Innes M Keighren
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 111389 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Innes M Keighren |
| PRENOMES | Innes M |
| SOBRENOME | Keighren |
| ASSINATURA | KEIGHREN I M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4791-6820 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Geography as the science of environmental influences
This chapter examines how one of Geography’s oldest yet most controversial ideas—that humans are indelibly shaped by their environmental circumstances—came to dominate the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. It takes as its focus the career of the pioneering woman geographer Ellen Churchill Semple and her efforts to promote Geography as a science based on the study of environmental influences. The chapter explores the intellectual co…
Sector 2
Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography
Livingstone’s Missionary Travels manuscript (1857)
By almost any measure, David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857) was a publishing phenomenon, serving to cement Livingstone’s public celebrity and securing financ
History and philosophy of geography III
This report takes a new English-language translation of Friedrich Ratzel’s infamous essay Der Lebensraum (1901) as a prompt to consider the ethical questions that are raised by revisiting geography’s dangerous ideas and discredited practitioners. Attending to a series of recent interventions that offer new readings of Ratzel and his essay, I consider how historiographical practice and moral obligation intersect in the process of making sense of, …
History and philosophy of geography II
Prompted by recent scholarship on geographers’ role in advancing the divergent political ends of anarchism and Nazism, this report considers how disciplinary histories make space for the admirable as well as for the abominable episodes of our shared past. In addressing some of the ideological ends to which geography has been put, the report reflects on the historiographical challenge of dealing appropriately with the discipline’s stain of Nazi co…
History and philosophy of geography I
This report takes as its prompt John K. Wright’s 1925 ‘plea for the history of geography’ – an early call for an inclusive account of geographical thought and practice, embracing both professional and amateur ways of knowing. In reflecting on the extent to which contemporary histories of geography realize the scope of Wright’s ambition, the paper considers how external pressures, such as neoliberalism and academia’s audit culture, function to sha…
Environmental Determinism
Teaching the history of geography
Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a d…
Unpacking geography
In this paper I describe the changing use of the figurative term ‘unpack’ in A nglo‐ A merican geographical writing between 1973 and 2013. I present the results of a survey of the term's occurrence, across four decades, in five leading geography journals. I conclude by discussing the implications of ‘unpack’ as a critical instruction and reflecting on what that term's deployment reveals about the prioritisation of scholarly activities in geograph…
Teaching historical geography in the field
This paper examines the pedagogical and practical challenges associated with teaching historical geography, and archival research specifically, in the context of the undergraduate field trip. In so doing, it draws upon students' own reflections on the experience of conducting archival research during a field trip to New York City and presents the results of an international survey of academics' views as to the current problems and future possibil…
Coming of age? Reflections on the centenary of women's admission to the Royal Geographical Society
Women's admission to the Royal Geographical Society was at least a two-staged affair, with a cohort of 22 women being admitted in 1892-93 before open access to women from 1913. However, whilst official membership was defined by these historic line-in-the-sand 'boundary' moments, some aspects of women's participation within the Society were enacted in a permeable 'frontier zone'. Both prior to, and after, fully accessing Fellowship in 1913, women …
On canonical geographies
Histories of geography are, by their very nature, selective enterprises. The apparent tendency of geographers to disparage particular periods of the discipline’s history, at the same time as exalting others, is characteristic of the way in which progress has been measured, relevance defined, and novelty identified. Yet, whilst other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences actively engage with their textual canons and founding figures, g…
We have never been canonical
In responding to the commentaries on Keighren et al. (2012), we discuss in this paper the nature of memory and forgetfulness in geography and examine what the implications of active forgetting are for the stories we tell about geography and geographers. We explore the role which fashion plays in directing the course of the discipline and what this means for our engagement with the work of past geographers. Finally, we consider how notions of inhe…
A Life in Shadow
The spectacular and the sacred
This article - drawing upon the archives of the London publisher John Murray - addresses the narration of landscape in 19th century printed accounts of travel and exploration. The geological work of the earth scientist Charles Lyell, and the textual and cartographic investigations of the scriptural geographer Edward Robinson, are used to examine the construction of narrative as a question of inscriptive practice, rhetorical desideratum, and inter…
Travels into print
This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editi…
Questions of Inscription and Epistemology in British Travelers’ Accounts of Early Nineteenth-Century South America
This article examines the problems of truth and of trust in travelers’ narratives. Following a review of work on travel writing and the place of printed travel narratives in the making of geographical enquiry, we discuss how issues of inscription and credibility are intrinsic to the material and epistemic transformation of narratives from their manuscript beginnings to their printed form. Particular attention is paid to the narratives of travel i…
San Martín
The Passage to Cosmos
Bringing geography to the book
Whilst geography has formed an important yet often unacknowledged component in the description and analysis of print culture, its specific and potential contribution to understanding the making, distribution and reading of books has yet to be outlined fully. This paper seeks to describe the different ways in which Ellen Churchill Semple's 1911 volume Influences of geographic environment was received and understood – to explain why it was read bot…
Geosophy, imagination, and terrae incognitae
Bringing geography to the book
Whilst geography has formed an important yet often unacknowledged component in the description and analysis of print culture, its specific and potential contribution to understanding the making, distribution and reading of books has yet to be outlined fully. This paper seeks to describe the different ways in which Ellen Churchill Semple's 1911 volume Influences of geographic environment was received and understood – to explain why it was read bot…
On canonical geographies
Histories of geography are, by their very nature, selective enterprises. The apparent tendency of geographers to disparage particular periods of the discipline’s history, at the same time as exalting others, is characteristic of the way in which progress has been measured, relevance defined, and novelty identified. Yet, whilst other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences actively engage with their textual canons and founding figures, g…
History and philosophy of geography I
This report takes as its prompt John K. Wright’s 1925 ‘plea for the history of geography’ – an early call for an inclusive account of geographical thought and practice, embracing both professional and amateur ways of knowing. In reflecting on the extent to which contemporary histories of geography realize the scope of Wright’s ambition, the paper considers how external pressures, such as neoliberalism and academia’s audit culture, function to sha…
Travels into print
This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editi…
Geosophy, imagination, and terrae incognitae
Teaching the history of geography
Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a d…
The spectacular and the sacred
This article - drawing upon the archives of the London publisher John Murray - addresses the narration of landscape in 19th century printed accounts of travel and exploration. The geological work of the earth scientist Charles Lyell, and the textual and cartographic investigations of the scriptural geographer Edward Robinson, are used to examine the construction of narrative as a question of inscriptive practice, rhetorical desideratum, and inter…
History and philosophy of geography III
This report takes a new English-language translation of Friedrich Ratzel’s infamous essay Der Lebensraum (1901) as a prompt to consider the ethical questions that are raised by revisiting geography’s dangerous ideas and discredited practitioners. Attending to a series of recent interventions that offer new readings of Ratzel and his essay, I consider how historiographical practice and moral obligation intersect in the process of making sense of, …
History and philosophy of geography II
Prompted by recent scholarship on geographers’ role in advancing the divergent political ends of anarchism and Nazism, this report considers how disciplinary histories make space for the admirable as well as for the abominable episodes of our shared past. In addressing some of the ideological ends to which geography has been put, the report reflects on the historiographical challenge of dealing appropriately with the discipline’s stain of Nazi co…
Coming of age? Reflections on the centenary of women's admission to the Royal Geographical Society
Women's admission to the Royal Geographical Society was at least a two-staged affair, with a cohort of 22 women being admitted in 1892-93 before open access to women from 1913. However, whilst official membership was defined by these historic line-in-the-sand 'boundary' moments, some aspects of women's participation within the Society were enacted in a permeable 'frontier zone'. Both prior to, and after, fully accessing Fellowship in 1913, women …
We have never been canonical
In responding to the commentaries on Keighren et al. (2012), we discuss in this paper the nature of memory and forgetfulness in geography and examine what the implications of active forgetting are for the stories we tell about geography and geographers. We explore the role which fashion plays in directing the course of the discipline and what this means for our engagement with the work of past geographers. Finally, we consider how notions of inhe…
Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography
Unpacking geography
In this paper I describe the changing use of the figurative term ‘unpack’ in A nglo‐ A merican geographical writing between 1973 and 2013. I present the results of a survey of the term's occurrence, across four decades, in five leading geography journals. I conclude by discussing the implications of ‘unpack’ as a critical instruction and reflecting on what that term's deployment reveals about the prioritisation of scholarly activities in geograph…
Questions of Inscription and Epistemology in British Travelers’ Accounts of Early Nineteenth-Century South America
This article examines the problems of truth and of trust in travelers’ narratives. Following a review of work on travel writing and the place of printed travel narratives in the making of geographical enquiry, we discuss how issues of inscription and credibility are intrinsic to the material and epistemic transformation of narratives from their manuscript beginnings to their printed form. Particular attention is paid to the narratives of travel i…
Geosophy, imagination, and terrae incognitae
Bringing geography to the book
Whilst geography has formed an important yet often unacknowledged component in the description and analysis of print culture, its specific and potential contribution to understanding the making, distribution and reading of books has yet to be outlined fully. This paper seeks to describe the different ways in which Ellen Churchill Semple's 1911 volume Influences of geographic environment was received and understood – to explain why it was read bot…
The Passage to Cosmos
Travels into print
This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editi…
Questions of Inscription and Epistemology in British Travelers’ Accounts of Early Nineteenth-Century South America
This article examines the problems of truth and of trust in travelers’ narratives. Following a review of work on travel writing and the place of printed travel narratives in the making of geographical enquiry, we discuss how issues of inscription and credibility are intrinsic to the material and epistemic transformation of narratives from their manuscript beginnings to their printed form. Particular attention is paid to the narratives of travel i…
San Martín
On canonical geographies
Histories of geography are, by their very nature, selective enterprises. The apparent tendency of geographers to disparage particular periods of the discipline’s history, at the same time as exalting others, is characteristic of the way in which progress has been measured, relevance defined, and novelty identified. Yet, whilst other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences actively engage with their textual canons and founding figures, g…
We have never been canonical
In responding to the commentaries on Keighren et al. (2012), we discuss in this paper the nature of memory and forgetfulness in geography and examine what the implications of active forgetting are for the stories we tell about geography and geographers. We explore the role which fashion plays in directing the course of the discipline and what this means for our engagement with the work of past geographers. Finally, we consider how notions of inhe…
A Life in Shadow
The spectacular and the sacred
This article - drawing upon the archives of the London publisher John Murray - addresses the narration of landscape in 19th century printed accounts of travel and exploration. The geological work of the earth scientist Charles Lyell, and the textual and cartographic investigations of the scriptural geographer Edward Robinson, are used to examine the construction of narrative as a question of inscriptive practice, rhetorical desideratum, and inter…
Teaching historical geography in the field
This paper examines the pedagogical and practical challenges associated with teaching historical geography, and archival research specifically, in the context of the undergraduate field trip. In so doing, it draws upon students' own reflections on the experience of conducting archival research during a field trip to New York City and presents the results of an international survey of academics' views as to the current problems and future possibil…
Coming of age? Reflections on the centenary of women's admission to the Royal Geographical Society
Women's admission to the Royal Geographical Society was at least a two-staged affair, with a cohort of 22 women being admitted in 1892-93 before open access to women from 1913. However, whilst official membership was defined by these historic line-in-the-sand 'boundary' moments, some aspects of women's participation within the Society were enacted in a permeable 'frontier zone'. Both prior to, and after, fully accessing Fellowship in 1913, women …
Unpacking geography
In this paper I describe the changing use of the figurative term ‘unpack’ in A nglo‐ A merican geographical writing between 1973 and 2013. I present the results of a survey of the term's occurrence, across four decades, in five leading geography journals. I conclude by discussing the implications of ‘unpack’ as a critical instruction and reflecting on what that term's deployment reveals about the prioritisation of scholarly activities in geograph…
Environmental Determinism
Teaching the history of geography
Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a d…
History and philosophy of geography I
This report takes as its prompt John K. Wright’s 1925 ‘plea for the history of geography’ – an early call for an inclusive account of geographical thought and practice, embracing both professional and amateur ways of knowing. In reflecting on the extent to which contemporary histories of geography realize the scope of Wright’s ambition, the paper considers how external pressures, such as neoliberalism and academia’s audit culture, function to sha…
History and philosophy of geography II
Prompted by recent scholarship on geographers’ role in advancing the divergent political ends of anarchism and Nazism, this report considers how disciplinary histories make space for the admirable as well as for the abominable episodes of our shared past. In addressing some of the ideological ends to which geography has been put, the report reflects on the historiographical challenge of dealing appropriately with the discipline’s stain of Nazi co…
History and philosophy of geography III
This report takes a new English-language translation of Friedrich Ratzel’s infamous essay Der Lebensraum (1901) as a prompt to consider the ethical questions that are raised by revisiting geography’s dangerous ideas and discredited practitioners. Attending to a series of recent interventions that offer new readings of Ratzel and his essay, I consider how historiographical practice and moral obligation intersect in the process of making sense of, …
Livingstone’s Missionary Travels manuscript (1857)
By almost any measure, David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857) was a publishing phenomenon, serving to cement Livingstone’s public celebrity and securing financ
Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography
Geography as the science of environmental influences
This chapter examines how one of Geography’s oldest yet most controversial ideas—that humans are indelibly shaped by their environmental circumstances—came to dominate the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. It takes as its focus the career of the pioneering woman geographer Ellen Churchill Semple and her efforts to promote Geography as a science based on the study of environmental influences. The chapter explores the intellectual co…
Sector 2
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