Progress in historical geography II: desperately seeking connections (again) – the mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial

Daniel Clayton

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Progress in historical geography II: desperately seeking connections (again) – the mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial

Daniel Clayton^*

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Historical geography’s core concern with connections between the past and present is currently expressed in an age marked by a desperate search for connections. The report considers how historical geography is linked to this scene through various ‘return of history’ ripostes and via the travails of what is described as its ‘pluriverse’. Three problematics are then identified: ‘the mendacious’ (about the truth of history); ‘the micrological’ (concern with biography and ‘small things’); and ‘the mercurial’ (regarding structural problems of violence and hope). Much for the subdiscipline now hinges on how the words freedom, truth, violence, and hope are treated.

Original language	English
Number of pages	16
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Volume	OnlineFirst
Early online date	23 Apr 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325251334706
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Apr 2025

Keywords

Freedom
Hope
Pluriverse
Truth
Violence
History

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Historical geography I: doom, danger, disregard – towards political historical geographies
Clayton, D., 12 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Progress in Human Geography. OnlineFirst, 17 p.
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