G21 An interview with Professor Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier

This first female geographer at the Sorbonne tells of her early training in geomorphology and the classical French tradition, her work with Sorre, research on world population and the geography of health, her initiatives within the International Geographical Union, and her efforts to render geography useful for the elucidation and solutions of social and environmental problems. She also offers some reflections on the challenge facing the discipline of geography in the future.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English, French.
Recorded at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, March 1981.
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 G22 An interview with Professor Peter Scott 

Global traveller, Vice-President of the International Geographical Union, and now Vice-Chancellor at the University of Tasmania, Scott shares some reflections here on his education in England, and his career experiences in South Africa and Australia. He discusses some of the strengths and weakness of applied geography in the context of urban and regional development and offers counsel on issues of specialization versus integration within the discipline today.

Interviewer: Torsten Hägerstrand 
Language: English
Recorded at: University of Lund, Sweden, June, 1981.
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G23 An interview with Professor Robert W. Kates

This noted winner of the 1981 McArthur Foundation Award discusses his early life and career history. He then describes his current research interests in technological hazards and environmental theory. A fascinating insight into the thought and practice of a leading American geographer.


Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at: Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Mass., USA, November 1981.
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G24 Waterloo Discussion

Professor Peter Nash poses questions to Leonard Guelke and Anne Buttimer regarding their attitudes toward geography. All three engage in discussion and debate on issues of knowledge and understanding, and the strengths and limitations of humanistic approaches of recent years, exploring particularly phenomenological and idealist orientations.

Language: English
Recorded at: University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, November 1981.
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G25 On the roots of Transformation

This two-hour discussion between Richard Chorley, Michael Chisholm, Torsten Hägerstrand, and Anne Buttimer sheds light on the transformation which occured within geography during the 1960's. Each describes his/her perceptions of the changes occurring during that decade, and then debate on issues of general versus specialized approaches, theoretical versus applied work, and the relationships between geography and other fields.

Language: English
Recorded at: Cambridge University, England, March 1982.
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G26 An interview with Professor G.J. Van den Berg

This Dutch geographer who took pioneering steps toward encouraging public participation in planning in the 1950's here describes his education and the philosophy underlying the field of planology in Holland. He also speaks of his experiences in Ireland and speculates on the prospects for rural and community development which is not only sensitive to cultural differences but also elicits the creative engagement and co-responsibility needed for human development.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at: University College Cork, Ireland, March 1982.
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G27 An interview with Dr. Saul B. Cohen

President of Queens College of the City University of New York and formerly Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Cohen here tells of his early education, the values underlying his practice of geography, and his involvement in civic affairs. He reflects on the dream and reality of federally sponsored projects designed tp reform education curricula and emphasizes the importance of networking among scholars for sustaining creative effort within academic environments.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at Queens College of the City University of New York, USA, April 1982.
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G28 An interview with Professor Fred B. Kniffen (Transcript Only)

Travel and exploration played a large role in shaping the geographic consciousness of this renowned scholar from Sauer's School in Berkeley. Kniffen explains the genesis of his own particular style of cultural geography.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, April 1982.
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G29 An interview with Professor Speridiao Faissol

Brazilian urban-regional geographer and Vice-President of the International Geographical Union, Faissol here describes his home background in Minaes Geraesm and his education and later PhD work at Syracuse, New York, with Dr. Preston James. His dissertation work on the central Brazilian plateau involved him in research on the location of the new capital, Brazilia. Faissol reflects on the dream and reality of that capital and the various planning efforts for integrated economic and political development in this vast and diversified land.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, April 1982.
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G30 An interview with Professor Joseph A. Russell (Transcript Only)

A pioneer in the field of applied geography, Russell discusses his life long crusade to couple geography with the worlds of industry and public affairs. One of the first people to develop keys for interpreting air photographs, he played a major role in uniting geographic concepts with practical military operations during World War II. His peace time work at the Ford Motor Company later enabled him to initiate the first academic course in industrial location and marketing at Syracuse University. He discusses the influence of Mahatma Gandhi on his life and greatest career accomplishments.

Interviewer: Arthur Getis
Language: English
Recorded at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, July 1982.
Availability: Transcript.