On Disciplinary History and Textbooks: or Where Has Spatial Analysis Gone?

Johnston, Ron

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“…As the earlier conceptions of international migration are simply incapable of capturing the full complexities of multiplicity and translocality, I now turn to some theoretical ideas that stem from the literature on transnationalism.19 These theories help me avoid looking at livelihoods as sedentary lives and solely as the natural state of society, and to move 'beyond simplistic dichotomies of migrants as either moving for economic or political reasons' (Mazzucato 2004:136). Although it is important to chapter two 20 Massey 1997, Perose 1993, and Young 1990in Johnston et al 2000 21 Archytas, as cited by Simplicius, 'Commentary on Aristotle's Categories ' , in Basso 1996:3. acknowledge 'the open and porous boundaries of places as well as the myriad interlinkages and interdependencies among places' ,20 one cannot exclude from any consideration the places themselves that serve as anchoring points of the translocal networks. In fact, translocal networks are largely place-based and place-nourished as Ma (2003:10) emphasizes while referring to the Chinese diaspora.…”

Section: Moving Beyond Local Boundariesmentioning

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Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

Jong¹

2013

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This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.ISSN 1572-1892 ISBN 978-90-04-25240-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-25247-9 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Edwin de Jong. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License, which permits any non-commercial use, and distribution, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited.The realization of this publication was made possible by the support of KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies). Having obtained a MA in Development Studies and, in so doing, gained fieldwork experience on the effects of the economic crisis in Thailand, a whole new direction opened up. Not only did I need to study the history and context of a different Southeast Asian country (in this case Indonesia) and another language, I also had to absorb many aspects of another discipline, namely Cultural Anthropology. Some would argue that it is better to focus on a single discipline in one's education, rather than two, and it would definitely have shortened the process, but I have learnt that Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies have a lot to offer each other, and that their integration strengthens both fieldwork and analysis.Both Development Studies and Cultural Anthropology offer studies into similar topics, but from different perspectives (which sometimes oppose each other), and employ different research methods. However, this new learning route has taught me that both perspectives are highly intertwined, and that only by integrating the two perspectives can the 'logic' behind the way people in Tana Toraja make a living between crises and ceremonies be thoroughly understood. In line with my own experiences, I hope that this thesis stimulates further exchanges between anthropologists and academics from development studies. If it is successful in this, it will contribute to research methodology, the core concepts and theories of both disciplines and, most importantly, reduce one-sided misinterpretations of complex societies, by over-emphasizing either culture or socio-economics,...

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Section: Moving Beyond Local Boundariesmentioning

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Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

Jong¹

2013

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“…At the same time, we cannot afford to have the social theorists in our discipline marginalise the spatial analysts (Johnston 2000); both groups are essential to the health of the discipline and to its ability to contribute meaningfully in the environmental domain. Equally importantly, we need to bridge the`tectonic chasm`b etween the inhuman natural geographers and the unnatural human geographers'' ' (Blong 1997, p. 7, quoting Jennings 1973.…”

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“…The void left by geographers has been ®lled, in part, by workers from other disciplines and interdisciplinary areas becoming more spatially adept. To reassert Johnston's (2000) comment, we need spatial analysts as well as social theorists.…”

Section: Flexibility and Adaptabilitymentioning

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OPINIONOpen‐minded Geographers: Their Potential Role in Integrated Adaptive Environmental Management

Aplin

Batten

2004

Australian Geographer

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There are three key factors to be considered in comprehensive environmental management: (a) integration across disciplines and interests; (b)¯exibility and adaptability based on feedback; and (c) interactions between policy and implementation at different scales. Successful management is both integrated and inclusive, and also adaptive and¯exible. It involves a synthesis of work, requiring empathy among contributors and active synthesis. Furthermore, there is a need for a dialectical consideration of processes acting at various scales. Geographers who are not too narrowly specialised have a key role to play, and, collectively, might have been more centrally involved in environmental management than they have been.

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“…They have also exercised a strong influence across the humanities and social sciences, even to the extent of making claims for disciplinary hegemony. Recently in this journal Johnston (2000) commented on such a contest in English human geography where 'social theorists' have proclaimed ascendancy in texts such as Human Geography Today (Massey et al , 1999).…”

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Geography’s Emerging Cross‐Disciplinary Links: Process, Causes, Outcomes and Challenges

Holmes

2002

Australian Geographical Studies

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In Australian universities the discipline of Geography has been the pace-setter in forging cross-disciplinary links to create multidisciplinary departments and schools, well ahead of other disciplines in humanities, social sciences and sciences, and also to a greater extent than in comparable overseas university systems. Details on all cross-disciplinary links and on immediate outcomes have been obtained by surveys of all heads of departments/schools with undergraduate Geography programs. These programs have traced their own distinctive trajectories, with ramifying links to cognate fields of enquiry, achieved through mergers, transfers, internal initiatives and, more recently, faculty-wide restructuring to create supradisciplinary schools.Geography's 'exceptionalism' has proved short-lived. Disciplinary flux is now extending more widely within Australian universities, driven by a variety of internal and external forces, including: intellectual questioning and new ways of constituting knowledge; technological change and the information revolution; the growth of instrumentalism and credentialism, and managerialism and entrepreneurial imperatives; reinforced by a powerful budgetary squeeze.Geographers are proving highly adaptive in pursuit of cross-disciplinary connections, offering analytical tools and selected disciplinary insights useful to non-geographers. However, this may be at cost to undergraduate programs focussing on Geography's intellectual core. Whereas formerly Geography had high reproductive capacity but low instrumental value it may now be in a phase of enhanced utility but perilously low reproductive capacity.

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On Disciplinary History and Textbooks: or Where Has Spatial Analysis Gone?

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

OPINIONOpen‐minded Geographers: Their Potential Role in Integrated Adaptive Environmental Management

Geography’s Emerging Cross‐Disciplinary Links: Process, Causes, Outcomes and Challenges

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