This progress report reviews contributions made to the history and philosophy of geography for the period 2007—2008. The review is divided into four topical areas: obituaries of geographers; the relation of geography to the Second World War and the Cold War; scientific and social experimentation; and non-representational theory.
Adams, J.S.2007: John Robert Borchert, 1918-2001. Annals of the Association of American Geographers97, 641-48.
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Atkinson, D.2008: Unravelling geopolitical traditions with an extroverted scholarship. Geopolitics13, 396-402.
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Barnes, J.2008: Nothing to be frightened of. Toronto : Random House Canada.
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Barnes, T.J.2008a: Life and death: history and philosophy of geography, 2005-2007. Progress in Human Geography32, 650-58.
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- 2008b: Geography’s underworld: the military-industrial complex, mathematical modelling, and the quantitative revolution. Geoforum39, 3-16.
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Barnes, T.J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E. and Tickell, A.2007: Methods matter: transformation in economic geography. In Tickell, A., Sheppard, E., Peck, J. and Barnes, T.J., editors, Politics and practice in economic geography, London: Sage, 1-24.
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Burton, I.2008: Gilbert White: progress in geography. Progress in Human Geography32, 448-50.
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Buttimer, A.2007: Torsten Hägerstrand 1916-2004. In Lorimer, H. and Withers, C.W.J., editors, Geographers: biobibliographical studies, volume 26, London: Continuum, 119-57.
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Clout, H.D.2007: Henry Clifford Darby 1909-1992. In Lorimer, H. and Withers, C.W.J., editors, Geographers: biobibliographical studies, volume 26, London: Continuum, 79-97.
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- 2008: Popular geographies and scholarly geographies in provincial France: the Société Normande de Géographie (1879-1937) . Journal of Historical Geography34, 24-47.
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Cosgrove, D.2008: Images and imagination in 20thcentury environmentalism: from the Sierras to the Poles. Environment and Planning A40, 1862-80.
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Crisp, Q.1978[1968]: The naked civil servant. New York: Signet.
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della Dora, V.2008: Denis Cosgrove, ‘Uomo Universale’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space26, 381-88.
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Dewsbury, J.D.2007: Unthinking subjects: Alain Badiou and the event of thought in thinking politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS32, 443-59.
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Dodds, K.2008: Les Hepple: a geopolitical appreciation. Introduction . Geopolitics13, 383-85.
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Dodgshon, R.A.2008a: In what way is the world really flat? Debates over geographies of the moment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space26, 300-14.
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- 2008b: Geography’s place in time. Geografiska Annaler B90, 1-15.
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Doel, M.A. and Clarke, D.B.2007: Afterimages. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space25, 890-910.
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Driver, F.2008: Geography and vision: Denis Cosgrove, 1948-2008. Environment and Planning A40, 1779-82.
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Fraser, B.2008: Toward a philosophy of the urban: Henri Lefebvre’s uncomfortable application of Bergsonism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space26, 338-58.
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Gregory, D.2007: The long roll of thunder. Progress in Human Geography31, 820-22.
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Haggett, P.2007: Professor Les Hepple (1947-2007). Progress in Human Geography31, 1-2.
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- 2008: The local shape of the revolution: reflections on quantitative geography at Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s. Geographical Analysis40, 336-52.
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Harris, R., Hoare, A., Johnston, R.J., Jones, K., Plummer, P. and Thomas, E. 2007: Les Hepple: an appreciation. Environment and Planning A 39, 1275-81. Harrison, P. 2008: Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world. Environment and Planning A 40, 423-45.
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Hepple, L.W.2008: Dudley Stamp and the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik. Geopolitics13, 386-95.
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Hepple, L.W. and Doggett, A.M.1992: The Chilterns. Chichester: Phillimore.
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Heyman, R.2007: ‘Who’s going to man the factories and be the sexual slaves if we all get PhDs?’ Democratizing knowledge production, pedagogy, and the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. Antipode39, 99-120.
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Janelle, D.G.1997: In memoriam: William Warntz, 1922-88. Annals of the Association of American Geographers87, 723-31.
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Johnston, R.J.2008: Emrys Jones, 1920-2006. Proceedings of the British Academy153, 243-90.
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Johnston, R.J., Fairbrother, M., Hayes, D., Hoare, T. and Jones, K.2008: The Cold War and geography’s quantitative revolution: some messy reflections on Barnes’ geographical underworld. Geoforum39, 1802-806.
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Jöns, H.2008: Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centres of knowledge, 1885-1954. Journal of Historical Geography34, 338-62.
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Kates, R.W. and Burton, I.2008: Gilbert F. White, 1911-2006. Local legacies, national achievements, and global visions. Annals of the Association of American Geographers98, 479-86.
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Korf, B.2008: A neural turn? On the ontology of the geographical subject . Environment and Planning A40, 715-32.
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Kraftl, P. and Adey, P.2008: Architecture/affect/ inhabitation: geographies of being-in buildings. Annals of the Association of American Geographers98, 213-31.
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Krupar, S.2007: Pred’s workshop. Progress in Human Geography31, 817-19.
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Larkin, P.1988: Philip Larkin: collected poems (edited by A. Thwaite) . London: Marvell Press; Boston, MA: Faber and Faber.
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Lorimer, H.2005: Cultural geography: the busyness of being ‘more-than-representational .’ Progress in Human Geography29, 83-94.
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Lorimer, H. and Withers, C.W.J.2007: Geographers: lives, works, possibilities. In Lorimer, H. and Withers, C.W.J., editors, Geographers Bibliographical Studies26, 1-5.
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Maddrell, A.2008: The ‘map girls’. British women geographers’ war work, shifting gender boundaries and reflections on the history of geography . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS33, 127-48.
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Massey, D.2008: When theory meets politics. Antipode40, 492-97.
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Massey, D. and Meegan, R.2007: Foreword. In Tickell, A.,Sheppard, E.,Peck, J. and Barnes, T.J., editors, Politics and practice in economic geography , London: Sage, xi-xii.
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Matless, D., Oldfield, J. and Swain, A.2008: Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS33, 354-75.
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Megoran, N.2008: The task and responsibility of geopolitical analysis. Geopolitics13, 403-407.
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Menand, L.2001: The Metaphysical Club: a story of ideas in America. New York: Farar, Straus and Giroux.
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Mitchell, D.2008: Confessions of a desk-bound radical. Antipode40, 448-54.
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Mitchell, J.K.2008: Perspectives on alternatives: differentiation and integration in pursuit of a better fit between society and nature. Progress in Human Geography32, 451-58.
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Morrison, J.2008: Arthur Howard Robinson, 1915-2004. Annals of the Association of American Geographers98, 232-38.
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Moss, P. and Falconer Al-Hindi, K., editors 2008: Feminisms in geography: rethinking space, place, and knowledges. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
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Murphy, A.B.2008: The extraordinary career of Gilbert White. Progress in Human Geography32, 445-47.
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Netto, V.2008: Practice, space, and the duality of meaning. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space26, 359-79.
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Olsson, G.2007: The gone is not gone. Progress in Human Geography31, 823-26.
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Paglan, T.2007: Allan Pred as producer. Progress in Human Geography31, 816.
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Palm, R.2008: Recollections of Gilbert F. White in Colorado. Progress in Human Geography32, 459-61.
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Powell, R.C.2007: ‘The rigours of an arctic experiment’: the precarious authority of field practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958-1970 . Environment and Planning A39, 1794-811.
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Powell, R.C. and Vasudevan, A.2007: Commentary: geographies of experiment. Environment and Planning A39, 1790-93.
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Pred, A.1998: Interview with Trevor Barnes. Berkeley, CA, March.
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Rycroft, S.2007: Towards an historical geography of nonrepresentation: making the countercultural subject in the 1960s. Social and Cultural Geography8, 615-33.
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Samuel, R.1990a: From Raphael Samuel. The History Workshop Journal30 (Autumn), 180-84.
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- 1990b: Tim Mason: a memorial. The History Workshop Journal 30 (Autumn), 129-32.
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Schorske, C.E.1997: The new rigorism in the human sciences, 1940-60. Daedalus126, 289-309.
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Sidaway, J.D.2008: Beyond surface appearances: Les Hepple’s inspiration to critical geopolitics. Geopolitics13, 408-12.
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Sparke, M.2005: In the space of theory: postfoundational geographies of the nation-state. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Thrift, N.J.2002: The future of geography. Geoforum33, 291-98.
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- 2007: Allan Pred (1936-2007): perfect pitch. Environment and Planning A39, 1529-30.