Kearns, Gerry (2021) Topple the racists 2: decolonising the space and the institutional memory of geography. Geography, 106 (1). pp. 4-15. ISSN 0016-7487
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Abstract
In this, the second of two linked articles,
I move from efforts to address the colonial legacy of
our public spaces to consider the colonial marking
of the spaces and institutional memory of the
discipline of geography. I use the work and legacy of
Halford Mackinder as exemplary of some of these
colonial affiliations. By the standards of his time,
Mackinder was an enthusiastic imperialist and a
resolute racist. He believed that humanity
comprised superior and inferior peoples and that
the best of the former should use force to defend its
global hegemony. When Mackinder’s intellectual
legacy is invoked it is all too often in order to
promote a similarly bellicose colonialism as with the
geopolitical imagination of Robert Kaplan. In his
own practice of geographical adventuring,
Mackinder himself set Black lives far below his own
pursuit of geographical glory and those who vaunt
his reputation in the spaces of the academy, burnish
a glory that was most cruelly won.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Cite as: Gerry Kearns (2021) Topple the racists 2: decolonising the space and the institutional memory of geography, Geography, 106:1, 4-15, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2020.1862575 |
Keywords: | colonial legacy; racist; colonialism; Black lives; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: | 17661 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00167487.2020.1862575 |
Depositing User: | Gerry Kearns |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2023 08:04 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Geography |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis online |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/17661 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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