How should we do the history of geographies during the period of state socialism? Historical period, space and expert knowledge in the post-war Czechoslovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/10361-Volume_30_Issue_3_Paper_1.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/10361-Volume_30_Issue_3_Paper_1.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0010" target="_blank" >10.2478/mgr-2022-0010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How should we do the history of geographies during the period of state socialism? Historical period, space and expert knowledge in the post-war Czechoslovakia

Original language description

A critical reflection on the current state of research into the history of the production of geographical knowledge during the period of state socialism is presented in this report. Using the example of the Czechoslovak administrative reform from 1949, several questionable aspects of current interpretations are identified. In particular, the problematic use of three crucial concepts in the study of the history of geography: time (a politics of memory); space (spatial imaginations); and geographical knowledge. Examples of approaches to each concept are presented, which can overcome the insufficiencies and contribute to a better understanding of the mutual relations between state socialism and the production of geographical knowledge. Research into the history of geography during the period of state socialism is important both to understand the current state of ‘postsocialist’ national geographies, and to add to the production of an inclusive history of global geography. Onenecessary condition is, however, to leave the current descriptive and encyclopaedic styles, which are marked with ahistoricism and presentism. In contrast, it is essential that the history of geography during the period of the state socialism become a serious issue, which is analysed through critical and reflexive approaches.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Moravian Geographical Reports

ISSN

1210-8812

e-ISSN

2199-6202

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

150-162

UT code for WoS article

000868352000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85140786385