Critical geography in Germany: from exclusion to inclusion via internationalisation
- Critical perspectives have become more visible in German human geography. Drawing on an analysis of the debate around the German reader "Kulturgeographie" published in 2003, we suggest that this case provides new insights into the "geography of critical geography". We briefly discuss the history of critical geography in Germany, leading to a comparison of the conditions of critical geography around 1980 and in recent years. The focus is on two factors in the changed role of critical perspectives in German geography: (1) the growing internationalisation of German geography, which opened new avenues and allowed new approaches to enter the discipline; and (2) the high citation indices of "critical" journals, which leads to an enhanced reputation and a high significance of international critical geography in the German discipline. However, we draw an ambiguous conclusion: the increased role of critical approaches in German geography is linked to a growing neoliberalisation of academia and a decline of critical approaches in other disciplines.
Author: | Bernd BelinaORCiDGND, Ulrich Best, Martin Naumann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-234719 |
URL: | http://www.soc-geogr.net/4/47/2009/ |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5194/sg-4-47-2009 |
ISSN: | 1729-4312 |
ISSN: | 1729-4274 |
Parent Title (English): | Social geography |
Publisher: | Copernicus Group |
Place of publication: | Katlenburg-Lindau |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2011/12/04 |
Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2011/12/04 |
Volume: | 4 |
Page Number: | 12 |
First Page: | 47 |
Last Page: | 58 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 28617183X |
Institutes: | Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geographie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 2.0 |