Hammett, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-9607-6901 (2025) Past, present, future: the RGS‐IBG political geography research group within British political geography. Area. e70004. ISSN 0004-0894
Abstract
This paper critically examines the history of the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) within the shifting landscape of political geography as a sub-discipline within British academic geography. While the sub-discipline has evolved almost beyond recognition in the past 50 years, from the rehabilitation of political geography and geopolitics in the 1960s through the political turn to the present, what has been the role of the flagship national study group in this journey? Reflecting on this question provides an opportunity to consider how the RGS-IBG research group has previously and can continue to contribute to and advance the (re)birth of British political geography while reflecting more broadly on the growing challenges to research groups—which rely upon volunteers undertaking ‘service roles’ for the benefit of the discipline—in the face of increasing workload pressures in the sector.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Area published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | history of the discipline; political geography; political turn; professional service; research group; Royal Geographical Society |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Geography and Planning |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2025 14:33 |
Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2025 14:33 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/area.70004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224788 |