Brinck Jackson in the Realm of the Everyday
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4490414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul F Starrs (0000-0001-6063-1072, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 492-506 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1998.tb00123.x |
| OpenAlex | W1978919439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
Academic geography is dotted with fly‐specks from the fashion conscious who have skittered from one enthusiasm to another like aggravating bugs in midroom flight. Our disciplinary history in fact abounds in dead‐end roads entered at fatally high speed, theoretical turns not negotiated, crossroads oracles proved dismally inaccurate. By contrast, the formidable cultural geographer and landscape historian J. B. “Brinck” Jackson (1909–1996) conceived of a more slowly developing world, replete with enduring geographies. Although firmly Brahmin by origin, Jackson was chary of the fleeting fashions and power tropes of what he sometimes dubbed the Establishment. He was inclined instead to attend to the structures of the everyday, emphasizing community and connection over didactic fashion. With writing grounded in daily experience and a consummate ability to witness pattern, he urged geographers to think and envision
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Discipline · Enthusiasm · Geographer · Geography · Political science · Power (physics · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Witness · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2018 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |