Barnett, Clive
(1998).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.1998.00239.x |
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Abstract
This paper argues for a theoretically informed critique of the formation of modern geographical knowledge which focuses upon the written networks through which knowledge is produced and circulated. Drawing on deconstruction and colonial discourse theory, the paper presents a reading of the Royal Geographical Society’s published record of nineteenth-century African exploration. This discourse posits a racially unmarked subject-position as the condition of scientific discussion. The Royal Geographical Society’s geographical knowledge is shown to have been formed through the effacement of alternative subject-positions and the appropriation of other ways of knowing. It is suggested that closer attention to the discursive structures of written networks of knowledge might inform a more nuanced understanding of the reproduction of disciplined knowledge.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 1998 Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) |
| ISSN: | 1475-5661 |
| Funders: | ESRC |
| Keywords: | Africa;colonial discourse;deconstruction;discipline;Royal Geographical Society;writing |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Geography |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 24192 |
| Depositing User: | Clive Barnett |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2011 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2012 17:22 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/24192 |
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