Constructing ‘the geographical archive’

Abstract

The recent success of the RGS-IBG in

The spatiality of geography teaching and cultures of alternative education: the ‘intuitive geographies’ of the anarchist school in Cempuis (1880–1894)

“…18 My main argument is that early anarchist education had its own spatiality, largely based on outdoor practices and in unconstrained open-air activities, and inspired by the idea that the best way to help free individuals in their growing is to encourage their direct approach to both social and natural environments. This owed, on the one hand, to the tradition of Pestalozzi and Fröbel, which was introduced into French-speaking countries by James Guillaume, Ferdinand Buisson and others, 19 and, on the other, to the works by the anarchist geographers Charles Perron, Elisée…”

The making of Italian agricultural landscapes: Emilio Sereni, between geography, history and Marxism

“…Thus, according to Charles Withers, archives are more objects of study than sources. 40 Accordingly, my research uses the theoretical framework of Foucault's 'archaeology of knowledge' in order to retrace the genealogy of ideas which existed and circulated beyond the personalities of individual authors. According to Foucault, 'the margins of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.'…”

Working-with: talking and sorting in personal archives

“…The refurbishment of a room could cause wholesale movements of material, this being piled up elsewhere in a rush of contingency, a 'haphazard accumulation', left to be sorted in due course. 38 Unforeseen moments of domestic emergency caused by wear and tear in and of home also necessitated the relocation of documents, a leaky ceiling becoming the cause for the laying out of material elsewhere and averting damage to wet papers left untended. 39 Time passing could also lend itself to the accumulation and settling of materials.…”