Jim Blaut's Youngest Mappers: Children's Geography and the Geography of Children

History and philosophy of geography 2004-2005: biographies, practices, sites

“…If for geographers alone 'there are at least five different Jim Blauts' -geopolitical theoretician, macrohistorical geographer of Eurocolonialism, cognitive developmental geographer, ethnocultural ecologist and 'avid amateur zoogeographer' (keen birdwatcher) -the Blautian sobriquet 'radical cultural geographer' connects them all (Mathewson, 2005: 911). Yet none is sufficient, individually or in combination, to describe a man of trenchant geographical oppositionalism and political commitment (Harvey, 2005;Peet, 2005), cultural ecologist and peasant theorist Sheppard, 2005;Sluyter, 2005;Rodrigue, 2005), cognitive mapper (Stea, 2005;Varanka, 2005), and professional activist, in different places and ways, towards a more just world (Koch et al, 2005;Santana, 2005;Soni and Maharaj, 2005;Falah, 2005;Wissoker, 2005;Wisner et al, 2005). A short 'Blaut on Blaut' entry affords an autobiographical endnote: 'perhaps most, of my writings have been scholarly .…”