What is it about?
The paper focuses upon how geography's colonial heritage shapes the present. It draws attention to the whiteness of the discipline, compared to other fields, and how this is embedded in the institutional apparatus of Anglo-American geography. It also explores how anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies and practice can transform institutional and disciplinary norms.
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Why is it important?
Geography claims to be the 'worlds discipline'. However, data indicates that geography in schools and universities is predominantly a white enterprise, with few Black and minority ethnic scholars in the UK and US, the heartlands of the discipline. The paper examines why this is the case and how change might occur.
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I hope this article offers a new perspective on geography and provides hopeful initiatives around challenging geography's exclusions.
Professor Anoop Nayak
Newcastle University
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This page is a summary of: Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography, Progress in Human Geography, November 2024, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/03091325241296067.
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