Geography and Geographers in the Netherlands since the 1870s: Serving Colonialism, Education, and the Welfare State

A World Beyond Web of Science: AGORA Magazine's 35 Years in Dutch‐Language Human Geography

“…Previously, Dutch geography departments educated professionals for applied research, serving the welfare state. By the mid‐1980s, as the state retreated and academic geography shrunk with it, young geographers reoriented their career ambitions towards the private sector (De Pater 2001, p. 182). Verwaaijen (2009) recalls how gloomy the prospects on the job market were during those years and how AGORA was first and foremost an opportunity for young professionals to present themselves to prospective employers.…”

Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond

“…For instance, how would I fit in the Belgium case, where the key statement of the quantitative revolution was backed up with a ten-page analysis of how important quantitative models are in Marxist Soviet geography (Saey 1968), effectively gluing the two revolutions together? Or what to think of the Dutch case, where radical geography was subsumed in an applied and pluralist tradition where geographers were educated for service in the welfare state (De Pater 2001). The largest ripple there was a strong antagonism at Nijmegen University, where students repeatedly occupied the university, invited David Harvey for a lecture, and the bitter intellectual debate (see Oomen 2008) was all about replacing development geography with dependencia theory (summarized in Ettema 1983).…”

How German Geopolitics Passed Through the Netherlands, 1920–1945: A Case Study in the Geography of one of Geography's ‘Projects’

“…Having moved to the Netherlands in 1921, he became an academic geographer, first in Amsterdam in the new Economics Faculty in 1922 and then in Utrecht as head of department in 1927. In fact he had already been teaching in Utrecht for a couple of years, after the professor in human geography there suddenly died (De Pater ).…”

“…Having moved to the Netherlands in 1921, he became an academic geographer, first in Amsterdam in the new Economics Faculty in 1922 and then in Utrecht as head of department in 1927. In fact he had already been teaching in Utrecht for a couple of years, after the professor in human geography there suddenly died (De Pater 2001). Apart from the contribution by Van Vuuren, Haushofer's book contained chapters by several of the initial inner circle of geopoliticians, including Grabowsky (his chapter dealt with the League of Nations).…”