Landscape Change and Environmental Histories |
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| Authors: | ERIC PAWSON TOM BROOKING |
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| Affiliation: | Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Canterbury;Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Otago |
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| Abstract: | Historical geography was once a popular element of university curricula in New Zealand. It was also a conspicuous focus of research. Today however there is only one identifiable course in historical geography in New Zealand's university calendars – at Massey – and few writers have maintained an active research interest rooted in the sub‐discipline. This Comment suggests some reasons why now is a good time for New Zealand's geographers to reassess this state of affairs, and outlines five themes that might be pursued in the construction of more explicit historical geographies at the start of the third millennium. |
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