Authorising geographical knowledge: the development of peer review in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–c.1880

Newman, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2019.03.006

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“…3. On the Geographical, see (Newman, 2019). had only limited power to act on his own authority: he could decline to accept a paper for consideration by the Society (for instance, by suggesting that it would be more appropriate for one of the more specialised societies); and he could accept short papers for publication in the Proceedings.…”

Section: The Management Of Editorial Work In the Late Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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Editors, referees, and committees: Distributing editorial work at the Royal Society journals in the late 19th and 20th centuries

Fyfe

2020

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Journal editor" has been a familiar and respected role for British academics since the late nineteenth century. Yet in 1752, the Royal Society had intentionally replaced the editor of the Philosophical Transactions with an editorial committee, and over the course of the nineteenth century, it had created an increasingly complex system in which the editorial work and responsibility were distributed among many individuals. In 1902, the suggestion that the Society ought to appoint an editor, specifically for its (newer) Proceedings, offers an opportunity to explore what the role of "editor" was believed to be: why might appointing an editor benefit the Society and its journals? The Royal Society did not in fact appoint editors for its journals until the late twentieth century, and by that time it had also acquired a (paid) "assistant editor" and a set of "associate editors". Examining the Royal Society's processes reminds us that editing a journal could be done without an "editor"; and that, with or without an "editor", the function can be shared by many other people. The different distribution of work and responsibility offers insight into the formation of the role of academic journal editor in the twentieth century.

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Section: The Management Of Editorial Work In the Late Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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Editors, referees, and committees: Distributing editorial work at the Royal Society journals in the late 19th and 20th centuries

Fyfe

2020

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“…The society’s archives allow an understanding of how the authority of the reviewers was built. They were generally not anonymous and belonged to the RGS circuits, with a quite complete ‘exclusion of women’ (Newman, 2019: 91). The RGS archives are also the basis for original pieces of scholarship on visual cultures, including Emily Hayes’s research on the use of the magic lantern at the society’s gatherings in the late 19th century (Hayes, 2018).…”

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History and philosophy of geography I: Decolonising the discipline, diversifying archives and historicising radicalism

Ferretti

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Starting from the conclusion of the previous report by Innes Keighren on the history and philosophy of geography, this report assesses the ‘state of the art’ of current attempts to make this field of studies more inclusive and to foster the increasing acknowledgement of geography’s plural pasts. It does so by analysing scholarship published this year (including contributions from outside the Anglosphere), which rediscovers geographical traditions other than Northern ones, diversifies archives and places by including feminist, decolonial and subaltern outlooks, and addresses geographical traditions in radicalism and activism, increasingly connecting this field of studies with wider scholarly and political debates.

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“…As the hunger for new knowledge about the world grew, the narratives published by explorers began to circulate widely and became immensely popular across late nineteenth-century society (Withers & Keighren, 2011;MacLaren, 2011). Furthermore, newspapers, magazines and other printed media were also filled with stories about the latest feats of exploration allowing a diverse array of new information to spread across all levels of European society (Fyfe & Lightman, 2007;Lightman, 2007;Newman, 2019;Sebe, 2014). Explorers also undertook lengthy lecture tours to share their experiences with audiences and, in the process, shaped ideas about the regions where they had travelled (Finnegan, 2011;Finnegan, 2017;Keighren, 2008).…”

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Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies

Martin

Armston‐Sheret

2019

Geography Compass

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Authorising geographical knowledge: the development of peer review in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–c.1880

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Cited by 12 publications

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Editors, referees, and committees: Distributing editorial work at the Royal Society journals in the late 19th and 20th centuries

Editors, referees, and committees: Distributing editorial work at the Royal Society journals in the late 19th and 20th centuries

History and philosophy of geography I: Decolonising the discipline, diversifying archives and historicising radicalism

Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies

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