Humanitarian geography is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies various ways of representing and interpreting terrestrial spaces in human activity, including mental (mental) activity.
Humanitarian geography develops in collaboration with such scientific fields and areas as cognitive science , cultural anthropology , cultural studies , philology , political science and international relations , geopolitics and political geography , art history , and history .
Content
- 1 History of the term
- 2 Basic concepts
- 3 Key Areas
- 4 Relations with other areas of geography
- 4.1 Public geography (human geography)
- 4.2 Cultural geography
- 5 Humanitarian geography and applied research
- 6 Humanitarian geography and school education
- 7 Institutionalization
- 8 Notes
- 9 Literature
- 10 Links
Term History
The term humanitarian geography was first proposed in 1984] by the Soviet geographer D. V. Nikolayenko [1] as an attempt to formulate a new discipline (human geography) in contrast to the extremely economical Soviet social geography. Nikolayenko’s proposal did not receive any significant support and development.
In the late 1990s, the term was assigned by the school of Russian geographer and cultural scientist D. N. Zamyatin [2] [3] to combine independent research areas that have many common features in the research methodology into a single scientific direction.
In English literature, the term humanitarian geography is not widely used, mainly due to the well-established terms humanistic geography ( humanistic geography ) and human geography ( social geography in general).
Representatives of public geography believe that the term began to be used exclusively in the context of cognitive geography , which provokes their sharp protest. So, Yu. N. Gladky [4] calls this incorrect “privatization” of the term. Accordingly, under the humanitarian geography of Yu. N. Gladkim we mean the domestic analogue of human geography , that is, expanded social and humanitarian geography, since, in his opinion, there is no other acceptable translation of this concept into Russian.
Basic concepts
- Cultural landscape
- Geographic image
- Territorial (spatial) identity
- Spatial myth (regional mythology)
Key Areas
- Cultural Landscape
- Imaginative (geographic) geography
- Sacred geography
- Mythogeography
- Cognitive geography
Relations with other areas of geography
Public Geography (human geography)
Humanitarian geography can be considered as a literal translation of human geography into Russian, since public geography considers only part of the issues related to human geography.
Cultural Geography
More recently, humanitarian geography has often been mistakenly perceived as a synonym for cultural geography . Unlike cultural geography, humanitarian geography can include various aspects of political, social, and economic geography related to the interpretation of terrestrial spaces.
Humanitarian Geography and Applied Research
Humanitarian geography, primarily in its main part, imaginative geography , has direct access to applied research . Dmitry Zamyatin wrote about this:
Applied projects in the field of imaginal geography are associated with the marketing of territories , countries, regions and places, the development of the image of territories in advertising, PR, tourism, investment activities. <...> The methodology and applied aspects of modeling geographical images <...> can be used in cognitive geography , mythogeography as part of applied humanitarian geography. [5]
Over the years of its existence, humanitarian geography has already fulfilled the role of fundamental science for many applied research. One of the leading Russian experts in marketing and branding of places, Denis Vizgalov wrote in his book “City Branding” (the only monograph of the Russian-speaking author on this subject) that he relied “more on research in the field of humanitarian geography than on the development of the concept of the city’s brand than traditional marketing ” [6] .
Humanitarian Geography and Schooling
In 2010, Vladimir Maksakovsky , the eighty-six-year-old patriarch of school geographical education in the USSR and Russia, lamenting that in modern Russian school geography textbooks "there are still no vivid, memorable for a lifetime characteristics", he wrote that "the theory <...> of geographical images In fact, Dmitry Zamyatin , a “vivid representative of humanitarian geography,” has already been created, and “it would be very disappointing if educational geography did not take advantage of these achievements of Big Geography.” [7]
Institutionalization
The only institution of humanitarian geography in Russia is the humanitarian geography sector of the D. S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Institute of Heritage), which existed from 2004 to 2011 and was transformed in 2011 into the Center for the Humanitarian Research of Space (TsGIP) [ 8] . From 2004 to 2010, the Humanitarian Geography Sector of the Heritage Institute published the annual almanac Humanitarian Geography . In 2012, the Center for the Humanitarian Research of Space began to publish a network (electronic) scientific journal "Cultural and Humanitarian Geography" , included in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). [9] The Center for Humanitarian Studies of Space ceased to exist in 2013 due to the reorganization of departmental institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation by Minister Vladimir Medinsky and the reorganization of the Heritage Institute by the new director of the institute, Pavel Yudin .
Notes
- ↑ Nikolaenko D.V. Humanitarian geography: problems and prospects. - Dep. Ukr. NII NTI, No. 543 UK - D84., 1984
- ↑ Humanitarian geography // Big Russian Encyclopedia . T. 8 (Grigoriev - Dynamics). - M.: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 2007 .-- S. 151.
- ↑ Zamyatin D.N. Modeling of geographical images: The space of humanitarian geography. - Smolensk: Oikumena, 1999 .-- 256 p.
- ↑ Smooth Yu. N. Humanitarian geography: scientific explication. - St. Petersburg: Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University, 2010. - P.34-38
- ↑ Zamyatin D.N. Humanitarian geography: main directions, categories, methods and models // Cultural and humanitarian geography . - 2012 . - T. 1. - No. 1. - P. 13, 17.
- ↑ Vizgalov Denis . City Branding Archived July 11, 2012 to Wayback Machine . - M .: Fund “Institute of Urban Economics”, 2011. - P. 9. - ISBN 978-5-8130-0157-4
- ↑ Maksakovsky V.P. Directions of the “reset” of school geography // Maksakovsky V.P. “Years Toward Severe Prose ...” (a collection of articles published in 2009-2011). - M., 2011 .-- S. 125-126.
- ↑ Center for Humanitarian Studies of Space on the website of the Heritage Institute.
- ↑ Official site of the journal “Cultural and Humanitarian Geography”
Literature
- Balla Olga . A space with a human face: from Herodotus to branding of territories: [Interview with Ivan Mitin ] // Knowledge is power . - 2014. - No. 1 .
- Vaganov Andrey . Humanitarian geography of space. Territory as an image that can be artificially constructed in geoculture : [Interview with Dmitry Zamyatin] // Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Appendix “Science”). - 2012 . - November 28th .
- Zamyatin D. N. Modeling of geographical images: The space of humanitarian geography. - Smolensk : Oikumena, 1999 . - 256 s.
- Zamyatin D. N. Humanitarian geography (Materials for the dictionary of humanitarian geography) // Humanitarian geography: Scientific and cultural-educational almanac / Comp., Comp. ed. D. N. Zamyatin ; author Andreeva E., Belousov S., Galkina T. et al. - Issue. 2. - M .: Institute of Heritage , 2005. - S. 332—334.
- Zamyatin D. N. Humanitarian geography: main directions, categories, methods and models // Cultural and humanitarian geography . - 2012 . - T. 1. - No. 1 .-- S. 11-26.
- Zamyatina N. Yu. , Mitin I.I. Humanitarian geography // Big Russian Encyclopedia . T. 8. Grigoriev - Dynamics. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 2007 .-- S. 151.
- Zamyatina N. Yu. , Mitin II I. Humanitarian geography (2) (Materials for the dictionary of humanitarian geography) // Humanitarian geography: Scientific and cultural-educational almanac / Comp., Resp. ed. D. N. Zamyatin ; author Abdulova I., Amogolonova D, Gerasimenko T. et al. - Issue. 4. - M .: Institute of Heritage , 2007. - S. 282—288.
- Kagansky V. L. Cultural landscape: basic concepts in Russian geography // Observatory of Culture. - 2009 . - No. 1. - S. 62-70.
- Kovalev E. M. Humanitarian Geography of Russia: A Handbook for Students of Higher Educational Institutions / Program “Updating Humanitarian Education in Russia”. - M .: LA "Varyag", 1995. - 448 p.
- Mitin I.I. From cognitive geography to mythogeography: interpretation of space and place (inaccessible link) // First Russian Conference on Cognitive Science ( Kazan , October 9-12, 2004 ). Abstracts of reports. - Kazan , KSU , 2004 . - S. 163-165.
- Mitin I. I. Humanitarian geography: problems of terminology and (self) identification in Russian and world contexts // Cultural and humanitarian geography . - 2012 . - T. 1. - No. 1. - S. 1-10.