2003
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9493.00144
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Changing Geographies and the Geography of Change: Some Reflections

Abstract: To celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and the 75 th anniversary of the teaching of geography in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, the home of the Journal, this article, based on personal reflections and "objective" academic materials, provides an overview of developments in geography in the Department and Journal. The paper argues that the department's and Journal's "identities", since the post-World War II period, have been shaped by Sin… Show more

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“…Moreover, these networks 19 are neither straightforward nor easily mapped. 14, no. 2), especially Raguraman and Huang (1993) as well as Savage's (2003) retrospective on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. For between Dobby writing the manuscript in colonial Singapore of the early 1950s and its journey as a book from that secondhand bookstore in Malacca to our hands and into this article, we can only guess how and where and through whom it may have acted.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, these networks 19 are neither straightforward nor easily mapped. 14, no. 2), especially Raguraman and Huang (1993) as well as Savage's (2003) retrospective on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. For between Dobby writing the manuscript in colonial Singapore of the early 1950s and its journey as a book from that secondhand bookstore in Malacca to our hands and into this article, we can only guess how and where and through whom it may have acted.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A sense of Geography's ‘ambivalent identity’ (Savage , 74) emerges from an analysis of its positioning within British institutions. Table shows the array of disciplines alongside which Geography is managed within multidisciplinary departments, based on responses to the online survey.…”
Section: The Changing Administrative Place Of Geography In Uk Higher mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This collection seeks to engage debates, ideas and experiences across this core–periphery divide by positioning the tropics – working with Savage's (: 12) definition of this region through interconnections and postcolonial functional status – as a site for study and a space for knowledge production. These contributions support Gilmartin and Berg's (: 122) call for a double movement through which core‐driven theory (with its associated globalizing tendencies) is nuanced and challenged through ‘the specific geographies of colonialism, imperialism and postcolonialism’.…”
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confidence: 94%