G41 An interview with Dr. Sitanshu Mookerjee

Tireless traveller, well-known representative of India at international meetings, Mookerjee here gives an account of his own career and education within the British colonial school system. He comments on geography as a discipline in India, but the main emphasis rests on Mookerjee's personal values and attitudes toward academic life in general.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at University of Geneva, Switzerland, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video.

G42 The molding of Geographic Awareness: An interview with Professor Peter Nash


Here is a stirring account of how childhood milieux and life experiences can influence the thought and practice of a geographer. Nash, renowned for his pioneering work in applied geography, particularly in urban and regional planning in North America, here describes the impact of a recent visit to Frankfurt and the places associated with his childhood in Germany and France. There is a free dialogue about his hopes regarding geography's potential contribution to the resolution of humanity's problems in the future.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at: University of Geneva, Switzerland, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video, Transcript.

G43 Geographical Synthesis: Common Ground for Physical and Human Geography - An interview with Dr. J. I. S. Zonneveld

Is there a meeting-ground for geology and poetry, for hardnosed scientists and sensitive artists? Zonneveld describes his early curiosities about nature and the world map, his image of different civilizations, and love of form. Trained as a geomorphologist, he tells of the war years in Holland and the attendant challenge to develop a scientific approach to the appraisal and use of natural resources. Throughout he has maintained a keen humanistic sense, and argues the necessity for a "geographical synthesis" which would allow for the complementarity and mutual enrichment of poetic and scientific insight into the interactions of humanity and nature.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video

G44 Environmental Perception in Arid Lands: An interview with Dr. Les Heathcote

A pioneer in the field of environmental perception, a phase of geographic enquiry which witnessed significant progress during the 1960's, Heathcote here tells of his educational background in England and his first studies in Nebraska during the late 1950's. Subsequently Heathcote studied perceptions of arid and semi-arid environments in Australia where he now lives. He expresses convictions about the necessity for rigour and inductive methods in perception research.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video.

G45 Geography and developing countries: An interview with Professor Akin Mabogunje

This first African President of the International Geographical Union here describes his background education in the discipline. Mabogunje's central concern for developing countries emerges sa focus of this conversation, and he frankly shares opinion on current options available to researchers concerned. He offers critical comments on policies adopted to date, and points towards alternatives.

Interviewer: Torsten Hagerstrand
Language: English
Recorded at: Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video, Transcript.

G46 Geography in Mexico: An interview with Dr. Maria Teresa Gutierrez de MacGregor

A hasty conversation with Maria Teresa Gutierrez de MacGregor, moments after her election as Vice-President of the International Geographical Union in Paris, 1984. MacGregor tells briefly about her own education in Mexico, England and France, her perecptions of geography in Mexico, and her hopes for the discipline's potential contribution to development planning, particularly in her own country.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at: Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video.

G47 Geography and Social Planning in Poland: An interview with Dr. Maria Ciechocinska

Reflections on the dream and reality of social planning policy in postwar Poland are offered here by Ciechocinska who has spent her career thus far as researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She suggests alternative horizons for applied geography in the future, noting especially the need for an approach which is based on local studies, sensitivity to the complexity of micro situations, rather then the conventional approach which is based on the "rationality" of national standards.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at  Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video.

G48 Geography, Recreation, and Tourism: An interview with Professor J.T. Coppock

World traveller, keen observer of local detail in cultural landscapes, Coppock has been responsible for initiating major Atlas projects and the establishment of information systems in England and Scotland. Here he explains the genesis of his recent work on tourism and recreation - a field which allows him to combine two central concerns: for measurement and information-recording on the one hand, and ongoing interaction with public interests on the other.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at Cite Universitaire, Paris, France, by Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak, August 1984.
Availability: Video.

G49 An interview with Professor Elisabeth Lichtenberger

Born into a Hungarian family, Lichtenberger grew up in a culturally-diverse setting, and already as a high-school student showed enthusiasm for fields such as mathematics and accounting. In this recording she describes her training in geomorphology, her early field research in the Carinthian Alps, and then her studies of housing in Vienna. She offers guidelines for young geographers today, and notes especially the challenge facing women in academic life.

Interviewer: Anne Buttimer
Language: English
Recorded at: Vienna, Austria, by Dr. Heinz Fassman, September 1984.
Availability: Video unavailable at present.

P50 Excursion Printemps 1985

A group of geographers from Lund University - teachers, researchers, and students - made a geographical excursion to France in March 1985. Focussing intially on Paris and planning problems within the Paris region, they subsequently travelled through Brittany under the competent guidance of Pierre Flatres, Professor at Universite de Paris II, native as well as expert on that region. Highlights of the excursion included receptions by the Swedish Ambassador of Paris and the Director of Planning in Rennes, and most especially the various opportunities afforded for interaction and discussion with French students and colleagues.

Interviewer: Stefan Anderberg
Language: English
Recorded by Stefan Anderberg and Kurt-Ake Lindhe, Tetra Pak Studios, Lund, Sweden, 1985.
Availability: Video only.