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The impact of COVID-19 on the resilience of rural and island Scotland: implications for transitioning to a resilient rural and island future Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Mags Currie, Ruth Wilson, Christina Noble, Jonathan Hopkins, Acacia Marshall
Negligible attention has been given to how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted upon social and economic attributes of rural and island (R&I) places. The paper considers impacts of COVID-19 on the re...
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Beyond the chintz: making room to live Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ann Varley
Walter Benjamin’s criticisms of dwelling and the modern interior are well known. The middle classes retreated from the alienation of nineteenth-century city life into domestic seclusion, surroundin...
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Rural transformations, rural futures: introduction to theme section Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lorna Philip, Ruth Wilson, Margaret Currie, Paula Duffy
This theme section editorial introduction presents a collection of papers brought together under the heading Rural transformations, rural futures. The papers are elaborations of work presented at a...
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A ‘South within the South’: writing from more-than-human entanglements in Guwahati, India Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Anmol Chowdhury, Sneha Gutgutia, Shruti Ragavan, Shubhangi Srivastava
This paper attempts to theorize from two peripheries within the Indian ‘knowledge production nexus’: one which is spatial vis-à-vis a ‘peripheral’ city; and the other which is relational vis-à-vis ...
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Rewilding in the British policy landscape. A qualitative analysis of policy documents related to rewilding Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Emma Cary, Flurina M. Wartmann
UK parliamentary research recognises rewilding as an opportunity to fulfil national habitat restoration commitments. Nevertheless, there is a current lack of analysis concerning the policy landscap...
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GIS-based service network optimisation for location of postal delivery system Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Elif Cesur, Funda Kesici Ocak
Public postal organisations aim to determine the optimal locations for postal delivery service branches to enhance service quality, increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, and optimise resou...
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Talus rock glaciers in the Cairngorm Mountains Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Colin K. Ballantyne
Although several relict talus rock glaciers (TRGs) of Lateglacial age have been identified in the British Isles, all have been refuted by some authors and their absence attributed to the lack of pe...
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Rurality, islandness and public policy in Scotland Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Lorna Philip, Ruth Wilson, Paula Duffy
Territorial classifications are routinely used in public policy. In Scotland, the primary classification used to delimit what, where and who is ‘rural’ is the Scottish Government’s Urban Rural Clas...
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Holocene floodplain aggradation in the central Grampian Highlands, Scotland Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Colin K. Ballantyne, Melanie S.E. Robertson-Rintoul
Radiocarbon ages for samples of organic material within and overlying the highest Holocene floodplain and fan terraces in Glen Feshie and Glen Tromie imply sediment aggradation after ∼4.3 cal ka an...
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Translation urgency in our climate-challenged times: co-producing geographical knowledge on El Niño in Peru Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 N. Laurie, G. Healy, I. Bell, O. Calle, M. Carmen, S. Cornejo, A. Davies, T. Mendo, C. Puescas, V. Schofield, A. Valdez, R. M. White
This paper makes a case for revisiting the understandings of translation to enhance the co-production of geographical knowledge on climate change. Specifically, it offers insights about the potenti...
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Geographies of Hunger: polyvocalising the histories of geographical knowledge production Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 João Sarmento
Josué de Castro was a twentieth-century Brazilian public intellectual, politician and activist scholar, with a rich publication record in the fields of nutrition, anthropology, sociology and human ...
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Landscapes of experience: young people, the outdoors, and the power of unfamiliar encounters Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Nina J. Morris
Unfamiliar Landscapes is a collection of texts from academics and practitioners that explores the relationship between young people and unfamiliar landscapes. The book challenges established norms ...
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Geographies of landscape aesthetics: mapping landscape terminology in digitised historical travel accounts of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 G. Ogg, F. M. Wartmann
This study spatially analyses aesthetic terms in historical travel accounts of the landscapes of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. We applied a hybrid appr...
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‘We need to stay alive’: ethnicisation and shortage of farm labour in Hungary Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Katalin Kovács, Monika Mária Váradi
This article fills a gap in the international academic literature, which has little to say on agricultural labour in Central and Eastern European countries and especially Hungary. The paper reveals...
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Response: the critic, the geographical imagination and the world Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Noel Castree, Greig Charnock, Brett Christophers
This commentary responds to the several points made by Kanishka Goonewardena and Neil Gray in their extended reviews of our book David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought. We address thr...
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Correction Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-19
Published in Scottish Geographical Journal (Vol. 139, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Relaunching the Marion Newbigin Prize Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Chris Philo, Martin Hurst, Emma Laurie, Rhian Thomas
Published in Scottish Geographical Journal (Vol. 139, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Paul Bishop: recalling an academic life Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Chris Philo, John Briggs
The rationale for this theme section of the journal on Paul Bishop, eminent physical geographer, earth scientist and researcher of human-environment relations, is explained. Paul Bishop (1949–2022)...
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David Harvey: the power of abstraction Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Neil Gray
The publication of the first ‘critical introduction' to David Harvey is long overdue and most welcome. Aimed at degree students and more experienced readers seeking to gain a broader understanding ...
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Fluvial geomorphology and landscape morphology: reconciling concepts across timescales Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Trevor B. Hoey
Much of Paul Bishop’s published work can be classified under the heading of fluvial geomorphology. His distinctive approach was to use fluvial evidence to interrogate hypotheses regarding landscape...
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The mental wellbeing of young farmers in Ireland and the UK: driving factors, help-seeking, and support Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 David Christian Rose, Fergal Bradley, Deirdre O’Connor, Jilly Hall, Rosie Morrison, Martin Mulkerrins, Caroline Nye, Tomás Russell
Whilst research attention on the mental wellbeing of farmers is growing, there are few studies focused on young farmers. Our research set out to better understand the factors affecting young farmer...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on digitalisation and social capital in crofting communities in Scotland Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Christina Noble, Leanne Townsend, Mags Currie, Claire Hardy, Dominic Duckett
Increasing digitalisation and access to communication technologies has arguably never been more important to rural communities than during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digitalisation assumes a distinct c...
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The physical geography of Scotland in the Scottish Geographical Journal Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Martin D. Hurst, Rhian Thomas
ABSTRACT In this editorial, we highlight the ongoing role of Scottish landscapes and landforms in pushing the frontiers of physical geography research, with particular to the contributions in the Scottish Geographical Journal (previously Scottish Geographical Magazine) since its inception in the 1880s. We outline some important avenues of research during the journal’s lifetime and place them in the
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Measuring nocturnal near-surface urban heat island intensity in the small, mid-latitude city of Inverness, Scotland Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 George F. Gunn
ABSTRACT Few publications have considered the urban heat island (UHI) effect in small settlements. This paper, therefore, presents the findings of a UHI study conducted in the small, mid-latitude city of Inverness, Scotland (population: 63,220). The study aimed to provide an initial appraisal of the scale of UHI phenomena in Inverness and to understand the factors associated with its presence. Mobile
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Refuge or retreat: resilience and the mediatization of Scotland’s island space Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Kathryn A. Burnett
ABSTRACT Islands are significantly on the agenda in Scotland. Media accounts – news, features, and other creative narratives – textually frame the representational terrains of island policy, agency and community. Such mediatization informs and responds to certain ideas and discourses of our island geographies. It typically includes what could be considered good islandness: that is, islands as good
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Environmental, social and economic perceptions of local food production: a case study of Aberdeenshire farmers’ markets Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Jennifer Wardle, Aslam Sorathia, Pete Smith, Diana Feliciano
ABSTRACT Sustainable food systems are an important aspect of curbing the impacts of climate change and meeting targets of global food security. It is increasingly recognised that a wider suite of indicators is required to assess sustainability beyond the traditional environmental factors. This study focuses on Aberdeenshire, an atypical area of the UK where soils, climate and topography are not conducive
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Rural lives during COVID-19: crisis, resilience and redistributing societal risk Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Jayne Glass, Mark Shucksmith, Polly Chapman, Jane Atterton
ABSTRACT This paper explores the redistribution and rescaling of societal risk in rural Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic, as one episode of the permacrisis. Drawing on empirical work in three contrasting areas of Scotland and England, we analyse individuals’ experiences of risk and of the institutions which offer them support in times of crisis (markets, state, voluntary and community organisations
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Is Social Justice and the City still relevant? Some thoughts Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 R. Sanders
This year (2023) marks the 50th anniversary of David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City. At the time of its publication, it was viewed by many as a text that revolutionized thinking in urban geog...
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The triumph of David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Kafui Attoh
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City, this paper examines the continued relevance of Harvey’s work on the study of cities. The a...
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Domestic flights and foreign affairs: some thoughts on Here and Elsewhere Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Tom Pow
Tom Pow (b. 1950) is a well-known Scottish poet and prose-writer, author of 12 poetry collections, 3 radio plays, several childrens’ books, and more. Geographical themes have recurred throughout Po...
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Correction Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-21
Published in Scottish Geographical Journal (Vol. 139, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Social justice and a city: surplus capital and the remaking of Athens Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Ioanna Korfiati, Hamish Kallin
Social Justice and the City (SJTC) is an artefact that epitomises a radical shift in the history of the discipline of Geography, and more broadly in urban theory; and it is also a signpost to what ...
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The geography of geographical education in Scotland, Part 2: why do pupils choose to study geography? Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Ian Selmes, Alastair McConnell, Jim Bruce
In Scotland, there is ongoing concern about the status of geography in education. Numbers of pupils studying geography have been falling at a time when the relevance and importance of geography sho...
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How glaciation impacted evolutionary history and contemporary genetic diversity of flora and fauna in the British Isles Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Sam Fenton, Kathryn R. Elmer, Colin W. Bean, Colin E. Adams
Ice coverage not only affects the climate and landscape of geographical regions but has impacted species composition, the fragmentation and isolation of populations, and the colonisation routes of ...
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Paul Bishop and the longue durée of human–environmental relations in SE Asia Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Dan Penny, Duncan Cook
Paul Bishop’s contribution to the earth sciences is profound. His work on large spatial and temporal scale landscape evolution is well known, but he also (and coevally) directed his attention to th...
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Paul Bishop: the early years in Australia and Ethiopia Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Martin Williams
Paul Bishop began his undergraduate studies in the School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia at a time when plate tectonics had begun to revolutionize our understanding ...
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Scottish Landform Example: subaqueous moraines around the Summer Isles and in the approaches to Loch Broom (Wester Ross Marine Protected Area) Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Tom Bradwell, Martyn Stoker
ABSTRACT The seabed landscape around the Summer Isles (NW Scotland) hosts classic examples of subaqueous moraines formed at a Late Pleistocene tidewater ice-sheet margin. This suite of moraines, now within the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area, records oscillatory retreat of the grounding line of (one or more) large outlet glaciers receding from the open waters of the Minch into the fjords of Loch
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Paul Bishop, landscape and local history: a life and a legacy Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Geraldine Perriam
Paul Bishop’s interest in local history was longstanding. As he neared retirement, he expanded his researches into local landscapes and a longheld interest in industrial archaeology. As Paul's desi...
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Resilience processes during lockdown: a diary study from the Faroe Islands Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Erika Anne Hayfield
ABSTRACT This paper explores resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Faroe Islands and asks how smallness and place shape resilience. Two days into lockdown, in March 2020, the author sought participants to write diaries describing their observations, feelings, and experiences of being in lockdown. Since a crisis is often understood in retrospect, the use of the diary method enabled
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Groundwater artesian wells allocation: proposing the use of a geographical information system and a dual analytical hierarchical process Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Mohammed A. Almomani, Ala'a H. Alrejjal, Aseel F. Khanfar
This study proposed a structured approach that incorporates a geographical information system (GIS) with an analytical hierarchal process (AHP) for selecting the best location for drilling new arte...
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Egypt’s energy balance map: a geographical perspective Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Mostafa Hashim
This study aims to determine Egypt’s potential for energy sources, and the volume of potential energy production and consumption, balancing inputs, outputs and availability of energy. The study dep...
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Paul Bishop and the evolution of the Scottish Alliance of Geosciences, Environment and Society (SAGES) Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 David E. Sugden, Anthony E. Fallick
The Scottish Alliance of Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) was launched in May 2007 and thrives to this day (https://www.sages.ac.uk). It is a major research partnership between ten insti...
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Shaping landscapes and industry: linking historic watermill locations to bedrock river knickpoints Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Tara N. Jonell, Iara Nave Calton, Martin D. Hurst, Peter Jones, Adam R. Lucas, Simon Naylor
Watermills have been an essential source of mechanical power for over two millennia. Their careful siting often took into account local hydrology, topography, and economic demand, attesting to the ...
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Universalising the geographies of enlightenment Edinburgh Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Paul Elliott
Phil Dodds's book is the first to explore Enlightenment Edinburgh's role across multiple scales, from individual people, books, houses, and shops to government and institutions at regional, nationa...
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Boredom and the politics of climate change Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Ben Anderson
ABSTRACT In this position paper, I speculate on what we might learn about the politics of climate change if we stay with the possibility that boredom might be part of how subjects encounter and make sense of climate change. I argue that boredom enacts an ethically and politically ambivalent detachment from the demand to act that accompanies urgency-imbued vocabularies of crisis and emergency. Whether
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Paul Bishop and Robert Burns Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Gerard Carruthers
Attention is drawn in this brief note to how Paul Bishop’s interests as an earth scientist and physical geographer inspired the author in interpreting the poetry of Scotland’s national bard, Robert...
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Loss and Damage from climate change: legacies from Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 W. Neil Adger
ABSTRACT Conferences of the UN climate change convention have legacies both in formal outcomes and treaties and in raising the profile of emerging climate dilemmas. The joint legacies of COP26 in Glasgow and COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh have been in elevating the profile and formalising the potential for solidaristic action on ‘Loss and Damage’ from climate change. This article reviews the documented outcomes
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A response to geographies of dwarfism: socio-spatial experiences of short stature Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Erin Pritchard
ABSTRACT This position piece is a response to the recently published review of my first monograph Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences. In this review I highlight the importance of positionality when focusing on disability research. In particular I focus on how my positionality resulted in emotions that were read as anger and bitterness. Drawing on Audre Lourde’s The Uses of Anger, this position
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Critiques, ideals and blueprints in the historical geography of Scotland’s lunatic asylums, 1857–1872 Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Kim Ross
ABSTRACT The historical geography of Scotland’s nineteenth-century lunatic asylums has only been lightly researched to date, and particularly under-studied is what might be termed Scotland’s ‘Asylum Age’ – c.1857 into the 1870s – when publicly-funded and purpose-built district asylums started to appear across the Scottish landscape. This was a period of therapeutic optimism about what these asylums
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The new popular geography and pursuit of the curious Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Alastair Bonnett
ABSTRACT This review discusses the rise and nature of the ‘new popular geography', a genre exemplified by Vitali Vitaliev’s engaging new work Atlas of Geographical Curiosities. The attraction to ‘curious' places, along with remote, hidden and ‘off the map' places, is explored in the context of the growth of anxieties about surveillance and ‘placelessness’ as well as the emergence of mapping as a central
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Meeting Doreen Massey Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Sarah Marie Hall
ABSTRACT Doreen Massey’s academic repertoire, as a human geographer and political thinker, is almost unmatched. This review essay catalogues my experience of ‘meeting’ Massey through the eyes of David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher, the editors of this collection of selected political writings. Highlighting Massey’s contributions to theories of relationality, space, place, politics and praxis,
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The vital importance of being open: reflections on peer reviewing in scholarly publishing Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
ABSTRACT This position paper reflects upon the publication policies and practices of the Scottish Geographical Journal (SGJ), as presented by the new editorial team in their introductory editorial ‘‘In the critical department’: refreshing the Scottish Geographical Journal’ (Philo, C., Hurst, M., Laurie, E., & Thomas, R. (2022). ‘In the Critical Department’: Refreshing the Scottish Geographical Journal
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Returning to the Scottish coast Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Heather Gray
This (recently republished) book presents an anthropological study of the Scottish fishing community residing in Ferryden and the impacts of their wider social setting. Jane Nadel-Klein, the author...
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Growing love for the world: COP26 and finding your superpower Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Cheryl McGeachan
ABSTRACT This short reflective piece charts my own experiences of working with young people (aged 5–11 years) during COP26 and offers some tentative reflections on the role of hope in emplaced geographical education. Through detailing the experiences of a community garden workshop in Drumchapel, Glasgow, this paper highlights the ways in which hope for the future in the face of climate adversity was
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Geographies of dwarfism: socio-spatial experiences of short stature Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Robert Kruse
ABSTRACT The study of dwarfism continues to offer unique opportunities for understanding the socio-spatial experiences of bodily difference and impairment. This review essay focuses on the latest book on dwarfism written by a geographer. Erin Pritchard situates the experiences of people with dwarfism within the social model of disability and addresses the ways in which public spaces in the UK can be
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William Roy: still an enigmatic figure in Scots cartography Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 John N. Moore
William Roy was the son of a Lanarkshire estate factor, born into a locally influential and solidly Presbyterian family. Through contacts with the powerful Dundas family, his career path took him a...
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Location, location, location: reassessing W.H.K. Turner’s legacy for industrial geography in Scotland and beyond Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Peter Jones, Tara N. Jonell, Martin D. Hurst, Adam R. Lucas, Simon Naylor
ABSTRACT For more than three decades between the 1950s and the 1980s, W.H.K. (Keith) Turner was a valued colleague and teacher in the Department of Geography at University College, Dundee (later, the University of Dundee). During that time, he researched extensively on the industrial development of Dundee and its environs, as well as the linen industry in East-Central Scotland more generally. His approach
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Cop26 and opening to postcapitalist climate politics, religion, and desire Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Callum Sutherland
ABSTRACT Climate change represents a set of emergencies for humanity. Many geographers have argued that in order to repair and avert the damage that these confluent emergencies have and may-yet cause, a postcapitalist society is necessary. However, strategies for how this might be achieved often forgo any consideration of desire, which is problematic given the influence that desire holds over the ‘popularity’
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COP26, human geography and earth futures: introduction to a theme section Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Miza Moreau, Hester Parr, Chris Philo
ABSTRACT The rationale for this theme section on ‘COP26, human geography and earth futures’ is explained. A previous special issue of this journal – entitled ‘Climate change, COP26 and the crucible of crisis’, published during 2020 in anticipation of COP26 – is deployed to frame the specifically human-geographical concerns of the present theme section. Contributions to the theme section were initially
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Understanding weather futures based on the past: a case of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides Scottish Geographical Journal (IF 0.718) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 N. Macdonald, S. Naylor, J. P. Bowen, A. Harvey-Fishenden, E. Graham
ABSTRACT We present a weather history for Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides, an island chain off the northwest coast of Scotland. It combines a new 164-year composite rainfall record representative of the settlement of Stornoway (1857–2019), alongside descriptive accounts of weather harvested from the school logbooks from the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway (1873–1974). The school logbooks record the