商品描述
An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University's geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional politics. Let Geography Die tells the little-known and oft-misunderstood story of geographical research and education at Harvard University. In investigative fashion, Alison Mountz and Kira Williams unearth the personal and institutional secrets that drove the sudden closure of Harvard's geography program at the precise moment that it reached its apex. At the heart of this narrative are the hidden personal lives of the queer men recruited to build the geography program--the same ones who were later blamed for its demise. Chief among these figures is Derwent Whittlesey, who eventually became Harvard's last lone geography professor, once the program he had so successfully built was closed around him.
The book weaves together several histories at once: the enactment of homophobic policies under McCarthyism designed to purge queer people from university campuses and government offices; a university president with little regard for the social sciences on a personal mission to dissolve geographic education; fierce, if failed, university politicking to rescue and then resuscitate the program; personal queer lives hidden in plain sight on the edge of campus; and two contemporary queer political geographers on a mission to memorialize the queer people blamed for society's ills.
Let Geography Die exposes the truth behind this important story--as well as its wider haunting of an entire discipline 75 years later--while also restoring the humanity of the central characters involved, especially Derwent Whittlesey.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《讓地理消亡》探討了哈佛大學地理學程在二十世紀中期因為恐同和更廣泛的機構政治而關閉的調查歷史。這本書講述了哈佛大學地理研究和教育的鮮為人知且常被誤解的故事。艾莉森·蒙茲（Alison Mountz）和基拉·威廉斯（Kira Williams）以調查的方式揭示了驅動哈佛地理學程在其巔峰時期突然關閉的個人和機構秘密。這個敘事的核心是那些被招募來建立地理學程的酷兒男性的隱秘個人生活——正是這些人後來被指責為該學程衰亡的罪魁禍首。其中最重要的人物是德文·惠特爾西（Derwent Whittlesey），他最終成為哈佛最後一位孤獨的地理學教授，當他所成功建立的學程在他周圍關閉時。
這本書同時編織了幾段歷史：在麥卡錫主義下實施的恐同政策，旨在清除大學校園和政府辦公室中的酷兒人士；一位對社會科學漠不關心的大學校長，個人使命是解散地理教育；激烈但失敗的大學政治，試圖拯救並復興該學程；在校園邊緣隱藏的個人酷兒生活；以及兩位當代酷兒政治地理學者，致力於紀念那些被指責為社會病灶的酷兒人士。《讓地理消亡》揭示了這個重要故事背後的真相——以及它在75年後對整個學科的持續影響——同時也恢復了相關主要人物的 humanity，特別是德文·惠特爾西。
作者簡介
Alison Mountz is Professor of Geography and Vice-Principal of Research & Innovation at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is the author or coauthor of award-winning books, including
Seeking Asylum; Boats, Borders, and Bases; and
The Death of Asylum. Kira Williams is a political geographer and a data scientist at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research focuses on international migration, borders, political geography, analytical methodology, and statistics. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and an edited volume.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
艾莉森·蒙茲（Alison Mountz）是多倫多大學士嘉堡校區的地理學教授及研究與創新副校長。她是多部獲獎書籍的作者或合著者，包括《尋求庇護（Seeking Asylum）》、《船隻、邊界與基地（Boats, Borders, and Bases）》以及《庇護的死亡（The Death of Asylum）》。
基拉·威廉斯（Kira Williams）是多倫多大學士嘉堡校區的政治地理學家及數據科學家。她的研究專注於國際移民、邊界、政治地理學、分析方法論及統計學。她已發表超過20篇經過同行評審的文章、書籍章節及編輯著作。
