查看更多>>摘要：This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an ongoing and rich interest in the interconnections between nationalism, landscape and ritual, with some emphasis on resistance but little sense of the contemporary lives of these historic monuments. Broader geographical scholarship in the mid-2000s evidenced the memory boom that was taking place across the discipline, beyond historical geography. A second survey of papers in this journal, published from 2012 to 2021, evidences a richer engagement with post-colonial, post-Soviet and post-slavery periods and perspectives, and with a broader range of sites beyond Europe and North America. More recent scholarship has focused on participatory geography, calls for statues to fall, and for more experimental, non-representational methods. This introduction concludes by summarising the papers in this special issue and reflecting on the relationships between monuments and contestation that they create, namely: monuments to contestation; the historic contestation of monuments; and the ongoing contestation of monuments as heritage spaces (attacks and felling, retaining and explaining, re-using, creating counter-monuments, artistically re-symbolising and re-imagining monuments, and contestatory scholarship). (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
查看更多>>摘要：This paper explores the use of cartography in circulating geopolitical ideas about the seas. It focuses on the texts and maps produced by Therezinha de Castro (1930-200 0), a Brazilian geopolitical thinker who influenced practical and popular geopolitical reasoning about Antarctica and the South Atlantic from the 1950s until her death in 2000. Through her papers, books, atlas and lectures, Castro addressed the oceans not as restrictive boundaries delimiting spaces of sovereignty but as a borderland, a transition zone and a territory of expansion. The paper first explores Castro's academic trajectory and collaborations, supported by historical-geographical perspectives that emphasise the role of contingencies, positionalities, and biographies in knowledge production. Then, it analyses the persuasive visuality of Castro's arguments on seas, drawing on methodological perspectives that articulate maps, meanings and geopolitics. Finally, the paper discusses how Castro's claims on ocean geopolitics could contribute to contemporary human geography debates about land/sea assemblages. (c) 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
查看更多>>摘要：This article serves as a lens for understanding- in extremis- the tensions generated when state- sponsored modernity and amenity collide. In examining the origin of Britain's largest military-civil atomic complex at Sellafield alongside the delineation of the Lake District National Park's boundaries, the article demonstrates how the dual post-war reconstruction objectives of amenity and modernity were forced to reach an accommodation within the same geographical area and over an overlapping time period. Whilst the origins of national parks are well served by national park historiography, the contestation of any of their boundaries has not been explored. Furthermore, whilst the history of Britain's military-civil nuclear complex has been served by official narratives, it remains under-explored by unofficial ones. This article brings together for the first time state and civil society archive material. It exposes how emerging state military-civil strategic priorities, and state secrecy, framed the contestation over boundaries with civil society proponents of the Lake District National Park. This undermined civil society's capacity to maintain an effective opposition to these military-industrial developments, leading ultimately to the British State's war factory expansion and the immediate post-war development of its military-civil atomic capacity, overtaking and superseding the amenity organisations' boundary aspirations for the park.<br /> (c) 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
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