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An Historical and Cultural Geography of the Journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education (CIGE) (1983-1991) Norcup, Joanne (2015) Awkward geographies? An historical and cultural geography of the journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education (CIGE) (1983-1991). PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6849/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] Awkward Geographies? An historical and cultural geography of the journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education (CIGE) (1983-1991) Joanne Norcup Thesis submitted for award of PhD in Geography, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow: July 2015. Abstract This thesis concerns itself with the excavation of the historical and cultural geographies of the production, circulation, and reception of a grassroots-initiated geography education journal, and of the lives of the people and movement that contributed to its existence. Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education (CIGE) was the journal of the Association of Curriculum Development in Geography (ACDG): a pan-institutional collective of school geography teachers, authors, artists, activists and academics who desired a vision of school geography informed from the political Left, to enable the voices of those excluded from power to be explored and heard, and to offer up an alternative version of disciplinary geographical knowledge-making. Between the publication of its launch issue in 1983 and 1991 when it ceased publishing CIGE produced eight theme issues covering universally significant and highly contentious themes (racism, multinational trade, apartheid capitalism, war and peace, gender, ecological crisis and anarchism) from a humanist and critical perspective, offering critical analyses of the geographies therein and educational resources to utilise in educational training across schools, universities and staff education resource centres. CIGE questioned the spaces though which geographical education perpetuating social inequalities might be encountered (children’s TV through to national press criticism, publishers, subject associations, examination boards and academia). Well enough known during its publishing life and subscribed to nationally and internationally across a range of organisations, many of its contributors subsequently forged significant careers as human geographers within the Anglo-American academy, yet limited reference has been made to the journal post-1991. Recovering the stories of the journal and the people whose lives made the series, brings forth controversies and in turn awkward geographies in recovering how and why the journal series ceased publishing and why there appears to be such omission in historiographic accounts. Employing conceptual ideas pertaining to themes of archival activism, activist archives, navigating the recent past, disciplinary identity-making and geobiography, the thesis illustrates the strengths of ‘slow methodologies’ and the adoption of longitudinal research methods to enable the recovery and corroboration of primary sources, while signposting how mechanisms of contemporary academia (giving seminar workshop and conference papers on national and international scales, writing papers and co-authoring book chapters) through can reactivate engagement with the recovered archives and agitate for further materials to be revealed. ii Acknowledgements Observing the dramatic action of a play from the wings of a stage offers behind-the-scenes insight into the collective and collaborative work and networks of people without whose interplay of knowledge and skills a production could not happen. With a thesis the acknowledgements provide the ‘behind-the-wings’ perspective where these vital and necessary ‘et als’ can be found1. The ‘et als’ who have contributed to this thesis are in fact the principal players and as such giving them a roll call here gives a hint at the content in the chapters to follow. That it is a long acknowledgement bears testimony to the many lives who have given this thesis its form and life. While not wishing for this page to read like the transcript of a long and gushy Oscars speech, it is necessary to acknowledge, as the anarcha-feminist Emma Goldman does at the outset of her two-volume autobiography Living My Life that “my life as I have lived it owes everything to those who have come into it, stayed long or little, and passed out. Their love, as well as their hate, has gone into making my life worthwhile” (Goldman 1931: vii). All I have encountered during this past decade whether encouraging, dismissive, disregarding or cheer-leading have made a significant impact in starting me off, keeping me going, and shaping this long-haul, slow- scholarship project and in turn my personal and professional self. Broadly however, this thesis would not exist where it not for the micro-acts of generosity, support, and encouragement. Of the numerous thoughtful acts of passing on materials “I thought might be of use to you”. Of the acts of academic civic-mindedness, gifts of time, patience, critical and sometimes candid intellectual feedback and reflection, wit, humanity and humility. Traits that can appear in limited supply but which this thesis has excavated by the bucket-load. A reminder of cultures of collegiality that serve to mobilise the processes of scholarship and enrich the subject. To Dawn Gill and Ian G Cook for being open to this project and for keeping faith that despite my complex personal and professional geographies, I would get this done. There was never any doubt in my mind that I would not complete this, and I am so very privileged to have worked with you in beginning to recover, catalogue and record CIGE’s collective stories and archives. To those across the geography community in its fullest conception who helped to enrich and triangulate this archive by responding to emails and passing on leads (and in a handful of cases categorically ensuring me there was nothing to look for in the first place so making me more 1 As underscored on the staff webpage for Ian J Cook who notes “He writes as Ian Cook et al to acknowledge the collaborative nature of all his work” (see http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Ian_Cook Last accessed 10/07/2015. iii resolute in my research), agreeing to be interviewed and sharing their personal archives: Julian Agyeman, Liz Bondi, Sophie Bowlby, Steve Brace, Grahame Butt, Hugh Clout, Mona Domosh, Felix Driver, Roger Firth, Norman Graves, David Hicks, John Huckle, Don and Barbara Janelle, Peter Jackson, Ron Johnston, Peter Kennard, Ashley Kent, David Lambert, Roger Lee, Jo Little, Doreen Massey, Jan Monk, John Morgan, Phil O’Keefe, Dick Palfrey, Richard Peet, David Pepper, Linda Peake, Hugh Prince, Debby Potts, Eleanor Rawling, Europe Singh, Francis Slater, Peter Taylor, Jacqui Tivers, Sarah Whatmore, David and Jacqui Wright. To the memory of Rex Walford who was super supportive of this research and seeing how it progressed. To Peter Moss for facilitating access to the UCL/Institute of Education Geography Textbook archive and additionally the free reign to rummage through its “withdrawn” cupboards and to salvage and re- home duplicate or unwanted documents. To members of the Research groups of the RGS-IBG, especially the HGRG, the HPGRG, the WGSG, the ESRC Seminar Series Engaging Geographies (2008 – 2010) and the Department of Geography, University of Glasgow who have provided funding towards attending conferences, seminars and workshops in order to give papers and make attempts to jolt memories and glean further information about the journal series. To the GA who invited me to speak at their 2010 annual conference on CIGE and the thought-provoking reception to my presentation. To my (virtual) colleagues, friends and family spanning academic institutions of Glasgow, Nottingham, University College London and beyond, for being utterly fabulous: for the advice, support, storage of archive materials, for sharing great music, jokes, food, walks, runs, for the booze and telling it to me straight. Christian Abrahamsson, Raphaela Armbruster, Sue Askew and Nick Adams, Kye Askins, Andy and Jane (nee Herrington) Beaumont for getting me started, David Beel, Lawrence Berg, Caroline Bressey, Gavin Brown, Laura Cameron, Stella Chevalier for observing close-hand the formative years and clan Chevalier, Vanessa Collingridge, Ian J Cook, Rosie Day, Clare Dwyer, Richard Dennis, Danny Dorling, Simon Drew, Georgina Endfield, Felix Driver, Yvonne Finlayson, Andrew Harris, Mike Heffernan, Les Hill, Russell Hitchings, Bon Holloway, Matt Gandy, Kath Imrie-Browne, Alan Ingram, Heike Jöns, Lowri Jones, Innes Keighren, James Kneale, Jen Lea, Jason Lim, Steve Legg, Andrew Leyshon, Nick Mann, Cheryl McGeachen, Teresa McGrath, Jean McPartland, Lisa Meyer, Sarah Mills, Nick Monk, Stuart Muirhead, Drew Mulholland, Simon Naylor, Jon Nix, to Robert, Janet and Derek Norcup for bemused and benign love and giving me something to kick against. To Ronan Paddison for searching out the Joan Robinson Bequest to fund my tuition fees. To Hester Parr,
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