Call for JHG Virtual Special Issue - Liquid worlds: historical geographies and cartographies of the sea
Liquid Worlds: historical geographies and Cartographies of the Sea
Intent: The Journal of Historical Geography editors invite you to submit a proposal for a paper to be included in the virtual special issue addressing “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea”. Seas, oceans and liquid spaces have always constituted a challenge to geographical representations of the world based on terrestrial models and the principles that we know today as `cartographic reason', based on linear scales, geometric projections and allegedly objective mapping. Yet, seas and oceans have also been a vehicle for what has been called modernity, world-system, and later globalisation.
JHG has a strong tradition of publishing papers on historical geographies of seas and oceans (see list of references). In their editorial published in 2006, Lambert, Martins, and Ogborn highlighted three ways to place seas and oceans as a central concern for historical geographers. Geographies of seas could encourage research inquiries beyond the local and national and also attend to the relationships between human and natural worlds. It could open up new experimental dimensions and new forms of representation. Finally, it could be related to global political economy and material geographies, exploring social and spatial differences.
Drawing on these previous paths, this special issue aims at addressing critical historical geographies of seas, oceans and liquid spaces as well as histories of geography and cartography related to these geographical objects, understood both as metaphors and as material places. We are additionally interested in seeing more on the relationship between historical cases and current debates on seas and oceans that are cognizant of critical geopolitics, the material turn and relational ontologies (Steinberg 2022; Peters and Steinberg 2019). We especially value critical contributions that question traditional and colonial understandings of the sea as a vehicle for colonisation and ‘civilisation’. Likewise, we appreciate critical views on the sea understood as a frontier, which can seek dialogues with current scholarship on critical geopolitics, critical map histories, internationalism, anti-racism and decoloniality.
Format: we encourage papers across the journal’s full range of formats. These include traditional research papers, shorter interventions and engaged research “historical geography at large” reflections.
Process: the papers will go through the journal’s standard peer review process. As soon as papers are accepted, they will be published online (with DOI) and then allocated to the next available journal issue for formal publication. In Summer 2024, we will collate the papers and launch them as a “virtual special issue” with an online editorial introduction.
Deadlines: expression of interest (title and 250-word abstract) should be forwarded to the special issue editors Professor Federico Ferretti (federico.ferretti6@unibo.it [mailto:federico.ferretti6@unibo.it] )
and Professor André Reyes Novaes (andrereyesnovase@gmail.com [mailto:andrereyesnovase@gmail.com] ) by 1 September 2023. Paper submission by 5 January 2024. Feel free to contact editors for advice and guidance. We especially encourage early career scholars and scholars from underrepresented regions to submit papers and we offer enhanced editorial support to these authors.
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References
Anderson K. (2019) The hydrographer's narrative: Writing global knowledge in the 1830s Journal of Historical Geography 63, 48-60.
Bravo M.T. (2009) Voices from the sea ice: the reception of climate impact narratives Journal of Historical Geography 35, 256-278.
Connell J. (2003) Island dreaming: The contemplation of Polynesian paradise Journal of Historical Geography 29, 554-581.
Connery C. There was No More Sea: the supersession of the ocean, from the bible to cyberspace Journal of Historical Geography 32, 494-511.
Dodds K., Royle S.A. (2003) The historical geography of islands. Introduction: Rethinking islands Journal of Historical Geography 29, 487-498.
Doel R.E., Levin T.J., Marker M.K. (2006) Extending modern cartography to the ocean depths: military patronage, Cold War priorities, and the Heezen-Tharp mapping project, 1952-1959 Journal of Historical Geography 32, 605–626.
Driver F., Martins L. (2006) Shipwreck and salvage in the tropics: the case of HMS Thetis, 1830-1854 Journal of Historical Geography 32, 539-562.
Gray S. (2017) Fuelling mobility: coal and Britain's naval power, c. 1870–1914 Journal of Historical Geography 58, 92-103
Fletcher, R. S. G. (2015) Between the devil of the desert and the deep blue sea’: re-orienting Kuwait, c.1900–1940 Journal of Historical Geography 50, 51-65.
Hones S., Endo Y. (2006) History, distance and text: narratives of the 1853-1854 Perry expedition to Japan Journal of Historical Geography 32, 563-578.
Graf von Hardenberg W. (2020) Measuring zero at sea: on the delocalization and abstraction of the geodetic framework Journal of Historical Geography 68, 11-20.
Jones E. (2020) Space, sound and sedition on the Royal Naval ship, 1756-1815 Journal of Historical Geography 70, 65-73.
Karatay O. (2011) On the origins of the name for the 'Black Sea’ Journal of Historical Geography 37, 1-11.
Keeling A.M. (2007) Charting marine pollution science: oceanography on Canada's Pacific coast, 1938-1970 Journal of Historical Geography 33, 403-428.
Kothari U. (2021) Seafarers, the mission and the archive: Affective, embodied and sensory traces of sea-mobilities in Melbourne, Australia Journal of Historical Geography 72, 73-84.
Lambert D., Martins L., Ogborn M. (2006) Currents, visions and voyages: historical geographies of the sea Journal of Historical Geography 32, 479-493.
Legg, S. (2020) Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932 Journal of Historical Geography 68, 21-32.
Martin P.R. (2020) Indigenous tales of the Beaufort Sea: Arctic exploration and the circulation of geographical knowledge Journal of Historical Geography 67, 24-35.
Matless D. (2018) Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic Journal of Historical Geography 62, 71-84.
Millar S.L. (2013) Science at sea: Soundings and instrumental knowledge in British Polar expedition narratives, c.1818-1848 Journal of Historical Geography 42, 77-87.
Peters, K. and P. Steinberg (2019) The ocean in excess: Towards a more-than-wet ontology. Dialogues in Human Geography 9, 293-307.
Ryan J.R. 'Our home on the ocean': Lady Brassey and the voyages of the Sunbeam, 1874-1887 1 Journal of Historical Geography 32, 579-604.
Schulenburg A.H. (2003) 'Island of the blessed': Eden, Arcadia and the picturesque in the textualizing of St Helena Journal of Historical Geography 29, 535-553.
Royle S.A. (2003) Perilous shipwreck, misery and unhappiness: The British military at Tristan da Cunha, 1816-1817 Journal of Historical Geography 29, 516-534.
Stafford J. (2017) A sea view: perceptions of maritime space and landscape in accounts of nineteenth-century colonial steamship travel Journal of Historical Geography 55, 69-81.
Steinberg, P. (2022) Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography Political Geography 96, 102524.
