories of global and local, and centre and margin, and then considers the historical and geographical specifics apposite to his connection to t…
Geography and decolonisation
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