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- Title
Changing priorities in physical geography: Introduction to the Special Issue.
- Authors
Tadaki, Marc; Slaymaker, Olav; Martin, Yvonne
- Abstract
This Special Issue evaluates the utility of Geography as a container for both understanding and interrogating changing priorities in the geosciences. The contributions to the Special Issue explore diverse drivers of change-from theoretical developments and empirical concerns to methodological fashions and political projects-and consider what a geographical tradition might add to (or gain from) these developments. Reflecting upon this Special Issue as an experiment in disciplinary discourse, we argue for collective attention towards disciplinary reproduction. While an intellectual case can continue to be made for the utility of physical geography for understanding planetary problems, if we do not produce new physical geographers who identify as geographers and who reinvest into geographical institutions, then physical geography as an intellectual tradition will cease to exist. Rather than being passive recipients of change in the geosciences, we can utilize disciplinary forums to critically examine our scientific priorities and build necessary alliances to affect the direction of these changes.
- Subjects
PHYSICAL geography; EARTH sciences; THEORY of knowledge; POLITICAL change; SPECIAL issues of periodicals
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2017, Vol 61, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12357