Historical geography: geographies and historiographies

Naylor, Simon

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“…An obvious future to research on rock climbing comes from a focus on indoor climbing walls. As Naylor () highlights in his Progress paper on “geographies and historiographies,” historical geographers have become, borrowing Pearson's words, “enthralled by the lure of the local” (2006, p. 4 in Naylor, , p. 271). The introduction and ascendancy of the plastic frontier of contemporary climbing clearly lends itself as a new route for “small stories” (Lorimer, ) research.…”

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“…An obvious future to research on rock climbing comes from a focus on indoor climbing walls. As Naylor (2008) highlights in his Progress paper on "geographies and historiographies," historical geographers have become, borrowing Pearson's words, "enthralled by the lure of the local" ( , p. 4 in Naylor, 2008. The introduction and ascen-…”

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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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“…The cracks and slippages inherent in otherwise smooth historical narratives are revealed by the centring of lives and experiences. The vast differences between varieties of biographical methods and life-writing used by geographers are plentiful and have been explored indepth elsewhere (Daniels and Nash, 2004;Lambert and Lester, 2006;Naylor, 2008). 7 However, no matter what approach is taken the process is always methodologically challenging due to being so reliant on tracking the traces of a life that remain and tacking them back together in understandable and 'honest' formations.…”

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Historical geography II

McGeachan

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces through varied biographical terrains. Continuing to draw attention in historical geography to the darkest of histories, this piece will pivot on moments of discovering the dead to showcase the nuanced ways in which historical geography is opening doors into uncharted lives and unspoken histories.

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“…The past several years have seen a profusion of interest among cultural and historical geographers in the small, the local, the specific, the particular, the intimate, and the mundane (Mayhew, 2009; Naylor, 2008; Powell, 2007). In a review of recent historical geographic scholarship, for example, Naylor (2008: 265, 266) documents ‘a growing number of studies in historical geography that take individual lives as their centrepoint’ and an ‘increasingly common approach in historical geography to prioritize the local and the particular at the expense of larger-scale and more general studies’. Studies of ‘microhistory’, ‘oral history’, and ‘local stories’ have become increasingly common, and many frame these studies as responses to the perceived limitations of emphasizing large-scale, systemic, and discursive processes.…”

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“…If the ‘larger-scale’ (Naylor, 2008: 266) interests of geographers tended to be explored through metanarratives, discourses, and disciplinary storylines, recent turns to the small, minor, fragmentary, and banal involve an explicit focus on ‘small stories’ (Lorimer, 2003). Lorimer positions the small stories that interest him in relation to ‘greater intellectual histories of geography’ (p. 199) and ‘grand, scholarly stories’ (p. 200).…”

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New geographies of story and storytelling

Cameron

2012

Progress in Human Geography

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The concept of story draws attention to the relationship between personal experience and expression, and the broader contexts within which such experiences are ordered, performed, interpreted, and disciplined. In the past, particularly through the ‘cultural turn’, geographers were predominantly concerned with the ways in which story and storytelling were implicated in the production of cultural, economic, political, and social power. Today, this approach to story is being re-examined and new approaches to story are being explored. Geographers have been re-imagining the concept of story as part of a relational and material turn within the discipline, as part of a renewed focus on the political possibilities afforded by storytelling, and as a mode of expressing non-representational, (post)phenomenological geographies. This paper contextualizes recent work within broader disciplinary trends and critically evaluates the intellectual and political stakes of these new geographies of story and storytelling. It questions whether a shift away from understanding stories and storytelling in terms of power, knowledge, and difference (as was emphasized through the cultural turn) has opened new understandings of political, social, and cultural life, or risks abandoning crucial insights into the role of stories in geographical formations.

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Historical geography: geographies and historiographies

Cited by 30 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

Historical geography II

New geographies of story and storytelling

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