GEOGRAPHYS EMPIRE - HISTORIES OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
GEOGRAPHYS EMPIRE - HISTORIES OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
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DOI：
10.1068/d100023
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发表时间：
1992-02-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
DRIVER, F
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作者：
DRIVER, F
本文探讨了以批判性视角审视地理知识史的可能性和危害性。研究的重点是现代地理学与“帝国时代”(约1870-1914)欧洲殖民主义之间的关系。对于像约瑟夫·康拉德和哈尔福德·麦金德这样多种多样的作家来说，这是一个对现代世界的形成具有决定性重要性的时刻。虽然地理学、现代性和殖民主义之间的相互作用最近引起了地理学历史学家的注意，但本文认为，他们往往以过于狭隘的术语来设想地理知识的作用。爱德华·赛义德的工作被详细讨论，因为它突出了那些想要重写地理话语的批判性历史的人所面临的一些关键问题和困境。反对“想象的地理”(如东方主义的地理)的总体论观点，而强调地理知识的异质性。论文最后提出了一个更一般的问题：在这些(后现代)时代，地理学史到底为什么会出现？
In this paper the possibilities and hazards of a critical perspective on the history of geographical knowledge are considered. The focus is on the relations between modern geography and European colonialism during the 'age of empire' (circa 1870-1914). For writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad and Halford Mackinder, this was a moment of decisive importance for the making of the modern world. Although the interplay between geography, modernity, and colonialism has recently attracted attention from the historians of geography, it is argued in this paper that they have often conceived the role of geographical knowledge in somewhat narrow terms. The work of Edward Said is discussed at some length, as it highlights some of the key issues and dilemmas facing those who would rewrite critical histories of geographical discourse. A totalising view of 'imaginative geographies' (such as those of Orientalism) is argued against, and instead the heterogeneity of geographical knowledges is emphasised. The paper concludes with a more general question: why have histories of geography at all, in these (post)modern times?