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The paper presents an analysis of the returns to a questionnaire survey on the state of department archives within UK departments of geography. The results of the survey are discussed in relation to recent work in geography which has examined the archive as a site for knowledge's making but seldom in its own terms as a resource for the history of geography, and studies within the archival sciences which have considered the archive as something more than a ‘storehouse’ for collective memory. The paper reveals that the archival record for the history of British geography is at best uneven, and in many departments non-existent, although information on departmental history is held, often as memory, by individual geographers. The paper considers the survey's implications for the future histories of British geography and addresses the nature of the UK geography department archive as resource and responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper highlights the role played by the specious present or moment, what some call the present of the now, in geographical discussions of social change. Its most explicit treatment as a temporal framing for such change has been in performative approaches, with their stress on the capacity of immersive body practices to produce difference through the ongoing repetition of such practices, a difference that plays on what is habitually or instinctively accessed through each specious present. However, we can also find debates focused on large-scale social practices that have combined various forms of structural or institutional contingency (ie customary practices, past investment cycles, etc) with becoming and which see becoming as rooted in the everyday reiteration of such practices, an interpretation that also privileges the moment as the point when becoming is actualised. Brought together, these different approaches provide the basis for a more broadly based interpretation of change focused on the specious present. This paper explores the case for this broader interpretation. It is divided into four sections. The first reviews those philosophical discussions of the specious present that have attracted most attention from human geographers. The second reviews the ways in which the geographical debate has used the specious present as a framing for change. The third examines how these different geographical treatments fill or extend the specious present, whilst the fourth and final section considers the implications of such thinking for how we interpret change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Delves into the Association of American Geographers in the U.S. Discussion of the organization of the association; Identification of the association's presidents; Analysis of the National Council of Geography Teachers.

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Focuses on the things where geographers have always been concerned. Increase in the number of enrollees in geography; Primary custodian of the concern for the interrelationship of human beings and the environment; Interest of geographers ion the interaction of human activities and the natural environment.

Focuses on the future of geography in the 21st century. Greatest strength of geography; Ways to overcome the problem of factionalism; Constructive alternative offered by Helen Longino that benefits all geographers.

Presents the hundred years of existence of the Association of American Geographers. Future of geography; Foundation of the organization; Theory on structural framing.

Focuses on the services of Almon Ernest Parkins in the field of geography. Personal background of Parkins; Career history; Achievements.

Dual conflicts, between the grand and minute, and between the regional and systematic approaches, have been present throughout the development of geography. The classic view that the regional geography of wide areas is the crown of the discipline and the aim of researchers has been ably stated by many writers. In most underdevelopment lands, the state, the urban or port hinterland, the physical region, even the region characterized by dominance of a single crop-combination, are of only limited significance in understanding the economy.