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Presents a list of titles and abstracts of papers regarding geography presented to the Association of American Geographers from 1904 to 1910.

The article announces the 2017 Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) awards, including the Tom McKnight and Joan Clemons Award to Sean Pries of University of California, Davis and the President's Award to Birendra Rana and Genie Bey.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held at Chicago, Illinois between march 19, 1951 and march 22, 1951. Lewis M. Alexander presents the paper Survey of Commercial Rivalry between the North Sea Ports of Belgium and the Netherlands. Homer Aschmann presents the paper Consumer-oriented Classification of the Products of Tropical Agriculture. Tracy B. Augur presented the paper on Regional-Urban Relationships. George Beishlag presented the paper on What Cartography Can Do for Geography Students.

The article offers information on the Nystrom Competition of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) featuring papers based on dissertations in geography.

Presents abstracts of articles from the Association of American Geographers in 1940. "The Relations of Some Texas Soils to Their Parent Materials"; "The Historic Indians of Louisiana"; "Louisiana Foods".

This paper is a case-study analysis of the geography of practice as it functions in American studies. Focusing on the Japanese Association for American Studies fortieth anniversary symposium, 'American Studies in Trans-Pacific Perspective,' it shows how the event affords two complementary ways of thinking about the geography of scholarly identity, topics, and practices in American studies, one emphasizing positionality and physical location, the other emphasizing interactions and relational contexts. The paper focuses on the second (and less common) spatialization of Americanist practice, arguing that comparative American studies cannot be adequately understood solely in terms of nationally or regionally defined perspectives. The paper draws attention to the significance of other kinds of scholarly interactions across distance by showing how the apparently specific and located perspective performed at the JAAS symposium depended upon, emerged out of, and is still unfolding within complex, long-term exchanges and networks that stretch far beyond the transpacific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was delivered by invitation as the opening plenary address at the 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London, UK, 5-10 July 2015. That series of conferences had its origins in a British- Canadian symposium held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1975. Coincidentally, the J ournal of H istorical G eography was also founded in 1975. This paper assesses the contributions of the ICHG and of the JHG to the internationalisation of historical geography during the first 40 years of their existences. It provides some reflections not only on their significant, positive, contributions but also on the problems raised by their structures, breadth of coverage, costs, and use only of the English language. It concludes by acknowledging the role of other international gatherings of historical geographers and of other journals of historical geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Persistent simplistic binary discourses of young people’s citizenship portray them either as civically deficit and disengaged citizens or the creators of new democratic modes and approaches. This paper draws on field research with two groups of young people in Australia to better recognise the nuance of young people’s experiences of citizenship, power and influence. The study investigated the extent to which different groups of young people believe that they have the power to influence society; the ways in which they seek this influence; the current barriers to their influence; and what would enable them to have greater influence. Our analysis in this paper draws on Lukes’ concepts of power [2005.Power: A Radical View. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan] and Arvanitakis’ framework of citizenship engagement and empowerment [in Arvanitakis, J., and E. Sidoti. 2011. “The Politics of Change: Where to for Young People and Politics.” InTheir Own Hands: Can Young People Change Australia?, edited by L. Walsh and R. Black, 11–20. Melbourne: ACER Press], but also builds on an emerging scholarship concerned with the geographic dimensions of young people’s citizenship engagement and action, as well as with the affective, relational and temporal dimensions of this engagement and action. Our findings suggest that power works in different ways to both constrain and liberate young people as citizens – sometimes at the same time. The paper concludes with an argument for the continuing need to understand young people’s lived and located experiences of engagement, power and influence in more nuanced and sophisticated ways. This includes reframing the discussion about young people’s experiences in terms of the nature of their democratic engagement and action rather than simply their citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Geography grew rapidly within the British university system during the 1950s and 1960s. In the middle of the latter decade, however, the discipline was initially excluded from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This essay looks at why such an ostensibly successful discipline was not incorporated in the initial plans and how a successful challenge led to its later acceptance in the SSRC. It shows that the acceptance was a consequence of individual initiative rather than representations from the discipline's learned societies, throwing further light (as discussed in the first paper in this pair) on their failure to promote the discipline during that key period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the ICA research agenda on Cartography and GIScience. The first part discuses the research topics and the second part deals with the 'implementation' of the agenda by the ICA Commissions and Working Groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Highlights the annual conference organized by the Institute of British Geographers in Durham, England. Topics discussed during the event; Theme of the papers presented; Attendees of the conference.

Focuses on the importance of enlarged international contacts for the Association of American Geographers in the U.S. Significance of first-hand reports on geographers and geography in a session in a meeting; Presentation of a paper on China; Invitation for a Russian geographer to attend the meeting.

Presents an excerpt of the paper on geographical and historical concepts in American history read at Plenary Session 56th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Dallas, Texas.

Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change, 1600-1970, published by D. W. Meinig, is one in a series of monographs about regions of the American West. The short but comprehensive book gained wide appeal among historians as well as historical and cultural geographers, both as a research synthesis and a popular text in college-level courses. Remarkably, the book remains in print today--fifty years on--under its original publisher, Oxford University Press. This article stems from a special session presented to the Eighty-Third annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in San Diego, California, on October 15, 2021. It brings together a group of geographers, including some of Meinig's former students as well as admirers of Meinigian regional geography. Participants reflect on their relationships with Meinig, their experiences with Southwest, and how this small but influential work shaped their geographical perspectives. Keywords: D. W. Meinig, Southwest, Book Legacy, Introduction Daniel Arreola A World Catalog graphic of associated subjects linked to Donald W Meinig suggests the following topics in relation to his most popular published books: historical geography, landscape [...]

Displays illustrating papers and graphic expositions not correlated with sessions have become an integral part of annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Exhibits at Cambridge, Massachusetts accented physical geography rather more and human geography rather less than has been the case in recent preceding years. In a number of cases comparable maps of physical and human phenomena were displayed side by side. This appears to indicate a pronounced interest in regional correspondence of phenomena.

The article presents news briefs concerning tourism geography. A change has been introduced to the journal "Tourism Geographies," starting with the February 2006 issue, that will result in the removal of the three sections of "Space," "Place," and "Environment." The Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society held its annual conference on August 31-September 2, 2005, in London, England. Travel and tourism industry-related podcasts and weblogs have started to emerge in cyberspace.

Features the life and works of Joseph Earle Spencer, editor of the journal "Annals of the Association of American Geographers" from 1964-1970 in the U.S. Educational background; Career highlights; Impetus to the interest of Spencer in geography.

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.

The article presents some of the highlights of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) held at the University of Oregon in Eugene from September 6 to 9, 2006. The conference featured paper and panel sessions as well as one poster session. It states that APCG president Jenny Zorn shared her views on the challenges and opportunities of enhancing the diversity of the discipline of geography.

Research shows that gender inequality is still a major issue in academic science, yet academic societies may serve as underappreciated and effective avenues for promoting female leadership. That is, society membership is often self-selective, and board positions are elected (with a high turnover compared to institutions)—these characteristics, among others, may thus create an environment conducive to gender equality. We therefore investigate this potential using an information-theoretic approach to quantify gender equality (male:female ratios) in zoology society boards around the world. We compare alternative models to analyze how society characteristics might predict or correlate with the proportion of female leaders, and find that a cultural model, including society age, size of board and whether or not a society had an outward commitment or statement of equality, was the most informative predictor for the gender ratio of society boards and leadership positions. This model was more informative than alternatives that considered, for instance, geographic location, discipline of study or taxonomic focus. While women were more highly represented in society leadership than in institutional academic leadership, this representation was still far short of equal (~30%): we thus also provide a checklist and recommendations for societies to contribute to global gender equality in science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space is a site where culture and body meet. It is a physical text of cultural constructions of the body that articulate personal, social and material functions and arrangements. The American DeafWorld consists of spaces where deaf and hard of hearing people are found. The geographies in the DeafWorld are the sites where different institutions create and imprint their ideologies, practices and properties pertaining to their sensory notions of the deaf body onto brick-andmortar spaces in the DeafWorld. Sensescape is proffered as a theoretical model to describe DeafWorld institutional geographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports that in September 2003, the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers organized a plenary on "European voices" at which the speakers were invited to address different approaches to the study of geography across Europe. "Approaches" were understood in terms of both methodologies and substantive issues, and indeed the ways in which these are related. The issues they raise underline the continuing need to engage in a real internationalization of academic discourses in urban and regional studies, as much as in geography. This is a goal to which the journal remains strongly committed, and which infuses both its publication goals, and its associated conferences.

Comments on John Fraser Hart's presidential address "The Highest Form of the Geographer's Art," that was previously published in the 1982 issue of "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." Impracticality of Hart's advice to return nature discipline to the old; Accession on Hart's statement regarding the need for a more relaxed and less dogmatic approach to the disciplines; Views on how to maintain the status of geography as a viable tertiary academic field.

Humans are an exceptionally cooperative species, but there is substantial variation in the extent of cooperation across societies. Understanding the sources of this variability may provide insights about the forces that sustain cooperation. We examined the ontogeny of prosocial behavior by studying 326 children 3-14 y of age and 120 adults from six societies (age distributions varied across societies). These six societies span a wide range of extant human variation in culture, geography, and subsistence strategies, including foragers, herders, horticulturalists, and urban dwellers across the Americas, Oceania, and Africa. When delivering benefits to others was personally costly, rates of prosocial behavior dropped across all six societies as children approached middle childhood and then rates of prosociality diverged as children tracked toward the behavior of adults in their own societies. When prosocial acts did not require personal sacrifice, prosocial responses increased steadily as children matured with little variation in behavior across societies. Our results are consistent with theories emphasizing the importance of acquired cultural norms in shaping costly forms of cooperation and creating cross-cultural diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the cartography profession, in relation to the 50th anniversary celebration of the British Cartographic Society (BCS) in 2013. The author relates the membership of Great Britain in the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The author also recounts how he discovered the practicalities of mapping. He also talks about the development of other cartography organizations.

The concept of the 'surveillance society' has become a central part of the emerging transdisciplinary narrative of surveillance studies, and is now to be found as much in criminology as in many of the other domains upon which it draws. This piece takes on two key problems generated by contemporary use of the term 'surveillance society'; those of its historical novelty and its general geographical or cultural generalizability. In this article, I show that the historical development of arguments about surveillance have created particular and changing ideas of the 'surveillance society'. However the contemporary period opens up questions of geography and culture. With reference to the comparative case of Japan, I argue both that a contextual understanding of both surveillance and 'surveillance society' is crucial. While surveillance is involved with processes of globalization, it is also not necessarily the same 'surveillance society' that one sees in different places and at different scales. Surveillance is historically, spatially and culturally located. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the developments in how geographers have sought to make sense of the materiality of human and non-human life. It mentions some of the key words in environmental geography including volatility, performance, inventiveness and emergence. The author also comments on the direction that the study of society-environment relations has traveled since writers like Neil Smith questioned the idea that nature named a region external to society. He adds that for some geographers, it is the conjunction of radical uncertainty in complex systems and the capacity of bodies for affect that must inform environmental ethics.

Twentieth-century work in colonial theory emphatically rejected the nineteenth-century linear model of colonialism as a process in which societies were subjected to a civilizing influence by the superior European culture. The first replacement models arose with decolonization and were often driven by the experiences of the colonized themselves. The present study addresses and/or circumvents problems of colonized. The confluence of geography, history, human agency, and scientific opportunism has made Gibraltar an unusually rich venue for the study of colonialism.

Geographers at the AAG's centennial are challenged with exceptional opportunities to create a more central place for geography in society and in the university. Realizing these opportunities requires identifying and leveraging key emerging trends in the formation and uses of geographic knowledge. Better integration of geography's profound technological innovations with its core traditions also is necessary to strengthen the discipline's research capacity, and to more effectively engage with and contribute to the needs of society. Trends toward multidisciplinary research and integrative science, and the heightened need for geographic understanding in today's world, hold further promise for advancing the discipline while sustaining its historic strengths and diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geography grew rapidly within British universities during the 1950s and 1960s. At the beginning of the latter decade, however, the discipline was excluded from most of the new universities established to meet expanding student demand. This first essay in a pair looks at why such an ostensibly successful discipline was not incorporated in the plans for those new institutions, focusing on the external view of geography at the time and on its lack of effective champions in the highest `corridors of power', notably its learned societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of physical geography (and its practitioners) in the affairs of the Association of American Geographers and in the development of American geography has been varied in both substance and influence during the past seventy-five years. Physical geography was at its strongest in the Association's first decade and has recently experienced a resurgence. American physical geographers have tended to be adherents of the so-called ‘man-land’ tradition in geographical teaching and research, which position is supported herein: firstly, by a review and perspective of physical geography during this century; secondly, through an exposition of some geographical opportunities for the future; thirdly, by discussion of the breadth vs. depth question in geographic education; and, fourthly, by concluding comments on this century's closing circle of events past, present, and future in American geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sole project adopted by the 1955-1956 Research Committee, through the offices of its Chairman, was the defining of its function. Further advice was sought and obtained from fifty-three other sociologists, a representative group from the standpoints of age as sociologists, diversity of interests, and, except for a slight bias favoring the Southeast, geography. The following functions, in order of popularity, were outlined: to help raise standards of research by devising criteria of quality which should then be submitted to the society for its consideration; to sponsor annual reports on research in various sociological specialisms; to encourage the publication of the research history of these specialisms; to sponsor "watchdog" activity on declining sociological emphases, with an eye to exploiting to the fullest of past research; to study ways of effecting profitable feedback of sociological research, by way of translating findings into layman's language and interpreting their applicability; to prepare a comprehensive bulletin.

The article focuses on the importance of geographic influence. Views of the members of the Association of American Geographers on this topic are presented. According to the author, the plant and animal world joins itself to man's physical habitat to enrich the environment and multiply the problems. The surface, the climate, the possibilities of cereal production and of the domestication of certain animals appear in relation to the early civilization of America, to the arts and habits of its people, as to stir the geographer to admiration. A relationship between history and geography is discussed in the article.

Examines the role of transportation in the space economy. Increase in specialization in the society; Complexities of economic interdependence; Analysis of realms between economic and geography.