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Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice

Leshem, Noam; Pinkerton, Alasdair

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Alasdair Pinkerton



Abstract

The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a malleable practice that can be critically appropriated and manipulated in ways that retain and further the critique of violence and knowledge production, while also experimenting with creative alternatives to some of its conventions.

Citation

Leshem, N., & Pinkerton, A. (2019). Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice. Progress in Human Geography, 43(3), 496-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518768413

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Apr 18, 2018
Publication Date Jun 30, 2019
Deposit Date Jun 13, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Progress in Human Geography
Print ISSN 0309-1325
Electronic ISSN 1477-0288
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 43
Issue 3
Pages 496-514
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518768413

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Leshem, Noam & Pinkerton, Alasdair (2019). Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice. Progress in Human Geography 43(3): 496-514. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.





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