摘要
本文概要地回顾和评述英国历史地理学家、爱丁堡大学教授查尔斯·威瑟斯(Charles W.J.Withers)的研究脉络和学术成就,并讨论他在晚近以来的英国历史地理学中的角色。自20世纪80年代初开展独立研究之后,威瑟斯的研究重心经历了从区域历史地理(以苏格兰研究为主),到"地理知识历史地理学"的重大转向。对于地理知识以及相关的仪器、书刊、组织、人员等的关注,在挖掘英国地理学丰厚的历史资源上取得了令人瞩目的成功。这既是对地理学史的重新书写,也在传统的历史地理学之外拓展了新的研究领域,笔者将其称为英国历史地理学的"地理知识转向"。威瑟斯藉此参与和引领了英国历史地理学的最新进展。本文也对中国历史地理学研究现状提出扼要的反思。
This paper aims to provide a succinct survey and review on the academic works of Charles W. J. Withers,professor of historical geography in the University of Edinburgh. Since the beginning of his career in the early 1980 s,his research has undergone a dramatic shift of focus from regional historical geography（ Scottish studies in particular） to the historical geography of geographical knowledge. This historical geography of geographical knowledge,as well as those of related books,instruments,institutions,and personnel,has been exceptionally successful in utilizing the rich historical resources of British geography. It not only reshapes the historiography of British geography,but also marks a departure from the traditional historical geography,a move that I shall term as the＂geographical knowledge turn＂. In so doing,Withers partook and championed the recent progresses in British historical geography. This paper also briefly reflects on the situation of Chinese historical geography.
作者
丁雁南
DING Yan-nan(Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China)
出处
《云南大学学报（社会科学版）》
北大核心
2018年第4期71-78,共8页
The Journal of Yunnan University:Social Sciences Edition
基金
复旦大学引进人才科研启动经费(项目号:JIH3142101)的阶段性研究成果
关键词
查尔斯·威瑟斯
历史地理学
地理知识转向
地理学史
英国
Charles W. J. Withers
historical geography
geographical knowledge turn
histotry of geography
United Kingdom
