Editorial: Atlantic geographies

Ogborn, Miles

doi:10.1080/14649360500111261

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“…In many senses this is what historical geographers have been doing – using biographical material, or ‘traces’ (Ogborn ), as part of a repertoire of methods to navigate the abundance thrown up by transnational approaches. This has the benefit of not only being a cost‐effective strategy for sourcing a large volume and range of empirical material, but it also helps conceptually focus on how the life of an individual is interconnected with the institutions, ideas, networks, places and objects with which they came into contact.…”

Section: Biography ‘Like a Levee’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If archives are spaces of a society's collective ‘memory’, so too are they sites of loss, effacement and forgetting, where some voices are silent or silenced. In attending to the incompleteness of archives, metaphors of partiality and absence have become the prevailing motif through which to frame discussions of historical research in geography; the archive is a space of ‘traces’ (McGeachan ; Ogborn ), ‘fragments’ (Till ) and ‘ghosts’ (Edensor ; Mills ).…”

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On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research

Hodder

2017

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Geographical scholarship has rightly problematised the act of archival research, showing how the practice of archiving is not only concerned with how a society collectively remembers, but also forgets. As such, the dominant motif for discussing historical methods in geography has been through the lens of absence: the archive is a space of ‘traces’, ‘fragments’ and ‘ghosts’. In this paper I suggest that the focus on incompleteness and partiality, while true, may also belie what many geographers working in archives find their greatest difficulty: an overwhelming volume of source materials. I reflect on my own research experiences in the pacifist archive to suggest that the growing scale and scope of many collections, along with the taxing research demands of transnational perspectives, pose immediate practical challenges for geographers characterised as much by abundance as by absence. In the second half of the paper, drawing on recent scholarship in history and geography, I argue that the method of biography offers one possible strategy for navigating archival abundance, allowing geographers to tell stories that are wider, deeper and more revealingly complex within the existing time and financial constraints of humanities research.

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Section: Biography ‘Like a Levee’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research

Hodder

2017

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“…Research that re‐centres the maritime world has been increasingly rich and varied. Notably, attention has been paid to the ‘the environment or the material world’ at sea, to ‘winds and ocean currents … the connection and transformation of different ecological zones’ (Ogborn 2005, 379), to the ‘colours’ of the sea (‘white’, ‘black’ and ‘red’, representing respectively, the colonial, ‘genocidal’ and ‘multicultural’ character of the Atlantic – see Lambert et al. 2006, 481) and to the ‘shape’ of the oceans (circular, triangular and so on, Lambert et al.…”

Section: Historical Geographies Of the Seamentioning

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“…However, the new ‘experiential dimensions’ and ‘forms of representation’ can be further expanded. Indeed, there is much emphasis on the geographies of the Atlantic (Armitage and Braddick 2002; Ogborn 2005), yet as Pearson argues ‘[w]e need … to remember that there are different oceans and seas’ (2009, 697). Considering the Indian Ocean and Asian crews, Pearson’s work alerts us to the ways in which historical approaches could be deepened and stretched in new directions.…”

Section: Historical Geographies Of the Seamentioning

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Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea

Peters

2010

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Seventy per cent of the Earth’s surface is sea. Yet, until recently social and cultural geographers have failed to pay much attention to this aspect of the world in which we live, with the most notable contributions deriving from historical perspectives. This study examines the work characterising this area of research before outlining possible reasons for the failure of consistent and comprehensive examination of the seas and ships for social and cultural geographers who take a more contemporary focus. The sea has been typically understood as inferior to and marginal from the land and invisible in modern consciousness, yet it is nonetheless a vital space and one that is integral to the workings of the world as we currently know it. This study travels through the ways in which modern‐day examinations of the maritime world are developing before outlining future promises that are surfacing for more contemporary social and cultural geographies of the sea. The study offers an overview of the relationship between social and cultural geography and the sea, contending by way of a conclusion for a greater volume of contemporary work considering maritime spaces to expand and deepen geographic understandings of the watery world.

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“…This raised questions for many academics about the politics of what gets preserved and what is left out (Hodder, ; Edensor, ) and the processes of searching and finding (Lorimer, ). Historical geographers have also engaged substantively with questions of absence in the archive and the need to work with it and/or mere traces of history (McGeachan, ; Mills, ; Ogborn, ). Duncan's () paper on emancipatory historical research was a key intervention in the corpus of historical geography method.…”

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Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

Moore

2018

Geography Compass

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It is thirty years since the first call to engage with gender as an analytical category was made in the sub‐discipline of Historical Geography. Significant advances in scholarship have been made in this time, particularly the re‐situation of women in the history of Geography as a subject. This paper looks to the next thirty years in Historical Geography and asks how the sub‐discipline can retain and develop its critical political edge. In the 2017 Women's Marches protestors dressed as suffragettes from the early twentieth century and proclaimed that little had changed in the fight for women's rights. Taking this ‘Victorian present’ as a starting point, this paper explores ways to connect Historical Geography to the gender politics of the present. The paper argues that the sub‐discipline has the methodological tools to use the past as a form of female power to engage with the inequalities that women still face. A sketch of a feminist historical geography of the present is provided using emancipatory and participatory research tools.

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Editorial: Atlantic geographies

Cited by 23 publications

References 10 publications

On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research

On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research

Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea

Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

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