The Dissenting Tradition

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ID8375422
AuthorsJames M Blaut
Year1979
Volume69
Issue1
Pages157-164
Publication date1979-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1979.tb01246.x
OpenAlexW2160811774
LanguageEN
Citations received20

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 William Pattison, "The Four Traditions of Geography,"Journal of Geography, Vol. 63 (1964), pp. 211 16. 2 See Association of American Geographers, Hand-book-Directory, 1956 (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, 1956), pp. 15–18. 3 Richard Peet has traced the origins and growth of this movement in his important essay, "The Development of Radical Geography in America," in Richard Peet, ed., Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporay Social Issues (Chicago: Maaroufa Press, 1977). A Volume of Geo-Abstracts devoted to radical geography, and including a review article as well as an annotated bibliography, is scheduled for publication in Autumn 1978. 4 The number of articles published annually in Antipode increased from eleven in 1969 (Volume 1) to forty-one in 1974 (Volume 6). By the end of 1974, more than 100 geographers, ranging from graduate students to full professors and presidents of the A.A.G., had written for this journal. For a representative selection of Antipode articles published through 1977 (Volume 9), see Peet, op. cit., footnote 3. 5 The Union of Socialist Geographers has, in my opinion, contributed to the development of the whole spectrum of radical geography, by establishing a number of local chapters in Canada and the United States; by organizing regional meetings (of which there were four in 1977–78: two in the United States and two in Canada); by publishing a newsletter which contains, among other thing, bibliographies, course outlines, and reports of local work; by holding annual meetings (alternately with the Canadian Association of Geographers and the A.A.G.); and, most recently, by encouraging the establishment of counterpart organizations in England, Ireland, Denmark, and Australia. SERGE, meanwhile, has concentrated mainly on developing its own newsletter, Transition, which has evolved into a respected journal, and on organizing sessions at the A.A.G. annual meetings, although it works effectively in other areas as well (such as the effort to eliminate sexism in geography and society). The two organizations are complementary and equally important for the radical movement. Mention should also be made of several radical journals which have been founded in recent years in other capitalist countries: Espaces et Sociétés and Hérodote (France), Zone (The Netherlands), and Geographie in Ausbildung und Planung (West Germany). British radical geographers have prepared three numbers of Antipode; they have also contributed articles to other numbers, as have Scandinavians and Latin Americans. 6 This holds true more generally for empirical research than it does for high-order theory. As Harvey points out, "We must ... expect that most [mainstream] theoretical formulations will be status quo or counter-revolutionary." David Harvey, Social Justice and the City (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973), p. 148. 7 For reviews, see the citations in footnotes 3 and 5. 8 See Brian Hudson, "The New Geography and the New Imperialism: 1870–1918,"Antipode, Vol. 9, No. 1 (September, 1977), pp. 12 19, Also see Donald V. McKay, "Colonialism in the French Geographical Movement: 1871–1881,"Geographical Review, Vol. 33 (1943), pp. 214 32. 9 James M. Blaut and others, "A Study of Cultural Determinants of Soil Erosion and Conservation in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica,"Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 8 (1959), pp. 403 20

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