No longer youthful, but not yet middle-aged: thirty years of the Journal of Cultural Geography

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Notes

1. See the commentaries by Miles Richardson and Richard Symanski, and the reply by James Duncan in Annals of the Association of American Geographers,1981, 71 (2), 284–291.

2. I am grateful to Kent Mathewson for providing this explanation and for pointing out that many traditional cultural geographers circa 1980 would likely have characterized the “good work doesn't need justification” stance as anti-elitist in that they were more interested in doing cultural geography than debating the nature of it—a position very much akin to concerns Sauer that expressed toward his article “The Morphology of Landscape” and when he chose not to respond to Hartshorne's invitations to debate in the late 1930s. It is interesting to note, however, that today many scholars characterize the “good work doesn't need justification” stance as strongly elitist because it assumes that the researcher knows what's best and this position of authority absolves him or her of accountability to others.

3. It is possible that the Monk and Hanson (1982) manuscript went to press prior to the publication of the issues of the JCG that contained the article by Andrews and the commentary by Weightman. Even so, this does not alleviate concerns about their sampling techniques.

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Alyson L. Greiner

Alyson L. Greiner is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-4073