Jöns, Heike, Brigstocke, Julian, Couper, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0083-223X and Ferretti, Federico (2024) History and philosophy of Geography: looking back and looking forward. Journal of Historical Geography, 85. pp. 1-8.

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Abstract

This introduction to the special issue 'Reflections on Histories and Philosophies of Geography' discusses the context and content of nineteen articles written to mark the fortieth anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). The group was founded in 1981, two years after the early career researchers who set up the group, Richard T. Harrison and David N. Livingstone, published jointly their first critical interventions in support of human geography’s paradigmatic shift away from positivism, based on an early form of social constructivist argumentation. We argue that the subsequent proliferation of epistemic pluralism, which is discussed in the contributions to this special issue and has characterised the activities organised by the HPGRG, exemplifies the considerable value of three historiographical practices: first, engaging with the history and philosophy of geography collectively in one research group; second, situating methodologies within the history and philosophy of geography; and third, critically interrogating the discipline’s evolving geographical knowledges, professional practices, and material cultures from different authorial positionalities.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.003
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118

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