Canons, classics, and inclusion in the histories of                     geography

Monk, Janice

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“…Although certainly not an exhaustive list, these range in topic from the marginalization of women (c.f. Domosh, 1991;Kobayashi, 2006;Maliniak et al, 2013;Monk, 2012;Maddrell, 2012) to the "vanity fair" of citation cartels (Franck, 1999) which (un) wittingly coalesce in network infrastructures that perpetuate underrepresentation (c.f. Anonymous, 2002;Berg et al, 2014;Gutiérrez and Lopez-Nieva, 2001).…”

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“…The short vignette above is not a shocking revelation. After all, an increasing amount of scholarship in geography has focused on the exclusion, marginalization and erasure related to both producers of knowledge and knowledge production more generally (Mahtani, 2014;Peake and Sheppard, 2014;Monk, 2012;c.f. Walker and Frimpong Boamah, 2017: for a review of "lop-sided" geographies).…”

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Making the invisible hyper-visible: Knowledge production and the gendered power nexus in critical urban studies

Walker

Boamah

2019

Human Geography

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This paper employs the concept of “invisible colleges” to explore the processes through which spaces of critical urban theory are imbricated within a gendered power nexus. It assesses the degree of dominance in hegemonic knowledge production by clusters of scholars, their co-authors, and academic mentors and mentees. Using the example of critical urban theory, we use network graphs to map these concentrated hidden geographies understood collectively as “invisible colleges”. The resultant visualizations reflect the dominance of key scholars and their similarities (e.g. doctoral education, academic mentors, current institutional affiliations, etc.). These heretofore unmapped networks of connectivity provide insight into the masculinized spaces of critical urban theory bringing to the fore important topics for consideration. These include the politics of citation and “double dipping”, or frequent publication in the same journal outlets. In bringing attention to invisible colleges, a concept that has largely escaped attention in urban studies and geography, we highlight the usefulness of visibility as a technology of equity. En route, the paper describes and visualizes some of the impacts of the proliferation of uneven knowledge production through the coalescing of factors such as path dependency, cumulative advantage, expected inequality and the Matthew and Matilda Effects.

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Making the invisible hyper-visible: Knowledge production and the gendered power nexus in critical urban studies

Walker

Boamah

2019

Human Geography

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“…For example, is it possible to discuss X without being required by referees to refer to work by A? If so, is this because A's work is vital to discussing X, or is it a case of what Jan Monk refers to as 'ritual citings', 72 i.e. because X is broadly deemed to be A's intellectual territory and therefore requires tribute in the form of citation and discussion?…”

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To read or not to read? The politics of overlooking gender in the geographical canon

Maddrell

2015

Journal of Historical Geography

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Wherever there is an established 'canon' within an established scholarly arena, this is near universally dominated by texts written by men. Whilst historical contextual reasons may account for the gendering of such knowledge production in relation to publications dating from the nineteenth and preceding centuries, one has to ask why this has persisted in an era of equal access to education and academia in the twentieth century. Why is women's work, highly influential in its day, overlooked in subsequent histories of the discipline and therefore marginalised in discussions of key works? These questions are particularly pertinent to any notion of a geographical canon, given the subject's relatively late arrival as a degree award in the UK from 1917 onwards. This paper draws on an analysis of the significance of lineage, reviewing, reputation and genre in the contextualised production and reception of selected work to explore the merits and demerits of a geographical canonand the implications for gendered geographical knowledge. It goes on to suggest i) a more inclusive and dialogic relational approach to understanding past and present geographical work based on Kilcup's notion of the 'soft canon'; ii) a broadening of the cast and range of outputs considered 'influential'; and iii) encourages greater critical reflection on contemporary practices of canonization within sub-disciplines.

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“…Indeed, it was Smith who first highlighted the 'highly selective geographical canon' that Hartshorne recovered from, mainly, the German tradition and its implications for disciplinary practices in the 20th century (Smith, 1989: 93). As predicted in the first of my reports (Powell, 2012a), an emergent theme in history of geography has been attempts to reconsider the discipline's relationship with canonicity (Keighren et al, 2012a(Keighren et al, , 2012bAgnew, 2012;Hubbard, 2012;Maddrell, 2012;Mayhew, 2012;Monk, 2012;Powell, 2012b;Schein, 2012;Withers, 2012). 3 But like so many modern disciplines institutionalized during the late 19th century, geography owes a debt to scholars of the ancients (Powell, 2015b).…”

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History and philosophy of geography III

Powell

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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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.

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Canons, classics, and inclusion in the histories of geography

Cited by 6 publications

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Making the invisible hyper-visible: Knowledge production and the gendered power nexus in critical urban studies

Making the invisible hyper-visible: Knowledge production and the gendered power nexus in critical urban studies

To read or not to read? The politics of overlooking gender in the geographical canon

History and philosophy of geography III

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