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In the wake of the elision of the 35th and 40th anniversaries of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) due to a coronavirus pandemic, the paper takes advantage of the anniversal twists and turns to deconstruct what is going to come without getting any closer and without moving any further away, and to hail the cancerous growth that is driving the revolution of geographical thought. With candles at the ready, my birthday wish is for geographical thought to perish, save the cancer (and the virus). • An anniversary has a strange temporality and spatiality, by way of which what is going to come and coming to go approaches without getting any nearer. • The twists and turns of an anniversary exemplify the deconstruction of time and space. • By deconstructing the anniversary of the RGS-IBG's History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group, the paper reveals a cancer at the core of geographical thought. • Given that the history and philosophy of geography continues to be ravaged by a cancerization of its theoretical discourse, the paper argues that it would be advisable to let geographical thought perish and to save the cancer instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last hundred years have been meaningful in terms of the evolution of geography. This essay is an effort to document geographic paradigms--the trajectory through which geography has emerged as a unique discipline to serve the scientific community with the power of describing the distribution and interaction of biotic, abiotic, and socio-cultural objects, processes, or phenomena on the earth's surface. Both the internal fragmentations and interactions with other streams of knowledge have resulted in a synthesis of knowledge to address complex processes. However, most existing literature and textbooks discussing the evolution of ideas and thoughts in geography concentrate on the evolution of a particular branch. It keeps the discussion incomplete about how the discipline of geography as a whole has come to address various complexities raised from the critical human-nature-society-culture-politics within a spatiotemporal framework. Geographers' unique problem-solving methods evolved during the last hundred years have made them fit to address sustainability. This article will discuss how all these discourses have left the discipline of geography with not only a powerful legacy of systematic and ordered representation of the world, but also a transformation in its current role as a science of sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Arab and Muslim geographers have made great contributions to the development of geographic knowledge in general, and to the increase in information about the land, its divisions, and the dry and water on it, including seas, oceans and rivers, as well as dividing it into regions. And they had a prominent role in mentioning one of the important geographical features, namely the islands, both marine and river types. However, their greatest interest was about the offshore islands and their locations and extensions in the seas of the earth known to them. Behind this knowledge was a set of motives, the most important of which were scientific and epistemological, as geographers contributed to increasing knowledge about these islands and separated them from their inhabitants, their agricultural and industrial products, the minerals they contain, the natures of their people, their customs and traditions, as well as their locations on the shipping routes to be stations for the comfort of seafarers. They provided their geographical books with maps to determine the locations of the islands despite the different maps among them. The Arab and Muslim geographers were credited with knowing these islands and increasing information about them, based on scientific and cognitive motives urged by Islam.

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Many discussed the intellectual awakening of the Arab nation and wrote about the prominent figures of Arab and Iraqi geographical thought. The research aims to clarify the personas and contributions of the academic Prof. Dr. Yousif Yahya Tumas, who provided Arab and international geographical thought with research, works and literature that contribute to building our contemporary lives. The researcher relied on the materials in libraries as well as about entering the file of Dr. Yousif at the University of Baghdad - College of Education for Girls, as well as meeting with those close to him. Among his paramount contributions is his participation in the seventies with the Ministry of Planning in his study on the subject of roads and related to measuring the average speed of the means of transport in two ways, which at the time is the most recent in the world and the first in Iraq, as traffic movement is a necessary indicator to determine the importance of roads and highlight its role in transporting people from the starting place to the target place, as well as the significance of the area to which the movement is attracted, and confirms that he is one of the geographers who depended a lot on applied geographical studies with a utilitarian trend and using quantitative and statistical methods with treatments and according to the need of the subject, as well as his writings in various geographical disciplines. Our professor won a number of awards and appreciation letters, the most important of which is the medal of the French Geographical Society and a diploma of honor in the French Geographical Society. Moreover, he is among the only three Arabs who received this distinction. The presented research included three topics, the first included the research problem, hypothesis, objective and significance of the research, the second was the scientific and professional biography of Prof. Dr. Yousif Yahya Tumas. As for the third topic, it is the scientific specialization and the intellectual approach of Prof. Dr. Yousif Yahya Tumas and what he presented to geography, as well as the impact he left on contemporary geographical thought, his philosophy, and his various scientific interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a vision of the relevance of geography as an educational science of landscape, from the perspective of the relationship between citizens and regional geographic spaces. In the first place, the link between the didactics of geography and landscape is contextualized, taking as a reference the importance of the latter in the meaningful learning of the discipline. Secondly, an analysis of the relevance of the landscape as an integrated system and its teaching in the formation of geographically informed and occupied citizens of their environment is presented. The document intends, therefore, to have a diffusion action to underline the importance of geographic education in the formation of a competent society in geographic knowledge, that is, with a clear vision of the territory it inhabits, reflective of its rights and aware of its importance in protecting its environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quest to establish respect and understand the connections between nature and society, are part of the history of geography, who always aimed to present the relationship between these elements. In this sense, in the trajectory of the history of geographical thought, we can observe different forms of analysis, therefore, during this journey of change, new ways to envision and understand the challenges and problems that presented themselves were presenting and adapting to the way to intervene in the environment. Thus, this work proposes to briefly rescue the different interpretations as to the relations of man nature through different schools of geography and discuss proposals regarding environmental issues and their current conflicts.

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In the long-term development of human geography we can observe a tendency to combine ideas from an intradisciplinary debate and those imported from outside the discipline. It is profoundly influenced by a number of impulses from the rapidly changing world. This paper provides a brief survey of challenges for human geography setting them within the context of paradigmatic development and economic, social, cultural, environmental, political, and technological changes. It briefly focuses on the debates of human geographers what their discipline could or should study in the near future and how it could be done. Part of the paper is devoted to a few reflections of authors from the Visegrad Four countries concentrating attention to further direction of human geography. Human geography is unlikely to be characterised by a mono-paradigm dominance in the next few decades, but a discussion on how to find a common base for the integration of paradigms in geography is likely to continue. Changing hierarchical structures, significant modernization processes, as well as local, regional and global changes influencing space-time behavioural patterns of humans can be expected among the main sources of inspiration for the human geographic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this contribution we discuss the obstacles and share our opinions about the causes of delayed development of feminist and queer approaches in Czech and to some extent also Slovak human geographies. We primarily focus on a critical description of causes and factors that affected and continue to hinder their presence within local mainstream geographical thought. Among the most pressing problems, we identify the historically conditioned isolation of local geography from the 'Western' developments, the continued conservativism of the mainstream geographers, and we attempt to open up a discussion about several types of 'disciplinary anxieties' that may perpetuate these problems. Further, we stress the continued shared development of the Czech and Slovak geographies and contextualize it within recent advancements in other neighboring countries where scholars also 'fight for recognition'. Our contribution concludes with a call for intensification of cooperation and networking within (and outside of) the Central and Eastern European region which we believe is a crucial factor required for building up vibrant feminist and queer geographies with both local and international recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Some fifty years in the development of ideas about the definition and use of functional regions are elaborated in this article, as an introduction to this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports. The conceptual basis for functional regions is discussed, initially in relation to region-organising interactions and their behavioural foundations. This paper presents an approach to functional regions which presumes that such regions objectively exist and that they are based on more or less tangible processes (however, a different view of regions is also briefly described). A typology of functional regions is presented and the development of methods for finding a definition of functional regions is discussed, as well as a typology for these methods. The final part of this article stresses the importance of functional regions in geographical research, and introduces some emerging new prospects in the study of functional regions.

Geographers are increasingly interested in understanding the significance of developments in neuroscience, psychology and the behavioural sciences. Indeed, consideration of these disciplines has arguably shaped the trajectories of human geography since at least the 1960s, but its “neural turn” has only recently been acknowledged. This paper provides an original analysis of the intersections of research on neuroscience and geography. With reference to qualitative interviews with cognitive scientists and neuroscientists based in the UK, it identifies how geographical concepts have been approached within contemporary neuroscience while also identifying the broad trajectories of geographers’ engagements with neuroscience. The discussion demonstrates the political implications of these disciplinary trends for a geographical account of brain culture and brain‐based explanations in policy and practice. Specifically it proposes the development of a “critical neuro‐geography” capable of providing an overarching analysis of these phenomena. The paper's novel synthesis of hitherto disconnected engagements between geography, cognitive science and neuroscience establishes the rationale for a more sustained and critical engagement between neuroscience and geography sensitive to issues of situated subjectivity, power, inequality and difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media and communication are attracting increasing amounts of attention from geographers but the work remains disorganized and lacks a unifying paradigm. This progress report suggests a new paradigm for geographical studies of media and communication and indicates how recent research fits under this umbrella. The report presents recent studies of literature, film and television, digital media, photography, comics, stamps and banknotes. The range of theoretical concerns in this body of work includes performance, agency, materiality, immateriality, networks, politics, emotions and affect. Collectively, these concerns point to communications not merely as transmissions through infrastructure, space and time, but rather as encounters between various human and nonhuman agents. The metaphysical question is exactly what such encounters do to participants – how agents are transformed by other agents’ communications. This leads to synthesis in a new paradigm for media/communication geography: the metaphysics of encounter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This current paper has as its main reference, a dialogue with Franscesco CODELLO through his work about anarchism and education, which highlights the role of several authors of this chain, and among them, Elisee Reclus. Stressing the libertarian education, Reclus’s work is a symbiosis between the human nature and the Geoenvironmental. To describe part of Reclus’s formation work, we remember his way of Protestantism to anarchism, the education between science and idealism and his criticism about the Republican school policy of his time, and the proposal for a libertarian educational model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to address the context surrounding the emergence of Élisée Reclus's geographical thought and the role of his work in the history of geography. Spatial experience and revolutionary practice were elements that contributed to the French geographer's way of thinking. On the other hand, scientific research and involvement with the academic concepts of his time affected the organization of his work. The libertarian social nature of Reclus's geography ultimately influenced the way the dominant historiography viewed its more politicized content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the significance of spatiality and geographical thought in social theory is emphasized via postmodern critics in last three decades. For that purpose, firstly paradigmatic shift in social theory is pursued and evaluated through evolution of geographical thought in historical perspective. After that, different aspects of spatiality and place context, which diverse from traditional positivist paradigm and are focus of geographical thought, are stressed on. New context of spatiality or place notion which is brought to fore by socialist and other radical approaches as a “structure” and “imagination” has been mentioned in that sense. The traces of that contextual change of spatiality notion and epistemological and methodological shift in geography at last three decades can be pursued particularly in human geography. Therefore at the second part of this study, the effects of contextual and paradigmatic shift in geographical thought are debated in realm of economic and cultural geography. The main emphasis of article is that all indicators in different realms point to accruing significance of new geographical thought in social theory

The central purpose of this article, from mostly theoretical nature, consists of an analysis of scientific thought of Wolfgman Johann von Goethe (1749-1832), who, imbued with a holistic view, presents a conception of natural science that requires from individual the development to enable oneself to cover, in view of reality, the man and the world in the search for understanding of the nature. Its conception of doing science, precisely the factors that justify certain presences and theoretical influences in the contribution of their studies also represent with the scientific practice of some of his contemporaries such as naturalist travelers botanist Karl Martius, Darvin and Humbolt, this last highlight its influence with the phenomenological method of Goethe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE importance of David Harvey's work in the History of Geographical Thought and of Social Sciences is invaluable. Invariably labelled as Marxist or even Post-Marxist, concerned with spatial justice especially in an urban context, his dialectical thinking/work has resulted in fundamental ideas and concepts for the development of Geography and the Social Sciences and has inspired several generations of intellectuals. The aim of this article is to present a panoramic view over the work of this geographer, identifying the very specific moments and places of paradigm change, recognising the importance of biographic details and social and institutional practices on scientific practices and intellectual production. An outline of the importance of his scientific legacy is also provided through a look at the doctoral supervision Harvey has conducted in the last 45 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the sense of place in the contemporary experience Is it possible to think about identity of places? This questions are at the center of discussions on socio-spatial changes of the current world, giving rise to two polarized perspectives: the ideological sense of construction of places and identities and the organic cultural sense established in them. Edward Relphss Place and placelessness faced this discussion by thoroughly investigating the constitution of places, using the idea of authenticity to solve the issue. Therefore he started from Heidegger's concepts and ideas, moving the discussion to the ontological field. This paper has a double purpose: to investigate the role of Heidegger's thought in Relphs phenomenological formulation of place, and to ponder the merits of this perspective in thinking about the identity and authenticity of places in the contemporary experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using ideas on the pedagogy of geographical thought from John Henry Newman and Neil Smith as inspiration, this progress report discusses recent work in the history and philosophy of geography. In doing so, it identifies a series of emergent themes including concerns for canonicity, biography, institutional history and enchantment. A tension in current work between historical geographies of geographical knowledge that are attuned to sites, institutions and materiality and a resurgent history of geographical concepts is discussed. In concluding, it is argued that historians of geography need to engage with related developments in intellectual history about materiality and spatial approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent years have seen an increasing amount of work by physicists on topics outside their traditional research domain, including geography. We explore the scope of this development, place it in a historical context dating back at least to statistical physics in the nineteenth century and trace the origins of more recent developments to the roots of computational science after World War II. Our primary purpose is not historical, however. Instead, we are concerned with understanding what geographers can learn from the many recent contributions by physicists to understanding spatiotemporal systems. Drawing on examples of work in this tradition by physicists, we argue that two apparently different modes of investigation are common: model-driven and data-driven approaches. The former is associated with complexity science, whereas the latter is more commonly associated with the fourth paradigm, more recently known as “big data.” Both modes share technical strengths and, more important, a capacity for generalization, which is absent from much work in geography. We argue that although some of this research lacks an appreciation of previous geographical contributions, when assessed critically, it nevertheless brings useful new perspectives, new methods, and new ideas to bear on topics central to geography, yet neglected in the discipline. We conclude with some suggestions for how geographers can build on these new approaches, both inside and outside the discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This research concerns the modernization process of Brazilian territory, in particular on its manifestations on the inside. The focus has strict spatial boundaries and has marked himself as a concern towards the interior of Brazil takes to train the country's territorial, ie, as the immensity of the land conquered by the Luso-Brazilians was being represented and designed. In this sense, we will take as a basis for analyzing the work of Nelson Werneck Sodré 1941 titled West: an essay on the large pastoral property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines how the regional and systematic dimensions of Geography both played their role in the construction of the geographical thought. It analyses how this ontological experience projected itself through modern geography. To approach the subject the article employs contextual and epistemological historio-graphical points of view. The duality of styles of thought represented by the words physis (Gr.) and chora (Gr.) is here understood as one expression of the varieties of methodological possibilities displayed by Geography as a discipline and recognized as part of the core of the geographical tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new sense of urgency has grown among many scientists for policies to address climate change, resulting in unprecedented investments by scientists in public education and, in some cases, political activism. As climate scientists have investigated future climate scenarios—and potential social responses to environmental changes—they have become, ipso facto, social scientists. This article examines these changes to reflect on how they could reshape geography, a discipline that appears well positioned to advance transdisciplinary research. In light of the intellectual and political urgency of transdisciplinary climate research, why have we seen so little substantive collaboration across the science/social science divide? The answer, I argue, stems from differences between research in natural science, on one hand, and the social sciences and humanities, on the other. These problems need not cause paralysis, but to address them they must be understood. The article attends to this challenge by reflecting on Albert Einstein's arguments concerning science and capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Most geographers assume that the ideas of the German geographer Alfred Hettner (1859–1941) had a significant impact on Hartshorne''s The Nature of Geography. In this article we consider Hartshorne''s adaptation of Hettner''s diverse and at times contradictory work in the context of both German and American geographies. We argue that Hartshorne adapted Hettner''s system of geography for an American audience, without engaging with fundamental ideological and intellectual changes which took place in Germany following the First World War. Sharply distinguishing their work from that of their predecessors, German geographers in the 1920s and 1930s overwhelmingly rejected Hettner''s approach. During this period, many embraced a holistic and organic concept of geography, which built on völkisch and nationalistic ideologies. Yet rather than engaging with these debates in German geographical thought, Hartshorne simply adopted the interpretation of Hettner''s work presented by his critics (Spethmann et al.). Motivated by the desire to cast geography in a neo-Kantian philosophical framework, ironically in opposition to Hettner''s own philosophy of science, Hartshorne''s adaptation of Hettner''s system of geography is closer to the interpretations of his German critics. There were, we suggest, significant differences between the ideas of Hettner and Hartshorne on the place of geography among the sciences, the importance of nomothetic and idiographic approaches, the relationship between systematic and regional geography, and the understanding of landscape. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The thematic multiplicity related to the vanguard and dialogic character of Josué de Castro assume more relief when his work is confronted to contemporary light. Those who revealed this evidence are the studies about hanger and nutrition, consume, environment in sustainable development perspective or about social geography in Brazil, among others subjects that gave him worldwide projection. Meanwhile, in Brazil pos-1964, Josué and his work were forgotten, they have been rescued only cyclically after 80s. On this way, it is possible to assert that, in this country, the attempts to re-read his work, in face of what it represents as substrate of contemporaneous Brazilian social thought. But, in spite of this realities, some authors revisited his ideas making possible to reveal them to new generations, on bases of his plural thought. As consequence, it is already possible to identify in this country nowadays, even if timidly, a net of studious and researchers that took the author and/or his work as object of studding. Here, this paper will show some of those rescued specially the geographical ones, where certainly relevant works, suggested by their creator and his creation, are found. They have engendered new debate and discussions about scientific knowledge and Geography, in particular