A critical approach to discipline of human geography as an apparatus for state hegemony in Turkey

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11954574
AutoresNurettin Özgen (0000-0001-9191-1579, Ankara University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen40
Número1
Páginas131-153
Fecha de publicación2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Geography in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0309-8265 • E-ISSN: 1466-1845
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03098265.2015.1116061
OpenAlexW2292422743
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas24

This study examines the hegemony of political power on the discipline of human geography in Turkey. Throughout the history of the country, human geography curricula have been aligned with the nationalist and hegemonic power politics of state authorities instead of being guided by universal norms, thus ignoring Turkey’s sociopolitical and cultural geography. This is reflected in the contents of human geography text books at the high school and college level. Similarly, the subjects of articles that have appeared in the 12 academic geography journals published in Turkey within the last 71 years also support this claim. The intervention of political power in the academic identity of human geography and the efforts to align human geography curricula with a certain ideological view have resulted in the emergence of apolitical geographers, who remain deaf and blind to social issues. This study analyzes the negative features of human geography education curricula and their political implications in Turkey, and proposes several recommendations

Critical geography · Cultural geography · Curriculum · Development geography · Five themes of geography · Hegemony · Historical geography · Human geography · Ideology · Nationalism · Pedagogy · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Strategic geography · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Law