Decolonising The Geographical Tradition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8963448
AutoresRuth Craggs (0000-0001-6606-1381, Department of Geography King's College London London UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas444-446
Fecha de publicación2019-03-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12295
OpenAlexW2930357612
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas12

The Geographical Tradition played a key role in highlighting geography's imperialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries and prompted a wave of necessary research into the discipline's colonial and racist past. However, both the book itself and the scholarship it subsequently inspired have overlooked the role of geographers from the Global South almost entirely, reinforcing geography's exclusionary traditions. More inclusive disciplinary histories that embrace the contributions of scholars from the post‐colonial world in their contents and reference lists, and that tackle directly not only the history of ideas, but also broader, crucial, questions about academic labour, might be better able to contribute to the challenge of “decolonising” the discipline today

Colonialism · Critical geography · Decolonization · Discipline · Historical geography · Human geography · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law