The Second Interagency Conference on Population Geography

A theory that areal variations in economic development in the USSR (analyzed at the oblast level for most republics) depend on regional economic structure, economic policy, cultural factors, and the center-periphery dichotomy is tested via simple regression analysis, using retail sales per capita as the indicator of economic level. The independent variables are: share of urban population (for economic structure), investments (for economic policy), percentage of Moslem population (for the cultural factor), and distance from Moscow (for the periphery effect). All of these variables except distance were significant in explaining the real variation in retail sales per capita.     

历史社会地理研究刍议

本文对历史社会地理的研究内涵作了初步的勾勒,认为历史社会地理是研究历史时期各地人群的形成、分布及其变迁,研究地理因素对社会文化现象的影响,具体研究内容应包括历史时期社区及社会现象的地理研究,后者包括人群研究、风俗地理和社会变迁等。     

A Soviet Interdepartmental Coordinating Conference on the Geography of the Capitalist Countries

Following is a brief account of the proceedings of the inter-agency conference on the geography of countries outside the Communist bloc held in Moscow in May 1961. The listing of papers provides a survey of current Soviet work in this field of regional geography.     

Some Thoughts on the Subject of Historical Geography

A geographical historical geography, concerned with the history of development of the landscape, is distinguished from the historian's historical geography, dealing with the geography of countries and regions in the past and the history of development of cities and transport routes. The aim of the geographer's approach to historical geography is to characterize changes in the natural environment during historical times, to map landscapes from the point of view of their evolution and to classify and regionalize them on the basis of genetic principles. For this purpose, historical geography is to be distinguished from paleogeography, which should be limited to evolution of the landscape in prehistoric times.     

第三届中国边疆史地学术研讨会述要

由中国社会科学院中国边疆史地研究中心、云南大学西南边疆少数民族研究中心联合举办的第三届中国边疆史地学术研讨会于2006年8月7日至8日在昆明召开。此次会议的主题为中国疆域理论研究。来自北京、上海、辽宁、吉林、黑龙江、新疆、内蒙古、云南、四川、江苏等省、市、自治区的70多位专家学者出席了会议。与会代表围绕中国疆域理论的相关问题展开了广泛、深入探讨。下分专题综述如下。一、疆域理论研究疆域理论研究一直是中国边疆史地研究较为薄弱的环节,此次会议因应学科建设和发展之需,将中国疆域理论研究确定为主题,以求集合全国各地的…     

论中国历史地理研究年度综述的科学再现性

中国历史地理研究的年度综述,是中国历史地理学界总结前一年的研究成果、展望来年创新发展的纲领性报告,它的科学性、代表着中国历史地理学科的科学性。真实性与再现性,是科学性的基本特性。为了达到中国历史地理研究年度综述的科学再现性,本文提出了三个范围(时空范围、库源范围、检索词范围)、三种分析(统计分析、史地分析、比较分析)与三类结果 (未研专题、续研专题、商榷专题)的可操作方法。     

Emplacing Current Trends in Feminist Historical Geography

In this article, the authors assess some of the major trends within anglophonic feminist historical geography appearing in the decade since Rose & Ogborn called for the development of an explicitly feminist approach to the subfield. In examining the 'geography' of feminist historical geographies, three main categories of scholarship are evident: a 'new' historical geography of North America, portions of which are informed by feminist theories and methods; a British school of feminist historical geography with a focus on the discipline of geography, geographical knowledges and colonialism/imperialism; and feminist historical geography interventions in cultural politics of space and place. A diversity of feminist methods and epistemologies appears across the literature. In an attempt to avoid a reading of these trends as better or worse approximations of historical 'progress', the authors conceptualize them as emplaced within a number of specific social and spatial contexts. Most recent work is concerned with the production of gender differences as they are worked through economic, political, cultural and sexual differences in the creation of past geographies. The continued need simply to write women into historical narratives and geographies, however, is also evident. The work of feminist historical geography questions and challenges geography's masculinist historical record.