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“Geography is a contested and multi paradigmatic discipline with a strong eurocentricity that has only recently been challenged.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

The statement is a compound proposition carrying three separable claims — that geography is contested, that it is multi-paradigmatic, and that it carries a strong eurocentricity only recently challenged — and each must be tested on its own evidence before a verdict is returned on the whole.

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  • Claim One — A Discipline That Has Never Agreed on Its Object, Method or Purpose
  • Claim Two — Paradigms That Accumulated Rather Than Replaced: Geography Beyond Kuhn
  • Claim Three (a) — Institutional Origins: A Discipline Professionalised in the Service of Empire
  • The Ideological Cargo: Determinism as Racial Science, Geopolitics as Imperial Vision
  • Blaut's Diffusionism and the Colonizer's Model of the World
  • The Canon: Whose History of Geography Is It?
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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