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Knowledge and Power in Sovietized Hungarian Geography |
Tartalom: | http://real.mtak.hu/41521/ |
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Archívum: | MTA Könyvtár |
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Status = Published
Type = Book Section |
Cím: |
Knowledge and Power in Sovietized Hungarian Geography
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Létrehozó: |
GyĹri, RĂłbert
Gyuris, Ferenc
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Közreműködő: |
Meusburger, Peter
Gregory, Derek
Suarsana, Laura
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Kiadó: |
Springer
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Dátum: |
2015
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Téma: |
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography / gazdasĂĄgi-tĂĄrsadalmi fĂśldrajz
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Tartalmi leírás: |
The history and geography of science offer ample evidence of how those in power try to control knowledge and education, how certain regimes tried to manipulate scientific disciplines to beneďŹt their own interests, how some disciplines adapted to radical changes in political systems and adjusted their theoretical concepts to new ideologies, and what efforts these disciplines made to appear âusefulâ to those in power. This article examines the means used by the Communist regime in Hungary after World War II to âconquerâ science and colonize geography. Researchers have richly documented how Central and Eastern Europe became objects of âSoviet colonialismâ; how these countries were turned into economic fiefdoms of the Soviet empire, with economic production undertaken on a command basis and trade permissible only through the Communist alliance; and what consequences this development had on various fields. But scholars working in the history and geography of science still pay little attention to the intellectual transformation that took place in the discipline of geography in these countries as of the late 1940s.
For this reason, we aim in this essay to contribute to a better understanding of these issues by revealing how Hungarian geography was colonized during the 1950s. We show how the Communist system crushed âthe old geographyâ in order to establish Hungarian Marxist-Leninist geography. We reveal how geographic knowledge, like knowledge in general, became âa form of power, and by implication violenceâ. We describe different epistemological cultures that inďŹ uenced and determined the approaches, methods, social tasks, and educational role of Hungarian geography between the world wars and after World War II. We analyze the effect that Marxist-Leninist ideology had on Soviet geography in this period. Furthermore, we investigate how a colonizing ideology dominated Hungarian geography, how the institutional structure of geography was transformed, and how the career paths of the âoldâ geographers continued. We also outline who became the ânewâ geographers and how, and describe the new tasks set for MarxistLeninist geography in Hungary. |
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magyar
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Book Section
PeerReviewed
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text
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GyĹri, RĂłbert and Gyuris, Ferenc (2015) Knowledge and Power in Sovietized Hungarian Geography. In: Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Knowledge and Space (7). Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 203-233. ISBN 978-94-017-9959-1
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DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9960-7
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