Professionalisation, Activism, and the University: Whither ‘Critical Geography’?

摘要: In this paper I seek to describe, explain, and evaluate three decades of Left geographical change. Now that ‘critical geography’—rather than ‘radical geography’—has become the privileged descriptor for inquiry, it is argued temporal switch labels more merely semantic significance. Specifically, suggested supercession geography’ label symptomatic a substantive shift in nature purposes inquiry. This has entailed ‘professionalisation’ ‘academicisation’ geography. Both developments have occurred context thirty-year transition from ‘modern’ an ‘after-modern’ higher education system. Taking Anglo-American case, current vitality (read ‘critical’) academy correlates with its detachment ‘real world’ political constituencies also blindness academic changes underpinning inverse correlation. R...