Popularization and Geography
An Inseparable Relationship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger M Downs (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 444-467 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045601003638774 |
| OpenAlex | W2079796752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
Geography in America is inseparably entwined with popularization: historically from its inception, structurally in its composition, and functionally in its mission. Despite its centrality to geography, the role of popularization remains largely ignored and therefore is poorly understood. To put popularization into a conceptual and historical context, I explore two public debates about popularization: one structural, involving the rationale for the separation of the National Geographic Society and the Association of American Geographers, and the other functional, involving conflicts between the popular intellectual and academic geographic reviewers of a popular text, Van Loon's Geography. Using analytical frameworks taken from the history and sociology of science and communication studies, I show how issues of demarcation, authority, and authenticity have, through debates about popularization, shaped the history and current structure of the geographic enterprise
Archaeology · Centrality · Context (archaeology) · Critical geography · Economic geography · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Social science · Sociology · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Selling Science
The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950
The geographic revolution in early America
When scientists turn to the public
Public Science in Britain, 1880-1919
Knowledge Producers and Knowledge Acquirers
Science and the Media
Science and the Media
Popularizer of Geography and Geology in the United States
A Century of Geographic Education in the United States
Simplicity In Science And Its Publics
The role of geography in public debate
The Dominant View of Popularization
The Story of Mankind
The Association of American Geographers, 1903–1923
In Sight of the Tunnel
Geography Then and Now
Women, Gender, and the Histories of American Geography
Reading National geographic
Discourse Studies of Scientific Popularization
Accommodating Science
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
George Perkins Marsh on the Nature and Purpose of Geography
The Association of American Geographers
Geography's Empire
A Child's Geography of the World
The World and All That is in It
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |