Showing papers in "Journal of Historical Geography in 2012"

TL;DR: A case study of water conflicts at Lake Paron in Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range is presented in this article, where a coalition of local groups (stakeholders) from the Cruz de Mayo and Caraz communities in the Callejon de Huaylas seized control of the lake Paron reservoir from a private multinational corporation, Duke Energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight intangible assets in the intergenerational transfer of farms in two Estonian municipalities from a long-term and gender perspective, based on interviews, and highlight how such bonds and feelings may influence decisions on generational succession.

TL;DR: This paper pointed out that the ideal figure of a national citizen digging for victory elided differentiated gender and class experiences of gardening, and demonstrated that statistics of food production were more about fostering trust than picturing the realities of vegetable growing.

TL;DR: This paper explored the ways in which climatic conditions interacted with the economic, social and technological processes of cotton production in Dharwar, highlighting why American cotton cultivation failed to meet colonial expectations during this period while also revealing the fragile architectural edifice of colonial power.

TL;DR: A systematic inventory of giant chestnut trees in southern Switzerland is used for reconstructing the eco-cultural niche related to the long-term cultivation and conservation of such remarkable trees and reveals that former local and regional socio-economic conditions and environmental constraints have considerable explanatory power.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the collaborative practices of working-with an archive owner in ordering and cataloguing a collection, and provide methodological insights into how historical geography research is carried out.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that against the grain archival readings of BC's past, with an emphasis on finding evidence of resistance to colonial power, can serve to distance the present from the past, thus positioning both contemporary geographies and researchers at work in BC as existing in a different time and place than those of Alice Ravenhill and other colonial subjects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the transmission of garden city notions into the colonial context by focussing on French Dakar, a key site of colonisation in West Africa, and show that the practical and terminological usages of the cite-jardin served mainly to create a prestigious image for the designated residential quarters of administrative employees.

TL;DR: The authors analysed the diaries of two colonial figures in Bombay, western India, in the 1820s: Mountstuart Elphinstone (the then Governor) and Lucretia West (the wife of the Chief Justice).

TL;DR: The authors used census data for Berkshire to argue that large-scale counterurbanization began much earlier than is generally recognized in some parts of southern England, and that professional and business migrants sought to preserve and promote the rural attributes of their new communities, without however cutting their ties to urban centres.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the forces behind the decolonisation of Nairobi's monumental landscape and how this landscape visualised the changing political and cultural contexts of the city.

TL;DR: The authors examine the history, production, and use of maps created by the United States government during World War II as related to the development and execution of aerial bombing policies against Japan, and argue that maps provide an important, and hitherto neglected, means through which to trace the exploration and eventual embrace of the incendiary bombing of Japan's cities.

TL;DR: This paper explored the other cold war through two case studies: US scientific efforts to understand and cope with polar whiteouts and the plastic deformation of ice in Greenland and concluded that the second approach won out as Greenland's exceptional geography and environment forced the US military to reassess its relationship with nature: rather than striving for control over the island space, US military personnel ultimately chose strategic cooperation with that space.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the sociospatial dimensions of parliamentary enclosure and compare them to the forms of communal self-regulation of land use customs and everyday regionalisations that preceded it.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of two distinct, yet similar organisations that held observation as an essential and automatic embodied skill is examined, and the importance of the act of "not-being-seen" as a complementary and fundamental aspect of non-observational practice is emphasised.

TL;DR: This paper examined the extent to which motoring was adopted by London's wider suburban middle classes in the inter-war years and concluded that by the end of the 1930s, suburban motoring had highly heterogeneous levels of adoption, but, where it was popular, it changed mobility in a dramatic manner that prefigured wider developments of the late 1950s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the implications of an episode in which thousands of colonised subjects were located and managed within a metropolitan province and show how the Indian hospitals became sites of concentrated imperial anxiety, with the potential to destabilise British rule in India itself as well as the English localities in which they were created.

TL;DR: In this article, the orientation of buildings in the ancient civilisations has been referred to the movements of several celestial bodies above the horizon on characteristics dates (two solstices and equinoxes).

TL;DR: Hornsby as mentioned in this paper examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as advancements in military and scientific equipment used in surveying.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine work conducted between 1915 and 1919 by a group of architects and planners based at the Royal Institute of British Architects, called the Civic Survey of Greater London.

TL;DR: The authors argue that a distinctive social order in east central Illinois emerged from, and was shaped by, an older agrarian structure that had developed in response to marshy, unpredictable conditions before drainage began in the late 1800s.