Beyond Haushoferism: Geography, Geopolitics and National Socialist Rule at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University

Rainer, Gerhard; Dudek, Simon

doi:10.1080/14650045.2022.2094773

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“…Chiming in with those later concerns, and somehow converging with recent interest in ‘prosopography’ (Baignet and Novaes, 2021), Rainer and Dudek (2022a) make a compelling case about the need to examine the wider settings and networks of German geography in the 1920s and 1930s, within which Haushofer stood out. Authors put forth the term ‘Haushoferism’ following the argumentative path undertook by Ian Kershaw.…”

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“…First, there has been sustained interest in addressing contested, dubious or complicit figures throughout 19th and 20th centuries in order to further elucidate the role and levels of involvement of geographers in major political events (Ginsburger, 2022d). This includes investigation on how various forms of geographical knowledge contributed to the effective implementation of authoritarian regimes (Barocci, 2022), or on diverging positions of geographers during Nazi regime and occupation (Rainer and Dudek, 2022a;and Elzbieta et al, 2022;Louis, 2019), under the Soviet rule (Gavrilova, 2022), or postrevolutionary Mexico (Aguilera Lara, 2022). Also, geographers' participation in 20th century Peace Conferences keeps attracting attention (Górny, 2022;Gyori and Janko, 2022).…”

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History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

Puente-Lozano

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Amongst recent contributions to the field, this report detects ongoing and emergent topics within disciplinary histories and reflects on the evolving meaning of the ‘international’ character of geography as it has been conceived and practised over the years. A set of books on the long-standing efforts to internationalise the geographical community, and on the intellectual histories of critical geographies, constitute an outstanding resource for historical reflection and self-awareness. The report argues for further critical interrogation of how recent calls to pluralise, internationalise and radicalise the history and philosophy of geography interact with prevailing historiographical stances, sets of theories and philosophical moods.

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Section: Revisiting Continuing and Expanding Disciplinary Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

Puente-Lozano

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina)

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Dudek

2022

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The relationship between “national” geographical schools and an increasingly globalized geographical theory-building under the logics of Anglophone hegemony has generated critical debate within geography. This paper aims to contribute to current discussions on the development of differential, language-based “schools of thought” in geography and how these are mobilized and de- and recontextualized when they travel beyond their origins. However, it does not focus on the period of Anglophone hegemony but intends to shed a new, historically informed light on the politics of geographical knowledge production. Against this backdrop, we study why, how and with what consequences German geographical knowledge traveled to Argentina in the 1940s – the end of the “German hegemony” – following the employment by the National University of Tucumán (UNT) of the four German geography professors Wilhelm Rohmeder, Gustav Fochler-Hauke, Fritz Machatschek and Willi Czajka, all of whom had been institutionally and ideologically entwined with National Socialism. Firstly, we show that the epistemic differences between “national” schools of geographical thought – skillfully juggled by the geographers we analyze here – can provide an opportunity for the successful de- and recontextualization of theory. Secondly, we argue that boundary spanning and the traveling of theory beyond their geographical origins – largely (implicitly) viewed as progressive – should always be put in context(s) and assessed more cautiously from a normative point of view.

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Beyond Haushoferism: Geography, Geopolitics and National Socialist Rule at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University

Cited by 2 publications

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History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony: (buried) theories, (non-)traveling concepts, and “cosmopolitan geographers” in San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina)

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