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    The document discusses the building blocks of geography including defining geography, explaining its scope and subtopics, and essential vocabulary. It also discusses the contemporary practice of geography and how societal changes have influenced geographical studies, looking at new research areas and making others obsolete. Technological advances like GIS have also impacted the field.

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    BUILDING BLOCKS OF

    GEOGRAPHY
    3 POINT AGENDA FOR THIS SESSION
    1) Defining Geography

    2) Explaining the Scope of Sub topics in Geography

    3) Essential Vocabulary and Tools for Geography Optional


    DEFINING GEOGRAPHY
    CLASSIFYING GEOGRAPHY

    • Journey from Immanuel Kant to Post Modernism


    CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHY
    •  Important societal changes have largely influenced geographical practice. The deepening of the
    economic crisis and globalisation in the economic sphere, global change at the interface between
    physical and human phenomena, the disappearance of communist regimes in the political sphere and
    postmodernism in the cultural field, have brought new research subjects and made others appear
    desperately obsolete (in urban geography, factorial ecology is now replaced by studies of globalisation
    and polarisation, in economic geography, distance and transportation costs have given way to flexibility,
    networks or learning regions to name a few examples). 
    • A second factor of change is the internal scientific debate, which necessarily interacts with these societal
    changes. The paradigms of the sixties and seventies suddenly appear as anachronisms, new proposals
    emerge, often inspired by concepts and research outside geography.
    • A third source of change should be added, namely technological changes that found their way into
    geography in the development of GIS.
    • Interestingly, by studying global change and stressing what they still discreetly call «anthropogenic
    factors» in physical phenomena, physical geography is not immune to these changes. It has gained in
    social relevance and could, once the interaction between nature and society is studied in both directions,
    reconnect with human geography on subjects like environmental and development problems
    • Last 20 years the mainstream Anglo-Saxon publications talk about the co-existence of the three broad
    approaches in geography (regional, theoretical quantitative and radical).
    ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY & TOOLS
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