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Retheorizing urban geography: mutual relationships between English- and German-speaking communities
Hesse, Markus
2014In Social and Cultural Geography
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Keywords :
urban geography; comparative studies; urban theory
Abstract :
[en] This paper takes a comparative look at urban geography in the German- and English-speaking academic communities, based on a critical reflection of publication activities, sub-disciplinary discourses and conceptual developments. It is argued that Anglophone dis-courses tend to embed urban research into a broad range of conceptual and theoretical frameworks, whereas many writings in German-speaking urban geography are committed to pursuing empirical studies and applied research, thereby producing planning studies and policy recommendations; only recently, studies inspired by the cultural turn have evolved that are also addressing urban topics. In both language communities, a certain body of geo-graphical work can be detected that deals with core urban themes without evolving from a distinct ‘urban geography’ community. In this context, a mutual trans-national dialogue be-tween cultural, social, and urban geographies is considered helpful for better linking the two different language and academic communities. Accordingly, the paper provides suggestions on how to re-conceptualize urban geography at the intersections of recent debates in both language contexts by highlighting specific theoretical approaches, policy linkages, and methodologies.
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Hesse, Markus  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
Language :
English
Title :
Retheorizing urban geography: mutual relationships between English- and German-speaking communities
Publication date :
23 September 2014
Journal title :
Social and Cultural Geography
ISSN :
1464-9365
Publisher :
Routledge
Special issue title :
Intersections of English- and German-language social and cultural geographies
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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