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| Annales de Géographie | |
|---|---|
| Title | Annales de Géographie |
| Discipline | Geography |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Armand Colin |
| Country | France |
| History | 1891–present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
Annales de Géographie is a French scholarly journal founded in 1891 that has published research and commentary on geographical topics related to regions, explorers, states, cities, and institutions. The journal has intersected with the careers of figures associated with École normale supérieure, École pratique des hautes études, Collège de France, Société de Géographie, and linked debates involving Paul Vidal de la Blache, Jules Sion, Gustave Eiffel, and others. Its pages have addressed subjects connected to Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lyon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Congo Free State, and multiple colonial administrations.
The journal was established during the Third Republic era influenced by networks including Paul Vidal de la Blache, Émile Levasseur, Jules Sion, Lucas Raymond, and publishers such as Armand Colin. Early issues responded to events like the Fashoda Incident, the Franco-Prussian War aftermath, and debates over French colonial expansion in Indochina, Algeria, and Madagascar. During the First World War the journal engaged with topics tied to Battle of the Somme, Gallipoli Campaign, and geopolitical shifts involving Ottoman Empire territories, while interwar volumes reflected tensions after the Treaty of Versailles and diplomatic struggles surrounding League of Nations mandates. Under the German occupation of France in the Second World War, contributors navigated censorship alongside references to Vichy France and Free France. Post-1945 issues incorporated perspectives linked to United Nations trusteeship debates, decolonization in Algerian War, Indochina War, and Cold War alignments with mentions of NATO and Warsaw Pact contexts.
The editorial line has historically combined human geography tied to figures like Paul Vidal de la Blache with physical geography informed by comparisons to research from Alexander von Humboldt, Friedrich Ratzel, and later interactions with work by Carl Sauer, Richard Hartshorne, and David Harvey. Contributions have ranged across urban studies referencing Haussmann, transport history involving Chemins de fer de l'État and Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, rural analyses connected to Pays de la Loire and Bretagne, and regional monographs on Amazon Basin, Sahel, Sahara Desert, Himalayas, and Andes. Editorial boards have included academics from Sorbonne University, Université de Lille, Université de Strasbourg, and researchers affiliated with institutions such as Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, CNRS, INED, and IFREMER. The scope embraces cartographic work referencing the Institut géographique national, historical geography linked to Marc Bloch, and environmental studies that dialogue with scholarship on Yellow River, Mississippi River, Nile River, and Ganges River basins.
Published by Armand Colin and circulated through networks involving bookstores in Paris, libraries at Bibliothèque nationale de France, and university subscriptions at Oxford University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, Columbia University, the journal has been available in print and later in digital repositories used by Gallica and university presses. Distribution channels connected to international academic conferences such as meetings of the Société de Géographie, the International Geographical Union, and collaborations with museums like the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle aided reach to readers in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Periodic special issues focused on exhibitions at institutions like the Musée de l'Homme and events such as the Exposition universelle.
Prominent contributors have included Paul Vidal de la Blache, Lucien Gallois, Gaston Bonnin, Marc Bloch, Jean Brunhes, Octave Mannoni, Albert Demangeon, Pierre Gourou, André Siegfried, Yves Lacoste, Fernand Braudel, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Georges Duby, Fernand Oury, Henri Lefebvre, Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre-Georges Castex, François Perroux, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Bayart, François Dagognet, Paul Claval, Jean Tricart, Christian Grataloup, Denis Vidal, Philippe Pinchemel, Roger Brunet, Jacques Ancel, Jean Gottmann, Michel Foucher, Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Jacques Le Goff, Élisée Reclus, Alexandre Vialatte, Émile Durkheim, Georges Vigarello, and Pierre Bourdieu. Seminal articles addressed themes such as regionalization studies on Brittany, urban morphology of Paris, colonial administration in Congo Free State, cartographic innovations tied to Cassini map traditions, and empirical reports from expeditions to Sahara Desert, Amazon Basin, and Antarctica led by explorers associated with Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Paul-Émile Victor.
Scholars in institutions like Sorbonne University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Columbia University, Princeton University, and Université de Montréal have debated the journal's influence on disciplinary shifts from regional geography toward analytical frameworks championed by David Harvey, Milton Santos, Doreen Massey, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Saskia Sassen. The journal has been cited in historiographies of French colonialism, environmental studies on Mediterranean Sea change, urban theory about Île-de-France, and policy discussions in ministries such as Ministry of Overseas France. Critiques emerged during decolonization debates related to Algerian War positions and later rounds of methodological contestation involving positivist and Marxist geographers linked to Annales School dialogues and the work of Fernand Braudel.
Archives and indexes preserving the run include holdings at Bibliothèque nationale de France, digitization initiatives in Gallica, catalogues at WorldCat, and microform collections in research libraries at Harvard University Library, Bodleian Libraries, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, and Library of Congress. Abstracting services and citation trackers in academic ecosystems at Web of Science, Scopus, and university repositories provide metadata, while thematic bibliographies in institutions such as CNRS and INRIA help researchers locate articles. Special collections related to editorial correspondence are found in archives of Université de Paris, École normale supérieure, and private papers deposited with Archives nationales.
Category:Geography journals