Disrupting the 'whiteness' of fieldwork in geography
Disrupting the 'whiteness' of fieldwork in geography
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破坏地理学田野调查的“白色”
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2006
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D. Abbott
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D. Abbott
本文认为，虽然实地考察继续作出重要贡献的学习和地理教学，分析英国大学采取学生长途海外旅行目前的做法仍然与政治无关，并在很大程度上，与实用性有关。如果将这种做法置于后殖民主义的“白”理论框架中加以分析，那么就有可能看到那些观看者和那些被观看者的不同立场和立场，也可以看到帝国主义地理探索历史与当今海外实地考察，特别是发展中国家之间的联系。以英国本科生访问历史上的奴隶贸易网站在冈比亚为例，使用个人经验，本文认为，实地研究的潜力，以促进英国高等教育机构内的地理实地考察的批判性教学法需要更强的政治分析。
This paper argues that whilst fieldwork continues to make an important contribution to the learning and teaching of geography, analysis of the present-day practice of UK universities taking students on long-distance overseas trips remains apolitical and, by and large, concerned with practicalities. If this practice is analysed by locating it within a postcolonial theoretical framework of ‘whiteness’ it is then possible to look at the differing standpoint and positionality of those doing the viewing and those being viewed, and to also see the connections between the imperialist history of geographical exploration and present-day overseas field trips, in particular to developing countries. Using personal experience of taking UK undergraduates to visit historic slave trading sites in The Gambia as an example, the paper argues that the potential of field study to contribute to the critical pedagogy of geographical fieldwork within UK institutions of higher education requires stronger political analysis.