Georgina Endfield

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Research Summary

My research focuses on climatic and environmental history, on human responses to unusual or extreme weather events, conceptualisations of climate variability in historical perspective and the links… read more

Selected Publications

• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2008. Climate and society in colonial Mexico: a study in vulnerability Blackwell.
• ENDFIELD, G. H., RYVES, D. B., MILLS, K. and BERRANG-FORD, L., 2009. `The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa Geographical Journal. VOL 175(NUMBER 3), 181-195
• ENDFIELD GH, 2012. The resilience and adaptive capacity of social-environmental systems in colonial Mexico Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10),
• BUTZER KW and ENDFIELD GH, 2012. Critical perspectives on historical collapse Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10),

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Current Research

My research focuses on climatic and environmental history, on human responses to unusual or extreme weather events, conceptualisations of climate variability in historical perspective and the links between climate and the healthiness of place. Much of my work has been concerned with colonial Mexico and nineteenth century Africa. I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005.

I am co-investigator on a Leverhulme Trust Funded project exploring socio-economic responses ot El Nino events in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century ( see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ensoafrica/team.html)

Latest news:

Georgina hasbeen awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for a project on popular weather conceptualsations- "Weather walks and weather talks" in conjunction with the RGS-IBG and The Royal Meteorological Society. The project team consists of Georgina (PI), Gary Priestnall (COI) and Simon Naylor (Exeter) COI. The research will involve two connected themed projects, starting in March 2012

Georgina has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council 'Researching Environmental Change' Network grant. The Network, which is on the theme of "Cultural spaces of climate", will run in partnership with The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and the Royal Meteorological Society and will involve a series of workshops to be held between July 2010 and July 2011.

For further information contact georgina.endfield@nottingham.ac.uk

• ENDFIELD G H AND MORRIS C, 2012. Well weather is not a girl thing is it? Contemporary amateur meteorology, gender relations and the shaping of domestic masculinity Social and Cultural Geography. 13(3), (In Press.)
• ENDFIELD GH, 2012. The resilience and adaptive capacity of social-environmental systems in colonial Mexico Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10),
• ENDFIELD GH AND MORRIS C, 2012. Exploring the role of the amateur in the production and circulation of meteorological knowledge Climatc Change.
• ENDFIELD GH AND MORRIS C, 2012. Guest Editorial Climatic Change: Special Issue: Cultural Spaces of Climate. (In Press.)
• BUTZER KW and ENDFIELD GH, 2012. Critical perspectives on historical collapse Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10),
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2011. Complexity, causality and collapse: social discontinuity in history and prehistory. In: MATTHEWS ET AL, ed., Handbook of Environmental Change Sage. (In Press.)
• MORRIS, C. AND ENDFIELD, G.H, 2011. Exploring contemporary amateur meteorology through a historical lens Weather. (In Press.)
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2011. “Re-culturing and Particularising Climate Discourses: Osiris. 26(1), 142-162
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2011. “Re-culturing and Particularising Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity and the Work of Gordon Manley” Osiris. 26, 142-162
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2010. The Mission. In: AGNEW, J. AND LIVINGSTONE, D.N, ed., Handbook of Geographical Knowledge Sage. (In Press.)
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2010. "Through marsh and mountain": tropical acclimatization, health and disease and the CMS mission to Uganda, 1875-1920. Journal of East African Studies. 4(1), 61-90
• EMDFIELD, G.H, 2009. Environmental History. In: CASTREE, DEMERRIT, LIVERMAN AND RHOADS (EDS), ed., Companion to Environmental Geography. Blackwell. 223-237
• DANIELS, S. and ENDFIELD, G. H., 2009. Narratives of climate change: introduction Journal of Historical Geography. VOL 35(NUMBER 2), 215-222
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2009. Reconsidering climate and causality: Case studies from colonial Mexico. In: SORLIN, S. AND WARDE, P., ed., Nature's End. History and the Environment Macmillan. 304-328
• ENDFIELD, G. H., RYVES, D. B., MILLS, K. and BERRANG-FORD, L., 2009. `The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa Geographical Journal. VOL 175(NUMBER 3), 181-195
• ENDFIELD, G.H ET AL, 2009. Documenting disaster: archival investigations of climate, crisis and catastrophe in colonial Mexico. In: MAUCH, C. AND PFISTER, C., ed., Natural Disasters and cultural responses. Case studies toward a global environmental history Lexington. 305-326.
• FERNANDEZ TEJEDO, I AND ENDFIELD G.H, 2009. El desarollo tecnologico hidraulico y los desastres naturales en el Bajio durante el SigloXVIII Archivo Historico Municipal de Irapuato. 3, 137-152
• NASH, D. J. and ENDFIELD, G. H., 2008. ‘Splendid rains have fallen’: links between El Niño and rainfall variability in the Kalahari, 1840–1900 CLIMATIC CHANGE. VOL 86(NUMBER 3-4), 257-290
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2008. Climate and society in colonial Mexico: a study in vulnerability Blackwell.
• ENDFIELD, G.E, 2007. Archival explorations of climatic variability and social vulnerability in colonial Mexico Climatic Change. 83(1-2), 9-38
• ENDFIELD, G.H., 2007. Climate and Crisis in Eighteenth Century Mexico MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL. VOL 10(Numb 1-2), 99-126
• ENDFIELD, G.H. AND NASH, D.J, 2007. "A good site for health": missionaries and the pathological geography of central southern Africa Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 28(2), 142-157
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2007. "Seeing great sorrows": climate, disease and the calamitous 1890s in Uganda NERC Planet Earth Magazine. Available at: <http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/planetearth/2007/autumn/aut07-disease.pdf>
• ENDFIELD, G. H. and TEJEDO, I. F., 2006. Decades of drought, years of hunger: archival investigations of multiple year droughts in late colonial Chihuahua Climatic Change. 75(4), 391-419
• ENDFIELD, G.H, 2006. Missions and Empire Journal of Historical Geography. 32(3), 657-660
• ENDFIELD, G. H. and NASH, D. J., 2005. `Happy is the bride the rain falls on': climate, health and `the woman question' in nineteenth-century missionary documentation Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 30(3), 368-386
• O'HARA, S.L., HEFFERNAN, M.J. and ENDFIELD, G.E., 2005. Halford Mackinder, the 'geographical pivot', and British perceptions of Central Asia. In: , ed., Global geostrategy: Mackinder and the defence of the West London: Frank Cass. 91-107
• ENDFIELD, G. H., TEJEDO, I. F. and O'HARA, S. L., 2004. Drought and disputes, deluge and dearth: climatic variability and human response in colonial Oaxaca, Mexico Journal of Historical Geography. 30(2), 249-276
• ENDFIELD, G.H., TEJEDO, I.F. and O HARA, S.L., 2004. Conflict and cooperation: water, floods, and social response in colonial Guanajuato, Mexico Environmental History. 9(2), 221-247
• DAVIES, S. J., METCALFE, S. E., MACKENZIE, A. B., NEWTON, A. J., ENDFIELD, G. H. and FARMER, J. G., 2004. Environmental changes in the Zirahuen Basin, Michoacan, Mexico, during the last 1000 years Journal of Paleolimnology. VOL 31(NUMBER 1), 77-98
• FERNANDEZ-TEJEDO, I and ENDFIELD, G.H AND O'HARA,S.L., 2004. Estrategias para el control del agua en Oaxaca Colonial. Estudios de Historia Novohispana. 31, 137-198
• ENDFIELD, G.H., 2003. History and Climate Change: A Eurocentric Perspective Geographical Journal. 169(2), 178-179
• ENDFIELD, G. H. and NASH, D. J., 2002. Missionaries and Morals: Climatic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Central Southern Africa Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 92(4), 727-742
• ENDFIELD, G. H. and NASH, D. J., 2002. Drought, desiccation and discourse: missionary correspondence and nineteenth-century climate change in central southern Africa Geographical Journal. VOL 168(PART 1), 33-47
• NASH, D. J. and ENDFIELD, G. H., 2002. A 19th Century Climate Chronology for the Kalahari Region of Central Southern Africa Derived from Missionary Correspondence Kalahari; documentary evidence; climate change; drought; nineteenth century; El Nino International Journal of Climatology. VOL 22(PART 7), 821-842
• NASH, D. J. and ENDFIELD, G. H., 2002. Historical flows in the dry valleys of the Kalahari identified from missionary correspondence South African Journal of Science. VOL 98(PART 5/6), 244-248
• METCALFE, S.E., PRIETO, M.D., ENDFIELD, G.H., DAVIES, S.J. and O'HARA, S.L., 2002. The potential of archivial sources for reconstructing climate and climate-related processes in Latin America PAGES News. 10, 11-14
• ENDFIELD, G. H., 2001. Pinturas, Land and Lawsuits: Maps in Colonial Mexican Legal Documents Imago Mundi. ISSU 53, 7-27
• ENDFIELD, G.H., O'HARA, S.L. and METCALFE, S.E., 2000. Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Mexican highlands: a reappraisal of traditional theory. In: NICHOLSON, R.A and O'CONNOR, T.P., eds., People as an agent of environmental change Oxford: Oxbow. 81-92
• ENDFIELD, G.H. and O'HARA, S.L., 1999. Degradation, drought, and dissent: an environmental history of colonial Michoacan, West Central Mexico Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 89(3), 402-419
• ENDFIELD, G.H. and O'HARA, S.L., 1999. Perception or deception? Land degradation in post-conquest Michoacan, West Central Mexico Land Degradation and Development. 10, 383-398
• ENDFIELD, G.H., 1998. Lands, livestock and the law: territorial conflicts in colonial central Mexico Colonial Latin American Review. 7(2), 205-224
• ENDFIELD, G.H. and O'HARA, S.L., 1997. Conflicts over water in the 'little drought age' in Central Mexico Environment and History. 3(3), 255-272
• ENDFIELD, G. and O'CONNOR, P., 1997. Flexibility, funding and foresight: tips for the physical geographer in developing areas research In: Postgraduate fieldwork in developing areas. DARG Monograph, No 8,.