Human Geography Timeline – Flashcards
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1950s-1970s
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Buchanan: A VUW radical Colonial impacts on underdevelopment Marxism 'Pacific Viewpoint' journal, environmental issues Southeast Asia, China
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1953
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Geography started being taught as a separate subject at VUW
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1980s Bertram
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Geographer and economist Debate on effects of neoliberalism
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1980s Murray & Overton
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Political economy (non-Marxist) Globalization and international trade Development, links with corrupted and/or inefficient state government
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1984
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Reform in university driven by political turnover following Labour's election victory Private markets and rejection of state activism and regulation
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1994-2000
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Cultural turn Honours research in Feminist Geography (1995) and Queer Geography (1998) Politics, social geography, (post)colonialism Discourse, knowledge production, applied development geography
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1994
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Sara Kindon Spatial science: urban and population geography, economic development, rural change Regional geography/political economy: Pacific Basin, Southeast Asia, China
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1995
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Paul Moseley Environmental Studies major Development Studies Masters 'Changing Places' (1992 and 1996) Streamline Geography department
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2000-2007
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Regions-themes Return to political economy, new focus on political ecology GIS Publications: 'Geographies of Globalization' (Murray); 'Sexuality and the Stories of Indigenous People (Hutchings, Maori)
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2007
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John Overton Maori/indigenous research GIS Economics, politics, development
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2008-2014
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Increasing eclecticism and epistemological tolerance New staff New geographical perspectives
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2012
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Staff twice the size as it was in 1994 Diverse ethnicities 6/16 staff were women (with first female Physical Geography appoint) Younger staff
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2014
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Focal areas: 1. Latin America and Asia Pacific study and research 2. Population, migration and resettlement Methodological contributions (participatory) Theoretical and political orientations
