Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina)
<p>The relationship between “national” geographical schools and an increasingly globalized geographical theory-building under the logics of Anglophone hegemony has generated critical debate within geography. This paper aims to contribute to current discussions on the development of differentia...
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| description | <p>The relationship between “national” geographical schools and an increasingly
globalized geographical theory-building under the logics of Anglophone
hegemony has generated critical debate within geography. This paper aims to
contribute to current discussions on the development of differential,
language-based “schools of thought” in geography and how these are mobilized
and de- and recontextualized when they travel beyond their origins. However,
it does not focus on the period of Anglophone hegemony but intends to shed a
new, historically informed light on the politics of geographical knowledge
production. Against this backdrop, we study why, how and with what
consequences German geographical knowledge traveled to Argentina in the
1940s – the end of the “German hegemony” – following the employment by the
National University of Tucumán (UNT) of the four German geography
professors Wilhelm Rohmeder, Gustav Fochler-Hauke, Fritz Machatschek and
Willi Czajka, all of whom had been institutionally and ideologically
entwined with National Socialism. Firstly, we show that the epistemic
differences between “national” schools of geographical thought – skillfully
juggled by the geographers we analyze here – can provide an opportunity for
the successful de- and recontextualization of theory. Secondly, we argue
that boundary spanning and the traveling of theory beyond their geographical
origins – largely (implicitly) viewed as progressive – should always be
put in context(s) and assessed more cautiously from a normative point of
view.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7097f435809e424796045a1c079609bd2022-12-22T01:52:55ZdeuCopernicus PublicationsGeographica Helvetica0016-73122194-87982022-07-017729731110.5194/gh-77-297-2022Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina)G. RainerS. Dudek<p>The relationship between “national” geographical schools and an increasingly globalized geographical theory-building under the logics of Anglophone hegemony has generated critical debate within geography. This paper aims to contribute to current discussions on the development of differential, language-based “schools of thought” in geography and how these are mobilized and de- and recontextualized when they travel beyond their origins. However, it does not focus on the period of Anglophone hegemony but intends to shed a new, historically informed light on the politics of geographical knowledge production. Against this backdrop, we study why, how and with what consequences German geographical knowledge traveled to Argentina in the 1940s – the end of the “German hegemony” – following the employment by the National University of Tucumán (UNT) of the four German geography professors Wilhelm Rohmeder, Gustav Fochler-Hauke, Fritz Machatschek and Willi Czajka, all of whom had been institutionally and ideologically entwined with National Socialism. Firstly, we show that the epistemic differences between “national” schools of geographical thought – skillfully juggled by the geographers we analyze here – can provide an opportunity for the successful de- and recontextualization of theory. Secondly, we argue that boundary spanning and the traveling of theory beyond their geographical origins – largely (implicitly) viewed as progressive – should always be put in context(s) and assessed more cautiously from a normative point of view.</p>https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/77/297/2022/gh-77-297-2022.pdf |
| spellingShingle | G. Rainer S. Dudek Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina) Geographica Helvetica |
| title | Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina) |
| title_full | Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina) |
| title_fullStr | Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina) |
| title_short | Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina) |
| title_sort | globalizing geography before anglophone hegemony buried theories non traveling concepts and cosmopolitan geographers in san miguel de tucuman argentina |
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