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Advancing what kind of geographical understanding for whom?

Considering geography in public debate merits asking what kinds of ‘publics’ geographers engage with and whose interests this serves. In turn, historicizing academic geographers’ reaches and roles beyond the academy casts these questions into starker relief. The case of Isaiah Bowman is instructive in this regard and leads us to consider forms and strategies of geographical engagement and vocation.