The Problem of Geographical Description

Darby, H. C.

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“…Em 1915, W. M. Davis escreveu seu artigo Os princípios da descrição geográfica, no qual discute a importância de descrever usando o tempo verbal no presente, isto é, tentar afastar da geografia a tendência a descrição como uma narração histórica dos eventos que explicam o presente. Comentando esse trabalho, Darvy (1962) analisa comoapesar de haver uma grande dificuldade em definir o método geográfico e seu objetoa descrição sempre foi uma das características fundamentais da Geografia, contida, inclusive, no significado do seu próprio nome. A ideia que o geógrafo "descreve a Terra" remeteria aos gregos e nunca teria sido afastada como método na Geografia.…”

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O Anonimato Espacial Como Um Impasse Metodológico Na Pesquisa Geográfica E Uma Reflexão Ontológica

Azevedo¹

2019

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Esse artigo tem como objetivo central analisar como um problema metodológico no trabalho de campo em uma tese de doutoramento revelou questões ontológicas da própria ciência geográfica. Para tanto, será importante voltar alguns dos principais trabalhos geográficos para revelar como a tríade localização-descrição-representação é o verdadeiro espírito geográfico que atravessa todas as correntes da Geografia. Durante dois anos de trabalhos de campo para uma tese de doutorado, a impossibilidade de revelar a identidade de atores políticos levou também à necessidade de não identificar os espaços geográficos envolvidos na pesquisa. Sem ser um grande problema metodológico em diferentes ciências humanas, essa dificuldade para o geógrafo reflete, acima de tudo, as inquietações da geografia como ciência.

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O Anonimato Espacial Como Um Impasse Metodológico Na Pesquisa Geográfica E Uma Reflexão Ontológica

Azevedo¹

2019

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“…Those layers are in fact special kinds of those texts. Different modes of geographical descriptions have been described throughout the XX th century (Darby, 1962;Davis, 1915;Finch, 1934;Hart, 1982;Lewis, 1985;Paterson, 1974). Being opposed by the positivist view of storing the entire data on any place in a form of encyclopedic classification, the idea of a good description as a geographer's art of constructing a place is as follows.…”

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Constructing urban cultural landscapes & living in the palimpsests: a case of Moscow city (Russia) distant residential areas

Mitin¹

2018

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“…35 Both the logics of accumulation and the dangers of banality H.C. Darby ascribes to the inventory form are resisted here by way of the conceptual force of compositional strategies of collage and montage. 36 This is not a gathering that renders equivalent so much as the creation, after Walter Benjamin, of novel disjunctions of the dissimilar. Information and ideas are overlain with differences retained as a means to generate instability, thus creating energies of interruption and disruption from which the new can emerge.…”

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Creative geographic methods: knowing, representing, intervening. On composing place and page

Hawkins

2015

cultural geographies

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Creative Geographies, methods of experimental 'art-full' research that have creative practices at their heart, have become increasingly vibrant of late. These research strategies, which see geographers working as and in collaboration with a range of arts practitioners, re-cast geography's interdisciplinary relationship with arts and humanities subjects and practices as well as its own intradisciplinary relations. Amidst the vibrancy of this creative 're-turn', a series of important questions are cohering around how exactly, and for whom, these methods are creative and critical. If the potential of creative methods for both researching and living differently is to be achieved then it is important we spend time reflecting on these and other questions. To begin these reflections this article tells three stories of creative doings that concern knowing, representing and intervening in place. These creative doings came about in the course of ethnographic work with the participatory arts project Caravanserai led by artist Annie Lovejoy, and among other outputs resulted in the collaborative artists' book insites (2010). From a focus on these three sets of creative doings come larger concerns, principally around how the materialities, technologies and aesthetics of different art forms might enable various ways of knowing and conceptual experiments, as well as concerns around skill and expertise. These latter query what it is that geographers do and what it is that visual artists do, seeking to appreciate the expert as well as the amateur and what might be gained through learning to practice -in other words, how our creative methods might not only focus on finished products but also what can be learned in the processes of creative doings. Drawing the article together is a concern to understand better the work creative methods can do in the world in terms of enabling us to research and to live differently.

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The Problem of Geographical Description

Cited by 42 publications

References 4 publications

O Anonimato Espacial Como Um Impasse Metodológico Na Pesquisa Geográfica E Uma Reflexão Ontológica

O Anonimato Espacial Como Um Impasse Metodológico Na Pesquisa Geográfica E Uma Reflexão Ontológica

Constructing urban cultural landscapes & living in the palimpsests: a case of Moscow city (Russia) distant residential areas

Creative geographic methods: knowing, representing, intervening. On composing place and page

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