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Multiple cultures of doing geography facilitate Global Studies

Gilbert Ahamer (Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria)

Multicultural Education & Technology Journal

ISSN: 1750-497X

Article publication date: 7 June 2013

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Abstract

Purpose

This article aims to explain why geography is a prime discipline for analysing globalisation and a multicultural view of Global Studies. The generic approach of human geography to first select an appropriate methodology is taken as a key approach.

Design/methodology/approach

Concepts from aggregate disciplines such as history, economics, and geography are scanned through during a short description of the historical genesis of these sciences and the paradigmatic shifts they have encountered.

Findings

There are four main theses: (1) values are created by appreciation; (2) development is growing jointly with responsibility; (3) accumulation of material value is seen as expenditure to achieve non‐material values; and (4) spatial relations are interrelated with social relations.

Research limitations/implications

Conceptual considerations have to be further corroborated by quantitative analyses using suitable metrics of “development”.

Practical implications

“Social and cultural geography” should contribute to any curriculum of “Global Studies”.

Social implications

Dialogue and discourse between world views is the essential, ideology‐free approach for understanding globalisation.

Originality/value

Unlike other scientific articles focusing on “facts”, this article focuses on perspectives. Thus, it explains “multi‐perspectivity” and a multi‐paradigmatic approach.

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Citation

Ahamer, G. (2013), "Multiple cultures of doing geography facilitate Global Studies", Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2/3, pp. 228-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/17504971311328099

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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