Anne Buttimer

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Anne Buttimer (2014)

Anne Buttimer (born October 31, 1938 in Cork , † July 15, 2017 in Dublin ) was an Irish geographer .

Life

Anne Buttimer grew up in County Cork, Ireland, to strict Catholic parents. She studied geography , Latin and mathematics at University College Cork in 1957 , as well as at the National University of Ireland , where she finally received her Masters in geography in 1959 . She then entered the Dominican Order and moved to Seattle in the United States . There she lived in the order for 17 years. She received her PhD in geography from the University of Washington in 1965.

Buttimer was a postdoctoral fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Seattle from 1966 to 1968 . She spent two years at the University of Glasgow working on the social geography of housing before moving to Clark University from 1970 to 1981 , where she established herself as a social geographer and social scientist .

In 1982 she was resident in Lund as a research fellow at the Swedish Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, but she was professor at the University of Ottawa from 1989 to 1991 , before moving to University College Dublin from 1991 to 2003.

A multilingual scholar in English , Gaelic , French , Latin and Swedish , she has also held numerous short-term positions in Europe.

She was President of the International Geographical Union from 2000 to 2004 and the first female geographer to become Vice President of the Academia Europaea in 2012 . In addition, she received the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 1997 , the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2001 , the Johan August Wahlberg Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2009 and the Prix ​​Vautrin Lud in 2014 . The University of Joensuu (1999), the University of Tartu (2004) and the University of Joseph Fourier Grenoble I (2012) awarded her honorary doctorates. Since 2000 she was a member of the Royal Irish Academy .

literature

  • Anne Buttimer: Home-reach-journey . In: Pamela Moss (Ed.): Placing Autobiography in Geography . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2001, ISBN 978-0-8156-2847-7 , pp. 22-41 .
  • Avril Maddrell: An interview with Anne Buttimer: an autobiographical window on geographical thought and practice 1965-2005 . In: Gender, Place & Culture . tape 16 , no. 6 , 2009, p. 741-765 , doi : 10.1080 / 09663690903279179 .
  • Tom Mels: Anne Buttimer . In: Rob Kitchin, Phil Hubbard (Eds.): Key Thinkers on Space and Place . 2nd Edition. Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5 , pp. 91-97 .
  • Richard Morrill: Buttimer, Anne (1938–) . In: Barney Warf (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Geography . Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-4129-5697-0 , doi : 10.4135 / 9781412939591.n125 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Buttimer. In: geography.ruhosting.nl. October 26, 2012, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  2. ^ Maria João Alcoforado: Homage to Anne Buttimer, Winner of the Vautrin-Lud International Prize for Geography, 2014 . Revue Belge de Géographie, accessed on July 17, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Prof. Anne Buttimer RIP. In: irelandafternama.wordpress.com. July 15, 2017, accessed July 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Tom Mels: Anne Buttimer . In: Rob Kitchin, Phil Hubbard (Eds.): Key Thinkers on Space and Place . 2nd Edition. Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5 , pp. 91-97 .
  5. ^ Coppock Research Medal. Royal Scottish Geographical Society, accessed July 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Anne Buttimer. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Anne Buttimer. Royal Irish Academy, accessed July 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Buttimer, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sister Mary Annette, OP
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish geographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cork , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2017