Enlightenment geography in the study: A.F. Büsching, J.D. Michaelis and the place of geographical knowledge in the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia, 1761–1767

Bond, Dean W.

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2015.09.002

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“…In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European cultures of exploration (overwhelmingly masculine) were informed by conflicting discourses concerning the nature and value of knowledge produced by different individuals-natural historians and adventurous travelersand by different means: sedentary scholarship or mobile, in-the-field observation (Driver 2001;Keighren, Withers, and Bell 2015;Bond 2016). Late-twentieth-century debates about the inclusion in disciplinary histories of women travelers as legitimate producers of scientific and geographical knowledge added yet another contested dimension to the epistemic quarrels that have characterized the historiography of geography (Domosh 1991;Stoddart 1991).…”

Section: Women Explorers and Scientific Travelersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminizing the University: The Mobilities, Careers, and Contributions of Early Female Academics in the University of Cambridge, 1926–1955

Jöns

2017

The Professional Geographer

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This article examines the role of early female academics at the University of Cambridge in the production and dissemination of knowledge between 1926 and 1955. A statistical comparison of women's use of academic leave of absence with that of their male colleagues reveals that, across disciplines, women were less integrated into (inter)national knowledge networks and thus less visible in their epistemic communities than men because women focused their academic leaves more on research, rarely attended conferences, travelled overseas less often than men, and went more frequently to destinations within Europe than the United States as the new economic hegemon. Biographical case studies of these early female academics demonstrate the importance, variously, of their upper middle class background, academic excellence, and familial and non-familial patronage in developing their careers, overcoming multiple hurdles, and producing intellectual contributions of equal quality to that of their male peers. Conceptually, this article calls for the inclusion of academic travelers from other disciplines than geography into feminist histories of geographical knowledge and argues that rather than stereotyping gender differences, greater comparative research on the experiences of female and male academics is needed in order to understand the mechanisms of gender inequality within the university.

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Feminizing the University: The Mobilities, Careers, and Contributions of Early Female Academics in the University of Cambridge, 1926–1955

Jöns

2017

The Professional Geographer

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“…He would have knowingly supported dubious truth claims, failed to advance knowledge of the globe among the learned public and knowingly produced descriptions that did little to reveal the true wonder of God's creation (1754, 25–9). This led him to ‘work from the outset as if no introduction to geography were written before’, because he saw this as the only responsible route to a truly useful and reliable description of the earth (1752, 7; see also 1754, 2–4, 34–6; Bond , 69).…”

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“…Before proceeding, a word about Aufklärungsgeographie is in order. I understand Aufklärungsgeographie as a set of practices for writing the earth that were fashioned by institutional geographies, biographies, religious currents and textual traditions unique to the Aufklärung (Bond , 65), on the one hand, and by a longer textual tradition on the other. Geographies that distinguished Aufklärungsgeographie included the University of Halle, a centre of the early German Enlightenment ( Frühaufklärung ) where many geographers were educated, and the University of Göttingen, which housed one of the earliest geographical societies – the Kosmographische Gesellschaft (Cosmographical Society) – and the first chair in geography in the German lands (see Kühn ).…”

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Plagiarists, enthusiasts and periodical geography: A.F. Büsching and the making of geographical print culture in the German Enlightenment, c.1750–1800

Bond

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Plagiarists, enthusiasts and periodical geography: A.F. B€ usching and the making of geographical print culture in the German Enlightenment, c.1750-1800 Dean W BondThis article contributes to recent scholarship on the geography and history of the book by arguing for greater attention to 'periodical geography', which refers to the geographical knowledge contained in periodicals, and the geographies that shaped the ways periodicals were produced, circulated and read. To illustrate the potential for such work, the article discusses geographical periodicals in the context of the German Aufkl€ arung (Enlightenment). It focuses in particular on the W€ ochentliche Nachrichten von neuen Landcharten und geographischen, statistischen und historischen B€ uchern und Schriften (Berlin 1773-87), edited by the prominent geographer Anton Friedrich B€ usching. The story of B€ usching's periodical merits attention because it throws valuable light on the practical making of geography's print culture and moral economy of knowledge in the Enlightenment. B€ usching's story reveals that there were competing geographies of trust, authority and credibility at work within Enlightenment geography. It reveals that B€ usching's periodical played a central role in reshaping geography's moral and epistemological order in the later 18th century. In recounting this story, my broader agenda is to argue that the very periodicity and materiality of periodicals transformed the character of geographical print culture in the later 18th century.

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“…In his account of Carsten Niebuhr's Arabian Expedition and in his own Neue Erdbeschreibung, the first volume of which appeared in 1754, Büsching was at pains to establish "a new methodological foundation for the discipline of geography". 5 Busching's own works, his geographical periodical and his attempts to establish new evidential standards for the subject were central features of what Bond has called Aufklärungsgeographie (German Enlightenment geography). 6 Earlier research on geographical teaching in German universities in the German context considered instruction in Halle, in Göttingen and, notably, by Immanuel Kant in Königsberg.…”

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Geographical education in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories

Fischer¹,

Withers²

2021

Paedagogica Historica

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This paper examines debates over the nature, purpose, and reform of geographical education in schools in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories.Attention is paid to contemporaries' concerns over the cognitive content of geography-what geography was-and, in greater detail, to their views concerning how the subject might be taught, its teaching improved, and the end in view of teaching it, namely to produce informed citizens. The paper shows that while there was widespread agreement over the utility of geography, opinions differed over how best to teach it, and to whom. These differences centred less on religion, between the largely Catholic southern German territories and the chiefly Protestant northern German territories, and more upon the age, social status, gender and intended future of the pupil. Proposals for the reform of geographical education argued that geography be taught first with reference to the pupil's locality and to notions of 'homeland' from which local setting attention would be paid to other states, countries, and continents.

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Enlightenment geography in the study: A.F. Büsching, J.D. Michaelis and the place of geographical knowledge in the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia, 1761–1767

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Feminizing the University: The Mobilities, Careers, and Contributions of Early Female Academics in the University of Cambridge, 1926–1955

Feminizing the University: The Mobilities, Careers, and Contributions of Early Female Academics in the University of Cambridge, 1926–1955

Plagiarists, enthusiasts and periodical geography: A.F. Büsching and the making of geographical print culture in the German Enlightenment, c.1750–1800

Geographical education in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories

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