AbstractAs a field, geography has always been a prisoner of its times, no more obviously so than today. Texts from the past fail to speak to today's concerns. Now we are more interested in the fashionable than in the canonical.Keywordscanonfanonhistoricismintellectual authorityknowingstate powerGet full access to this articleView all access options for this article.Get accessReferences1. Keighren IM Abrahamsson C della Dora V (2012) On canonical geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography 2(3). doi: 10.1177/2043820612468534