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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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The Alcobaça Abbey hydraulic landscape [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: This paper concerns the main domain (“coutos”) of Alcobaça Abbey (central Portugal), founded in 1153. It shows the involvement of the Cistercian monks in shaping hydraulic landscapes along time. This monastic territory is limited westwards
Jorge, Virgolino Ferreira +2 more
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Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
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Map Room Conversations: Mapping Objects
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article presents reflections on a ‘Map Room Conversation’ session entitled ‘Mapping Objects’ at the RGS International Conference, 2024. The session considered the three dimensional aspects of map‐making, both the objects and methods involved with producing maps, and the construction of maps in three dimensions in the form of relief ...
George Tobin, Jane Wess
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract In this introduction to the Special Section entitled ‘Map Room Conversations’ we explain the origins of the collection in a set of sessions co‐organised by the authors at the 2024 Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The co‐authored papers in this collection reflect on these conversations, and the
Stephen Legg, Katherine Parker
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HISTORICAL NAVIGATIONS AND CARTOGRAPHY IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL DIDACTICS [PDF]
, 2016 Mentre l’editoria per la scuola privilegia nei libri di testo e negli atlanti corredi fotografici di richiamo, un percorso di ricerca unito a una didattica che voglia essere veramente interdisciplinare evidenzia come la Geografia delle rotte storiche ...
Friolo, Riccardo
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper reflects on the pedagogical possibilities of cultivating a ‘geography of hope’. ABSTRACT Amid intersecting global crises—war, genocide, the erosion of academic freedom and the deepening precaritisation of higher education—this paper reflects on the pedagogical possibilities of cultivating a ‘geography of hope’.
Mariasole Pepa
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L'attualità della cartografia storica fra convergenze disciplinari e nuove tecnologie
GEOmedia, 2010 Historical cartography between disciplinary convergence and new technologies. This paper aims to present a research project lead by Trento University, the so called APSAT-Ambiente e Paesaggi dei Siti d’Altura Trentini, in wich is involved a geo ...
Elena Dai Prà
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Putting Antarctica on the Map [PDF]
This six-day unit has students examine historical maps of Antarctica and research early explorers to gain perspective on how cartography and our understanding of the globe have changed.
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
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