Kitchin, Rob (2003) Cuestionando y desestabilizando la hegemonía angloamericana y del inglés en geografía. Documents d Analisi Geografica, 42 (17). pp. 17-36. ISSN 0212-1573

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This paper considers the perceived hegemonic status of Anglo-American geography and the role of the English-language as the lingua franca of academia. The first half of the paper outlines in brief the hegemonic status of Anglo-American geography, the structures and practices of the global knowledge economy and Anglo-American geography itself that help sustain and reproduce its hegemony, and the disciplining effects of this hegemonic status on Geography practised elsewhere. The second half, examines how Anglo-American norms and the hegemonic status of English as a global lingua franca are being, and might be further, challenged, resisted, subverted and re-shaped through discursive and practical interventions aimed at disrupting and destabilising them. By focusing on how the history of the discipline is constructed, and the protocols of publishing and organising conferences, how Geography can be transformed to open it up to a plurality of (non-Anglo-American) voices, different ways of «doing» geography, and alternative ways of valuing forms of geographical enterprise, are considered.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Anglo-American hegemony; English language; publishing; conferences; theory; hegemonía angloamericana; idioma inglés; publicaciones; conferencias; teoría;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	7693
Depositing User:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2017 12:06
Journal or Publication Title:	Documents d Analisi Geografica
Publisher:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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