Geographers

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Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 42

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Elizabeth Baigent, André Reyes Novaes

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Geographers is a collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Volume 42 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies explores how individual geographers have interacted with and shaped institutions throughout their careers. Rather than focusing solely on institutions themselves, this volume examines how geographers have used institutional frameworks to advance their practices and how they have intertwined their knowledge production with both academic and non-academic settings. Through examples from diverse contexts, including Germany, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, it highlights how institutions can act simultaneously as gatekeepers and obstacles, as well as enablers and supporters of geographical work and careers.The volume is organised into four main themes: inter-institutional mobility, institution building, geography beyond formal institutions, and links between academia and social movements. Together, these biographies reveal geography as a discipline shaped by fluid boundaries between institutions, individuals, and society. The collection highlights the mutual constitution of structure and agency, demonstrating how geographers not only inhabit institutions but also reconstruct, reinterpret, and transcend them to broaden the scope and social relevance of geographical knowledge.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-25
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeographers
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350613201

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Elizabeth Baigent is University Reader in the History of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK. She is Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.André Reyes Novaes is an Associate Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the Royal Holloway University of London, UK, and a member of the commission on the history of geography at the International Geographical Union.

Introduction1 - Interinstitutional mobility 1 Moritz Friedrich Wagner (1813–1887) - Jörn Seemann (Ball State University, USA)2. Oskar Schmieder (1891-1980) - Santiago LLorens (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) and Karsten Gaebler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)3. Theodoro Fernandes Sampaio (1855-1937) - Caroline Bulhões Nunes Vaz (Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Brazil) and André Nunes de Sousa (Instituto Federal da Bahia, Brazil)4. Marguerita Oughton (1920–2008) - Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford, UK) and Andre Reyes Novaes (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil)3 - Geography outside geographical institutions4. Philips Christiaan Visser (1882–1955) - Eduard A. Koster (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)5. Francisco Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos (1881-1974) - Maria Gabriela Bernardino and Moema de Rezende Vergara (both Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Brazil)4 - Relationships between academic institutions and social movements6. Manuel Correia de Oliveira Andrade (1922-2007) – Federico Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy)7. Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves (1949-2024) - Rogério Haesbaert and Valter do Carmo Cruz (both Federal Fluminense University, Brazil)

Geographers Biobibliographical Studies provides international, interdisciplinary and indispensable research into geographers’ lives and works. This latest volume has essays on four Brazilians, two Germans, a British woman and a Dutch diplomat-glaciologist and illustrates how each helped shape – as they were shaped by – the different institutions in which they worked. As institutions of all kinds – universities, schools, scientific societies – are today under threat, these essays, and GBS’s insistent intellectual enquiries, could hardly be more topical.