Books, bothies and thinking in place: a new contribution to geographies of the book

Hunt, Rachel

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“…In attending to such details, Taylor brings climbing to bear on the geography of books, extending the subfield through a novel form of book. As such, this work adds to the rising body of research within historical geography (Hunt, , Lorimer, ) which seeks to engage in methodological debates which muddy and energise the conventional list of sources available to the historical geographer.…”

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Historical geography, climbing and mountaineering: route setting for an inclusive future

Hunt

2019

Geography Compass

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This article seeks to review work broadly defined as the historical geographies of mountaineering and climbing. As such, it outlines the links between mountaineering, colonialism, and vertical ascent as well as the historical geographies of rock climbing which speak to the culture, practices, and technologies of climbing. In outlining past work, particular attention is paid to the hidden and gendered histories of climbing and mountaineering. This moves discussion beyond common place tales of white privilege and Western philosophies of conquer through ascendancy to tackle the broader ways by which mountaineering and climbing have been explored by academic geography. A holistic appreciation of work on this topic, it is argued, can not only help the geographical discipline to deal with its colonial past but also show how the historical geographies of mountaineering and climbing fit within efforts to decolonise the discipline, include wider voices, and utilise archives unknown.

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Historical geography, climbing and mountaineering: route setting for an inclusive future

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2019

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Geographies of the book (shop): Reading women’s geographies in Enlightenment Edinburgh

Dodds¹

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines the place of women’s geographical reading in a centre of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1770–1810. It analyses two sets of booksellers’ records to identify key sites – women’s private libraries, Georgian domestic spaces, and women’s schools and boarding houses – in which women engaged with the geographical materials sold in the city’s bookshops: maps, globes, travel accounts, gazetteers, guidebooks, books of roads, geographical dictionaries and grammars. Women used these diverse materials to transform spaces into sites of geographical education and discussion. Crucially, this paper makes the case for understanding these spaces as key sites in Edinburgh’s Enlightenment topography. These were spaces where women oversaw the circulation and appraisal of geographical information: women, in the absence of men, interrogated geographical publications and promoted particular methods of reading and ways of understanding the world. Indeed, this paper goes beyond the familiar argument that women’s reading enabled their participation in the male‐dominated debates of the Scottish Enlightenment. Of course it did this, by ensuring they could invoke geographical examples and comparisons. (Women were, the evidence suggests, comparatively better acquainted than many men were with geography, which was the crucial basis of Enlightenment reasoning.) But their reading represented not a means to an Enlightenment end but an Enlightenment process in itself. In contradistinction to Scottish Enlightenment histories and historiography that have interpreted women’s role relative to men – as constrained from accessing male‐dominated Scottish Enlightenment culture – the analysis here emphasises women’s spaces and the practices of geographical reading that took place within them as key sites and processes of Enlightenment. In so doing, the paper deepens our understanding of Enlightenment and contributes to a feminist historiography of geography.

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Books, bothies and thinking in place: a new contribution to geographies of the book

Cited by 2 publications

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Historical geography, climbing and mountaineering: route setting for an inclusive future

Historical geography, climbing and mountaineering: route setting for an inclusive future

Geographies of the book (shop): Reading women’s geographies in Enlightenment Edinburgh

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