Languages, Materiality, and the Construction of Geographical Modernities

我们的研究小组研究了现代地理概念和话语如何促进现代地理空间的建设，以及这些现代地理空间如何反过来促进现代地理概念和话语的形成。特别是，我们提出了将现代地理话语和现代地理空间综合为一个新的整合概念--“地理现代性”。我们从语言与物质性的相互联系的角度考察了地理现代性的建构。作为研究成果，我们推出了三份研究报告，其中两份是日文，一份是英文。

Our research group studied how modern geographical concepts and discourses have contributed to the construction of modern geographical spaces and how those modern geographical spaces have in turn contributed to the formation of modern geographical concepts and discourses. In particular, we proposed to synthesize modern geographical discourses and modern geographical spaces into a new integrating concept of "geographical modernities." We investigated the construction of geographical modernities in terms of the mutual interconnection between languages and mateliality. As research output we launched three research reports, two of which are in Japanese and one in English.