Decolonising and Internationalising Geography Essays in the History of Contested Science

International scholarship is increasingly aware that the ‘geographical tradition’ is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing o...

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Other Authors: Schelhaas, Bruno (Editor), Ferretti, Federico (Editor), Reyes Novaes, André (Editor), Schmidt di Friedberg, Marcella (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Historical Geography and Geosciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping Cross-cultural Exchange: Jaime Cortesão’s Dialogues and Documents on the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Brazilian Exploration
  • Pioneers of the Latin American Critical Geography: Josué de Castro and Antonio Núñez Jiménez
  • After the Excitement of War: ‘Disabled Veterans’ in Modern Japan
  • Indian Ocean Small Islands along the Postcolonial Trajectory: Chagos and the Maldives
  • Do not cross. The “North/South” Divide: A Means of Domination?
  • Drone Photography and the Re-Aestheticisation of nature
  • “Our Field is the World”: Geographical Societies in International Comparison, 1821–1914
  • Personified Continents in Public Places: Internationalism, Art and Geography in Late Nineteenth Century Paris
  • Pierre Monbeig and the Geohistory of Brazil
  • How International was the International Geographical Congress in Rio de Janeiro 1956? On Location and Language Politics
  • (Re-)Writing the History of IGU? A Report from the Archive.