Geography's Empire
Histories of Geographical Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felix Driver (0000-0003-0318-4282, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-40 |
| Publication date | 1992-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d100023 |
| OpenAlex | W1993156929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 141 |
| References cited | 48 |
In this paper the possibilities and hazards of a critical perspective on the history of geographical knowledge are considered. The focus is on the relations between modern geography and European colonialism during the 'age of empire' (circa 1870-1914). For writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad and Halford Mackinder, this was a moment of decisive importance for the making of the modern world. Although the interplay between geography, modernity, and colonialism has recently attracted attention from the historians of geography, it is argued in this paper that they have often conceived the role of geographical knowledge in somewhat narrow terms. The work of Edward Said is discussed at some length, as it highlights some of the key issues and dilemmas facing those who would rewrite critical histories of geographical discourse. A totalising view of 'imaginative geographies' (such as those of Orientalism) is argued against, and instead the heterogeneity of geographical knowledges is emphasised. The paper concludes with a more general question: Why have histories of geography at all, in these (post)modern times
Orientalism · Australian History and Society · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
A Fronteira como Ameaça
Distensões E Representações Do Sertão No Brasil
Visões Sobre a Geografia E O Pós-Colonialismo Conversas Com Felix Driver, David Harvey E Paul Claval
Writing (Across) Europe
Postcolonial Geography
Inscribing the Dutch imperial geopolitical order
Postcolonial Geographies
The Cassiterides (Tin) Islands, their metamorphosis into the ‘Pseudo-Azores' and their transmission through the earliest ‘modern' maps of Spain (XV–XVI centuries)
Mapping Imprecision
Demonology and the less-than-human worlds of Late Medieval European Witchcraft
Researching from Home, Inside, and the Online
Climate Change
Aadel Brun Tschudi Annual Lecture 2017 – efficiency and equity in development geography, the SDGs and the Sendai Framework
Beyond antidevelopment
Human Geography of the American Tropics
Under the Microscope
The Theme of “Relevance” in Third World Human Sciences
Devise and Rule
Die Politik der Verortung
Geography and History
Darkness falls
Space, Knowledge and Power
The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea
Postkoloniale Impulse für die deutschsprachige Geographische Entwicklungsforschung
The neglected “gift” of Ratzel for/from the Indian Ocean
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in Ipbes
Investigating Portering Relations as a Locus for Transcultural Interaction in the Karakorum Region of Northern Pakistan
Beyond Frontiers
Geography’s medieval history
Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography
Orientalism at home
Shipwrecks in the Western Caribbean
Geografia, fronteira do mundo. Ensaio sobre política, epistemologia e história da geografia
Writing (Across) Europe
Emplacing Current Trends in Feminist Historical Geography
What Has the Geography of Sleeping Arrangements Got to Do with the Geography of Our Teaching Spaces
Exhibiting Canada
Edward said and the historians
Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories
Teaching the history and philosophy of geography in British undergraduate courses
Physical Geography and the Geographic Thought Course
Geopolitics and foreign policy
Political geography I
Political geography
Reading Drumlin
New perspectives on the history and philosophy of geography
In the territory of knowledge
Geography, empire and social theory
Vertical boundaries, national identities
The Royal Geographical Society and the development of surveying 1870–1914
Memory and the history of geographical knowledge
Feminist Geography
The Politics of Geography and the Italian Occupation of Libya
Trade, consumption and development alliances
The Nature of Produced Nature
Albert Smith, the Alpine Club, and the Invention of Mountaineering in Mid-Victorian Britain
Consuming the tourist gaze
Intellectual of Empire
The Geography of Post‐colonial Africa
Antarctica and the modern geographical imagination (1918–1960)
From Odyssey to Empire
Practising Interpretative Geography
Nature, the Modern and the Mystic
Reshaping Boundaries
Deconstructing Context
Regional survey and the economic geographies of Britain 1930–1939
Nihilism and modernity
Reappraising David Livingstone's The Geographical Tradition from complex locations
Post‐colonial careering and urban policy mobility
Cutting Power Lines within the Palace? Countering Paternity and Eurocentrism in the ‘Geographical Tradition’
Experiencing nature
Double G(I)azing
Contexts of interpretation
Forgotten Colonizers
Some things do change
Contested Global Visions
On “Geographical Determinism in Fin-de-Siè cle Marxism
Geoeconomic Imaginations and Economic Geography in the Early Twentieth Century
Popularization and Geography
Women, Gender, and the Histories of American Geography
Gender, science and physical geography in nineteenth‐century Britain
Fourierism, colonization and discourses of associative emigration
The (re)making of the western ‘geographical tradition’
Why place matters
Muddy glee’
In other worlds
Beyond Judgment and Approval
Masculinism, the Use of Dualistic Epistemologies and Third Spaces
Buried Epistemologies
Totally Wild'? Colonising discourses, indigenous knowledges and managing wildlife
Unnatural discourse. ‘Race’ and gender in geography
On geography and encounter
Between Normative Visions and Pragmatic Possibilities
Spaces of Exclusion
Laughing at northernness
Fissures in the rock
Spatial Stories under Siege
Java Coffee, French Sardines and Malaga Raisins
The Challenge of Post-Modern Scholarship Within Geography
Eugenics, fantasies of empire and inverted Whiggism
Ephemeral Vistas
The Burden of Representation
Exhibiting cultures
Making of the English Working Class
Victorian anthropology
Postmodern geographies
Manliness and morality
Strategies
Geography, the Media and Popular Culture
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
Geographers Biobibliographical Studies
Critics of Empire
Progressive human geography
The Geopolitics of Geopolitical Space
The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Artists and Empire
Scratches on the Face of the Country; Or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen
The New Geography and the New Imperialism
School History Textbooks and Racial Attitudes, 1804‐1911
The Historical Role of British Explorers in East Africa
Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea
Geography, Tradition and the Scientific Revolution
The Social Origins of Environmental Determinism
Narrative Ethnography in Africa, 1850-1920
The philosophical discourse of modernity
Unruly practices
The condition of postmodernity
Discipline and Punish
The Use of Practical Geography Illustrated by Recent Frontier Operations
Discipline Without Frontiers? Representations of the Mettray Reformatory Colony in Britain, 1840-1880
The Geographical Pivot of History
The Limits of Utopia
The Image of Africa
Scientist of Empire
Colonialism in the French Geographical Movement 1871-1881
Closed Space and Political Practice
Power, Space, and the Body
The History of Science and the History of Geography
Henry Morton Stanley and His Critics
In the Wake of Cook
Traces on the Rhodian Shore
The Political Unconscious
Representing the Colonized
Victorians and Africans
| Unique citing works | 141 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,03 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 138 |