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Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-41-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-41-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
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24 Apr 2020
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Making the provincial relevant? Embracing the provincialization of continental European geographies

Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch

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Short summary
English-speaking hegemony shapes the geography of legitimate knowledge production, pushing geographies in other languages to the periphery, overshadowing their diversity and what is at stake within them. Continental European geographies have been provincialized. This should not be lamented. Given our colonial past and Northern privilege, we should instead embrace this provincialization as long overdue and a moral imperative, taking steps toward a more ethical and cosmopolitan praxis.
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