Geography without borders
Geography without borders
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地理无国界
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00252.x
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
D. Lambert
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文献类型：
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作者：
N. Castree;Duncan Fuller;D. Lambert
至少直到最近，我们中的一个人才是这条消息的接收者，而不是其（共同）作者。然而，人们会改变--通常是因为被赋予了一个意想不到的反思机会（或者被迫！）他们的作案手法我们想传达一个简单的信息：即英国的地理至少被一个相当基本的问题所困扰。为了我们所有人，必须做点什么。让我们解释一下，关于“地理学现状”的争论和这门学科本身一样古老。用隐喻的话来说，边界（“硬”或“软”）的概念继续活跃在这些讨论中。它出现在关于地理学“内部”问题的著作中（如果它们真的是问题的话）-例如人类-物理的“划分”或学科两个“半部”的子学科“分裂”。在对地理学的“外部”挑战的反思中也可以发现这一点，比如地理学显然无法影响“外面”的政策世界，或者它被认为未能阻止其他学科踩在它的“地盘”上。虽然谈论边界可能是不恰当和无益的，（例如，“网络”的概念创造了一种对地理内部结构及其更广泛的联系的非常不同的意义），这种讨论可能会继续起到非常有用的作用，因为它迫使我们反思是否真实的（与想象相反）划分目前构成了地理学的全部内容;它迫使我们问这样的划分是否是一个“问题”（因为它们不一定是）。今天的专业地理学有一个方面几乎没有在印刷品中讨论过，在我们看来，边界的比喻（以及一个“硬”的，如果不是有意识地监管的话）是完全合适的。我们说的是非常真实的
Until relatively recently, at least, one of us would have been on the receiving end of this message, rather than its (co) author. However, people change-often as a consequence of being gifted an unexpected opportunity to reflect (or being forced to!) upon their modus operandi. We want to convey a simple message: namely that British geography is beset by at least one quite fundamental problem. And something must be done-for all our sakes. Let us explain.Debates about the'state of geography'are as old as the discipline itself. In metaphorical terms, the idea of a border ('hard'or'soft') continues to ani-mate these discussions. It appears in writings about geography's' internal'problems (if problems they really are)-such as the human-physical'divide'or the sub-disciplinary'fragmentation'of the two'halves' of the discipline. It is also to be found at work in ruminations on geography's' external'challenges-such as its apparent inability to influence the policy world'out there'or its sup-posed failure to stop other disciplines treading on its' turf'. Whilst talk of borders may well be inappropriate and unhelpful (the notion of'networks', for example, creates a very different sense of geography's internal configuration and its wider con-nectivities), such talk might continue to serve a very useful purpose because it obliges us to reflect on whether real (as opposed to imagined) divisions are currently constitutive of what geography's all about; and it obliges us to ask whether such divi-sions are a'problem'(for they aren't necessarily). There is one aspect of professional geography today that is barely discussed in print and where, in our view, the metaphor of a border (and a'hard'if not consciously policed one at that) is wholly appropriate. We are talking about the very real