Dialogue, metaphors of dialogue and understandings of geography

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ID8360993
AuthorsDavid Demeritt (0000-0002-2030-0807, King's College London), Sarah Dyer (0000-0002-9389-8993, King's College London)
Year2002
Volume34
Issue3
Pages229-241
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1475-4762.00077
OpenAlexW2074339162
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited25

Increasingly, human and physical geographers alike describe their research practices as involving dialogue of some kind. However, the widespread popularity of the term belies some very different understandings of its meaning and methodological implications. In this paper we reflect on these different conceptions of ‘dialogical’ geography as a way, first, of illustrating the broad range of understandings of research methodology now current in the discipline and, second, of identifying their implications for three long–standing controversies in the discipline: relativism and the truth of geographical knowledge, the associated dualisms between subject/object, nature/society, and realism/constructionism, and the potential for unity between human and physical geography. We argue that, while dialogue is a potentially fruitful way of understanding and practising geography, that the defence of it, like the attacks on it, is often misconceived

Dialogical self · Epistemology · Human geography · Meaning (existential) · Object (grammar) · Popularity · Realism · Relativism · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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