Historical geographies: Translating times and spaces

In July 2020 the Journal of Historical Geography published an editorial marking our commitment to a decolonial ethos and praxis. We committed to this not only in our empirical or theoretical interests, but in our functioning as a journal. It was noted in the next editorial that we had, to date, failed to represent the international, multilingual nature of historical geography communities. As part of the continuation of this task, and to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, we are establishing a new section of papers to be published by the journal entitled ‘Historical Geographies’. These papers will contribute to the decentring of anglophone scholarship, itself one of the most powerful legacies of empire and expressions of ongoing epistemic colonialism. The new section will host reviews of scholarship published in languages other than English. We also invite engagement with the broader range of materials that we now review in the journal. There exists a small but important body of scholarship studying the regional impacts of translations of English geographical scholarship. But it is hoped that these papers will help reverse this flow, bringing the benefits of foreign-language research to English-speaking audiences