The Coromandel Peninsula and the Thames Valley

McCaskill, Murray

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.1949.tb01680.x

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“…Work drawing on the regional approach taught by Cumberland and Jobberns dominated the early pages of the NZG (for example see: Aitkin 1947; Packard 1947; McCaskill 1949; Fox 1950). This regional approach also extended well beyond the confines of the NZG .…”

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Evolving disciplinary imaginaries: Mapping the New Zealand Geographer, 1945–1969

Wilson

Henry

2011

New Zealand Geographer

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Our paper explores the early development of the New Zealand Geographer. We situate a series of continuities in its pages within the context of a wider Anglo‐American regional orthodoxy and the articulation of a ‘pragmatic sanction’ for geographers in New Zealand. We argue that the journal cannot be separated from disciplinary disputes about the character and practice of geography in New Zealand. Consequently, we suggest that the journal can be understood in performative terms insofar as its pages were used to discipline academic geographers as it simultaneously aimed to satisfy a ‘common curiosity’ about New Zealand for New Zealanders.

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