Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond

Sidaway, James D.; Lin, Shaun; Chouinard, Vera; Ferretti, Federico; Gibson, Katherine; Kenney‐Lazar, Miles; Philo, Chris; Meeteren, Michiel van; Wills, Jane; Wisner, Ben; Barnes, Trevor J.; Sheppard, Eric

doi:10.1080/2325548x.2020.1781463

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“…This type of research shares a situated and complex understanding of critical endeavours as a ‘community of practice’ (as defined by Wenger, 1998) bounding together geographers across a wide range of academic settings through their changing and conflicting interactions. This allows for a plural set of stories of critical geography to emerge, avoiding and contesting previous tendency to accommodate those diverging histories in the wider hegemonic mould of a singular history of Anglo-American narrative, or to seek for correspondences with ‘radical’ or ‘critical’ dominant models (Ferretti, 2020).…”

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History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

Puente-Lozano

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Amongst recent contributions to the field, this report detects ongoing and emergent topics within disciplinary histories and reflects on the evolving meaning of the ‘international’ character of geography as it has been conceived and practised over the years. A set of books on the long-standing efforts to internationalise the geographical community, and on the intellectual histories of critical geographies, constitute an outstanding resource for historical reflection and self-awareness. The report argues for further critical interrogation of how recent calls to pluralise, internationalise and radicalise the history and philosophy of geography interact with prevailing historiographical stances, sets of theories and philosophical moods.

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History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

Puente-Lozano

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Indeed, Ferretti urges us to “give up the idea that … one should seek correspondences with a dominant ‘radical’ model, that is the North American ‘ Antipode ‐an’ one” (in Sidaway et al. 2020:242). It is in this respect encouraging that we now see the uncovering of forgotten or overlooked histories of radical and critical geography (with parallels to this article, e.g.…”

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Must be Marxist: A Situated History of Danish Radical Geography

Larsen

2022

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Largely unrecognised in prevailing historical accounts of (radical) geography, Danish university geography from the late 1960s saw the emergence of a strong radical strand. In terms of student support, this radical geography became a dominant feature of geography at the University of Copenhagen, and was a defining element in the establishment of geography at the new Roskilde University Centre. This radical movement spawned its own journal, had a strong impact on upper‐secondary school geography, and played an important part in developing the Nordic critical geography network. As a contribution to the emerging situated histories of radical and critical geography, this article investigates the conditions of possibility for the rise of radical geography in Copenhagen and the movement’s institutionalisation during the 1970s. More briefly, the article also considers the transformative crisis of Danish radical geography in the 1980s.

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“… 1 1 Similarly to Ferretti (2020), we adopt the expression ‘critical and radical geography’ at large to comprehend every critical stance in geographical scholarship. This broad understanding skips searching for a strict correspondence in the meaning of these expressions between the Anglo‐American and ‘other’ geographies, and acknowledges the issues of languages and translation as part of a longstanding debate on the so‐called Anglo‐American hegemony in geography (Belina, 2005; Garcia‐Ramon, 2003; Gutierrez & Lopez‐Nieva, 2001; Kitchin, 2005; Müller, 2021).…”

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Reclaiming other geographical traditions: The hidden roots of Italian radical geography

Celata,

Governa

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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The article recalls the history of Geografia Democratica, a collective of scholars that during the second half of the 1970s sought to dismantle the old deterministic approach and promote a critical and radical turn in Italian academic geography. The aim is to contribute to the ongoing debate about ‘other geographical traditions’ beyond the Anglo‐American hegemony, to highlight the pluriversal roots of contemporary critical geographies and the influence that the transnational circulation of knowledge had in their unfolding, in light of recent quests for a more global geographical imagination. To do so, the article first engages with Geografia Democratica as a ‘rupture experience’ in the mainstream of Italian geography, and then discusses how it intersected or not similar turns that occurred elsewhere, focusing on the mostly implicit dialogue between Italian and Anglo‐American critical/radical geographies of the time. By following the controversial story of the collective during and after its short existence, we question its legacy for today's geographical scholarship, and reflect more generally upon the significance of reviving other critical and radical traditions. To highlight the plurality of our disciplinary past, we suggest, is crucial not only to fill the ‘asymmetric ignorance’ between various traditions, but also to nurture and reposition the present ‘worlding’ practices of non‐Anglophone critical geographers.

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Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

Must be Marxist: A Situated History of Danish Radical Geography

Reclaiming other geographical traditions: The hidden roots of Italian radical geography

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