The (re)making of the western ‘geographical tradition’: some missing links

Sidaway, James D.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.1997.tb00008.x

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“…Recent work in human geography and across the social sciences has seen an upsurge of interest in whiteness. For example, in geography see the work of Alastair Bonnett (1992Bonnett ( , 1996Bonnett ( , 1997Bonnett ( , 1998aBonnett ( , 1998bBonnett ( , 2000Bonnett ( , 2002, Peter Jackson (1998) and James Sidaway (1997), and in cultural studies Richard Dyer (1988, Ruth Frankenberg (1997) and Jonathan Warren (2000).…”

Section: Whiteness and Geographical Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformative tans? Gendered and raced bodies on beaches

Johnston

2005

New Zealand Geographer

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In this paper I examine the intentional act of transforming the colour of one's skin – sun‐tanning – by Pākehā at three New Zealand beaches: Papamoa, Mount Maunganui, and Takapuna. Recent debates about the construction of whiteness are outlined before discussing the historical significance of beaches and sun to New Zealand's leisure culture. This paper seeks to de‐naturalize whiteness through the disclosure of gendered leisure practices of tanning. Empirical material reveals that Pākehā, who actively seek brown skin, negotiate a number of racialized and gendered ‘truths’ as their sun‐tan transforms their bodies. I conclude by arguing that geographers need to be more attentive to the ways in which place constructs particular forms of gendered whiteness.

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Section: Whiteness and Geographical Knowledgementioning

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Transformative tans? Gendered and raced bodies on beaches

Johnston

2005

New Zealand Geographer

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“…Readers of Area will have noticed a recent upsurge in interest in whiteness, both here in geography (Bonnett 1992, 1998a, b Jackson 1998Sidaway 1997) but also important elsewhere (see, for example, Blakernore 1997; Dyer 1988Dyer , 1996Dyer , 1997Ferber 1998;Fiske 1998;Frankenberg 1997;Gabriel 1996;Hall 1990;Hickman 1998;lgnatiev 1995;Mullen 1994;Palmer 1993;Roediger 1991;Wong 1994). Like other studies of ethnicity and identity, the work on whiteness seeks to problernatize it as a specific social construction.…”

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“…On the other hand however, there is the powerful argument that (perhaps more than most disciplines) Western geography has actually always been about whiteness (seeBonnett 1997;Sidaway 1997).…”

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Geography matters? Whiteness and contemporary geography

McGuinness¹

2000

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Summary The critique of whiteness furthers important critiques of static notions of ethnicity and identity. Interesting work on ‘white‐blind’ geographers working on race and ethnicity has recently been initiated, yet a more systematic and wide ranging critique of the norms and assumptions of contemporary geographical research has yet to be fully established. After reviewing the recent White Studies literature, this paper examines an influential piece of contemporary geographical writing and suggests that if geography really is to matter, geographers need to consider more self‐consciously how they themselves might be (unwittingly) complicit in such constructions.

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“…In many ways, the book provided a template for disciplinary histories alive to context and power, and it prompted a wave of necessary research into geography's colonial and racist past. However, the template provided by The Geographical Tradition has to some extent reinforced Anglophone geography's exclusionary traditions, marginalising the key historical role of Arab geographers, for example (Sidaway, ). In the book, and in much of the work that has emerged in its wake, the focus has remained on colonial cartographers, explorers, and collectors, rather than on the indigenous precursors, interlocutors, and guides who facilitated their work.…”

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Decolonising The Geographical Tradition

Craggs

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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The Geographical Tradition played a key role in highlighting geography's imperialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries and prompted a wave of necessary research into the discipline's colonial and racist past. However, both the book itself and the scholarship it subsequently inspired have overlooked the role of geographers from the Global South almost entirely, reinforcing geography's exclusionary traditions. More inclusive disciplinary histories that embrace the contributions of scholars from the post‐colonial world in their contents and reference lists, and that tackle directly not only the history of ideas, but also broader, crucial, questions about academic labour, might be better able to contribute to the challenge of “decolonising” the discipline today.

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The (re)making of the western ‘geographical tradition’: some missing links

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

Transformative tans? Gendered and raced bodies on beaches

Transformative tans? Gendered and raced bodies on beaches

Geography matters? Whiteness and contemporary geography

Decolonising The Geographical Tradition

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