Relevance Debates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23712422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann B Murphy (0000-0002-0271-9620, University of Oregon, corresponding author), Alexander B Murphy |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | International Encyclopedia of Geography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0206 |
| OpenAlex | W4229615324 |
| ISBN | 9781118786352 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In the early 1970s a growing number of geographers began calling for direct disciplinary engagement with major social, political, and environmental policy challenges. Disagreements over how such work might be undertaken and whose interests it might serve came to be known as the relevance debate. In the ensuing decades, a broad commitment to relevancy came to pervade most geographic scholarship, but policy relevance was seen as only one dimension of relevancy. The current relevance debate centers on such issues as what constitutes relevancy, the degree to which geography is in fact relevant, the obstacles impeding greater relevancy, and strategies for ensuring that academic integrity is maintained when undertaking applied work.
Dimension (graph theory) · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Relevance (law) · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Data Analysis and Archiving · Engineering · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |