A student in Geography just wrote to me to ask for my help on a research project he is doing. The project consists of locating at least one person (and I quote directly)
that is from one of 12 regions of the world. As you are from Ukraine, you region is the Russian Domain.
WTF, geographers? What’s “Russian Domain” and how come I’m placed in it?
High points on antagonizing Ukrainians right before interviewing them.
Since when are geographers in the business of inventing weird geographical categories?
I don’t even know if I should help this student.
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“Since when are geographers in the business of inventing weird geographical categories?”
Since the Greeks. At least.
Would “former Soviet Union” have been a better geographical category?
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Of course.
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This sounds like a rehashed version of Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations!
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I don’t want to think that this is being taught at my university. Brrr…
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It was at my former institution. And in Latin American Studies at that.
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Ol.: I just sent you an email. In case you are like me and don’t read them. 🙂
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