Geography after Babel - a view from the French province

Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch (1, 2) , Olivier Milhaud (3)

1 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
2 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales
3 ENeC - Espaces, Nature et Culture

In this short intervention, we argue that, during the last third of the twentieth century, Francophone human geography may well have constituted a provincial subsystem, that is, a relatively closed space within the discipline. Following Wismann, we also point to some of the challenges and - crucially - advantages of practicing a multilingual geography and "thinking in-­‐between languages."

Mots clés: provincialism; language; French geographies; geographies of knowledge

Domaines: Géographie

Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Olivier Milhaud. Geography after Babel - a view from the French province. Geographica Helvetica, 2013, 68, pp.51-55. ⟨10.5194/gh-68-51-2013⟩. ⟨hal-00828320⟩