Geography after Babel – a view from the French province
Open Access
- 30 May 2013
- journal article
- Published by Copernicus GmbH in Geographica Helvetica
- Vol. 68 (1), 51-55
- https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-68-51-2013
Abstract
Disponible sur http://www.geogr-helv.net/68/51/2013/gh-68-51-2013.htmlInternational audienceIn this short intervention, we argue that, during the last third of the twentieth century, Francophone human geography may well have constituted a provincial subsystem, that is, a relatively closed space within the discipline. Following Wismann, we also point to some of the challenges and - crucially - advantages of practicing a multilingual geography and "thinking in-‐between languages.Keywords
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