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• 20 aoû 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  The politics and geopolitics of translation

  The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

  In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

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• 08 fév 2018

  Paris

  Study days - Geography

  Albert Demangeon (1872-1940) - the methods, archives and struggles of a geographer

  Méthodes, archives et combats d’un géographe de plein vent

  Albert Demangeon (1872-1940) a occupé une place décisive dans le développement de la géographie humaine française au cours du premier XX^e siècle. Au-delà d’une thèse sur la Picardie considérée dès sa publication (1905) comme un modèle de géographie régionale, et de manuels pédagogiques qui expliquent l’écho que suscite parfois son nom auprès du grand public, son œuvre scientifique fut considérable, ses terrains d’investigation diversifiés, ses thèmes de recherche largement ouverts sur l’actualité. Il a puissamment contribué à construire cette géographie humaine « moderne » ou « nouvelle » esquissée autour de son maître Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845-1918), et à la promouvoir à travers les débats intenses qui animaient alors les sciences humaines.

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