Global Ignorance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4491300 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin W Lewis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 603-628 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2000.tb00356.x |
| OpenAlex | W4230336665 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
Stories exposing the lack of global knowledge among American high school and college students are ubiquitous. But it is not just students who have difficulty navigating a world map. Global ignorance, in fact, is appallingly prevalent even among scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals who write about globalization and world history. Otherwise erudite and insightful authors commit such basic geographical errors that they can only mystify the public. The present article focuses on, but is not limited to, the misconceptions of Benjamin Barber, Thomas L. Friedman, John Gray, David Landes, and Paul Krugman. It further explores the reasons why the debate over globalization, in particular, generates so much nonsense, and it concludes with a call for the revitalization of world geography
Commit · Environmental ethics · Globalization · Ignorance · Media studies · Nonsense · Political science · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Global Dreams
The New Global Economy and Developing Countries
Remotely Global
ReOrient
Globalization and History
The Myth of Continents
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
The Great Divergence
The nature of geography
Globalization and Its Discontents
Modernity at large
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
The Coming Anarchy
The Cultures of Globalization
The Challenge of Global Capitalism
The Rise of the Network Society
Charting an Empire
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order
Globalization
Posthumous Questions for Karl Polanyi
A Theoretical Imperative
The Human Environment
The Highest Form Of The Geographer's Art∗
The Ideology of Empire in National Geographic Magazine's Coverage of the Philippines, 1898–1908
A Maritime Response to the Crisis in Area Studies
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Concepts in Human Geography
Economic Regionalization and Pacific Asia
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |