Editorial: Bio‐geographies: putting life back into the discipline
Editorial: Bio‐geographies: putting life back into the discipline
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社论：生物地理学：让学科重获生机
DOI：
10.1111/1475-5661.00011
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
S. Whatmore
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作者：
T. Spencer;S. Whatmore
我们坚信，自然地理学家和人文地理学家应该像他们与其他学科进行对话一样创造性地相互交谈，这些学科与各自研究领域的实质性重点密切相关。越来越多的压力减轻了这种努力，最明显的是越来越窄的专业化趋势（职业生涯越来越依赖于此），以及研究产出审计的加强，这种审计越来越正式地确定了哪些对知识的贡献在出版的作品中有价值。这本杂志，英国地理学的旗舰，吸引自然地理学家的贡献和自然地理学家和人文地理学家之间的交流（尽管少数人的特殊努力[例如，Sugden 1996; Massey 1999]）的长期困难就是一个很好的例子。在这篇社论中，我们关注的是地理学的案例，它被认为是某种程度上的反常（例如，它不容易融入英国自然环境研究理事会的资助结构），或者是自然地理学“软”端的一个安静的死水。我们两个都不是传统意义上使用这个词的传记作者，我们的看法则完全不同，比较开明，而且实际上要乐观得多。
We are firmly of the belief that physical and human geographers should talk to each other as creatively as they engage in conversations with other disciplines germane to the substantive focus of their respective research fields. There are increasing pressures which mitigate against such endeavours, most notably the tendency to ever narrower specialization (on which careers increasingly depend) and its reinforcement by research output audits which increasingly formalize which kinds of contributions to knowledge count in terms of published work. The long-running difficulties of this journal, the flagship of British Geography, to attract contributions from physical geographers and to generate exchange between physical and human geographers (despite the exceptional efforts of a few individuals [e.g. Sugden 1996; Massey 1999]) are a case in point. In this editorial we focus on the case of biogeography which has been seen variously as somehow aberrant (it doesn’t fit easily into the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council funding structure for instance) or a quiet backwater at the ‘softer’ end of physical geography. We, neither of us biogeographers in any conventional use of the term, take a rather different, liberal, and indeed much more optimistic view.