Professionalisation, activism, and the university: whither 'critical geography'?
Professionalisation, activism, and the university: whither 'critical geography'?
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DOI：
10.1068/a3263
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Castree, N
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作者：
Castree, N
在本文中，我试图描述、解释和评价三十年来左派的地理变化。现在，“批判地理学”——而不是“激进地理学”——已经成为左派地理学研究的特权描述，有人认为，这种标签的时间转换不仅仅具有语义意义。具体来说，有人认为，“激进地理学”标签的取代是左派地理学研究性质和目的实质性转变的征兆。这种转变导致了左派地理学的“专业化”和“学术化”。这两项发展都发生在高等教育体系从“现代”向“后现代”转变的30年背景下。以英美为例，有人认为，学术界地理左派（读作“批判性”）当前的活力与它脱离“现实世界”的政治选区有关，也与支撑这种反向相关性的学术变化的盲目性有关。与其担心他们明显未能与“外面”的选民建立联系，地理学左派人士认为，他们需要重新获得一些激进的地理学行动和参与精神，以对抗“在这里”发生的变化：即高等系统的政治和道德经济的变化，这些变化使我们的学术工作得以实现和限制。本文以结论的方式为“驯化的批判地理学”提供了一个简短的宣言。
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 Left geographical inquiry, it is argued that this temporal switch of labels is of more than merely semantic significance. Specifically, it is suggested that the supercession of the 'radical geography' label is symptomatic of a substantive shift in the nature and purposes of Left geographical inquiry. This shift has entailed the 'professionalisation' and 'academicisation' of Left geography. Both developments have occurred in the context of a thirty-year transition from a 'modern' to an 'after-modern' higher education system. Taking the Anglo-American case, it is argued that the current vitality of the geographical (read 'critical') Left in the academy correlates with its detachment from 'real world' political constituencies and also a blindness to the academic changes underpinning this inverse correlation. Rather than worrying over their apparent failure to connect with constituencies 'out there', it is argued that geographical Leftists need to recapture something of the radical geography spirit of action and engagement in order to contest changes occurring 'in here': that is, changes in the political and moral economy of the higher system that enables and constrains our academic labours. A brief manifesto for a 'domesticated critical geography' is offered by way of a conclusion.