Contextualizing critical geography in India: emerging research and praxis

Placing Masculinities and Geography

“…This, we suggest, plays at least a partial role in opening up a politically useful line of enquiry about the spatiality of knowledge construction. There is a growing body of literature that examines the spatial politics of geographic knowledge production (see Berg & Kearns, 1998;Minca, 2000;Gutiérez & López-Nieva, 2001;Berg, 2002Berg, , 2003Gregson et al, 2003;Hones, 2003;Raju, 2003;Ramirez, 2003;Simonsen, 2003). These works suggest that there exists in the production of academic knowledge what we shall term an international division of attributes (after Farmanfarmaian, 1992, p. 4).…”

Geografia wobec krytycznej teorii społecznej: doświadczenia i perspektywy. Czy w Polsce potrzebujemy geografii krytycznej?

“…Ciekawych dla polskiego czytelnika przemyśleń dostarczaja artykuły relacjonujące obecność/nieobecność geografii krytycznej w róż-nych krajach (Timar 2003;Simonsen 2004;Raju 2004;Ramírez Velázquez 2004;Belina, Best, Naumann 2009). …”

Identity and Image of Indian Geography: The People's Perspective

“…It is true that the questions regarding the nature of discipline and disciplinary boundaries are more frequently faced by the geographers' community than others; seeing the emerging nature of geography it is necessary to keep on challenging the conception and definition of geography (Raju, 2004). The issue of conservativeness in Indian geography has been expressed by many (Schwartzberg, 1983;Mukerji, 1992;Singh, 2008), but understanding the problem from a gender perspective is a new phenomenon (Raju, 2004;Lahiri-Dutta, 2005). It has been found that in the debates Identity and Image of Indian Geography 379 on Indian geography, discussion of school geography is often absent.…”

“…It is discernible that anything different from the set pattern is blamed and criticized for being 'non-geographical' (cf. Raju, 2004). And every possible move within a given institutional framework conspires if the researcher (and the supervisor, in the case of a doctoral research scholar's registration) does not agree on what is 'correct' in the said set pattern.…”