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« La terre, elle, ne ment pas. » Ces mots bien connus, valant slogan de la « Révolution nationale », ont longtemps fait croire que les géographes français avaient trouvé un terreau favorable dans le régime de Vichy, comme semblait le montrer sa décision de créer la licence et l'agrégation de géographie. Pourtant, si certains d'entre eux ont bien été proches des structures issues de la défaite française, par idéologie, par autoritarisme institutionnel et technocratique ou encore par opportunisme, d'autres - sans doute plus nombreux - ont été des opposants plus ou moins déclarés et engagés, parfois même d'ardents résistants ou des victimes de l'extrême violence de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Souvent oubliés aujourd'hui, leurs parcours, témoignant de leurs refus d'accepter les idées et la politique de l'occupant et de l'État français, méritent pourtant d'être mieux connus et compris. Ces cas individuels, dans leur diversité, incarnent, chacun à sa manière, une discipline alors beaucoup plus riche et active qu'on ne le pense généralement, où le ruralisme et le régionalisme coexistaient avec des courants de pensée dynamiques développant des logiques de spatialité et de mondialité étrangères à la pensée vichyste ou au nazisme, où les idées les plus controversées (comme la « géopolitique » ou l'« espace vital ») étaient discutées voire déconstruites, où des circulations et des réflexions paradoxalement favorisées par le conflit menaient vers des ailleurs et des exils intérieurs et extérieurs, porteurs d'une modernité fructueuse pour la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Le regard nouveau que portent les auteurs réunis dans ce volume sur cette période de la géographie française et sur ses représentants en Europe et dans le monde permet de l'envisager de manière équilibrée, pour en rectifier la « légende noire », et de dessiner les véritables lignes de force disciplinaires dans ces « années de tourmente », par l'étude détaillée d'itinéraires personnels et collectifs et le recours à de nombreuses archives et sources.
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António Gama Mendes, geógrafo, brilhante professor e investigador, faleceu prematuramente em Dezembro de 2014. A sua competência científica, a sua aptidão pedagógica, a sua vastíssima bagagem cultural e, acima de tudo, uma estatura académica muito assente na sua qualidade intelectual e numa imensa generosidade do ponto de vista humano, fizeram com que a Universidade Portuguesa e, particularmente, a Geografia tenham sofrido um forte abalo com a sua partida. Para além de deixar uma obra significativa em diferentes domínios da Geografia Social, da Geografia Política e da Geografia Cultural, deixou muitos amigos em Portugal e no estrangeiro, em diferentes áreas disciplinares que vão da Geografia à Economia e da Sociologia à Filosofia e à Literatura. Por isso, este livro, com que alguns dos seus amigos de diferentes áreas científicas pretendem homenageá-lo, revisitando alguns dos temas de investigação que lhe eram mais queridos, de modo a perpetuar a memória de um nome, de uma obra e de uma personalidade absolutamente ímpares na Universidade e na ciência portuguesas.
Geographers --- Geographers. --- Earth scientists
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Physical geographers --- Physical geography --- Study and teaching. --- Granö, J. G.
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Judging by the numbers of newspaper reviews, biographies (including autobiographies) are amongst the most common literary works published these days. However, it is uncommon to find one book that combines a biography and an autobiography, as this book, Nature, Nurture and Chance: The Lives of Frank and Charles Fenner, does. As the author, Frank Fenner, sees it, 'nature' means the combination of genes that we inherit from our parents; 'nurture' means the way that our physical and social environment, especially during childhood, influence our mental and emotional characteristics; and chance is defined as 'the way things fall out'. These three elements define the careers of all human beings. The author uses them to compare his father's life and his own.
Microbiologists --- Virologists --- Geographers --- Educators --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Fenner, Frank, --- Fenner, Charles, --- Fenner, F. --- Biologists --- Biography. --- Educationalists --- Educationists --- Faculty (Education) --- Specialists --- Earth scientists
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Pour révéler les multiples facettes de la profession de géographe, Rodolphe De Koninck a choisi la veine autobiographique. Ses lecteurs le suivront donc de l’Ouganda aux Cent-Îles du lac Saint-Pierre, de la Malaysia à la Grèce, de l’Indonésie à la Nouvelle-Orléans. Ils découvriront l’importance de la cartographie, ils verront comment la géographie a partie liée avec l’urbanisme et les sciences de l’environnement, ils revivront des crises (le tsunami de 2004, l’ouragan Katrina de 2005). Ils suivront à la trace un pédagogue et un citoyen engagé. Surtout, ils devront constater la place centrale que la géographie occupe dans leur vie.
Géographes. --- Géographie --- Geographers. --- Geography --- Aspect social. --- Social aspects. --- Earth scientists --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- géographie --- géographe --- enseignement --- métier --- autobiographie --- discipline --- recherche --- sociologie
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A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their fieldwork resulted in vastly increased knowledge of the Far North-from its ice caps and glaciers to its lichens and microfossils. Drawing from the recollections of his Baffin colleagues as well as from his own memories, Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of both contemporary Arctic research and bureaucratic decision making. Along the way, his narrative illustrates the role played by the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning Line and other northern infrastructure, the crucial importance of his pioneering aerial photography, the unpredictable nature of planes, helicopters, and radios in Arctic regions, and of course, the vast and breathtaking scenery of the North.Baffin Island encompasses both field research and High Arctic adventure. The research trips to Baffin between 1961 and 1967 also served as a vital training ground in polar studies for university students; further, they represented a breakthrough in gender equality in government-sponsored science, thanks to the author's persistence in having women permitted on the teams. The book contains a special section detailing the subsequent professional achievements of the many researchers involved (in addition to the later career moves of Ives himself) and a chapter that delves deeper into the science behind their fieldwork in the North. Readers need not be versed in glaciology, however. Ives has produced a highly readable book that seamlessly combines research and adventure.
Geographers --- Geography --- Research --- Travel --- Fieldwork --- History --- Government policy --- Ives, Jack D. --- Arctic regions --- Baffin Island (Nunavut) --- Earth sciences --- Environment --- Field research
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Economic geography --- Economic geography. --- Economic history. --- Keizai Chiri Gakkai --- Japan --- Japan. --- Economic conditions --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Association of Economic Geographers (Tokyo, Japan) --- Keizai-chirigakkai --- 経済地理学会 --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I͡Aponii͡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān
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This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been developed, adopted and critiqued in Nordic human geography in relation to a wide range of themes, concepts and approaches. The book also traces institutional developments, distinct geographical traditions and intellectual histories, as well as authors’ own experiences as geographers in and beyond the Nordic area. The chapters together introduce and engage with debates and discussions that permeate Nordic geography and allows readers a glimpse of geographical thinking and the role of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic countries. By providing insights into how geographical ideas emerge, travel and are translated and adapted in specific contexts, the book contributes to debates about historical-geographical situatedness and theorisations of geography.
Human geography --- Social theory --- Geography --- History of Nordic geography --- Socio-spatial theory in Nordic Geography --- Debates within Nordic geography --- History of geographical thought --- Theoretical geographical perspectives and approaches --- Radical and Critical Geography --- History of university developments in the Nordic countries --- Auto-biographical reflections among Nordic geographers --- Nordic small state geopolitics --- Nordic racial exceptionalism --- Regional planning --- Geography and landscape --- Marxist theorisation of geography --- Mobility and rural-urban transformations --- Nordic gender geography --- Urban space --- Nordic social and cultural geography --- Politicisizing nature in Nordic geography --- Tourism studies in Nordic geography
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