Professional and society journals often publish obituaries in which colleagues reflect on and celebrate the lives of others—in this instance, geographers—who are no longer with us and who have been closely associated with a discipline and sometimes also with a country or region. Less often do journal editors and contributors curate collections of works that recognise and reflect upon the sustained contributions made by colleagues who are still with us. Festschrift offerings such as the kind I am thinking of are almost unheard of in this journal. We begin to remedy that gap now because such offerings show colleagues’ influences on us and the discipline. To those ends, this inaugural offering celebrating Ruth Fincher initiates what I hope will be the first of many in coming years.

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Festschrift 倡议：庆祝名誉教授 Ruth Fincher AM

专业和社会期刊经常发表讣告，同事们在讣告中反思和庆祝其他人的生活——在这种情况下，地理学家——他们不再与我们在一起，并且与一门学科密切相关，有时也与一个国家或地区密切相关。期刊编辑和投稿人很少会策展那些认可和反思仍在我们身边的同事所做的持续贡献的作品集。我所想的那种 Festschrift 产品在本刊中几乎闻所未闻。我们现在开始弥补这一差距，因为这些产品显示了同事对我们和学科的影​​响。为此，这个庆祝露丝芬奇的就职典礼启动了我希望这将是未来几年中的第一个。