2005
DOI: 10.7202/022999ar
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Mythe et géographies

Abstract: Plutôt que le rôle de l'espace dans le récit mythique, les géographes ont intérêt à comprendre si et comment la pensée mythique influence les pratiques spatiales. Tout en s'inspirant du programme platonicien, cet essai en modifie en quelque sorte la visée. Il se base en fait sur une conception assez stricte du mythe et avance l'idée que la pensée mythique est un outil crucial pour comprendre la géographie en tant que construction humaine. Cet essai met en lumière l'appauvrissement théorique et méthodologique q… Show more

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“…Indeed, as Baker ( 2002) points out in relation to historical geography and geohistory, the variety of past geographies that have developed in different places in different circumstances provides a rich legacy and resource from which geographers can draw, in their teaching (Sack, 2002) as well as research, in order to produce new forms of knowledge and understanding of the world. We might thus heed the call of Italian geographer Angelo Turco, who argues that mythical thought, displaced from geography when it was institutionalized as a discipline, needs to be recentred within contemporary geographical understanding (Turco, 2001). A related argument is made by Paul Claval who considers the relationship between myth and scientific knowledge in geographical thought (Claval, 2001) and urges geographers to develop innovative critical perspectives in regard of modern geographical epistemology.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, as Baker ( 2002) points out in relation to historical geography and geohistory, the variety of past geographies that have developed in different places in different circumstances provides a rich legacy and resource from which geographers can draw, in their teaching (Sack, 2002) as well as research, in order to produce new forms of knowledge and understanding of the world. We might thus heed the call of Italian geographer Angelo Turco, who argues that mythical thought, displaced from geography when it was institutionalized as a discipline, needs to be recentred within contemporary geographical understanding (Turco, 2001). A related argument is made by Paul Claval who considers the relationship between myth and scientific knowledge in geographical thought (Claval, 2001) and urges geographers to develop innovative critical perspectives in regard of modern geographical epistemology.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%