Anne Buttimer

Anne Buttimer(31 October 1938 – 15 July 2017) was an Irishgeographer.She was emeritus professor of geography atUniversity College, Dublin.

Anne Buttimer
Born	(1938-10-31)October 31, 1938 Cork,Ireland
Died	July 15, 2017(2017-07-15)(aged 78) Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	University College Cork University of Washington
Scientific career
Fields	Geography
Institutions	Seattle University Grenoble Alpes University University of Texas Lund University Clark University

Background

Buttimer grew up in Ireland with strong Catholic convictions. She studied atUniversity College Cork(BA,geography,Latinand mathematics 1957) and theNational University of Ireland(master's in geography, 1959). After this, she joined theDominican Orderand moved to Seattle. She remained in the order for 17 years.

Her PhD in geography was from theUniversity of Washingtonin 1965 and concerned conceptual and methodological foundations for social geography.She was a postdoctoral fellow at theUniversity of Louvainand from 1966 to 1968 worked as an assistant professor at theSeattle University.

She spent two years at theUniversity of Glasgowworking in the social geography of housing, before joiningClark Universityfrom 1970 to 1981, where she firmly established a reputation as a social geographer and social scientist. In 1982 she was based in Lund as a research fellow of the Swedish Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, then briefly a professor at theUniversité d'Ottawa(1989–91) before moving toUniversity College Dublin1991–2003. A multilingual scholar,she has also held numerous short-term positions in Europe.

She was president of theIGU2000–2004 and the first geographer to be vice-president ofAcademia Europaeain 2012.

Scholarship

In the early part of her career, the quantitative revolution occupied social scientists, and Buttimer trained in this tradition at Washington before moving beyond it towards philosophical themes at the intersection of the bio-physical and human sciences. These shaped her research directions in spirituality, social geography, and particularly the humanistic documentation of everyday life experiences. These areas served as a model for the ways in which geographers can bridge the theory-practice divide.

Her contributions have been to history and philosophy of science, urban and social geography, migration and identity, environmental experience, nature and culture, environment and sustainable development, and the human dimensions of global change.

She chaired an EU-funded research network on sustainable development that had a significant influence on EU policy debates; her work provided important insights into the ways in which communication between scientists and planners can be improved.

She authored many books and articles on society and space, urban planning, the history of ideas, and environmental policy. She is perhaps best known for herThe Practice of Geography(1983) and for combining French, Swedish, and anglophone academic traditions in the study of humanity and environment.

In 2014, she was awarded theVautrin Lud Prize,colloquially called the "Nobel Prize for Geography".

She died on 15 July 2017.

Recognition

• UCC alumni award 2016, Conference of Irish Geographers.
• Vautrin Lud Prize,2014.
• Lifetime achievement honours,Association of American Geographers,2014.
• Docteur, honoris causa,Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble(the first woman recipient).
• Wahlberg Medal,Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography,2009.
• Doctor honoris causa,Tartu University2004.
• Fellow,Royal Irish Academy2000–.
• Royal Scottish Geographical SocietyMillennium Award, 2000.
• Doctor, honoris causa,University of Joensuu,1999.
• Royal Geographical SocietyMurchison Award,1997.
• Ellen Churchill Sempleaward,Department of Geography, University of Kentucky,1991.
• Association of American Geographers, Honors Award 1986.
• Fulbright Hays Visiting Professor in Social Ecology to Sweden, 1976.

Publications

• Buttimer, A. and T. Mels. 2006.By Northern Lights. On the Making of Geography in Sweden.London: Ashgate Press.
• Buttimer A. (ed.) 2001.Sustainable Landscapes and Lifeways: Issues of Scale and Appropriateness.Cork University Press.
• Buttimer, A., S. Brunn and U. Wardenga. 2000.Text and image: Social construction of regional knowledges.Leipzig: Inst.für Länderkunde.
• Buttimer, A. and Wallin, L. 1999.Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective.Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• Buttimer, A. 1994.Geography and the Human Spirit.The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Buttimer, A. 1991.Land-Life-Lumber-Leisure.Ottawa, Ont.: Royal Society of Canada.
• Buttimer, A. 1990. "Geography, humanism and global concern."Annals of the Association of American Geographers80: 1–33.
• Buttimer, A.. 1988.The wake of Erasmus. Saints, scholars and studia in Mediaeval Norden.Lund: Lund University Press.
• Buttimer, A. and T. Hägerstrand. 1988.Geographers of Norden. Reflections on Career Experiences.Lund University Press.
• Buttimer, A. 1983.Creativity and context.Lund Studies in Human Geography, Ser. B, No. 50.
• Buttimer, A. 1983.The practice of geography.London: Longman. (Russian. 1990)
• Buttimer, A. and D. Seamon. 1980.The human experience of place and space.London: Croom Helm Publishers.
• Buttimer, A. 1976. "Grasping the dynamism of lifeworld."Annals of the Association of American Geographers66: 277–292.
• Buttimer, A. 1974.Values in Geography.Washington, D.C., Commission on College Geography.
• Buttimer, A. 1971.Society and Milieu in the French Geographic Tradition.Chicago: Rand McNally. (Spanish, 1971)

Further reading

• Buttimer, Anne (2001). "Home—Reach—Journey". In Moss, Pamela (ed.).Placing Autobiography in Geography.Syracuse University Press. pp. 22–40.ISBN978-0-81562-848-4.
• Maddrell, Avril (2009)."An interview with Anne Buttimer: an autobiographical window on geographical thought and practice 1965–2005".Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.16(6): 741–765.doi:10.1080/09663690903279179.S2CID143839833.
• Mels, Tom (2010). "Anne Buttimer". In Hubbard, Phil; Kitchin, Rob (eds.).Key Thinkers on Space and Place(2nd ed.). Sage. pp. 91–97.ISBN978-1-84920-102-5.here
• Ferretti, Federico (2019)."Between radical geography and humanism: Anne Buttimer and the International Dialogue Project"(PDF).Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.51(4): 1123–1145.Bibcode:2019Antip..51.1123F.doi:10.1111/anti.12536.S2CID155349569.[1]

External links

• Media related toAnne Buttimerat Wikimedia Commons